1970 Central American Championships in Athletics

V Central American Championships in Athletics
Dates	December 4-6
Host city	Guatemala City, Guatemala
Venue	Estadio Mateo Flores
Level	Senior
Participation	4 nations
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The fifth Central American Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City, Guatemala, between December 4-6, 1970.

Medal summary

Some results and medal winners could be reconstructed from the archive of Costa Rican newspaper La Nación. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Carlos Abbot  (CRC)	11.0	Salomón Rowe  (GUA)	11.0	Pedro Cólon  (HON)
200 metres	Carlos Abbot  (CRC)	22.2	Roberto Contreras  (GUA)	22.8	Danilo Reed  (GUA)	23.2
400 metres
800 metres			Santiago Vargas  (CRC)
1500 metres	Rafael Ángel Pérez  (CRC)	4:05.2	Enrique Ramírez  (GUA)	4:08.3	Sergio Vega  (GUA)	4:08.6
5000 metres	Julio Quevedo  (GUA)	15:38.7	Carlos Cuque López  (GUA)	15:39.3	Luis Gamboa  (CRC)	16:24.4
10,000 metres	Rafael Ángel Pérez  (CRC)	30:51.1	Carlos Cuque López  (GUA)	32:14.5	Fulgencio Hernández  (GUA)	33:21.7
Half Marathon	Rafael Ángel Pérez  (CRC)	1:08	Carlos Cuque López  (GUA)		Julio Quevedo  (GUA)
110 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles					Santiago Vargas  (CRC)
3000 metres steeplechase
4 x 100 metres relay	Guatemala	44.6	Costa Rica	46.3	Honduras	46.8
4 x 400 metres relay					Honduras [7] Emilio Barahona Clovis Morales Chávez Israel Laitano Mario Amador
20 Kilometres Road Walk	Oscar Díaz  (ESA)	2:00:07.4	Cirilio García  (GUA)	2:06:40.7	Rosario Equite  (GUA)	2:18:56.0
High Jump
Pole Vault
Long Jump	Salomón Rowe  (GUA)	7.10
Triple Jump
Shot Put
Discus Throw
Hammer Throw
Javelin Throw
Pentathlon

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Sandra Johnson  (CRC)				Brenda Charles  (CRC)
200 metres	Sandra Johnson  (CRC)	25.4	Miriam Castro  (CRC)	27.6	Brenda Charles  (CRC)	28.0
400 metres	Silvia Milina  (GUA)	64.2	Miriam Castro  (CRC)	66.1	Casta García  (ESA)
800 metres	Silvia Molina  (GUA)	2:30.0	Casta García  (ESA)	2:37.2	Alma Rosa Funes  (HON)	2:39.1
1500 metres
100 metres hurdles
4 x 100 metres relay
High Jump
Long Jump
Shot Put
Discus Throw
Javelin Throw	Carmela de Miller  (GUA)	31.96	Mayra Soto  (CRC)	29.50	Celia Vargas  (GUA)	21.96
Pentathlon

References

1. Delegación atlética sale para Guatemala el miercoles (in Spanish), La Nación, Costa Rica, November 30, 1970, p. 44 (original page no.: 86), retrieved September 24, 2012
2. Rafael Ángel Pérez implantó nuevo record centroamericano (in Spanish), La Nación, Costa Rica, December 6, 1970, p. 65 (original page no.: 129), retrieved September 24, 2012
3. Abbot, primer lugar en 100 metros planos (in Spanish), La Nación, Costa Rica, December 6, 1970, p. 65 (original page no.: 129), retrieved September 24, 2012
4. Primeros lugares ocupan atletas de Costa Rica en Guatemala (in Spanish), La Nación, Costa Rica, December 7, 1970, p. 30 (original page no.: 59), retrieved September 24, 2012
5. Pérez batió otra marca centroamericana (in Spanish), La Nación, Costa Rica, December 7, 1970, p. 30 (original page no.: 59), retrieved September 24, 2012
6. Gráficas del Centroamericano de Atletismo (in Spanish), La Nación, Costa Rica, December 8, 1970, p. 90, retrieved February 12, 2015
7. "Mario Amador: Atletismo Nacional está en "agonía"". diariomas.hn (in Spanish).