Athletics at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games – Results

These are partial results of the athletics competition at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games which took place between 15 and 20 July 1978, at the Estadio Atanasio Girardot in Medellín, Colombia.^[1]

Men's results

100 metres

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Heats – 15 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	10.27	Q
2	1	Rafael Félix	Dominican Republic	10.51	Q
1	2	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	10.15	Q, GR
1	3	Guy Abrahams	Panama	10.19	Q
1	4	Ephraim Serrette	Trinidad and Tobago	10.32	Q
2	4	Rickey Moxey	Bahamas	10.35	Q
1	5	Miguel Condé	Venezuela	10.49	Q
2	?	Fabio García	Colombia	10.52	Q

Semifinals – 16 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Guy Abrahams	Panama	10.21	Q
2	1	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	10.27	Q
3	1	Gerardo Suero	Dominican Republic	10.37	Q
1	2	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	10.24	Q

Final – 16 July

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	10.10	GR
	5	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	10.11
	1	Guy Abrahams	Panama	10.20
4	4	Fabio García	Colombia	10.43
5	6	Ephraim Serrette	Trinidad and Tobago	10.48
6	2	Gerardo Suero	Dominican Republic	10.49

200 metres

Heats – 17 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	?	Anthony Husbands	Trinidad and Tobago	20.86	Q^[5]

Final – 18 July

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Silvio Leonard	Cuba	20.49	GR
	6	Anthony Husbands	Trinidad and Tobago	21.00
	1	Guy Abrahams	Panama	21.15
4	5	Rafael Félix	Dominican Republic	21.22
5	2	Clyde Edwards	Barbados	21.23
6	3	Fabio García	Colombia	21.44

400 metres

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Heats – 15 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Seymour Newman	Jamaica	46.59	Q
2	1	Michael Paul	Trinidad and Tobago	47.29	Q
1	2	Joseph Coombs	Trinidad and Tobago	46.85	Q
2	2	Alberto Juantorena	Cuba	46.96	Q
3	?	Gabriel Lopera	Colombia	47.66	Q

Semifinals – 15 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
5	2	Gabriel Lopera	Colombia	48.73

Final – 16 July

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Alberto Juantorena	Cuba	44.27	GR
	2	Joseph Coombs	Trinidad and Tobago	45.41
	3	Seymour Newman	Jamaica	46.11
4	1	Clyde Edwards	Barbados	46.14
5	6	Michael Paul	Trinidad and Tobago	46.62
6	5	Carlos Álvarez	Cuba	46.72

800 metres

Heats – 15 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Osmán Escobar	Venezuela	1:53.23	Q^[7]

Final – 16 July

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	1	Alberto Juantorena	Cuba	1:47.23	GR
	3	Gerold Pawirodikromo	Suriname	1:47.46
	4	Leandro Civil	Cuba	1:47.66
4	6	Seymour Newman	Jamaica	1:47.69
5	5	Eduardo Castro	Mexico	1:48.58
6	2	Gabriel Lopera	Colombia	1:49.33	NR

1500 metres

16 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Luis Medina	Cuba	3:44.47
	Eduardo Castro	Mexico	3:45.14
	Osmán Escobar	Venezuela	3:45.89
4	Modesto Comprés	Dominican Republic	3:49.43
5	Jorge Ortíz	Puerto Rico	3:52.03
6	Hugo Villegas	Colombia	3:53.22
7	Carlos Báez	Puerto Rico	3:56.49
8	Gabriel Giraldo	Colombia	4:00.93
9	Ignacio Melesio	Mexico	4:01.86

5000 metres

17 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Rodolfo Gómez	Mexico	13:55.08
	Domingo Tibaduiza	Colombia	13:56.88
	José Gómez	Mexico	14:27.33
4	Gabriel Giraldo	Colombia	14:33.10
5	Jaime Vélez	Puerto Rico	14:34.29
6	Lucirio Garrido	Venezuela	14:41.52
7	Víctor Gil	Venezuela	14:41.78
8	Virgilio Herrera	Guatemala	15:07.34
9	Teodoro Zalaya	Nicaragua	17:31.93

10,000 metres

15 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rodolfo Gómez	Mexico	29:34.64
	Domingo Tibaduiza	Colombia	29:38.66
	Luis Hernández	Mexico	30:23.84
4	Jaime Villate	Colombia	30:49.36
5	Virgilio Herrera	Guatemala	31:20.08
6	Aldo Allen	Cuba	31:37.07
	Radamés González	Cuba	DNF	^[8]

Marathon

20 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Radamés Vega	Puerto Rico	2:22:34	GR
	Mario Cuevas	Mexico	2:23:07
	José Granajo	Guatemala	2:26:04
4	Radamés González	Cuba	2:27:42
5	Víctor Rodríguez	Colombia	2:32:23
6	Héctor Rodríguez	Colombia	2:33:13
7	Eduardo Vera	Puerto Rico	2:40:49
8	Javier Cuadro	Nicaragua	2:42:45

110 metres hurdles

Heats – 18 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Alejandro Casañas	Cuba	13.72	Q^[9]

Final – 20 July

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	4	Alejandro Casañas	Cuba	13.67
	3	Mariano Reyes	Dominican Republic	14.68
	6	Karl Smith	Jamaica	14.71
4	5	José Santiago	Puerto Rico	15.02
5	2	Carlos Cuervo	Colombia	15.49
	1	Julio Ferrer	Puerto Rico	DNF

400 metres hurdles

Heats – 15 July^[4]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Clive Barriffe	Jamaica	50.38	Q, =GR^[10]
2	1	Frank Montieth	Cuba	51.90	Q
3	1	Julio Ferrer	Puerto Rico	52.94	Q
1	2	Alexis Misignak	Cuba	51.04	Q
2	2	José Santiago	Puerto Rico	52.22	Q

Final – 16 July

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Clive Barriffe	Jamaica	50.16	GR
	5	Julio Ferrer	Puerto Rico	50.86
	3	Alexis Misignak	Cuba	50.97
4	1	Frank Montieth	Cuba	51.00
5	6	José Santiago	Puerto Rico	51.54

3000 metres steeplechase

20 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	José Cobo	Cuba	8:46.39
	Carlos Martínez	Mexico	8:52.13
	Jaime Villate	Colombia	8:56.29
4	Rafael Baracaldo	Colombia	9:02.93
5	Jorge Pitayo	Mexico	9:07.87
6	Modesto Comprés	Dominican Republic	9:07.96
7	Lucirio Garrido	Venezuela	9:16.36
8	Víctor Gil	Venezuela	9:24.19
9	Enrique Guevara	Costa Rica	9:39.35
10	Carlos Báez	Puerto Rico	9:41.28

4 × 100 metres relay

20 July

Rank	Lane	Team	Name	Time
	4	Trinidad and Tobago	Eldwin Noel, Hasely Crawford, Anthony Husbands, Ephraim Serrette	39.13
	3	Cuba	Juan Saborit, Alejandro Casañas, Silvio Leonard, Osvaldo Lara	39.44
	6	Dominican Republic	Juan Contreras, Gregorio García, Enrique Almarante, Rafael Félix	39.62
4	5	Jamaica	Errol Quarrie, Floyd Brown, Oliver Heywood, Ray Mahoney	39.91
5	2	Colombia	Mina Arquimedes, Edgar Biojo, William Moreno, Fabio García	40.53
6	1	Netherlands Antilles	Lionel Rafaela, Magno Koeiman, Edsel Trompet, Siegfried Regales	41.35

4 × 400 metres relay

20 July

Rank	Lane	Team	Name	Time
	4	Jamaica	Clive Barriffe, Oliver Heywood, Floyd Brown, Bert Cameron	3:03.76
	3	Trinidad and Tobago	Anthony Myers, Michael Paul, Mike Solomon, Joseph Coombs	3:05.01
	6	Cuba	Alexis Misignak, Ernesto Vinent, Carlos Álvarez, Alberto Juantorena	3:05.57
4	2	Dominican Republic	Francisco Manrique, Alejandro Ricón, José Pimentel, Enrique Almarante	3:07.93
5	1	Venezuela	Hipólito Brown, Alexis Herrera, Moisés Zambrano, Edison Reyes	3:08.51
6	5	Bahamas	Michael Ambrister, Steve Hanna, Rickey Moxey, Chris Clarke	3:12.92

20 kilometres

16 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Daniel Bautista	Mexico	1:29:10
	Raúl González	Mexico	1:31:58
	Jorge Quiñones	Colombia	1:39:31
4	Ernesto Alfaro	Colombia	1:41:45
5	Alexis López	Costa Rica	1:41:50
6	Edgar López	Costa Rica	1:41:50
7	Henry Klein	United States Virgin Islands	1:46:14
8	César Argüello	Nicaragua	1:46:49
9	Wilmer Santiago	Puerto Rico	1:47:46
10	David Félix	Puerto Rico	1:52:00
11	Ángel Novoa	Nicaragua	2:01:51

High jump

15 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.95	2.00	2.03	2.06	2.09	2.12	2.15	Result
	Richard Spencer	Cuba	–	o	–	o	–	o	xxx	2.12
	Rodolfo Madrigal	Costa Rica	–	o	o	xo	xo	xo	xxx	2.12
	Jamil Justiniano	Puerto Rico	xo	o	o	xxo	xo	xxx		2.09
4	Cristóbal De León	Dominican Republic	–	x–	o	o	xxx			2.06
5	Hermes Cabal	Colombia	o	o	o	xo	xxx			2.06
6	Gabriel Díaz	Cuba	o	o	xxo	xxx				2.03
7	Javier Vivo	Mexico	o	xxo	xxo	xxx				2.03
8	Manuel Gómez	Dominican Republic	–	o	–	xxx				2.00
8	Carlos Acosta	Puerto Rico	–	o	–	xxx				2.00
10	Laird McLean	Trinidad and Tobago	o	o	xxx					2.00

Pole vault

19 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	4.30	4.45	4.60	4.70	4.80	4.85	5.00	5.10	Result
	Augusto Perdomo	Cuba	–	–	xo	–	o	–	xxo	xr	5.00
	Elberto Pratt	Mexico	–	xo	o	o	o	xxx			4.80
	Rubén Camino	Cuba	–	–	o	xo	o	–	xxx		4.80
4	Edgardo Rivera	Puerto Rico	–	–	o	xo	–	xxx			4.70
5	Luis Mascorro	Mexico	o	o	o	xxx					4.60
	Ramón Zequeira	Puerto Rico	–	–	xxx						NM

Women's results

100 metres

Heats – 15 July^[4]^[8]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Leleith Hodges	Jamaica	11.43	Q, GR
2	1	Janice Bernard	Trinidad and Tobago	11.66	Q
1	2	Isabel Taylor	Cuba	11.35	Q, GR
1	3	Silvia Chivás	Cuba	11.17	Q, GR

Semifinals – 16 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	?	Silvia Chivás	Cuba	11.14	Q, GR

Final – 16 July

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	1	Silvia Chivás	Cuba	11.47
	3	Leleith Hodges	Jamaica	11.63
	6	Isabel Taylor	Cuba	11.74
4	5	Janice Bernard	Trinidad and Tobago	11.94
5	2	June Caddle	Barbados	12.19

200 metres

Final – 18 July

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Silvia Chivás	Cuba	23.01	GR
	2	Janice Bernard	Trinidad and Tobago	24.01
	4	Maureen Gottshalk	Jamaica	24.42
4	3	Martha Meléndez	Colombia	24.63
5	1	Darcey Bryan	Costa Rica	24.92
	5	Asunción Acosta	Cuba	?

400 metres

Heats – 15 July^[4]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Aurelia Pentón	Cuba	52.99	Q
2	1	Helen Blake	Jamaica	53.20	Q
1	2	Beatriz Castillo	Cuba	54.26	Q
2	2	Ruth Simpson	Jamaica	55.63	Q
3	2	Vilma Paris	Puerto Rico	55.86	Q

Final – 16 July

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	1	Aurelia Pentón	Cuba	50.56	GR
	2	Beatriz Castillo	Cuba	51.27
	6	Helen Blake	Jamaica	53.40
4	5	Vilma Paris	Puerto Rico	55.20
5	4	Ruth Simpson	Jamaica	55.22
6	3	Raquel Downs	Nicaragua	56.60

800 metres

Final – 18 July

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Aurelia Pentón	Cuba	2:01.38	GR
	5	Charlotte Bradley	Mexico	2:03.58
	1	Nery McKeen	Cuba	2:04.48
4	2	Helen Blake	Jamaica	2:09.37
5	3	Ileana Hocking	Puerto Rico	2:09.65
6	6	Adriana Marchena	Venezuela	2:12.51

1500 metres

18 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Charlotte Bradley	Mexico	4:30.78
	Ileana Hocking	Puerto Rico	4:35.88
	Susana Herrera	Mexico	4:39.62
4	Melquises Fonseca	Cuba	4:43.75
5	Yamile Medina	Colombia	4:45.02
6	Thelma Zúñiga	Costa Rica	4:45.52
7	Leonor Suárez	Colombia	4:56.20
8	Violeta Larrauri	Dominican Republic	5:13.56
9	Norma Franco	El Salvador	NT
10	Agnelita Lind	Puerto Rico	NT
11	Herminia García	Dominican Republic	NT

100 metres hurdles

Final – 18 July

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Grisel Machado	Cuba	13.31	GR
	6	Marisela Peralta	Dominican Republic	14.23
	1	Carmen Zamora	Cuba	14.29
4	2	Vilma Paris	Puerto Rico	14.34
5	4	June Caddle	Barbados	14.50
	5	Doreen Small	Jamaica	?

4 × 100 metres relay

20 July

Rank	Lane	Team	Name	Time	Notes
	1	Cuba	Grisel Machado, Silvia Chivás, Carmen Valdés, Isabel Taylor	44.37
	4	Jamaica	Leleith Hodges, Dorothy Scott, Maureen Gottschalk, Jacqueline Pusey	44.41
	5	Trinidad and Tobago	Rebeca Roberts, Joane Gardner, Janice Bernard, Esther Hope	45.13
4	2	Dominican Republic	Felicia Candelario, Miriam Sánchez, Divina Estrella, Teresa Almanzar	46.30
	3	Costa Rica	Darcey Bryan, Ana Baylis, Aracelly Arias, Lorelly Trejos	DQ	FS

4 × 400 metres relay

20 July

Rank	Lane	Team	Name	Time
	4	Cuba	Ana Guibert, Ana Fidelia Quirot, Beatriz Castillo, Aurelia Pentón	3:31.34
	1	Jamaica	Ruth Simpson, Norma Lee, Maureen Gottschalk, Helen Blake	3:41.69
	2	Puerto Rico	Angelita Lind, Ileana Hocking, Madeline de Jesús, Vilma Paris	3:46.58
4	3	Dominican Republic	Divina Estrella, Belkis Mañón, Felicia Candelario, Ana Hostesse	3:53.37

High jump

16 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.50	1.55	1.60	1.65	1.70	1.75	1.80	Result
	Ángela Carbonell	Cuba	–	–	–	–	o	o	xxx	1.75
	Grace Jackson	Jamaica	–	–	o	o	o	xxx		1.70
	Elisa Ávila	Mexico	–	o	o	o	xxx			1.65
4	Lucía Duguet	Cuba	–	o	xo	o	xxx			1.65
5	Ana Hidalgo	Puerto Rico	o	o	xo	xxx				1.60

Long jump

16 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result
	Shonel Ferguson	Bahamas	x	5.84	6.16	6.41	x	x	6.41
	Ana Alexander	Cuba	5.86	5.96	6.25	5.96	6.12	6.25	6.25
	Eloína Echevarría	Cuba	x	6.12	x	x	5.92	6.08	6.12
4	Yolanda Romero	Mexico	5.31	5.47	5.55	5.77	5.64	5.62	5.77
5	Sharol Henry	Jamaica	x	x	5.76	3.03	5.45	5.74	5.76
6	Madeline de Jesús	Puerto Rico	5.49	5.70	5.68	5.74	5.54	x	5.74
7	Laura Vásquez	Mexico	x	5.46	5.67	x	5.57	x	5.67
8	Jennifer Swanston	Barbados	5.44	5.54	5.44	5.52	5.51	5.46	5.54

Shot put

19 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result
	Hilda Ramírez	Cuba	17.00	16.91	x	x	16.36	16.64	17.00
	Marcelina Rodríguez	Cuba	x	14.84	14.97	x	14.95	14.95	14.97
	Vicky López	Puerto Rico	12.66	13.40	12.92	12.90	13.42	13.02	13.42
4	Patricia Andrews	Venezuela	11.96	12.93	13.15	13.18	13.22	12.97	13.22
5	Magdalena Gómez	Colombia	x	13.11	12.88	13.18	12.71	13.05	13.18
6	Lynette Antoinne	Bahamas	x	13.08	13.04	12.91	x	12.70	13.08
7	Orlanda Lynch	Suriname	11.04	11.17	11.04	11.62	11.34	12.02	12.02
	Ibelisse Echeverry	Puerto Rico							DNS

Discus throw

15 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result
	Carmen Romero	Cuba	x	57.94	x	60.54	x	x	60.54
	María Cristina Betancourt	Cuba	x	55.84	56.84	57.58	x	x	57.58
	Selene Saldarriaga	Colombia	x	41.28	39.50	40.10	x	x	41.28
4	Beryl Bethel	Bahamas	x	35.85	38.08	33.58	39.88	38.58	39.88
5	Elena Cajigas	Puerto Rico	37.04	36.98	37.78	38.40	x	38.94	38.94
6	Orlanda Lynch	Suriname	35.64	34.76	35.06	36.00	x	x	36.00
	Lynette Antoinne	Bahamas							DNS
	Patricia Andrews	Venezuela							DNS

Javelin throw

20 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result
	María Caridad Colón	Cuba	59.22	63.40	57.80	61.40	60.04	53.94	63.40
	María Beltrán	Cuba	x	53.54	48.34	52.04	54.86	x	54.86
	Guadalupe López	Mexico	49.80	47.12	46.40	49.52	47.74	x	49.80
4	María López	Puerto Rico	43.76	47.32	x	x	43.76	x	47.32
5	Diana Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	44.96	x	42.08	x	46.48	46.44	46.48
6	Ivelisse Gómez	Dominican Republic	40.58	x	43.12	40.38	x	39.72	43.12
7	Marta Velásquez	Nicaragua	34.30	35.54	33.54	36.52	x	x	36.52
8	Beryl Bethel	Bahamas	31.28	36.10	x	x	x	36.36	36.36

References

^ Memoria XIII Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos y del Caribe (PDF). pp. 364–379. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
^ 100 metres year list
^ El Tiempo (16 July 1978, p10)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Juantorena Llega segundo 400 metros". El Mundo (in Spanish). 16 July 1978. p. 49. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
^ 200 metres year list
^ El Tiempo (16 July 1978, p10)
^ "Boricuas se anotan triunfo sobre Bermudas en Sóftbol". El Mundo (in Spanish). 16 July 1978. p. 19. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Impusieron siete récords en justas atletismo primer día en XIII Juegos". El Mundo (in Spanish). 17 July 1978. p. 19. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
^ 110 metres hurdles year list
^ El Tiempo (16 July 1978, p10)

[Memoria-1] Memoria XIII Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos y del Caribe (PDF). pp. 364–379. Retrieved 24 October 2024.

[2] 100 metres year list

[3] El Tiempo (16 July 1978, p10)

[Mundo_16.07-4] "Juantorena Llega segundo 400 metros". El Mundo (in Spanish). 16 July 1978. p. 49. Retrieved 16 December 2024.

[5] 200 metres year list

[6] El Tiempo (16 July 1978, p10)

[Mundo_18.07-7] "Boricuas se anotan triunfo sobre Bermudas en Sóftbol". El Mundo (in Spanish). 16 July 1978. p. 19. Retrieved 16 December 2024.

[Mundo_17.07-8] "Impusieron siete récords en justas atletismo primer día en XIII Juegos". El Mundo (in Spanish). 17 July 1978. p. 19. Retrieved 16 December 2024.

[9] 110 metres hurdles year list

[10] El Tiempo (16 July 1978, p10)

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