Athletics at the 1970 Central American and Caribbean Games

The athletics competition in the 1970 Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Panama City, Panama.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Pablo Montes  Cuba	10.24	Hermes Ramírez  Cuba	10.28	Michael Fray  Jamaica	10.45
200 metres	Pablo Montes  Cuba	21.20	Cuba	21.30	Hermes Ramírez  Cuba	21.40
400 metres	Cuba	46.6	Melesio Piña  Mexico	46.9	Venezuela	47.1
800 metres	Puerto Rico	1:49.8	Panama	1:49.9	Donaldo Arza  Panama	1:50.3
1500 metres	Byron Dyce  Jamaica	3:45.8	Donaldo Arza  Panama	3:46.1	Mario Pérez  Mexico	3:47.2
5000 metres	Mario Pérez  Mexico	14:24.4	Juan Martínez  Mexico	14:24.8	Pedro Miranda  Mexico	14:25.4
10,000 metres	Juan Martínez  Mexico	30:49.0	Mario Pérez  Mexico	30:51.6	Mexico	30:57.6
Marathon	Alfredo Peñaloza  Mexico	02:47:23	Cuba	02:48:59	Cuba	02:50:38
110 metres hurdles	Juan Morales  Cuba	14.0	Arnaldo Bristol  Puerto Rico	14.2	Cuba	14.5
400 metres hurdles	Juan García  Cuba	50.6	Mexico	50.6	Miguel Olivera  Cuba	51.3
3000 metre steeplechase	Mexico	8:53.2	Mexico	8:53.4	Rigoberto Mendoza  Cuba	8:55.2
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Hermes Ramírez Pablo Montes Juan Morales José Triana	39.4	Colombia Jimmy Sierra Pedro Grajales	40.8	Puerto Rico Jorge Vizcarrondo Arnaldo Bristol	40.8
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Miguel Olivera Rodobaldo Díaz Juan García	3:06.4	Mexico Melesio Piña Alejandro Sánchez	3:07.8	Puerto Rico	3:09.0
20 kilometre road walk	Mexico	1:41:14	Mexico	1:43:19	Cuba	1:44:38
High jump	Cuba	2.06	Teodoro Palacios  Guatemala	1.98	Bahamas	1.95
Pole vault	Cuba	4.65	Mexico	4.40	Puerto Rico	4.30
Long jump	Cuba	7.69	Cuba	7.49	Galdino Flores  Mexico	7.43
Triple jump	Pedro Pérez  Cuba	16.33	Cuba	15.79	Cuba	15.61
Shot put	Cuba	16.46	Cuba	16.29	Modesto Mederos  Cuba	15.28
Discus throw	Cuba	56.04	Colombia	54.48	Cuba	53.64
Hammer throw	Cuba	57.06	Puerto Rico	53.74	Cuba	52.26
Javelin throw	Amado Morales  Puerto Rico	76.40	Donald Vélez  Nicaragua	72.12	Cuba	70.52
Decathlon	Jesús Mirabal  Cuba	6997	Cuba	6934	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	6918

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	11.4w	Fulgencia Romay  Cuba	11.6w	Cristina Hechevarría  Cuba	11.6w
200 metres	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	23.5	Violeta Quesada  Cuba	23.9	Fulgencia Romay  Cuba	24.3
400 metres	Carmen Trustée  Cuba	52.5	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	54.3	Cuba	55.1
800 metres	Carmen Trustée  Cuba	2:14.8	Mexico	2:15.8	Panama	2:16.4
100 metres hurdles	Marlene Elejalde  Cuba	13.9w	Cuba	14.2w	Raquel Martínez  Cuba	14.5w
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Marlene Elejalde Cristina Hechevarría Fulgencia Romay Miguelina Cobián	44.7	Panama	47.3	Mexico Mercedes Román Enriqueta Basilio	48.1
High jump	Cuba	1.73	Cuba	1.68	Marima Rodríguez  Cuba	1.64
Long jump	Marcia Garbey  Cuba	6.60	Cuba	6.31w	Cuba	6.00w
Shot put	Cuba	14.56	Cuba	13.85	Carmen Romero  Cuba	13.63
Discus throw	Carmen Romero  Cuba	53.54	María Cristina Betancourt  Cuba	46.08	Cuba	44.10
Javelin throw	Tomasa Núñez  Cuba	45.64	Cuba	45.46	Colombia	43.54
Pentathlon	Marlene Elejalde  Cuba	4534	Marcia Garbey  Cuba	4428	Mercedes Román  Mexico	4243

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	27	17	19	63
2	Mexico (MEX)	5	9	6	20
3	Puerto Rico (PUR)	2	2	3	7
4	Jamaica (JAM)	1	0	1	2
5	Panama (PAN)	0	3	2	5
6	Colombia (COL)	0	2	1	3
7	Guatemala (GUA)	0	1	0	1
	Nicaragua (NIC)	0	1	0	1
9	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	2	2
10	Bahamas (BAH)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		35	35	35	105

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.