Athletics at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games – Results

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These are the full results of the athletics competition at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games which took place between December 1 and December 6, 2002, at Estadio Jorge "Mágico" González in San Salvador, El Salvador.[1][2]

Men's results[]

100 meters[]

200 meters[]

400 meters[]

800 meters[]

Final – 5 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) José Manuel González  Venezuela 1:48.71
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Jamaica 1:48.89
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Marvin Watts  Jamaica 1:49.11
4 Jean Destine  Haiti 1:49.79
5  Mexico 1:50.37
6  Puerto Rico 1:50.40
7  Dominican Republic 1:51.02
8  Mexico 1:51.56
9  Netherlands Antilles 1:55.23
10  El Salvador 1:55.44

1500 meters[]

Final – 2 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Juan Luis Barrios  Mexico 3:43.71
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Alexander Greaux  Puerto Rico 3:45.75
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Jamaica 3:49.33
4  Colombia 3:51.03
5  Dominican Republic 3:51.78
6  Venezuela 3:52.68
7  Mexico 3:53.31
8 José Manuel González  Venezuela 3:56.37
9  Puerto Rico 3:56.96
10  U.S. Virgin Islands 3:58.93
11  Jamaica 4:14.86

5000 meters[]

Final – 3 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pablo Olmedo  Mexico 14:07.82
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Freddy González  Venezuela 14:08.45
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) David Galván  Mexico 14:11.95
4 William Naranjo  Colombia 14:13.69
5 José Amado García  Guatemala 14:33.50
6  Venezuela 14:43.38
7  Colombia 14:45.62
8  Dominican Republic 15:22.92
9  U.S. Virgin Islands 15:54.62

10,000 meters[]

Final – 1 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pablo Olmedo  Mexico 28:36.67 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Teodoro Vega  Mexico 28:42.86
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) William Naranjo  Colombia 29:12.13
4 Diego Colorado  Colombia 29:46.03
5 José Amado García  Guatemala 30:30.30
6  Guatemala 30:30.35

Marathon[]

Final – 6 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Procopio Franco  Mexico 2:17:38
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Luis Fonseca  Venezuela 2:20:13
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Juan Carlos Cardona  Colombia 2:21:27
4 Alfredo Arévalo  Guatemala 2:21:53
5 Francisco Bautista  Mexico 2:28:09
6  Guatemala 2:28:10
 Puerto Rico DNF
Rubén Maza  Venezuela DNF
 Colombia DNS

110 meters hurdles[]

Final – 2 December - Wind: 2.6 m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dudley Dorival  Haiti 13.82 w
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Paulo Villar  Colombia 13.94 w
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Jamaica 14.02 w
4 Gabriel Burnett  Barbados 14.03 w
5  Barbados 14.16 w
6  Mexico 14.58 w
Wagner Marseille  Haiti DNS

400 meters hurdles[]

Final – 5 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Mexico 50.46
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Miguel García  Dominican Republic 51.05
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Mexico 51.62
4  Barbados 51.68
5  Bahamas 51.94
6  El Salvador 52.79
7 Ronald Forbes  Cayman Islands 55.01
8  Guatemala 55.99

3000 meters steeplechase[]

Final – 6 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Alexander Greaux  Puerto Rico 8:42.39
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Salvador Miranda  Mexico 8:48.18
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Néstor Nieves  Venezuela 8:53.56
4  Mexico 8:56.22
5  El Salvador 9:27.86

4x100 meters relay[]

4x400 meters relay[]

Final – 6 December

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Dominican Republic

Carlos Santa
Felix Sánchez
3:04.15 NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Jamaica
Michael McDonald

Lansford Spence
3:05.40
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Venezuela
Jonathan Palma
Luis Luna

3:05.71
4  Mexico


Juan Pedro Toledo
3:09.64
5  El Salvador



3:18.94

20 kilometers walk[]

Final – 1 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Alejandro López  Mexico 1:26:32
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Luis Fernando García  Guatemala 1:27:51
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Fredy Hernández  Colombia 1:28:48
4 Salvador Mira  El Salvador 1:33:43
Julio René Martínez  Guatemala DNF
Ricardo Reyes  El Salvador DQ
Claudio Erasmo Vargas  Mexico DQ
 Mexico DNS

High jump[]

Final – 6 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gerardo Martínez  Mexico 2.18
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Puerto Rico 2.15
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gilmar Mayo  Colombia 2.15
4 Damon Thompson  Barbados 2.05
5  Guatemala 2.05
6  Bahamas 2.05
7  Honduras 1.95
8  Belize 1.90
 Mexico NM
 Haiti NM

Pole vault[]

Final – 1 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dominic Johnson  Saint Lucia 5.41 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Mexico 5.00
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  El Salvador 4.70 NR
4  Guatemala 4.50

Long jump[]

Final – 5 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sergio Sauceda  Mexico 7.48 (+1.2 m/s)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Dominican Republic 7.32 (+0.2 m/s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Saint Kitts and Nevis 7.26 (+1.1 m/s)
4  Grenada 7.10 (+0.1 m/s)
5  Mexico 6.82 (+0.4 m/s)
6  British Virgin Islands 6.68 (+0.5 m/s)
7  Bahamas 6.67 (+1.4 m/s)

Triple jump[]

Final – 2 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Alvin Rentería  Colombia 15.57 (-1.1 m/s)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Venezuela 15.42 (-2.5 m/s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Grenada 15.12 (-1.4 m/s)
4  Mexico 15.12 (-2.5 m/s)
5  Guatemala 14.80 (-2.8 m/s)
6  Jamaica 14.62 (-1.6 m/s)
Juan Carlos Nájera  Guatemala NM

Shot put[]

Final – 6 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yojer Medina  Venezuela 19.63 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Puerto Rico 16.93
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Dominican Republic 16.46
4 Jason Morgan  Jamaica 16.06
5  Dominican Republic 15.60
6  Barbados 15.60
7  Guatemala 15.28
8  Mexico 15.09
9  Barbados 14.17

Discus throw[]

Final – 1 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Venezuela 55.43
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Alfredo Romero  Puerto Rico 52.87
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Yojer Medina  Venezuela 51.98
4  Dominican Republic 49.52
5 Jason Morgan  Jamaica 48.26
6  El Salvador 47.85
7  Barbados 47.81
8  Mexico 45.79
9  Grenada 42.79
10  Panama 42.52
11  British Virgin Islands 42.38
12  Guatemala 39.69
13  El Salvador 39.07

Hammer throw[]

Final – 3 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Guatemala 65.99 NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Puerto Rico 65.35 NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Aldo Bello  Venezuela 65.35
4  Mexico 59.88
5  El Salvador 53.25

Javelin throw[]

Final – 5 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Manuel Fuenmayor  Venezuela 75.32
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Noraldo Palacios  Colombia 75.11
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Venezuela 74.91
4  Nicaragua 65.23
5  Grenada 62.55
6  Dominican Republic 62.54
7  Guatemala 61.98
8 Luiggy Llanos  Puerto Rico 61.32
9  El Salvador 56.93
10  Bahamas 55.10
11  Mexico 52.21

Women's results[]

100 meters[]

200 meters[]

400 meters[]

800 meters[]

Final – 5 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Letitia Vriesde  Suriname 2:04.50
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Puerto Rico 2:06.09
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gabriela Medina  Mexico 2:06.55
4 Sandra Moya  Puerto Rico 2:06.72
5  Venezuela 2:07.06
6  Guatemala 2:11.03
Marie-Lyne Joseph  Dominica DNS

1500 meters[]

Final – 6 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dulce María Rodríguez  Mexico 4:18.91
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Korene Hinds  Jamaica 4:22.03
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bertha Sánchez  Colombia 4:27.75
4 Angélica Sánchez  Mexico 4:35.33
5  Antigua and Barbuda 4:39.26
6  Guatemala 4:39.45
7 Elsa Monterroso  Guatemala 4:39.48
8  El Salvador 4:44.55
9 Ruth David  U.S. Virgin Islands 5:21.85

5000 meters[]

Final – 5 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dulce María Rodríguez  Mexico 16:38.92 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bertha Sánchez  Colombia 16:39.23
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Nora Rocha  Mexico 16:42.18
4 Elsa Monterroso  Guatemala 17:03.41 NR
5  Guatemala 17:35.23
6  El Salvador 17:47.85
7  Antigua and Barbuda 19:20.29
8 Ruth David  U.S. Virgin Islands 19:44.46

Marathon[]

Final – 6 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Mexico 2:54:14
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Mexico 2:56:05
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Puerto Rico 2:59:46
4 Margarita Conde  Guatemala 3:04:08
5  El Salvador 3:04:49
6  Colombia 3:06:12
7  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 3:27:58 NR

100 meters hurdles[]

Final – 3 December - Wind: 1.1 m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dionne Rose-Henley  Jamaica 13.67
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Princesa Oliveros  Colombia 13.72
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Nadine Faustin  Haiti 13.84
4  Mexico 14.01
5  Dominican Republic 14.96
6  El Salvador 15.81

400 meters hurdles[]

Final – 5 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yvonne Harrison  Puerto Rico 57.39 NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Puerto Rico 57.52
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Princesa Oliveros  Colombia 57.72
4  El Salvador 58.29 NR
5 Sheryl Morgan  Jamaica 58.66
6  Mexico 59.73
7  Dominican Republic 1:00.29

4x100 meters relay[]

Final – 6 December

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Colombia Digna Murillo
Melisa Murillo
Mirtha Brock
Princesa Oliveros
45.34
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  El Salvador



46.95
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Jamaica
Dionne Rose-Henley


50.62
 Dominican Republic



DQ Doping

: The relay team from the  Dominican Republic was initially 1st (44.90s), but was tested positive for nandrolone, and the team was disqualified.[3][4][5]

4x400 meters relay[]

Final – 6 December

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Mexico

Gabriela Medina
Ana Guevara
3:31.24 NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Puerto Rico Beatriz Cruz
Sandra Moya

Militza Castro
3:35.94
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Venezuela



3:37.86
4  Jamaica

Korene Hinds
Sheryl Morgan
3:38.90
5  El Salvador



3:48.24 NR
 Dominican Republic



DQ Doping

: The relay team from the  Dominican Republic was initially 2nd (3:32.88min), but was tested positive for nandrolone, and the team was disqualified.[3][4][5]

20 kilometers walk[]

Final – 1 December

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Victoria Palacios  Mexico 1:36:16 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) María del Rosario Sánchez  Mexico 1:36:44
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Teresita Collado  Guatemala 1:42:07
4 Sandra Zapata  Colombia 1:44:00
Ivis Martínez  El Salvador DNF
María Guadalupe Sánchez  Mexico DNS

High jump[]

Final – 2 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Juana Rosario Arrendel  Dominican Republic 1.97 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) María Romary Rifka  Mexico 1.85
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Caterine Ibargüen  Colombia 1.79
4 Karen Beautle  Jamaica 1.79
5  Mexico 1.70
6  El Salvador 1.60

Pole vault[]

Final – 3 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Milena Agudelo  Colombia 3.90 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Mexico 3.80
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Puerto Rico 3.80 NR
4  Mexico 3.30
5  El Salvador 3.00

Long jump[]

Final – 1 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Dominican Republic 6.20 (-2.0 m/s)
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Mexico 6.11 (-2.0 m/s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Puerto Rico 6.03 (-2.9 m/s)
4 Jennifer Arveláez  Venezuela 5.71 (-2.2 m/s)
5  Guyana 5.63 (-2.2 m/s)
6 Daphne Saunders  Bahamas 5.60 (-1.9 m/s)
7 Tricia Flores  Belize 5.53 (-2.8 m/s)
8  Dominican Republic 5.53 (-1.1 m/s)
 Guatemala NM

Triple jump[]

Final – 6 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Dominican Republic 13.57 (-2.5 m/s)
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Caterine Ibargüen  Colombia 13.17 (-1.4 m/s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jennifer Arveláez  Venezuela 13.10 (-1.0 m/s)
4  Guatemala 12.92 (-2.2 m/s)
5  Mexico 12.40 (-1.0 m/s)
6  El Salvador 11.66 (-1.6 m/s)

Shot put[]

Final – 2 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Fior Vásquez  Dominican Republic 17.04 NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Luz Dary Castro  Colombia 15.98
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Dominica 12.84
4  Nicaragua 9.95
 Mexico DNS

Discus throw[]

Final – 6 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Luz Dary Castro  Colombia 55.11
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Mexico 48.12
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Guatemala 46.61
4 Fior Vásquez  Dominican Republic 39.98
5  Nicaragua 36.64
 Dominica DNS

Hammer throw[]

Final – 2 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Amarilys Alméstica  Puerto Rico 60.39 NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Violeta Guzmán  Mexico 58.48
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Nancy Guillén  El Salvador 57.10
4 María Eugenia Villamizar  Colombia 55.29
5  Guatemala 48.40
 Mexico DNS

Javelin throw[]

Final – 3 December

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Zuleima Araméndiz  Colombia 56.63
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sabina Moya  Colombia 55.73
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Mexico 46.51
4 Dalila Rugama  Nicaragua 44.91
5  El Salvador 44.01

Heptathlon[]

Final – 6 December

  The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow
Rank Name Nationality 100m H HJ SP 200m LJ JT 800m Points Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Dominican Republic 14.61 1.57 10.03 25.05 5.63 40.83 2:18.09 5279
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yudith Méndez  Dominican Republic 14.46 1.54 11.42 24.91 5.32 45.84 2:26.65 5261
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Guyana 15.94 1.63 8.54 26.15 5.37 30.65 2:22.20 4657
4  El Salvador 15.45 1.60 9.88 25.96 5.44 32.93 2:46.19 4561
5  Mexico 15.83 1.57 8.45 26.93 5.00 31.96 2:24.28 4421
6  El Salvador 16.02 1.66 8.60 27.23 6.18 33.87 2:46.81 4305

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