2013 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics

The 2013 Central American Junior and Youth Championships in Athletics took place on May 24–26, 2013. The event was held at the Estadio Nacional in San José, Costa Rica. Organized by the Central American Isthmus Athletic Confederation (CADICA), it was the 26th edition of the Junior (U-20) and the 21st edition of the Youth (U-18) competition. A total of 83 events were contested, 20 by junior boys, 21 by junior girls, 21 by youth boys, and 21 by youth girls. A total of 22 new championship records were set. Overall winner on points was Costa Rica.^[1][2]

Medal summary[]

Complete results can be found on the CADICA^[1] and FECOA webpages.^[2]

Junior[]

Boys (U-20)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Costa Rica	10.84	Guatemala	11.13	Panama	11.17
200 metres (wind: +1.2 m/s)	Gerald David Drummond  Costa Rica	21.69	Guatemala	22.22	Costa Rica	22.30
400 metres	Gerald David Drummond  Costa Rica	48.72	Costa Rica	49.01	Costa Rica	50.14
800 metres	Costa Rica	1:53.43	Costa Rica	1:54.21	Nicaragua	2:00.69
1500 metres	Costa Rica	3:57.50 CR	Costa Rica	4:03.64	Nicaragua	4:04.57
5000 metres	Costa Rica	15:10.53 CR	Guatemala	15:14.40	Nicaragua	15:31.62
10000 metres	Guatemala	32:08.19	Nicaragua	32:43.18	Guatemala	34:55.23
3000 metres steeplechase	El Salvador	9:57.24	Guatemala	10:06.49	Costa Rica	10:20.12
110 metres hurdles† (wind: -1.9 m/s)	Guatemala	15.65	Costa Rica	16.05	Costa Rica	18.49
400 metres hurdles	Gerald David Drummond  Costa Rica	54.15	Costa Rica	56.75	Costa Rica	58.06
Pole Vault	Costa Rica	3.70	El Salvador	3.50
Long Jump	Panama	6.97	Guatemala	6.42	Costa Rica	6.42
Triple Jump	Panama	14.60 (wind: -1.5 m/s)	Guatemala	13.08 (wind: +0.9 m/s)	Costa Rica	12.63 (wind: -1.4 m/s)
Shot Put	El Salvador	15.63	Guatemala	14.50	Panama	13.60
Discus Throw	Guatemala	47.10	Guatemala	44.96	Costa Rica	39.51
Hammer Throw	Guatemala	43.44	Costa Rica	41.89	Costa Rica	41.73
Javelin Throw	Nicaragua	55.77	Panama	52.99	Panama	47.63
Decathlon	Costa Rica	4917 pts	Costa Rica	4746 pts	Panama	4498 pts
4 x 100 metres relay	Panama	43.12	Guatemala	45.36	Honduras	46.52
4 x 400 metres relay	Costa Rica Gerald David Drummond	3:18.17	Panama	3:29.66	Guatemala	3:34.44

^†: Event without points for team score.

Girls (U-20)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.8 m/s)	Costa Rica	12.19 CR	Costa Rica	12.24	Panama	12.37
200 metres (wind: NWI)	Costa Rica	24.93 CR	Panama	25.35	El Salvador	25.54
400 metres	Nicaragua	58.01 CR	Panama	59.02	El Salvador	59.77
800 metres	Costa Rica	2:21.20	Guatemala	2:24.30	Costa Rica	2:24.77
1500 metres	Guatemala	5:00.15	Costa Rica	5:02.43	El Salvador	5:03.07
3000 metres†	El Salvador	11:16.20	Costa Rica	12:30.33	Costa Rica	13:28.83
5000 metres†	Guatemala	20:11.68	Costa Rica	21:49.22	Costa Rica	24:19.98
3000 metres steeplechase†	Nicaragua	14:21.65
100 metres hurdles (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Panama	14.44 CR	El Salvador	15.30	El Salvador	16.33
400 metres hurdles	Panama	1:03.52 CR	Panama	1:07.05	Panama	1:15.84
High Jump†	Panama	1.64
Pole Vault†	El Salvador	3.20 CR
Long Jump	Panama	5.37 (wind: +0.9 m/s)	El Salvador	4.95 (wind: +0.3 m/s)
Triple Jump†	Panama	11.57 (wind: -1.5 m/s)	El Salvador	10.64 (wind: +0.4 m/s)
Shot Put	Panama	9.97	Costa Rica	9.81	Panama	9.68
Discus Throw	Costa Rica	34.89	Panama	31.22	Costa Rica	24.11
Hammer Throw†	Panama	45.81 CR	Costa Rica	28.02
Javelin Throw	Costa Rica	37.52	Guatemala	27.01	Nicaragua	23.75
Heptathlon	El Salvador	3893 pts	Panama	3860 pts	Guatemala	3780 pts
4 x 100 metres relay	Panama	48.09 CR	Costa Rica	49.34	El Salvador	49.50
4 x 400 metres relay	Panama	4:03.42	Costa Rica	4:06.47	El Salvador	4:15.45

^†: Event without points for team score.

Youth[]

Boys (U-18)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Arturo Deliser  Panama	10.81 CR	Guatemala	11.19	Panama	11.28
200 metres (wind: -0.4 m/s)	Arturo Deliser  Panama	21.61 CR	Guatemala	22.74	Costa Rica	22.91
400 metres	Panama	48.80 CR	Nicaragua	49.38	Costa Rica	49.84
800 metres	Nicaragua	1:54.58 CR	El Salvador	1:56.99	Costa Rica	1:57.61
1500 metres	El Salvador	4:03.21	Panama	4:10.66	Costa Rica	4:10.97
3000 metres	El Salvador	9:18.13	Panama	9:22.41	Nicaragua	9:22.45
2000 metres steeplechase	Costa Rica	6:26.31	El Salvador	6:44.07	Costa Rica	6:50.14
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.0 m/s)	Panama	15.10	Costa Rica	15.15	Panama	15.41
400 metres hurdles	Panama	55.86	El Salvador	56.16	Panama	58.21
High Jump	Panama	1.90	Panama	1.80	El Salvador	1.77
Pole Vault	El Salvador	4.20 CR	El Salvador	3.40	El Salvador	3.40
Long Jump	Panama	6.55	El Salvador	6.55	Panama	6.45
Triple Jump	Costa Rica	14.02 (wind: +0.3 m/s)	Panama	13.48 (wind: +1.5 m/s)	El Salvador	13.39 (wind: +1.5 m/s)
Shot Put	Guatemala	14.64	Panama	13.68	Costa Rica	13.40
Discus Throw	Costa Rica	40.28	Panama	39.23	Guatemala	38.57
Hammer Throw	Guatemala	41.51	Nicaragua	41.13	Nicaragua	40.61
Javelin Throw	Nicaragua	46.98	Costa Rica	43.93	Nicaragua	43.40
Octathlon	Nicaragua	4449 pts	Costa Rica	4034 pts	Costa Rica	3838 pts
10000 metres Walk	El Salvador	46:37.80	Costa Rica	49:06.44	El Salvador	50:14.18
4 x 100 metres relay	Costa Rica	44.95	Nicaragua	45.54	Guatemala	45.67
Medley relay	Panama Arturo Deliser	1:57.06 CR	Nicaragua	2:00.06	Costa Rica	2:00.95

Girls (U-18)[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.0 m/s)	Costa Rica	12.41 =CR	Panama	12.72	Costa Rica	12.95
200 metres (wind: -0.4 m/s)	Panama	26.64	El Salvador	27.35	Costa Rica	27.75
400 metres	Panama	57.60	Panama	58.11	Costa Rica	58.57
800 metres	Costa Rica	2:16.26	El Salvador	2:17.51	Costa Rica	2:20.65
1500 metres	El Salvador	4:48.81	Guatemala	4:51.59	El Salvador	4:52.70
3000 metres	El Salvador	10:20.40	Guatemala	10:35.19	El Salvador	10:50.43
2000 metres steeplechase	El Salvador	7:43.12 CR	Costa Rica	7:50.53	El Salvador	7:50.90
100 metres hurdles (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Costa Rica	15.25	Panama	15.32	Costa Rica	16.08
400 metres hurdles	Costa Rica	1:03.61 CR	Panama	1:04.59	Costa Rica	1:06.74
High Jump	Panama	1.62	Costa Rica	1.62	Guatemala	1.56
Pole Vault	El Salvador	3.00 CR	El Salvador	2.50	Costa Rica	2.30
Long Jump	Guatemala	4.99 (wind: +0.9 m/s)	Costa Rica	4.89 (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Guatemala	4.86 (wind: +1.4 m/s)
Triple Jump†	Guatemala	10.70 (wind: -1.4 m/s)	Costa Rica	10.45 (wind: -0.9 m/s)	Costa Rica	9.56 (wind: +0.5 m/s)
Shot Put	Guatemala	12.55	Costa Rica	11.68	Guatemala	11.44
Discus Throw	Guatemala	37.89	Honduras	29.57	Guatemala	25.27
Hammer Throw†	Guatemala	60.67 CR	Costa Rica	36.65	Guatemala	31.38
Javelin Throw‡	Costa Rica	32.84 CR‡	El Salvador	31.50	Nicaragua	30.39
Heptathlon	El Salvador	3706 pts	Costa Rica	3622 pts	Costa Rica	3054 pts
5000 metres Walk	Guatemala	27:50.63	Nicaragua	29:03.72	Costa Rica	30:12.55
4 x 100 metres relay	Costa Rica	49.75	Panama	50.92	El Salvador	53.35
Medley relay	Panama	2:17.08	Costa Rica	2:18.84	El Salvador	2:26.03

^†: Event without points for team score.
^‡: This year, a 500g javelin (rather than 600g as before) was used.

Medal table (unofficial)[]

  *   Host nation (Costa Rica)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Costa Rica*	25	27	31	83
2	Panama	24	18	11	53
3	Guatemala	14	15	10	39
4	El Salvador	14	13	15	42
5	Nicaragua	6	6	8	20
6	Honduras	0	1	1	2
Totals (6 nations)		83	80	76	239

Team trophies[]

The placing table for team trophy awarded to the 1st place overall team (boys and girls categories) was published.^[1][2]

Overall[]

Rank	Nation	Points
	Costa Rica	351
2	Panamá	238
3	El Salvador	174
4	Guatemala	166
5	Nicaragua	99
6	Honduras	15

Boys[]

Junior (U-20)[]   The host country is highlighted in lavender blue Rank Nation Points  Costa Rica 110 2  Guatemala 64 3 Panamá 41 4  Nicaragua 28 5  El Salvador 20 6  Honduras 7

Youth (U-18)[]   The host country is highlighted in lavender blue Rank Nation Points Panamá 88 2  Costa Rica 83 3  El Salvador 54 4  Nicaragua 48 5  Guatemala 34

Girls[]

Junior (U-20)[]   The host country is highlighted in lavender blue Rank Nation Points Panamá 60 2  Costa Rica 60 3  El Salvador 36 4  Guatemala 20 5  Nicaragua 14

Youth (U-18)[]   The host country is highlighted in lavender blue Rank Nation Points  Costa Rica 98 2  El Salvador 64 3 Panamá 49 4  Guatemala 48 5  Nicaragua 9 6  Honduras 8

Participation[]

A total number of 247 athletes and 43 officials were reported to participate in the event.^[1][2]

References[]