Athletics at the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games

The athletics competition in the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games were held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Enrique Figuerola  Cuba	10.2	Edwin Roberts[1]  Trinidad and Tobago	10.3	Carl Plaskett  U.S. Virgin Islands	10.5
200 metres	Edwin Roberts[1]  Trinidad and Tobago	20.8 /20.70?	Carl Plaskett  U.S. Virgin Islands	21.4 /21.21?	Enrique Figuerola  Cuba	21.5 /21.24?
400 metres	Puerto Rico	46.7 /46.77?	Rupert Hoilette  Jamaica	46.9 /47.03?	Rodobaldo Díaz  Cuba	47.0 /47.10?
800 metres	Neville Myton  Jamaica	1:50.2	Trinidad and Tobago	1:51.7	Benedict Cayenne  Trinidad and Tobago	1:54.3
1500 metres	Álvaro Mejía  Colombia	3:50.3	Puerto Rico	3:52.4	José Neri  Mexico	3:52.4
5000 metres	Álvaro Mejía  Colombia	14:42.6	José Neri  Mexico	14:56.4	Mexico	15:33.2
10,000 metres	Álvaro Mejía  Colombia	31:34.0	Mexico	32:11.0	Juan Martínez  Mexico	32:13.0
Half marathon	Mexico	01:13:47	Colombia	01:14:24	Mexico	01:17:01
110 metres hurdles	Hernando Arrechea  Colombia	14.2w	Jamaica	14.4w	Juan Morales  Cuba	14.5w
400 metres hurdles	Heriberto Cruz  Puerto Rico	52.4	Víctor Maldonado  Venezuela	52.5	Venezuela	53.5
3000 metre steeplechase	Mexico	9:32.6	Venezuela	9:37.8	Rigoberto Mendoza  Cuba	9:38.4
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Wellesley Clayton Pablo McNeil Michael Fray	40.5	Trinidad and Tobago Cipriani Phillips Winston Short Edwin Roberts[1]	40.6	Cuba Juan Morales Enrique Figuerola	40.6
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Clifton Forbes Melville Spence Neville Myton Rupert Hoilette	3:08.8	Trinidad and Tobago Ben Cayenne Edwin Skinner Edwin Roberts[1]	3:09.4	Puerto Rico Juan Franceschi Rafael Vega	3:10.3
10,000 metre track walk	José Pedraza  Mexico	51:32.4	Euclides Calzado  Cuba	51:43.4	Cuba	52:17.8
High jump	Teodoro Palacios  Guatemala	2.03	Anton Norris  Barbados	1.98	Venezuela	1.93
Pole vault	Rolando Cruz  Puerto Rico	4.54	Rubén Cruz  Puerto Rico	4.30	Colombia	4.15
Long jump	Wellesley Clayton  Jamaica	7.64	Cuba	7.55	Jamaica	7.51
Triple jump	Tim Barrett  Bahamas	15.76	Cuba	15.72	Jamaica	15.42
Shot put	Cuba	15.36	Roy Hollingsworth  Trinidad and Tobago	15.36	Cuba	15.34
Discus throw	Roy Hollingsworth  Trinidad and Tobago	52.10	Cuba	48.71	Colombia	48.16
Hammer throw	Cuba	68.11	Adolfo Martín  Cuba	56.59	Colombia	52.38
Javelin throw	Cuba	74.74	Cuba	69.57	Venezuela	68.59
Pentathlon	Puerto Rico	3153	Cuba	3467	Venezuela	3389

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	11.7 /11.69?	Cristina Hechevarría  Cuba	11.9 /11.79?	Carmen Smith  Jamaica	11.9 /11.86?
200 metres	Una Morris  Jamaica	24.2	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	24.8	Vilma Charlton  Jamaica	24.9
80 metres hurdles	Carmen Smith  Jamaica	11.1	Jamaica	11.6	Cuba	11.6
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Adlin Mair Una Morris Vilma Charlton Carmen Smith	46.2	Cuba Irene Martínez Cristina Hechevarría Fulgencia Romay Miguelina Cobián	46.5	Barbados Freida Nicholls	49.5
High jump	Barbados	1.65	Cuba	1.60	Cuba	1.55
Long jump	Irene Martínez  Cuba	5.87	Jamaica	5.72	Marcia Garbey  Cuba	5.47
Shot put	Cuba	12.72	Mexico	12.23	Venezuela	12.02
Discus throw	Cuba	43.37	Jamaica	39.84	Carmen Romero  Cuba	39.07
Javelin throw	Cuba	39.34	Colombia	37.39	Cuba	36.47

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	9	11	12	32
2	Jamaica (JAM)	7	5	4	16
3	Colombia (COL)	4	2	3	9
4	Puerto Rico (PUR)	4	2	1	7
5	Mexico (MEX)	3	3	4	10
6	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	2	5	1	8
7	Barbados (BAR)	1	1	1	3
8	Bahamas (BAH)	1	0	0	1
	Guatemala (GUA)	1	0	0	1
10	Venezuela (VEN)	0	2	5	7
11	U.S. Virgin Islands (VIR)	0	1	1	2
Totals (11 nations)		32	32	32	96

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.