Athletics at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games

Athletics at the XX CAC Games
The host stadium
Dates	July 25–29
Host city	Cartagena, Colombia
Venue	Estadio Pedro de Heredia
Events	44
Participation	444 athletes from 31 nations
Records set	10 Games records
← 2002 San Salvador 2010 Mayagüez → 2006 CAC Games

The athletics competition at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games took place at the Estadio Pedro de Heredia in Cartagena, Colombia and lasted from July 25 to July 29. There were 23 events for men and 21 for women. A total of ten Games records were broken at the competition, in addition to a number of national records.

The events were dominated by Cuban athletes, whereas teams like Jamaica did not send their strongest athletes. With 21 gold medals, Cuba won nearly half of the events and 45 medals were won by the country's athletes. Mexico was the next most successful nation, winning eight golds and fourteen medals overall. The hosts Colombia took third place on the medal tally, having won four golds, but also had the second greatest medal haul with nineteen in total. Jamaica, the Netherlands Antilles and Panama were the only other nations at the competition to win two golds or more.

Results[]

Men[]

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Churandy Martina  Netherlands Antilles	10.06 GR	Derrick Atkins  Bahamas	10.13	Jacey Harper  Trinidad and Tobago	10.33
200 metres	Jamaica	20.74	Colombia	20.78	Andrew Hinds  Barbados	20.83
400 metres	Yeimer López  Cuba	45.28	Alleyne Francique  Grenada	45.44	Arismendy Peguero  Dominican Republic	45.55
800 metres	Andy González  Cuba	1:46.26	Sherridan Kirk  Trinidad and Tobago	1:46.55	Maury Castillo  Cuba	1:47.60
1500 metres	Juan Luis Barrios  Mexico	3:42.52	David Freeman  Puerto Rico	3:43.84	Maury Castillo  Cuba	3:43.93
5000 metres	Juan Luis Barrios  Mexico	14:09.08	Alejandro Suárez  Mexico	14:10.58	Cuba	14:13.50
10,000 metres	José David Galván  Mexico	29:40.08	Colombia	29:41.51	Cuba	29:50.53
110 m hurdles	Dayron Robles  Cuba	13.12 GR	Paulo César Villar  Colombia	13.29 NR/AR=	Yoel Hernández  Cuba	13.51
400 m hurdles	Bayano Kamani  Panama	49.44	Ian Weakley  Jamaica	49.74	Jamaica	50.12
3000 m steeplechase	Alex Greaux  Puerto Rico	8:44.51	Néstor Nieves  Venezuela	8:44.86	José Alberto Sánchez  Cuba	8:46.05
Marathon	Procopio Franco  Mexico	2:24:35	Juan Carlos Cardona  Colombia	2:27:43	Alfredo Arevalo  Guatemala	2:28:27
4 × 100 m relay	Netherlands Antilles Brian Mariano Prince Kwidama Jairo Duzant Churandy Martina	39.29	Bahamas Adrian Griffith Derrick Atkins Rodney Green Dominic Demeritte	39.44	Jamaica Lerone Clarke Herbert McGregor	39.45
4 × 400 m relay	Jamaica Sanjay Ayre Leford Green Ricardo Chambers	3:01.78 GR	Trinidad and Tobago Renny Quow Kevon Pierre Jamil James Damion Barry	3:02.65	Dominican Republic Félix Sánchez Arismendi Peguero Carlos Santa Yoel Tapia	3:03.25
20 km race walk	Luis Fernando López  Colombia	1:24:20	Eder Sánchez  Mexico	1:26:30	Luis Fernando García  Guatemala	1:29:50
High jump	Gilmar Mayo  Colombia	2.19	Trevor Barry  Bahamas	2.16	Gerardo Martínez  Mexico	2.16
Pole vault	Robinson Pratt  Mexico	5.50 NR	Dominic Johnson  Saint Lucia	5.20	Colombia	4.60
Long jump	Irving Saladino  Panama	8.29	Iván Pedroso  Cuba	7.92	Ibrahim Camejo  Cuba	7.83
Triple jump	Yoandri Betanzos  Cuba	17.46 GR	Alexis Copello  Cuba	16.85	Wilbert Walker  Jamaica	16.35
Shot put	Dorian Scott  Jamaica	20.34 NR[1]	Alexis Paumier  Cuba	18.26	Reynaldo Proenza  Cuba	18.03
Discus throw	Yunior Lastre  Cuba	57.00	Jason Morgan  Jamaica	56.56	Venezuela	52.60
Hammer throw	Noleysi Bicet  Cuba	69.56	Iosvany Suárez  Cuba	67.62	Aldo Bello  Venezuela	62.55
Javelin throw	Guillermo Martínez  Cuba	84.91 GR	Yudel Moreno  Cuba	78.44	Noraldo Palacios  Colombia	74.10
Decathlon	Alexis Chivas  Cuba	7551	Cuba	7203	Colombia	7157
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women[]

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Tahesia Harrigan  British Virgin Islands	11.15	Laverne Jones  U.S. Virgin Islands	11.50	Virgil Hodge  Saint Kitts and Nevis	11.52
200 metres	Roxana Díaz  Cuba	22.76 GR	Virgil Hodge  Saint Kitts and Nevis	23.09	Jade Bailey  Barbados	23.32
400 metres	Ana Guevara  Mexico	50.99	Hazel-Ann Regis  Grenada	51.16	Kineke Alexander  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	52.04
800 metres	Zulia Calatayud  Cuba	2:05.26	Rosibel García  Colombia	2:05.78	Gabriela Medina  Mexico	2:06.15
1500 metres	Rosibel García  Colombia	4:18.29 GR	Yuneisy Santiusty  Cuba	4:19.32	Puerto Rico	4:21.84
5000 metres	Bertha Sánchez  Colombia	16:17:13	Dulce Maria Rodriguez  Mexico	16:18.15	Madaí Pérez  Mexico	16:19.38
Marathon	Mexico	2:45:49	Cuba	2:51:43	Iglandini González  Colombia	2:54:05
100 m hurdles	Anay Tejeda  Cuba	12.86	Nadine Faustin  Haiti	12.91	Jamaica	13.10
400 m hurdles	Daimí Pernía  Cuba	55.32	Josanne Lucas  Trinidad and Tobago	55.60	Melaine Walker  Jamaica	55.97
4 × 100 m relay	Cuba Virgen Benavides Roxana Díaz Anay Tejeda	43.29	Colombia Yomara Hinestroza Felipa Palacios Darlenys Obregón Norma González	44.32	Bahamas Savatheda Fynes Tamica Clarke	44.34
4 × 400 m relay	Mexico Ruth Grajeda Ana Guevara Gabriela Medina Mayra González	3:29.92	Jamaica Shevon Stoddart Melaine Walker	3:32.86	Cuba Daimi Pernía Yenima Arencibia Zulia Calatayud	3:36.34
20 km race walk	Cristina López  El Salvador	1:38:26	Evelyn Núñez  Guatemala	1:39:37	Sandra Zapata  Colombia	1:41.37
High jump	Juana Arrendel  Dominican Republic	1.93	Catherine Ibargüen  Colombia	1.88	Levern Spencer  Saint Lucia	1.88
Pole vault	Cuba	4.10 GR	Yarisley Silva  Cuba	3.95	Keisa Monterola  Venezuela	3.85
Long jump	Yudelkis Fernández  Cuba	6.37	Catherine Ibargüen  Colombia	6.36	Tanika Liburd  Saint Kitts and Nevis	6.23
Triple jump	Mabel Gay  Cuba	14.20	Yudelkis Fernández  Cuba	13.87	Colombia	13.71
Shot put	Yumileidi Cumbá  Cuba	19.31	Misleydis González  Cuba	18.80	Cleopatra Borel  Trinidad and Tobago	18.33
Discus throw	Yania Ferrales  Cuba	59.70	Yarelis Barrios  Cuba	58.22	Barbados	48.10
Hammer throw	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba	70.22 GR	Yunaika Crawford  Cuba	67.88	Johana Moreno  Colombia	65.51 NR
Javelin throw	Sonia Bisset  Cuba	63.30 NR	Osleidys Menéndez  Cuba	59.94	Laverne Eve  Bahamas	57.29
Heptathlon	Yuleidis Limonta  Cuba	5952 GR	Dominican Republic	5664	Gretchen Quintana  Cuba	5584
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table[]

Cuban hurdler Dayron Robles broke a games record to win his gold medal.

Ana Guevara of Mexico retained her 400 m title from 2002.

Churandy Martina won both golds for the Netherlands Antilles.

  *   Host nation (Colombia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	21	14	10	45
2	Mexico	8	3	3	14
3	Colombia*	4	8	7	19
4	Jamaica	2	3	5	10
5	Netherlands Antilles	2	0	0	2
	Panama	2	0	0	2
7	Dominican Republic	1	1	2	4
8	Puerto Rico	1	1	1	3
9	British Virgin Islands	1	0	0	1
	El Salvador	1	0	0	1
11	Bahamas	0	3	2	5
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	3	2	5
13	Grenada	0	2	0	2
14	Venezuela	0	1	3	4
15	Guatemala	0	1	2	3
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	1	2	3
17	Saint Lucia	0	1	1	2
18	Haiti	0	1	0	1
	U.S. Virgin Islands	0	1	0	1
20	Barbados	0	0	3	3
21	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 nations)		43	44	44	131

• Note: Medal count excludes Dorian Scott's gold in the men's shot put as he was disqualified from the competition after a positive test for marijuana.^[1]

Participating nations[]

References[]

Results

• Official site - results at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-10-06) (in Spanish)
• Montesinos, Enrique (2013). "The Oldest Regional Games: Central American & Caribbean Sports Games" (PDF). CACSO.
• "Full results". AthleCAC.org. CACAC.

Reports

• Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2006-07-24). Athletics ready to start - 20th Central American and Caribbean Games - PREVIEW. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-21.
• Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2006-07-26). Guevara and Martinez shine - CAC Games, Day One. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-21.
• Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2006-07-27). Robles and Martina break Games records - CAC Games Day Two. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-21.
• Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2006-07-28). Betanzos, Moreno, Cumbá lead Cuban sweep - CAC Games Day 3. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-21.
• Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2006-07-30). Cuba dominates last day - CAC Games, Day 5. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-08-21.