Athletics at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games

The athletics competition in the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games was held in Kingston, Jamaica.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Tom Robinson  Bahamas	10.41	Rafael Romero  Venezuela	10.47	Arquímedes Herrera  Venezuela	10.49
200 metres	Rafael Romero  Venezuela	21.0	Arquímedes Herrera  Venezuela	21.3	Edwin Roberts[1]  Trinidad and Tobago	21.4
400 metres	George Kerr  Jamaica	45.9	Hortensio Fucil  Venezuela	47.3	Malcolm Spence  Jamaica	47.4
800 metres	George Kerr  Jamaica	1:51.0	Melville Spence  Jamaica	1:53.0	José Neira  Colombia	1:54.8
1500 metres	Álvaro Mejía  Colombia	3:51.4	Ralph Gomes  British Guiana	3:52.5	José Neira  Colombia	3:52.6
5000 metres	Mexico	14:46.6	Mexico	15:06.2	Mexico	15:11.0
10,000 metres	Mexico	30:55.2	Mexico	31:40.8	Mexico	31:44.4
Half marathon	Hernán Barreneche  Colombia	01:11:49	Fidel Negrete  Mexico	01:12:27	Víctor Peralta  Mexico	01:13:21
110 metres hurdles	Lázaro Betancourt  Cuba	14.2	Heriberto Cruz  Puerto Rico	14.5	Venezuela	14.7
400 metres hurdles	Víctor Maldonado  Venezuela	51.6	Juan Montes  Puerto Rico	53.0	Cuba	53.2
3000 metre steeplechase	Mexico	9:19.8	Mexico	9:23.6	Puerto Rico	9:31.4
4 × 100 metres relay	Venezuela Arquímides Herrera Lloyd Murad Rafael Romero Horacio Esteves	40.0	Trinidad and Tobago Cipriani Phillips Wilton Jackson Edwin Roberts[1]	40.7	Jamaica Patrick Robinson Dennis Johnson	40.8
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Melville Spence Malcolm Spence George Kerr	3:11.6	Trinidad and Tobago Wilton Jackson Edwin Roberts[1]	3:12.5	Puerto Rico Ovidio de Jesús	3:15.8
High jump	Teodoro Palacios  Guatemala	2.00	Anton Norris  Barbados	1.98	Ernle Haisley  Jamaica	1.94
Pole vault	Rolando Cruz  Puerto Rico	4.72	Rubén Cruz  Puerto Rico	4.26	Colombia	3.81
Long jump	Venezuela	7.68	Wellesley Clayton  Jamaica	7.60	Cuba	7.16
Triple jump	Jamaica	15.52	Ramón López  Cuba	15.33	Perry Christie  Bahamas	14.98
Shot put	Netherlands Antilles	14.64	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	14.46	Ramón Rosario  Puerto Rico	13.96
Discus throw	Colombia	48.66	Netherlands Antilles	47.44	Daniel Cereali  Venezuela	46.97
Hammer throw	Cuba	54.15	Daniel Cereali  Venezuela	52.85	Colombia	50.35
Javelin throw	Venezuela	66.66	Puerto Rico	64.24	Cuba	61.83
Pentathlon	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	3212	Venezuela	2946	Puerto Rico	2912

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	12.08	Marcela Daniel  Panama	12.12	Trinidad and Tobago	12.20
80m hurdles	Bertha Díaz  Cuba	11.1	Lorraine Dunn  Panama	11.7	Carmen Smith  Jamaica	11.8
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Carmen Smith	47.0	Cuba Berta Díaz Miguelina Cobián Fulgencia Romay	47.3	Panama Lorraine Dunn Marcela Daniel Delceita Oakley	47.7
High jump	Brenda Archer  British Guiana	1.53	Cuba	1.51	Jamaica	1.51
Long jump	Bertha Díaz  Cuba	5.50	Jamaica	5.38	Venezuela	5.35
Discus throw	Cuba	43.75	Cuba	38.70	Mexico	38.69
Javelin throw	Cuba	40.32	Panama	40.19	Mexico	35.63

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	7	4	3	14
2	Venezuela	6	6	4	16
3	Jamaica	5	3	5	13
4	Mexico (MEX)	3	4	5	12
5	Colombia	3	0	4	7
6	Puerto Rico	1	4	4	9
7	British Guiana	1	1	0	2
	Netherlands Antilles	1	1	0	2
9	Bahamas (BAH)	1	0	1	2
10	Guatemala	1	0	0	1
11	Panama	0	3	1	4
12	Trinidad and Tobago	0	2	2	4
13	Barbados (BAR)	0	1	0	1
Totals (13 nations)		29	29	29	87

References[]

• Montesinos, Enrique (2013). "The Oldest Regional Games: Central American & Caribbean Sports Games" (PDF). CACSO.
• "Central American and Caribbean Games (Men)". GBR Athletics.
• "Central American and Caribbean Games (Women)". GBR Athletics.