2015 Central American Championships in Athletics

XXVI Central American Championships in Athletics
Dates	June 26–28
Host city	Managua, Nicaragua
Venue	Estadio de Atletismo del Instituto Nicaragüense de Deportes
Level	Senior
Events	44 (22 men, 22 women)
Participation	192 + 8 guest athletes from 7 + 1 guest nations
Records set	7
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The 26th Central American Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio de Atletismo del Instituto Nicaragüense de Deportes in Managua, Nicaragua, between June 26–28, 2015.^[1]

A total of 44 events were contested, 22 by men and 22 by women. In total, 7 championships records were set. The new men's 400m mark (45.33 by Nery Brenes) was established in the heat. El Salvador won the overall team trophy.^[2]

Medal summary[]

Complete results were published.^[3][4]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Cruz Rolando Palacios  Honduras	10.44	Mateo Edward  Panama	10.49	Honduras	10.52
200 metres (wind: +6.4 m/s)	Costa Rica	20.93 w	Cruz Rolando Palacios  Honduras	21.01 w	Andrés Rodríguez  Panama	21.07 w
400 metres	Nery Brenes  Costa Rica	45.43	Costa Rica	47.98	Costa Rica	48.47
800 metres	Panama	1:54.92	Nicaragua	1:55.78	Nicaragua	1:57.04
1500 metres	Costa Rica	3:54.00	Erick Rodríguez  Nicaragua	3:54.23	Nicaragua	3:59.79
5000 metres	Costa Rica	15:12.76	Costa Rica	15:18.81	El Salvador	15:22.47
10,000 metres	El Salvador	33:04.54	Nicaragua	33:49.31	Nicaragua	34:45.16
3000 metres steeplechase	Erick Rodríguez  Nicaragua	9:10.29	Nicaragua	9:16.81	El Salvador	9:28.45
110 metres hurdles (wind: +2.1 m/s)	Guatemala	14.39 w	Panama	14.45 w	Guatemala	14.50 w
400 metres hurdles	El Salvador	54.04	El Salvador	55.42	Panama	56.46
High jump	Alexander Bowen  Panama	2.15	Panama	2.15	Panama	2.00
Pole vault	Natan Rivera  El Salvador	4.55	El Salvador	4.40	El Salvador	4.00
Long jump	Panama	7.13 (wind: -0.7 m/s)	Nicaragua	6.98 (wind: -2.3 m/s)	Brandon Terrell Jones  Belize	6.83 (wind: -0.9 m/s)
Triple jump	Brandon Terrell Jones  Belize	15.31 (wind: -2.4 m/s)	Honduras	15.21 (wind: -0.7 m/s)	Belize	15.00 (wind: 0.0 m/s)
Shot put	Costa Rica	14.96	Guatemala	14.37	Guatemala	14.15
Discus throw	Honduras	50.18	Costa Rica	48.61	Guatemala	43.53
Hammer throw	Guatemala	60.61	Costa Rica	49.78	Nicaragua	47.22
Javelin throw	Panama	65.26	Costa Rica	57.08	Panama	54.53
Decathlon	Guatemala	6164	Andre Campos  Costa Rica	5953	Nicaragua	5365
20000 metres track walk	Gabriel Calvo  Costa Rica	1:33:30.79	El Salvador	1:40:54.39
4 x 100 metres relay	Belize Brandon Terrell Jones	42.03	Honduras Cruz Rolando Palacios	42.47	Nicaragua	42.99
4 x 400 metres relay	Costa Rica	3:13.57	El Salvador Bryan Ramos	3:20.99	Panama	3:21.25

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +4.2 m/s)	Panama	11.45 w	Kaina Martinez  Belize	11.59 w	Costa Rica	11.65 w
200 metres (wind: +5.4 m/s)	Costa Rica	23.51 w	Kaina Martinez  Belize	23.60 w	Panama	23.69 w
400 metres	Panama	57.57	El Salvador	57.65	Costa Rica	59.02
800 metres	Andrea Ferris  Panama	2:14.36	Costa Rica	2:16.93	El Salvador	2:18.30
1500 metres	Andrea Ferris  Panama	4:37.42	El Salvador	4:44.29	El Salvador	4:45.03
5000 metres	El Salvador	18:30.53	El Salvador	18:35.68	El Salvador	18:38.27
10,000 metres	El Salvador	39:10.23	Honduras	40:15.82	El Salvador	43:36.74
3000 metres steeplechase	Andrea Ferris  Panama	10:39.19 CR	El Salvador	11:21.03	El Salvador	11:54.81
100 metres hurdles (wind: +4.1 m/s)	El Salvador	14.57 w	Belize	15.06 w	Costa Rica	15.15 w
400 metres hurdles	Ana María Porras  Costa Rica	1:02.03	Panama	1:03.65	Belize	1:06.67
High jump	Kashani Ríos  Panama	1.75	Panama	1.66	Costa Rica	1.63
Pole vault	Andrea Velasco  El Salvador	3.35 CR	El Salvador	2.80	El Salvador	2.70
Long jump	Guatemala	5.63 (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Costa Rica	5.25 (wind: -2.1 m/s)	Belize	5.06 (wind: -2.5 m/s)
Triple jump	Guatemala	12.69 (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Guatemala	12.33 (wind: -1.2 m/s)	Belize	11.87 (wind: +0.1 m/s)
Shot put	Aixa Middleton  Panama	12.32	Costa Rica	11.55	Katy Sealy  Belize	11.21
Discus throw	Aixa Middleton  Panama	55.00 CR	Honduras	40.13	Panama	39.66
Hammer throw	Panama	43.85	Costa Rica	41.91	El Salvador	38.12
Javelin throw	Dalila Rugama  Nicaragua	48.65	Costa Rica	44.56	Costa Rica	37.33
Heptathlon	Katy Sealy  Belize	4614	Guatemala	4361	Nicaragua	3599
10,000 metres track walk	Cristina López  El Salvador	48:10.76	Yesenia Miranda  El Salvador	50:19.82	Nicaragua	56:47.79
4 x 100 metres relay†	Panama	47.40 CR	El Salvador Beatriz Flamenco	48.83	Costa Rica Ana María Porras	49.13
4 x 400 metres relay‡	Costa Rica Ana María Porras	3:52.77	Belize Kaina Martinez	4:01.62	El Salvador	4:01.85

^† The women's 4x100m relay was won by the invited guest team from  Puerto Rico (Beatriz Cruz, Celiangeli Morales, , ) in 44.03.
^‡ The women's 4x400m relay was won by the invited guest team from  Puerto Rico (Grace Claxton, , , Carol Rodríguez) in 3:35.71.

Medal table (unofficial)[]

  *   Host nation (Nicaragua)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Panama (PAN)	14	5	7	26
2	Costa Rica (CRC)	10	11	7	28
3	El Salvador (ESA)	8	11	11	30
4	Guatemala (GUA)	5	3	3	11
5	Belize (BIZ)	3	4	6	13
6	Nicaragua (NIC)*	2	5	8	15
7	Honduras (HON)	2	5	1	8
Totals (7 nations)		44	44	43	131

Team trophies[]

El Salvador won the overall team trophy.^[2]

Total[]   The host country is highlighted in lavender blue Rank Nation Points  El Salvador 108 Panamá 106  Costa Rica 101 4  Nicaragua 46 5  Belize 42 6  Guatemala 41 7  Honduras 30

Male[]   The host country is highlighted in lavender blue Rank Nation Points  Costa Rica 57 Panamá 42  El Salvador 39 4  Nicaragua 36 5  Guatemala 24 6  Honduras 23 7  Belize 15

Female[]   The host country is highlighted in lavender blue Rank Nation Points  El Salvador 69 Panamá 64  Costa Rica 44 4  Belize 27 5  Guatemala 17 6  Nicaragua 10 7  Honduras 7

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 192 (+ 8 guest) athletes from 7 (+ 1 guest) countries participated.

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