Athletics at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games

The athletics competition at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games was held in Medellín, Colombia.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Silvio Leonard  Cuba	10.10	Osvaldo Lara  Cuba	10.11	Guy Abrahams  Panama	10.20
200 metres	Silvio Leonard  Cuba	20.49	Anthony Husbands  Trinidad and Tobago	21.00	Guy Abrahams  Panama	21.15
400 metres	Alberto Juantorena  Cuba	44.27	Joseph Coombs  Trinidad and Tobago	45.41	Seymour Newman  Jamaica	46.11
800 metres	Alberto Juantorena  Cuba	1:47.23	Gerold Pawirodikromo  Suriname	1:47.46	Leandro Civil  Cuba	1:47.66
1500 metres	Luis Medina  Cuba	3:44.47	Eduardo Castro  Mexico	3:45.14	Venezuela	3:45.89
5000 metres	Rodolfo Gómez  Mexico	13:55.08	Domingo Tibaduiza  Colombia	13:56.88	José Gómez  Mexico	14:27.33
10,000 metres	Rodolfo Gómez  Mexico	29:34.64	Domingo Tibaduiza  Colombia	29:38.66	Luis Hernández  Mexico	30:23.84
Marathon	Puerto Rico	2:22:34	Mario Cuevas  Mexico	2:23:07	Guatemala	2:26:04
110 metres hurdles	Alejandro Casañas  Cuba	13.67	Dominican Republic	14.68	Karl Smith  Jamaica	14.71
400 metres hurdles	Clive Bariffe  Jamaica	50.16	Julio Ferrer  Puerto Rico	50.86	Colombia	50.97
3000 metre steeplechase	Cuba	8:46.39	Mexico	8:52.13	Colombia	8:56.29
4 × 100 metres relay	Trinidad and Tobago Hasely Crawford Anthony Husbands Ephraim Serrette	39.13	Cuba Juan Saborit Alejandro Casañas Silvio Leonard Osvaldo Lara	39.44	Dominican Republic	39.62
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Clive Barriffe Floyd Brown Bert Cameron	3:03.76	Trinidad and Tobago Michael Paul Mike Solomon Joseph Coombs	3:05.01	Cuba Carlos Álvarez Alberto Juantorena	3:05.57
20 kilometre road walk	Daniel Bautista  Mexico	1:29:10	Raúl González  Mexico	1:31:58	Colombia	1:39:31
High jump	Richard Spencer  Cuba	2.12	Costa Rica	2.12	Puerto Rico	2.09
Pole vault	Cuba	5.00	Mexico	4.80	Rubén Camino  Cuba	4.80
Long jump	David Giralt  Cuba	7.82	Milán Matos  Cuba	7.77	Ron Chambers  Jamaica	7.77
Triple jump	Steve Hanna  Bahamas	16.60	Cuba	16.43	Alejandro Herrera  Cuba	16.10
Shot put	Cuba	17.51	Cuba	17.36	Venezuela	16.83
Discus throw	Luis Delís  Cuba	58.62	Julián Morrinson  Cuba	58.56	Brad Cooper  Bahamas	54.24
Hammer throw	Armando Orozco  Cuba	69.86	Genovevo Morejón  Cuba	69.14	Puerto Rico	56.22
Javelin throw	Antonio González  Cuba	78.74	Amado Morales  Puerto Rico	70.54	Reinaldo Patterson  Cuba	63.64
Decathlon	Cuba	7483	Cuba	6954	Venezuela	6842

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Silvia Chivás  Cuba	11.47	Lelieth Hodges  Jamaica	11.63	Isabel Taylor  Cuba	11.74
200 metres	Silvia Chivás  Cuba	23.01	Janice Bernard  Trinidad and Tobago	24.01	Jamaica	24.42
400 metres	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	50.56	Beatriz Castillo  Cuba	51.27	Helen Blake  Jamaica	53.40
800 metres	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	2:01.38	Mexico	2:03.58	Nery McKeen  Cuba	2:04.48
1500 metres	Mexico	4:30.78	Ileana Hocking  Puerto Rico	4:35.88	Mexico	4:39.62
100 metres hurdles	Cuba	13.31	Marisela Peralta  Dominican Republic	14.23	Cuba	14.29
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Silvia Chivás Carmen Valdés Isabel Taylor	44.37	Jamaica Leleith Hodges Dorothy Scott Jacqueline Pusey	44.41	Trinidad and Tobago Esther Hope Janice Bernard Rebeca	45.13
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Ana Fidelia Quirot Beatriz Castillo Aurelia Pentón	3:31.34	Jamaica Ruth Williams-Simpson Helen Blake	3:41.69	Puerto Rico Angelita Lind Ileana Hocking Madeline de Jesús	3:46.58
High jump	Cuba	1.75	Grace Jackson  Jamaica	1.70	Mexico	1.65
Long jump	Shonel Ferguson  Bahamas	6.41	Ana Alexander  Cuba	6.25	Eloína Echevarría  Cuba	6.12
Shot put	Cuba	17.00	Cuba	14.97	Vicky López  Puerto Rico	13.42
Discus throw	Carmen Romero  Cuba	60.54	María Cristina Betancourt  Cuba	57.58	Colombia	41.28
Javelin throw	María Caridad Colón  Cuba	63.40	Cuba	54.86	Guadalupe López  Mexico	49.80
Pentathlon	Cuba	3636	Venezuela	3625	Mexico	3511

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	27	13	9	49
2	Mexico (MEX)	4	6	6	16
3	Jamaica (JAM)	2	4	5	11
4	Bahamas (BAH)	2	0	1	3
5	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	1	4	1	6
6	Puerto Rico (PUR)	1	3	4	8
7	Colombia (COL)	0	2	4	6
8	Dominican Republic (DOM)	0	2	1	3
9	Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	3	4
10	Costa Rica (CRC)	0	1	0	1
	Suriname (SUR)	0	1	0	1
12	Panama (PAN)	0	0	2	2
13	Guatemala (GUA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		37	37	37	111

References[]

• Montesinos, Enrique (2013). "The Oldest Regional Games: Central American & Caribbean Sports Games" (PDF). CACSO. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
• "Central American and Caribbean Games (Men)". GBR Athletics.
• "Central American and Caribbean Games (Women)". GBR Athletics.