Swimming at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games

The Swimming competition at the 18th Central American and Caribbean Games was swum August 9–15, 1998 in Maracaibo, Venezuela.^[1] It featured events in a long course (50m) pool.

Results

Men

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 freestyle	Ricardo Busquets Puerto Rico	22.55 GR	Francisco Sánchez Venezuela	22.74	Marcos Hernández Cuba	23.00
100 freestyle	Francisco Sánchez Venezuela	50.05 GR	Marcos Hernández Cuba	50.32	Ricardo Busquets Puerto Rico	50.42
200 freestyle	Fernando Jácome Colombia	1:54.28	Oscar Sotelo Mexico	1:54.43	Ives Garcia Cuba	1:54.71
400 freestyle	Ricardo Monasterio Venezuela	3:58.88 GR	Alejandro Bermúdez Colombia	3:58.89	Josh Ilika Mexico	3:59.74
1500 freestyle	Ricardo Monasterio Venezuela	15:57.50	Ives Garcia Cuba	16:12.42	Ramon Valle Honduras	16:26.25

100 backstroke	Rodolfo Falcón Cuba	55.60 GR	Neisser Bent Cuba	55.79	Ricardo Busquets Puerto Rico	56.24
200 backstroke	Neisser Bent Cuba	2:01.53 GR	Carlos Arena Mexico	2:05.60	Alexis Perdomo Venezuela	2:05.78

100 breaststroke	Gunter Rodríguez Cuba	1:04.72	Francisco Suriano El Salvador	1:04.73	Alvaro Fortuny Guatemala	1:05.43
200 breaststroke	Gunter Rodríguez Cuba	2:18.58	Francisco Suriano El Salvador	2:18.91	Jose Lopez Mexico	2:21.28

100 butterfly	Francisco Sánchez Venezuela	53.86	Oswaldo Quevedo Venezuela	53.93	Ricardo Busquets Puerto Rico	54.32
200 butterfly	Andrew Livingston Puerto Rico	2:00.54 GR	Juan Veloz Mexico	2:01.44	Nelson Mora Venezuela	2:01.46

200 I.M.	Neisser Bent Cuba	2:07.12 GR	Gunter Rodríguez Cuba	2:07.18	Alejandro Bermúdez Colombia	2:07.50
400 I.M.	Gunter Rodríguez Cuba	4:26.86 GR	Alejandro Bermúdez Colombia	4:29.10	Santiago Lima Mexico	4:34.01

4x100 free relay	Venezuela Oswaldo Quevedo Francisco Páez Luis Rojas Francisco Sánchez	3:23.49 GR	Cuba Neisser Bent Yohan García Ives García Marcos Hernández	3:26.91	Mexico César Barrón Carlos Arena Guillermo Díaz Oscar Sotelo	3:27.50
4x200 free relay	not swum
4x100 medley relay	Cuba Rodolfo Falcón Gunter Rodríguez Yohan García Marcos Hernández	3:44.61 GR	Mexico Carlos Arena José A. López Jesús González César Barrón	3:46.63	Puerto Rico Ricardo Busquets Arsenio López Andrew Livingston Eduardo González	3:47.23

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 freestyle	Eileen Coparropa Panama	26.12 GR	Siobhan Cropper Trinidad & Tobago	26.40	Deborah Figueroa Cuba	26.82
100 freestyle^[2]	Eileen Coparropa Panama	57.60 GR	Deborah Figueroa Cuba	58.47	Erin Volcán Venezuela	58.81
200 freestyle^[2]	Carolyn Adel Suriname	2:03.22 NR	Janelle Atkinson Jamaica	2:05.97	Erin Volcán Venezuela	2:07.41
400 freestyle^[2]	Carolyn Adel Suriname	4:19.03 NR	Janelle Atkinson Jamaica	4:20.99	Lucía Jiménez Guatemala	4:31.09
800 freestyle	Carolyn Adel Suriname	8:52.57 GR, NR	Janelle Atkinson Jamaica	8:53.46	Irama Villareal Mexico	9:08.06

100 backstroke	Carolyn Adel Suriname	1:04.93 NR	Ana María González Cuba	1:05.04	Tessa Solomon Netherlands Antilles	1:07.55
200 backstroke	Ana María González Cuba	2:19.66	Tania Galindo Mexico	2:24.97	Irama Villareal Mexico	2:24.99

100 breaststroke	Kenia Puertas Venezuela	1:12.19 GR	Imaday Nunez Cuba	1:13.79	Isabel Ceballos Colombia	1:14.33
200 breastroke	Adriana Marmolejo Mexico	2:37.12 GR	Kenia Puertas Venezuela	2:37.94	Imaday Nunez Cuba	2:38.95

100 butterfly	Siobhan Cropper Trinidad & Tobago	1:03.01 GR	Melissa Mata Costa Rica	1:03.56	Paola Espana Mexico	1:03.78
200 butterfly	Melissa Mata Costa Rica	2:16.89 GR	Carolyn Adel Suriname	2:18.27 NR	Paola Espana Mexico	2:18.73

200 I.M.^[2]	Carolyn Adel Suriname	2:19.31 GR, NR	Sonia Alvarez Puerto Rico	2:23.64	Isabel Ceballos Colombia	2:28.56
400 I.M.	Carolyn Adel Suriname	4:52.42 GR, NR	Sonia Alvarez Puerto Rico	5:01.38	Irma Villareal Mexico	5:02.59

4x100 free relay^[2]	Puerto Rico Francheska Salib, Lysandra Álvarez, Vanessa García, Solimar Mojica	4:00.20	Venezuela Lauren Volcán, Jenny Fuentes, Daniela Aponte, Erin Volcán	4:02.98	Colombia Catalina Dangond, Ana Uribe, Gloria Díaz, María A. Ortiz	4:07.79
4x200 free relay^[2]	Puerto Rico Solimar Mojica, Lysandra Álvarez, Gretchen Gotay, Sonia Álvarez	8:40.26	Venezuela Lauren Volcán, Daniela Aponte, Jenny Fuentes, Erin Volcán	8:46.46	Colombia Ana Uribe, Gloria Díaz, Isabel Ceballos, Catalina Dangond	8:54.41
4x100 medley relay^[3]	Cuba Ana M. González, Imaday Núñez, Mikeila Torres, Déborah Figueroa	4:23.90 GR	Colombia Carolina Douglas, Isabel Ceballos, Andrea Duarte, Catalina Dangond	4:29.23	Puerto Rico Elaine López, Francheska Salib, Sonia Álvarez, Vanessa García	4:36.18

Medal standings


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	9	8	4	21
2	Venezuela (VEN)	6	5	4	15
3	Suriname	6	1	0	7
4	Puerto Rico	4	2	5	11
5	Panama	2	0	0	2
6	Mexico	1	5	9	15
7	Colombia	1	3	5	9
8	Costa Rica	1	1	0	2
8	Trinidad and Tobago	1	1	0	2
Totals (9 entries)		31	26	27	84

References

(in Spanish) The Oldest Regional Games: Central American & Caribbean Sports Games, by Enrique Montesinos. Published by CACSO in 2009; retrieved 2012–04.

^ XVIII Central American and Caribbean Games (top-3 finishers). Published in SwimNews Magazine 1998-08. Retrieved online on 2012-04-21.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Daniela Villegas tested positive for a prohibited substance, and had her results nullified. This effected the medal standings in (and her/Mexico's times) the women's: 100 free (58.71), 200 free (2:05.18), 400 free (4:24.21), 200 I.M. (2:24.17), 4x100 Free Relay (4:00.99) and 4x200 Free Relay (8:39.68).
^ Venezuela originally finished second in the women's 4x100 Medley Relay at 4:27.84; however, the relay included Tahyani Villarroel who tested positive for a prohibited substance. The relay results was therefore nullified, and places adjusted.

[1] XVIII Central American and Caribbean Games (top-3 finishers). Published in SwimNews Magazine 1998-08. Retrieved online on 2012-04-21.

[Villegas-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Daniela Villegas tested positive for a prohibited substance, and had her results nullified. This effected the medal standings in (and her/Mexico's times) the women's: 100 free (58.71), 200 free (2:05.18), 400 free (4:24.21), 200 I.M. (2:24.17), 4x100 Free Relay (4:00.99) and 4x200 Free Relay (8:39.68).

[3] Venezuela originally finished second in the women's 4x100 Medley Relay at 4:27.84; however, the relay included Tahyani Villarroel who tested positive for a prohibited substance. The relay results was therefore nullified, and places adjusted.

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