Athletics at the 1970 Central American and Caribbean Games

The Athletics competition in the 1970 Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Panama City, Panama.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Pablo Montes Cuba	10.24	Hermes Ramírez Cuba	10.28	Michael Fray Jamaica	10.45
200 metres	Pablo Montes Cuba	21.20	Germán Solís Cuba	21.30	Hermes Ramírez Cuba	21.40
400 metres	Antonio Álvarez Cuba	46.6	Melesio Piña Mexico	46.9	Misael Curiel Venezuela	47.1
800 metres	Herminio Isaac Puerto Rico	1:49.8	Ricardo Bailey Panama	1:49.9	Donaldo Arza Panama	1:50.3
1500 metres	Byron Dyce Jamaica	3:45.8	Donaldo Arza Panama	3:46.1	Mario Pérez Mexico	3:47.2
5000 metres	Mario Pérez Mexico	14:24.4	Juan Martínez Mexico	14:24.8	Pedro Miranda Mexico	14:25.4
10000 metres	Juan Martínez Mexico	30:49.0	Mario Pérez Mexico	30:51.6	Andrés Romero Mexico	30:57.6
Marathon	Alfredo Peñaloza Mexico	02:47:23	Antonio Capote Cuba	02:48:59	Patricio Larriñaga Cuba	02:50:38
3000 metre steeplechase	Héctor Villanueva Mexico	8:53.2	Antonio Villanueva Mexico	8:53.4	Rigoberto Mendoza Cuba	8:55.2
110 metres hurdles	Juan Morales Cuba	14.0	Arnaldo Bristol Puerto Rico	14.2	Guillermo Núñez Cuba	14.5
400 metres hurdles	Juan García Cuba	50.6	Césare Sánchez Mexico	50.6	Miguel Olivera Cuba	51.3
High jump	Miguel Durañona Cuba	2.06	Teodoro Palacios Guatemala	1.98	Lloyd Turnquist Bahamas	1.95
Pole vault	Juan Laza Cuba	4.65	Arturo Esquerra Mexico	4.40	Jorge Miranda Puerto Rico	4.30
Long jump	Abelardo Pacheco Cuba	7.69	Jorge Stevens Cuba	7.49	Galdino Flores Mexico	7.43
Triple jump	Pedro Pérez Cuba	16.33	José Hernández Cuba	15.79	Juan Velázquez Cuba	15.61
Shot put	Benigno Hodelín Cuba	16.46	Silván Hemming Cuba	16.29	Modesto Mederos Cuba	15.28
Discus throw	Bárbaro Cañizares Cuba	56.04	Dagoberto González Colombia	54.48	Javier Moreno Cuba	53.64
Hammer throw	Víctor Suárez Cuba	57.06	Pedro Granell Puerto Rico	53.74	Jesús Ulloa Cuba	52.26
Javelin throw	Amado Morales Puerto Rico	76.40	Donald Vélez Nicaragua	72.12	Justo Perelló Cuba	70.52
Decathlon	Jesús Mirabal Cuba	6997	José Díaz Cuba	6934	Héctor Thomas Venezuela	6918
20 kilometre road walk	Eladio Compos Mexico	1:41:14	Francisco Chávez Mexico	1:43:19	Lucas Lara Cuba	1:44:38
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba	39.4	Colombia	40.8	Puerto Rico	40.8
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba	3:06.4	Mexico	3:07.8	Puerto Rico	3:09.0

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Miguelina Cobián Cuba	11.4w	Fulgencia Romay Cuba	11.6w	Cristina Hechevarría Cuba	11.6w
200 metres	Miguelina Cobián Cuba	23.5	Violeta Quesada Cuba	23.9	Fulgencia Romay Cuba	24.3
400 metres	Carmen Trustée Cuba	52.5	Aurelia Pentón Cuba	54.3	Marcela Chivás Cuba	55.1
800 metres	Carmen Trustée Cuba	2:14.8	Lucía Quiroz Mexico	2:15.8	Rosalía Abadía Panama	2:16.4
100 metres hurdles	Marlene Elejalde Cuba	13.9w	Lourdes Jones Cuba	14.2w	Raquel Martínez Cuba	14.5w
High jump	Hilda Fabré Cuba	1.73	Lucía Duquet Cuba	1.68	Marima Rodríguez Cuba	1.64
Long jump	Marcia Garbey Cuba	6.60	Marina Samuells Cuba	6.31w	Miriam Pupo Cuba	6.00w
Shot put	Grecia Hamilton Cuba	14.56	Hilda Ramírez Cuba	13.85	Carmen Romero Cuba	13.63
Discus throw	Carmen Romero Cuba	53.54	María Cristina Betancourt Cuba	46.08	Hilda Ramírez Cuba	44.10
Javelin throw	Tomasa Núñez Cuba	45.64	Hilda Ramírez Cuba	45.46	Blanca Umaña Colombia	43.54
Pentathlon	Marlene Elejalde Cuba	4534	Marcia Garbey Cuba	4428	Mercedes Román Mexico	4243
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba	44.7	Panama	47.3	Mexico	48.1

Medal table

1	Cuba	27	17	19	63
2	Mexico	5	9	6	20
3	Puerto Rico	2	2	3	7
4	Jamaica	1	0	1	2
5	Panama	0	3	2	5
6	Colombia	0	2	1	3
7	Nicaragua	0	1	0	1
	Guatemala	0	1	0	1
9	Venezuela	0	0	2	2
10	Bahamas	0	0	1	1

References

• Central American and Caribbean Games (Men) – GBR Athletics
• Central American and Caribbean Games (Women) – GBR Athletics