Athletics at the 1938 Central American and Caribbean Games

The athletics competition in the 1938 Central American and Caribbean Games were held at the Estadio Nacional in Panama City, Panama. It was the first time women's events were included.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Jennings Blackett   Panama	10.4	Jacinto Ortiz   Cuba	10.4e	Eulalio Villodas   Puerto Rico	10.6e
200 metres	Jacinto Ortiz   Cuba	21.7	Eulalio Villodas   Puerto Rico	21.8e	Arthur Jones   Jamaica	22.0e
400 metres	Arturo Baker   Panama	49.7	Adolfo Curiel   Mexico		Gilberto Castruita   Mexico
800 metres	Arthur Wint   Jamaica	1:56.3	Alfredo Mariscal   Mexico	1:56.6e	Pedro Zúñiga   Mexico	1:56.7e
1500 metres	Guy Grant   Jamaica	4:13.6	Alfredo Cortés   Mexico	4:13.8e	Miguel Corona   Mexico
5000 metres	Guy Grant   Jamaica	17:55.1	Jesús Borgonio   Mexico		Maríano Ramírez   Mexico
10,000 metres	Agustín Romero   Mexico	34:15.1	Guadalupe Martínez   Mexico		José López   El Salvador
Marathon	José Thompson   Panama	03:01:04	Estanislao Galicia   Mexico		Hilario Hernández   Mexico
110 metres hurdles	Horacio Quiñones   Puerto Rico	14.8	Teófilo Colón   Puerto Rico	14.9e	Roberto Sánchez   Mexico	15.2e
400 metres hurdles	Evelio Espinosa   Cuba	55.8	Salvador Torrós   Puerto Rico	55.9e	Arthur Wint   Jamaica
4 × 100 m relay	Puerto Rico Eulalio Villodas Eugenio Guerra Rubén Malavé Gaspar Vázquez	42.2	Panama Teófilo Thomas Gilberto Campbell Jennings Blackett Carlos Belisario	42.7e	Cuba Jacinto Ortiz José Acosta Norberto Verrier Hilario Sotolongo	42.8e
4 × 400 m relay	Panama Harold Scott Stanley Edgardo Wesley Chevans Arturo Baker	3:21.5	Mexico Adolfo Curiel Alfredo Mariscal Gilberto Castruita Enrique Sánchez	3:23.0e	Cuba Armando Baluja Gerardo Casanova Luis Vázquez Evelio Espínola	3:24.5e
High jump	Juan Luyanda   Puerto Rico	1.89	Arturo Baker   Panama	1.87	Juan Rafael Palmer   Puerto Rico	1.83
Pole vault	Rigoberto Pérez   Mexico	3.74	José Sabater   Puerto Rico	3.65	Manuel Boyer   Puerto Rico	3.65
Long jump	Juan Luyanda   Puerto Rico	6.75	Juan Rafael Palmer   Puerto Rico	6.69	Salvador Torrós   Puerto Rico	6.55
Triple jump	Juan Rafael Palmer   Puerto Rico	13.86	Juan Luyanda   Puerto Rico	13.76	Orlando Bello   Cuba	13.75
Shot put	Antulio Pietri   Puerto Rico	13.50	Fernando Torres   Puerto Rico	13.30	Ian Murphy   Puerto Rico	13.08
Discus throw	Ian Murphy   Puerto Rico	42.42	Heriberto Alonso   Cuba	40.73	Miguel Gutiérrez   Cuba	40.47
Hammer throw	Bernabé Sánchez   Cuba	39.85	Francisco González   Mexico	38.18	Ignacio Vázquez   Cuba	37.45
Javelin throw	Antonio Figueroa   Puerto Rico	64.11	Mario Salas   Cuba	58.76	Wilfredo Benítez   Mexico	56.43
Pentathlon	Salvador Torrós   Puerto Rico	3459	Manuel Suárez   Cuba	3158	Juan Luyanda   Puerto Rico	3097

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Nola Thorne   Panama	12.6	Nilda Villaverde   Panama	12.6e	Adela Montilla   Panama	12.7e
80 metres hurdles	Nola Thorne   Panama	13.3	Aura Morales   Panama	13.6e	Nilda Villaverde   Panama
4 × 100 m relay	Panama Natalia Taivez Nola Thorne Adela Montilla Nilda Villaverde	51.3	Cuba Marta Velasco Carmen Ortega Zenaida Castro Olga Agüero		Jamaica Gertrude Messam Rhona Saunders Beryl Delgado Icis Clarke
High jump	Lilia Wilson   Panama	1.41	Beryl Delgado   Jamaica	1.39	Isabel Sullivan   Panama	1.32
Discus throw	Rebecca Coldberg   Puerto Rico	27.81	Esperanza Morales   Mexico	24.89	Irma Cornejo   El Salvador	23.89
Javelin throw	Rebecca Coldberg   Puerto Rico	30.25	Marina Soto   Mexico	29.30	Florinda Viamontes   Cuba	28.16

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Puerto Rico  (PUR)	11	7	6	24
2	Panama  (PAN)	8	4	3	15
3	Cuba  (CUB)	3	5	6	14
4	Jamaica  (JAM)	3	1	3	7
5	Mexico  (MEX)	2	10	7	19
6	El Salvador  (ESA)	0	0	2	2
Totals (6 entries)		27	27	27	81

References

• Montesinos, Enrique (2013). "The Oldest Regional Games: Central American & Caribbean Sports Games" (PDF). CACSO.
• "Central American and Caribbean Games (Men)". GBR Athletics.
• "Central American and Caribbean Games (Women)". GBR Athletics.