2021 NACAC U18 U20 and U23 Championships in Athletics

2021 NACAC U18, U20 and U23 Championship
2021 NACAC U18, U20 and U23 Championship
Dates	9–11 July
Host city	San José, Costa Rica
Venue	Estadio Nacional
Level	Under 18, 20 and 23
	← 2019 Queretaro ;

The 2021 NACAC U23 Championships in Athletics is the 11th edition of the biennial NACAC U23 athletics championships. They were held in San José, Costa Rica from 9 July to 11 July.^[1] For the first time an U20 competition was held next to the U23 and U18 categories.

Medal summary[]

U23 men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Barbados	10.33	Jamaica	10.39	Kion Benjamin Trinidad and Tobago	10.40
200 metres	Alexander Ogando Dominican Republic	20.59	Jamaica	20.83	Antonio Watson Jamaica	21.03
400 metres	Jonathan Jones Barbados	46.20	Christopher Taylor Jamaica	46.58	Jamaica	47.54
800 metres	Juan Diego Castro Costa Rica	1:48.66	Jamaica	1:49.44	El Salvador	1:54.47
1500 metres	El Salvador	3:57.37	Guatemala	3:58.27	Jamaica	4:01.40
5000 metres	Nicaragua	14:32.93	Only one participant
110 metres hurdles (107 cm)	Orlando Bennett Jamaica	13.65	Cayman Islands	14.06	Haiti	14.29
400 metres hurdles (91 cm)	Barbados	52.06	Barbados	52.69	Costa Rica	54.78
3000 metres steeplechase (91 cm)	Nicaragua	9:56.16	Costa Rica	10:07.86	Only two finishers
4×100 metres relay	Jamaica Antonio Watson Christopher Taylor	42.07	Costa Rica	44.69	Only two teams
10,000 m walk	Guatemala	43:55.84	Guatemala	44:08.08	Costa Rica	44:12.97
High jump	Bahamas	2.21	Bahamas	2.15	Costa Rica Jamaica	1.95
Pole vault	Nicaragua	4.50	Dominican Republic	4.20	Only two finishers
Long jump	Jamaica	7.88	Trinidad and Tobago	7.37	Costa Rica	7.15
Triple jump	Barbados	16.00	Antigua and Barbuda	15.41	Barbados	15.12
Shot put (7.26 kg)	Jamaica	18.66	Costa Rica	13.44	Only two finishers
Discus throw (2 kg)	Kai Chang Jamaica	61.39	Jamaica	61.21	Costa Rica	46.33
Hammer throw (7.26 kg)	Costa Rica	61.14	Guatemala	53.04	Only two finishers
Javelin throw (800 g)	Trinidad and Tobago	73.06	Bahamas	72.13	Panama	63.50
Decathlon	El Salvador	6436 pts	Costa Rica	5189 pts	Only two participants

U23 women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Halle Hazzard Grenada	11.42	Amya Clarke Saint Kitts and Nevis	11.90	Bahamas	11.91
200 metres	Dominican Republic	23.89	Halle Hazzard Grenada	24.07	Trinidad and Tobago	24.40
400 metres	Jamaica	52.06	Shafiqua Maloney Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	52.73	Dominican Republic	53.83
800 metres	Shafiqua Maloney Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2:08.13	United States Virgin Islands	2:19.87	Only two participants
100 metres hurdles (84 cm)	Jamaica	13.80	Charisma Taylor Bahamas	13.88	Bahamas	13.94
400 metres hurdles (76 cm)	Shiann Salmon Jamaica	58.29	Only one parcipant
5,000 m walk	Guatemala	22:31.13 NU23R	Only one finisher
High jump	Jamaica	1.85	Panama	1.65	Only two participants
Triple jump	Charisma Taylor Bahamas	13.22	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	13.16	Only two participants
Shot put (4 kg)	Costa Rica	14.90 NR	Jamaica	13.85	Cayman Islands	13.75
Discus throw (1 kg)	Cayman Islands	47.34	Bahamas	36.78	Costa Rica	33.32
Hammer throw (4 kg)	Bahamas	51.22	Costa Rica	45.62	Only two finishers
Javelin throw (600 g)	Costa Rica	41.98	Only one parcipant
Heptathlon	Costa Rica	4042 pts	Only one parcipant

U23 mixed[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Shiann Salmon Christopher Taylor	3:20.71	Bahamas Charisma Taylor	3:41.69	Only two participants

U20 men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Terrence Jones Bahamas	10.47	Grenada	10.62	Costa Rica	10.69
200 metres	Wanya McCoy Bahamas	21.17	Terrence Jones Bahamas	21.18	Jamaica	21.34
400 metres	Wanya McCoy Bahamas	48.34	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	48.97	Costa Rica	50.22
800 metres	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1:49.75	Costa Rica	1:56.99	Only two finishers
110 metres hurdles (99 cm)	Bahamas	14.27	Bahamas	15.26	Only two participants
400 metres hurdles (91 cm)	Trinidad and Tobago	53.45	Only one participant
4×100 metres relay	Bahamas Wanya McCoy Terrence Jones	41.68	Costa Rica	43.17	Only two participants
4×400 metres relay	Costa Rica	3:26.91	Only one team
High jump	Jamaica	2.10	Costa Rica	1.80	Only two participants
Long jump	Jamaica	7.80	Panama	6.69	Costa Rica	6.40
Triple jump	Barbados	14.92	Costa Rica	14.05	Costa Rica	13.13
Shot put (6 kg)	Bahamas	15.93	Costa Rica	15.12	Panama	14.40
Discus throw (1.75 kg)	Bahamas	52.45	Costa Rica	48.71	Panama	38.75

U20 women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Bahamas	11.36	Trinidad and Tobago	11.70	Joella Lloyd Antigua and Barbuda	11.70
200 metres	Bahamas	23.42	Joella Lloyd Antigua and Barbuda	23.55	Jamaica	24.32
400 metres	Trinidad and Tobago	54.85	British Virgin Islands	55.66	Costa Rica	59.78
800 metres	Bahamas	2:15.25	Costa Rica	2:30.82	Only two parcipants
100 metres hurdles (84 cm)	Jamaica	13.64	Costa Rica	32.83	Only two parcipants
4×100 metres relay	Costa Rica	49.81	Only one team
4×400 metres relay	Costa Rica	4:08.66	Only one team
High jump	Costa Rica	1.65	Only one parcipant
Long jump	Jamaica	6.07	Costa Rica	5.00	Only two parcipants
Triple jump	Costa Rica	10.72	Only one parcipant
Shot put (4 kg)	Bahamas	12.56	Only one parcipant
Javelin throw (600 g)	Bahamas	55.06	Bahamas	41.31	Only two parcipants

U18 boys[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Jamaica	10.42 CR NU18R	Antigua and Barbuda	10.68	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	10.71
200 metres	Jamaica	20.74	Jamaica	21.10	Bahamas	21.65
400 metres	Jamaica	47.75	Jamaica	48.38	Bahamas	49.83
800 metres	Jamaica	1:54.35	Jamaica	1:56.63	Guatemala	2:02.03
1500 metres	Costa Rica	4:33.24	Only one participant
3000 metres	Costa Rica	9:03.39	Only one participant
110 metres hurdles (91 cm)	Jamaica	13.78	Bahamas	13.82	Jamaica	14.08
400 metres hurdles	Jamaica	51.95 CR	Bahamas	53.39	Jamaica	55.20
2000 metres steeplechase (91 cm)	Costa Rica	6:10.97 CR NU18R	Guatemala	6:44.94	Only two participants
4×100 metres relay	Jamaica	40.60 CR NU18R	Bahamas	42.10	Costa Rica	44.13
10,000 m walk	Guatemala	43:55.66	Nicaragua	44:05.16	Only two participants
High jump	Aaron McKenzie Jamaica	2.01	Jamaica	1.98	Panama	1.80
Long jump	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	7.40	Jamaica	7.31	Jamaica	7.14
Triple jump	Jamaica	16.02 NU18R	Jamaica	14.89	El Salvador	14.34
Pole vault	Costa Rica	3.30	Only one participant
Shot put (5 kg)	Jamaica	16.27	Costa Rica	14.86	Turks and Caicos Islands	14.20
Discus throw (1.5 kg)	Jamaica	54.00	Costa Rica	40.59	Bahamas	38.65
Hammer throw (5 kg)	El Salvador	67.31	Costa Rica	47.09	Only two participants
Javelin throw (700 g)	Bahamas	67.96 CR NU18R	Bahamas	57.76	Cayman Islands	49.30
Decathlon (U18)	Costa Rica	6436 pts	Only one participant

U18 girls[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Tina Clayton Jamaica	11.17	Jamaica	11.52	Guatemala	11.81
200 metres	Jamaica	23.78 CR NU18R	Guatemala	24.06	Bahamas	24.09
400 metres	Jamaica	56.10	Jamaica	56.63	Bahamas	57.43
800 metres	Jamaica	2:23.75	Jamaica	2:23.91	Costa Rica	2:33.68
1500 metres	Jamaica	05:03.01	Costa Rica	05:17.65	Costa Rica	05:18.94
3000 metres	Costa Rica	11:37.43	Costa Rica	11:39.23	Turks and Caicos Islands	12:24.41
100 metres hurdles (76 cm)	Jamaica	13.31	Jamaica	13.68	Costa Rica	15.65
400 metres hurdles (76 cm)	Jamaica	01:03.36 CR NU18R	Bahamas	01:05.26	Costa Rica	01:10.02
5,000 m walk	Costa Rica	23:18.14 NU18R	Guatemala	23:57.03	Guatemala	25:39.87
4×100 metres relay	Jamaica Tina Clayton	45.49	Bahamas	47.27	Costa Rica	50.70
High jump	Jamaica	1.71 NU18R	Jamaica	1.71	Costa Rica	1.45
Long jump	Jamaica	5.72	Guatemala	5.63	Costa Rica	5.26
Triple jump	Guatemala	11.94	Guatemala	11.92	Costa Rica	11.70
Pole Vault	Costa Rica	2.50	Only one participant
Shot put (3 kg)	Jamaica	14.33	Jamaica	13.94	British Virgin Islands	12.89
Discus throw (1 kg)	Jamaica	45.37 NU18R	Jamaica	43.59	Bahamas	41.03
Hammer throw (3 kg)	Guatemala	60.55 NU18R	El Salvador	48.97	Costa Rica	42.70
Javelin throw (500 g)	Cayman Islands	36.45	Costa Rica	34.12	Only two parcipants
Heptathlon	Costa Rica	3772 pts	Only one parcipant

U18 mixed[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica	3:25.27	Bahamas	3:27.73	Costa Rica	3:45.26

Medal Table[]

Source:^[2]

* Host nation (Costa Rica)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Jamaica (JAM)	39	18	10	67
2	Costa Rica (CRC)*	19	20	23	62
3	Bahamas (BAH)	17	18	7	42
4	Guatemala (GUA)	5	8	3	16
5	Barbados (BAR)	5	1	1	7
6	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VIN)	3	3	1	7
7	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	3	2	2	7
8	El Salvador (ESA)	3	1	2	6
9	Nicaragua (NIC)	3	1	0	4
10	Cayman Islands (CAY)	2	1	2	5
11	Dominican Republic (DOM)	2	1	1	4
12	Grenada (GRN)	1	2	0	3
13	Antigua and Barbuda (ATG)	0	3	1	4
14	Panama (PAN)	0	2	2	4
15	British Virgin Islands (IVB)	0	1	1	2
16	Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)	0	1	0	1
16	U.S. Virgin Islands (VIR)	0	1	0	1
18	Turks and Caicos Islands (TCA)	0	0	4	4
19	Haiti (HAI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 nations)		102	84	61	247

Participation[]

263 athletes (158 men and 105 women) from 19 nations participated in these championships.

References[]

^ "Costa Rica sede del torneo NACAC U-18, U20 y U-23". Hoy en el Deporte. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
^ "NACAC U18 - U20 - U23 Championship - Medal Table". FECOA. 11 July 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2021.

External links[]

[1] "Costa Rica sede del torneo NACAC U-18, U20 y U-23". Hoy en el Deporte. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021.

[2] "NACAC U18 - U20 - U23 Championship - Medal Table". FECOA. 11 July 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2021.

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