Central American and Caribbean Games

Central American and Caribbean Games (CACGs)
*Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe* (in Spanish)
First event	October 30 – November 2, 1926
Occur every	4 years
Last event	July 19 – August 3, 2018
Purpose	Sports for Central American and Caribbean people
Organization	Centro Caribe Sports (formerly CACSO)

Silver coin: 5 Balboas, Panama - 11th Central American and Caribbean Games, 1970

Central American and Caribbean Games 2010, Triathlon, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

The Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC or CACGs) are a multi-sport regional championship event, held quadrennial (once every four years), typically in the middle (even) year between Summer Olympics. The games are for countries in Central America, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the South American Caribbean countries of Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.

The games are overseen by Centro Caribe Sports (formerly CACSO).^[1] They are designed to provide a step between sub-CACG-region Games held the first year following a Summer Olympics (e.g. Central American Games) and the Continental Championships, the Pan American Games, held the year before the Summer Olympics.

The last Games were held in Barranquilla, Colombia between 19 July to 3 August. The next Games will be held in 2022.

History[]

The CACGs are the oldest continuing regional games in the world,^[2] and only the Olympics have run longer. Mexico, Cuba and Guatemala were the three countries present at the first games, which were then called the Central American Games. In 1935 their name was changed to Central American and Caribbean Games to reflect expanding participation.

The 1942 edition was suspended after the impact of the World War II.

A "Central American Games" does exist today, Juegos Centroamericanos, involving just Central American countries.

Editions[]

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Host cities of the Central American and Caribbean Games

The first two editions of the Games were known as the "Central American Games" at the time, but the edition lineage continued after the inclusion of the Caribbean nations in 1935.^[3]

Year	Edition	Host city	Host nation (as recognized by the IOC)	Dates	Nations	Events	Sports	Competitors	Top placed team
1926	1	Mexico City	Mexico	October 30 – November 2	3	3	9	269	Mexico
1930	2	Havana	Cuba	March 15 – April 15	9	9	9	606	Cuba
1935	3	San Salvador	El Salvador	March 16 – April 5	9	9	13	741	Mexico
1938	4	Panama City	Panama	February 5 – February 24	10	10	16	1216	Mexico
1946	5	Barranquilla	Colombia	March 5 – March 25	13	13	17	1540	Mexico
1950	6	Guatemala City	Guatemala	February 28 – March 12	14	14	19	1390	Mexico
1954	7	Mexico City	Mexico	March 5 – March 20	12	12	19	1356	Mexico
1959	8	Caracas	Venezuela	January 6 – January 15	12	12	17	1150	Mexico
1962	9	Kingston	Jamaica	August 15 – August 28	15	15	16	1559	Mexico
1966	10	San Juan	Puerto Rico	July 11 – July 25	18	18	17	1689	Mexico
1970	11	Panama City	Panama	February 28 – March 13	21	21	16	2095	Cuba
1974	12	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	February 27 – March 13	23	23	18	1928	Cuba
1978	13	Medellín	Colombia	July 7 – July 28	19	19	21	2605	Cuba
1982	14	Havana	Cuba	August 7 – August 18	19	19	24	2420	Cuba
1986	15	Santiago de los Caballeros	Dominican Republic	June 24 – July 5	26	26	25	2963	Cuba
1990	16	Mexico City	Mexico	November 20 – December 3	29	29	30	4206	Cuba
1993	17	Ponce	Puerto Rico	November 19 – November 30	31	31	32	3,570	Cuba
1998	18	Maracaibo	Venezuela	August 8 – August 22	31	31	30	5200	Cuba
2002	19	San Salvador	El Salvador	November 19 – November 30	31	31	32	4,301	Mexico
2006	20	Cartagena de Indias	Colombia	July 15 – July 30	32	32	37	4,865	Cuba
2010	21	Mayagüez	Puerto Rico	July 17 – August 1	31	31	42	5204	Mexico
2014	22	Veracruz	Mexico	November 14 – November 30	31	31	36	5707	Cuba
2018	23	Barranquilla	Colombia	July 19 – August 3	37	37	36	5854	Mexico
2023	24	San Salvador	El Salvador	May 2023
2026		Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	TBD

Sports[]

Sport	1926	1930	1935	1938	1946	1950	1954	1959	1962	1966	1970	1974	1978	1982	1986	1990	1993	1998	2002	2006	2010	2014	2018
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Athletics	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
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Baseball	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
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Beach Volleyball																			X	X	X	X	X
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Field hockey																				X	X	X	X
Football		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
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Artistic gymnastics																				X	X	X	X
Rhythmic gymnastics																				X	X	X	X
Trampoline																						X	X
Handball																			X	X	X	X	X
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Racquetball																				X	X	X	X
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Tennis																			X	X	X	X	X
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Volleyball		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Water polo				X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
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Nations[]

Nation	1993	2010	2014
AHO		X
ARU		X
ATG		X
BAH		X
BAR		X
BER		X
BIZ		X
IVB		X
CAY	X	X
COL		X
CRC		X
CUB
DMA		X
DOM		X
ESA		X
GRN		X
GUA		X
GUY		X
HAI		X
HON		X
ISV		X
JAM		X
LCA		X
MEX		X
NCA		X
PAN		X
PUR		X	X
SKN		X
SUR		X
TRI		X
VIN		X
VEN		X

Historical medal count[]

Centroamerican games 2010 gold medal, held in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

The following medals were won:^[4]^[5]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	1752	889	679	3320
2	Mexico (MEX)	1235	1215	1087	3537
3	Venezuela (VEN)	564	782	918	2264
4	Colombia (COL)	530	616	656	1802
5	Puerto Rico (PUR)	323	486	692	1501
6	Dominican Republic (DOM)	172	279	435	886
7	Guatemala (GUA)	105	184	370	659
8	Jamaica (JAM)	101	118	125	344
9	Panama (PAN)	89	156	175	420
10	El Salvador (SLV)	53	129	236	418
11	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	52	84	114	250
12	Costa Rica (CRC)	37	41	85	163
13	Netherlands Antilles (ANT)	31	31	48	110
14	Bahamas (BAH)	28	26	33	87
15	Barbados (BAR)	14	15	46	75
16	Suriname (SUR)	12	5	11	28
17	U.S. Virgin Islands (VIR)	11	20	19	50
18	Guyana (GUY)	7	15	36	58
19	Cayman Islands (CYM)	5	5	6	16
20	Aruba (ABW)	5	3	11	19
21	British Virgin Islands (VGB)	5	0	0	5
22	Saint Lucia (LCA)	4	1	1	6
23	Nicaragua (NIC)	3	15	49	67
24	Honduras (HON)	3	12	33	48
25	Haiti (HTI)	3	11	24	38
26	Bermuda (BMU)	2	4	14	20
27	Belize (BLZ)	1	2	2	5
28	Dominica (DMA)	1	0	2	3
29	Antigua and Barbuda (ATG)	0	5	5	10
30	Grenada (GRD)	0	3	4	7
31	Saint Kitts and Nevis (KNA)	0	1	6	7
32	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VCT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (32 nations)		5148	5153	5923	16224

References[]

^ (in Spanish) ODECABE website www.odecabe.org; retrieved 2010-03-03
^ History of CACSO Archived July 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine from the CACSO website (www.cacso.org); retrieved 2009-06-26.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-20. Retrieved 2010-07-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Medals – Total of Medals (1926-2010) from the ODECABE website (http://www.odecabe.org Archived 2012-09-09 at archive.today); retrieved 2014-11-26.
^ Veracruz 2014 – Medal Count Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine from the Veracruz 2014 website ("Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-11-12. Retrieved 2014-11-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)); retrieved 2014-11-30.

Citations[]

Enrique Montesinos (2013). Los Juegos Regionales Mas Antiguos - The oldes regionals game (PDF).

[1] (in Spanish) ODECABE website www.odecabe.org; retrieved 2010-03-03

[2] History of CACSO Archived July 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine from the CACSO website (www.cacso.org); retrieved 2009-06-26.

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-20. Retrieved 2010-07-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] Medals – Total of Medals (1926-2010) from the ODECABE website (http://www.odecabe.org Archived 2012-09-09 at archive.today); retrieved 2014-11-26.

[5] Veracruz 2014 – Medal Count Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine from the Veracruz 2014 website ("Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-11-12. Retrieved 2014-11-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)); retrieved 2014-11-30.

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