Athletics at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games explained

The athletics competition in the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games were held at the Estadio Pedro Marrero in Havana, Cuba.

It was the first time that men's 50 kilometres walk was held at the Games.

Medal summary

See main article: Athletics at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games – Results.

Men's events

100 metres (wind: -2.4 m/s)	Leandro Peñalver	10.16	Osvaldo Lara	10.26	Juan Núñez	10.33
200 metres (wind: +0.6 m/s)	Leandro Peñalver	20.42	Osvaldo Lara	20.94	Juan Núñez	21.04
400 metres	Bert Cameron	45.10	Agustín Pavó	45.87	Carlos Reyté	46.34
800 metres	Alberto Juantorena	1:45.15	William Wuycke	1:45.75	Bárbaro Serrano	1:46.66
1500 metres	Eduardo Castro	3:41.84	Luis Medina	3:41.92	Ignacio Melesio	3:42.03
5000 metres	Eduardo Castro	14:11.05	Luis Medina	14:24.81	Lucirio Garrido	14:24.94
10,000 metres	Aldo Allen	30:13.12	Enrique Aquino	30:15.35	José Alcalá	30:28.04
Marathon	Jorge González	02:26:40	Radamés González	02:28:12	Miguel Cruz	02:30:37
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.2 m/s)	Alejandro Casañas	13.38	Juan Saborit	13.91	Modesto Castillo	13.95
400 metres hurdles	Frank Montiéh	50.64	Jorge Batista	50.98	Greg Rolle	51.18
3000 metre steeplechase	José Cobo	8:49.52	Lucirio Garrido	8:52.50	Pedro Guibert	8:58.08
4 × 100 metres relay	Osvaldo Lara Alejandro Casañas Leandro Peñalver Juan Saborit	39.15	Joseph Boyd Earle Laing Leroy Reid Floyd Brown	39.94	Juan Contreras Wilfredo Almonte Juan Núñez Gerardo Suero	40.11
4 × 400 metres relay	Agustín Pavó Carlos Reyté Roberto Ramos Alberto Juantorena	3:03.59	Floyd Brown Mark Senior Bert Cameron Karl Smith	3:04.78	Michael Puckerin Joseph Coombs Ali St. Louis Andrew Bruce	3:08.20
20 kilometre road walk	Ernesto Canto	1:29:22	Raúl González	1:31:27	Alfredo Garrido	1:39:00
50 kilometre road walk	Félix Gómez	4:05:03	Raúl González	4:10:34	David Castro	4:43:53
High jump	Francisco Centelles	2.25	Steve Wray	2.17	Clarence Saunders	2.17
Pole vault	Rubén Camino	5.00 =	José Echevarría	5.00 =	Miguel Escoto	4.90
Long jump	Delroy Poyser	7.90	Wilfredo Almonte	7.82	Steve Hanna	7.80
Triple jump	Steve Hanna	16.73	Lázaro Betancourt	16.64	Jorge Reyna	16.61
Shot put	Luis Delís	18.88	Radai Mendoza	16.21	Paul Ruiz	16.14
Discus throw	Luis Delís	70.20	Brad Cooper	66.72	Juan Martínez	62.82
Hammer throw	Genovevo Morejón	67.10	Alfredo Luis	66.14	Andrés Polemil	56.14
Javelin throw	Dionisio Quintana	82.40	Amado Morales	79.36	Antonio González	74.86
Decathlon	Liston Bochette	7349	Guillermo Sánchez	7345	Carlos Palacios	7236

Women's events

100 metres (wind: -1.9 m/s)	Luisa Ferrer	11.55	Janice Bernard	11.57	Marie Lande Mathieu	11.63
200 metres (wind: +1.2 m/s)	Luisa Ferrer	23.44	Angela Williams	23.75	Marie Lande Mathieu	23.83
400 metres	June Griffith	51.89	Mercedes Álvarez	52.32	Cathy Rattray	52.39
800 metres	Nery McKeen	2:04.22	Angelita Lind	2:04.24	María Ribeaux	2:04.47
1500 metres	Angelita Lind	4:25.94	Sergia Martínez	4:26.69	Alicia Diffourt	4:27.96
3000 metres	Sergia Martínez	9:37.32	Marisela Rivero	9:38.40	María Cuesta	9:41.66
100 metres hurdles (wind: -1.9 m/s)	Grisel Machado	13.18	Marisela Peralta	14.07	June Caddle	14.08
400 metres hurdles	Sandra Farmer	58.15	Mercedes Mesa	58.65	Stephanie Vega	59.11
4 × 100 metres relay	Gillian Forde Maxime McMillan Angela Williams Janice Bernard	44.86	Verónica Findlay Cathy Rattray Anthea Johnson Jacqueline Pusey	45.77	Luisa Ferrer Idania Pino Ester Petitón Grisel Machado	45.85
4 × 400 metres relay	Mercedes Alvarez Ana Fidelia Quirot Mercedes Mesa Nery McKeen	3:35.22	Nilsa París Stephanie Vega Margaret de Jesús Marie Lande Mathieu	3:36.52	Jacqueline Pusey Cathy Rattray Sandra Farmer Anthea Johnson	3:37.86
High jump	Silvia Costa	1.90	Angela Carbonell	1.81	Iraima Parra	1.78
Long jump	Eloína Echevarría	6.53	Shonel Ferguson	6.47	Madeline de Jesús	6.47
Shot put	María Elena Sarría	19.36	Rosa Fernández	17.54	Luz Bohórquez	13.63
Discus throw	María Cristina Betancourt	63.76	Carmen Romero	61.98	Yunaira Piña	46.86
Javelin throw	María Caridad Colón	62.80	Mayra Vila	60.22	Marieta Riera	51.50
Heptathlon	Elida Aveillé	5579	Victoria Despaigne	5210	Leyda Castro	5123

See also

• 1982 in athletics (track and field)

References

• Web site: The Oldest Regional Games: Central American & Caribbean Sports Games . . Enrique . Montesinos . 2013 . 2015-09-27.
• Web site: Central American and Caribbean Games (Men) . GBR Athletics.
• Web site: Central American and Caribbean Games (Women) . GBR Athletics.