Athletics at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games

The athletics competition in the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games was held in Kingston, Jamaica in August.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Tom Robinson   Bahamas	10.41	Rafael Romero   Venezuela	10.47	Arquímedes Herrera   Venezuela	10.49
200 metres	Rafael Romero   Venezuela	21.0	Arquímedes Herrera   Venezuela	21.3	Edwin Roberts [1]   Trinidad and Tobago	21.4
400 metres	George Kerr   Jamaica	45.9	Hortensio Fucil   Venezuela	47.3	Malcolm Spence   Jamaica	47.4
800 metres	George Kerr   Jamaica	1:51.0	Melville Spence   Jamaica	1:53.0	José Neira   Colombia	1:54.8
1500 metres	Álvaro Mejía   Colombia	3:51.4	Ralph Gomes   Guiana	3:52.5	José Neira   Colombia	3:52.6
5000 metres	Eligio Galicia   Mexico	14:46.6	Marciano Castillo   Mexico	15:06.2	Felipe Prado   Mexico	15:11.0
10,000 metres	Eligio Galicia   Mexico	30:55.2	Asencio Escalona   Mexico	31:40.8	Marciano Castillo   Mexico	31:44.4
Half marathon	Hernán Barreneche   Colombia	01:11:49	Fidel Negrete   Mexico	01:12:27	Víctor Peralta   Mexico	01:13:21
110 metres hurdles	Lázaro Betancourt   Cuba	14.2	Heriberto Cruz   Puerto Rico	14.5	Lancelot Bobb   Venezuela	14.7
400 metres hurdles	Víctor Maldonado   Venezuela	51.6	Juan Montes   Puerto Rico	53.0	Jorge Cumberbatch   Cuba	53.2
3000 metre steeplechase	Erasmo Prado   Mexico	9:19.8	Elías Mendoza   Mexico	9:23.6	Pedro Mariani   Puerto Rico	9:31.4
4 × 100 metres relay	Venezuela Arquímides Herrera Lloyd Murad Rafael Romero Horacio Esteves	40.0	Trinidad and Tobago Cipriani Phillips Vincent Ackoon Wilton Jackson Edwin Roberts [1]	40.7	Jamaica Pablo McNeil Patrick Robinson Lindley Headley Dennis Johnson	40.8
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Melville Spence Gilwyn Williams Malcolm Spence George Kerr	3:11.6	Trinidad and Tobago Roderick Manswell Juan Betancourt Wilton Jackson Edwin Roberts [1]	3:12.5	Puerto Rico Germán Guenard José Villalonga Gilberto Faberlle Ovidio de Jesús	3:15.8
High jump	Teodoro Palacios   Guatemala	2.00	Anton Norris   Barbados	1.98	Ernle Haisley   Jamaica	1.94
Pole vault	Rolando Cruz   Puerto Rico	4.72	Rubén Cruz   Puerto Rico	4.26	Luis Quintero   Colombia	3.81
Long jump	Juan Muñoz   Venezuela	7.68	Wellesley Clayton   Jamaica	7.60	Abelardo Pacheco   Cuba	7.16
Triple jump	Mahoney Samuels   Jamaica	15.52	Ramón López   Cuba	15.33	Perry Christie   Bahamas	14.98
Shot put	Lambertus Rebel   Netherlands Antilles	14.64	Héctor Thomas   Venezuela	14.46	Ramón Rosario   Puerto Rico	13.96
Discus throw	Dagoberto González   Colombia	48.66	Lambertus Rebel   Netherlands Antilles	47.44	Daniel Cereali   Venezuela	46.97
Hammer throw	Enrique Samuells   Cuba	54.15	Daniel Cereali   Venezuela	52.85	Marcelino Borrero   Colombia	50.35
Javelin throw	Jesús Rodríguez   Venezuela	66.66	Wilfredo Salgado   Puerto Rico	64.24	Arnoldo Pallarés   Cuba	61.83
Pentathlon	Héctor Thomas   Venezuela	3212	Roberto Caravaca   Venezuela	2946	Jorge García   Puerto Rico	2912

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Miguelina Cobián   Cuba	12.08	Marcela Daniel   Panama	12.12	Sybil Donmartin   Trinidad and Tobago	12.20
80m hurdles	Bertha Díaz   Cuba	11.1	Lorraine Dunn   Panama	11.7	Carmen Smith   Jamaica	11.8
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Dorothy Yates Carmen Williams Carmen Smith Ouida Walker	47.0	Cuba Berta Díaz Nereida Borges Miguelina Cobián Fulgencia Romay	47.3	Panama Lorraine Dunn Marcela Daniel Delceita Oakley Dinor Batista	47.7
High jump	Brenda Archer   Guiana	1.53	Marta Font   Cuba	1.51	Beverley Welsh   Jamaica	1.51
Long jump	Bertha Díaz   Cuba	5.50	Dorothy Yates   Jamaica	5.38	Gisela Vidal   Venezuela	5.35
Discus throw	Caridad Agüero   Cuba	43.75	Alejandrina Herrera   Cuba	38.70	Ivonne Rojano   Mexico	38.69
Javelin throw	Hilda Ramírez   Cuba	40.32	Beverly Eloisa Oglivie   Panama	40.19	Berta Chiú   Mexico	35.63

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	7	4	3	14
2	Venezuela  (VEN)	6	6	4	16
3	Jamaica	5	3	5	13
4	Mexico  (MEX)	3	4	5	12
5	Colombia	3	0	4	7
6	Puerto Rico  (PUR)	1	4	4	9
7	Guiana	1	1	0	2
	Netherlands Antilles	1	1	0	2
9	Bahamas  (BAH)	1	0	1	2
10	Guatemala	1	0	0	1
11	Panama	0	3	1	4
12	Trinidad and Tobago	0	2	2	4
13	Barbados  (BAR)	0	1	0	1
Totals (13 entries)		29	29	29	87

References

1. "Hall of Fame: Edwin Anthony ROBERTS". AthleCAC.org. Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation . Retrieved 2017-09-28.

• 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.