Athletics at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games

Athletics at the XVII CAC Games
Host stadium in Ponce.
Dates	23–28 November
Host city	Ponce, Puerto Rico
Venue	Estadio Francisco Montaner
Events	43
Participation	287 athletes from 30 nations
← 1990 Mexico City 1998 Maracaibo → 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games

The track and field competition at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games was held in November at the Estadio Francisco Montaner in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

Medal summary

Main article: Athletics at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games – Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.7 m/s)	Joel Isasi   Cuba	10.38	Andrés Simón   Cuba	10.49	Patrick Delice   Trinidad and Tobago	10.62
200 metres (wind: +1.3 m/s)	Andrew Tynes   Bahamas	20.64	Iván García   Cuba	20.71	Jorge Aguilera   Cuba	20.91
400 metres	Norberto Téllez   Cuba	45.80	Neil de Silva   Trinidad and Tobago	46.07	Omar Mena   Cuba	46.32
800 metres	Javier Soto   Puerto Rico	1:49.40	Héctor Herrera   Cuba	1:49.99	Dale Jones   Antigua and Barbuda	1:50.05
1500 metres	José López   Venezuela	3:43.89	Desmond Hector   Guyana	3:46.08	Arturo Espejel   Mexico	3:46.74
5000 metres	Isaac García   Mexico	13:57.84	Gabino Apolonio   Mexico	14:06.43	Orlando Ceballos   Puerto Rico	14:31.08
10,000 metres	Dionicio Cerón   Mexico	28:58.11	Isaac García   Mexico	29:33.74	Orlando Ceballos   Puerto Rico	30:11.60
Marathon	Benjamín Paredes   Mexico	02:14:23	Julio Hernández   Colombia	02:17:21	Samuel López   Mexico	02:17:38
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.7 m/s)	Emilio Valle   Cuba	13.87	Wagner Marseille   Haiti	14.10	Alexis Sánchez   Cuba	14.14
400 metres hurdles	Domingo Cordero   Puerto Rico	49.60 GR	Pedro Piñera   Cuba	50.12	Juan Gutiérrez   Mexico	50.47
3000 metre steeplechase	Rubén García   Mexico	8:38.43 GR	Héctor Arias   Mexico	8:40.19	Juan Ramón Conde   Cuba	8:45.62
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Andrés Simón Iván García Joel Isasi Jorge Aguilera	39.24	Puerto Rico Carlos Santos Domingo Cordero Edgardo Guilbe Agner Muñoz	40.01	Colombia Wenceslao Ferrín Wilson Cañizales Luis Alfonso Vega John Mena	40.09
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Omar Mena Héctor Herrera Lázaro Martínez Norberto Téllez	3:05.62	Trinidad and Tobago Patrick Delice Neil de Silva Dazel Jules Ian Morris	3:06.96	Jamaica Michael Anderson Carl McPherson Danny McFarlane Evon Clarke	3:07.23
20 kilometre road walk	Daniel García   Mexico	1:26:22	Héctor Moreno   Colombia	1:26:32	Julio Martínez   Guatemala	1:29:43
50 kilometre road walk	Edel Oliva   Cuba	3:55:21	Germán Sánchez   Mexico	3:56:18	Julio César Urías   Guatemala	4:03:24
High jump	Javier Sotomayor   Cuba	2.35 GR	Marino Drake   Cuba	2.20	Antonio Burgos   Puerto Rico	2.14
Pole vault	Edgar Díaz   Puerto Rico	5.30	Alberto Manzano   Cuba	5.30	Only two athletes with a mark
Long jump	Wendell Williams   Trinidad and Tobago	7.95	Michael Francis   Puerto Rico	7.92	Jaime Jefferson   Cuba	7.85
Triple jump	Yoelbi Quesada   Cuba	17.06 GR	Daniel Osorio   Cuba	16.52	Sergio Saavedra   Venezuela	16.30
Shot put	Jorge Montenegro   Cuba	18.88	Carlos Fandiño   Cuba	18.68	Yojer Medina   Venezuela	17.96
Discus throw	Alexis Elizalde   Cuba	61.24	Luis Delís   Cuba	59.32	Yojer Medina   Venezuela	54.94
Hammer throw	Alberto Sánchez   Cuba	72.20 GR	Eladio Hernández   Cuba	69.58	Guillermo Guzmán   Mexico	65.52
Javelin throw	Luis Lucumí   Colombia	74.58	Ovidio Trimiño   Cuba	73.08	Emeterio González   Cuba	71.24
Decathlon	Eugenio Balanqué   Cuba	7889 GR	Raúl Duany   Cuba	7715	José Román   Puerto Rico	7262

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.7 m/s)	Liliana Allen   Cuba	11.52	Miriam Ferrer   Cuba	11.81	Chandra Sturrup   Bahamas	11.89
200 metres (wind: +1.6 m/s)	Liliana Allen   Cuba	23.14	Idalmis Bonne   Cuba	23.53	Ximena Restrepo   Colombia	23.88
400 metres	Julia Duporty   Cuba	51.81	Zoila Stewart   Costa Rica	52.57 (NR)	Nancy McLeón   Cuba	52.59
800 metres	Letitia Vriesde   Suriname	2:04.28	Ana Fidelia Quirot   Cuba	2:05.22	Daisy Ocasio   Puerto Rico	2:06.52
1500 metres	Letitia Vriesde   Suriname	4:18.45	Isabel Juárez   Mexico	4:20.20	Susana Díaz   Mexico	4:21.45
3000 metres	Isabel Juárez   Mexico	9:16.27 GR	Adriana Fernández   Mexico	9:18.93	Milagro Rodríguez   Cuba	9:22.36
10,000 metres	María del Carmen Díaz   Mexico	34:49.67	Lucía Rendón   Mexico	35:13.30	Carmen Serrano   Puerto Rico	36:19.66
Marathon	Emma Cabrera   Mexico	2:42:29 GR	María Elena Reyna   Mexico	2:43:39	Emperatriz Wilson   Cuba	2:54:41
100 metres hurdles (wind: -2.1 m/s)	Aliuska López   Cuba	13.46	Oraidis Ramírez   Cuba	13.49	Joyce Meléndez   Puerto Rico	14.22
400 metres hurdles	Lency Montelier   Cuba	57.61	Maribelsy Peña   Colombia	58.68	Wynsome Cole   Jamaica	60.23
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Miriam Ferrer Aliuska López Julia Duporty Liliana Allen	44.59	Colombia Elia Mera Ximena Restrepo Patricia Rodríguez Norfalia Carabalí	44.62	Jamaica Cheryl Phillips Kerry-Ann Richards Shelly Berth Nikole Mitchell	45.75
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Idalmis Bonne Julia Duporty Lency Montelier Nancy McLeón	3:31.27	Colombia Patricia Rodríguez Maribelcy Peña Elia Mera Norfalia Carabalí	3:36.82	Jamaica Wynsome Cole Shelly Berth Tanya Jarret Claudine Williams	3:37.72
10,000 metre track walk	María Colín   Mexico	47:57.20	Liliana Bermeo   Colombia	49:21.18	Magdalena Guzmán   El Salvador	53:16.81
Long jump	Niurka Montalvo   Cuba	6.37	Eloína Echevarría   Cuba	5.91w	Suzette Lee   Jamaica	5.53
Triple jump	Niurka Montalvo   Cuba	13.57 GR	Eloína Echevarría   Cuba	13.02	Suzette Lee   Jamaica	12.40
Shot put	Herminia Fernández   Cuba	18.00	Yumileidi Cumbá   Cuba	17.67	Laverne Eve   Bahamas	15.35
Discus throw	Bárbara Hechevarría   Cuba	61.02	Maritza Martén   Cuba	59.44	María Isabel Urrutia   Colombia	53.12
Javelin throw	Isel López   Cuba	61.48	Xiomara Rivero   Cuba	57.02	Patricia Alonso   Venezuela	50.38
Heptathlon	Magalys García   Cuba	5903 GR	Regla Cárdenas   Cuba	5838	Zorobabelia Córdoba   Colombia	5326

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	31	29	12	72
2	Mexico	9	8	5	22
3	Puerto Rico  (PUR)	4	3	9	16
4	Colombia	2	5	6	13
5	Venezuela  (VEN)	2	0	5	7
6	Suriname	2	0	0	2
7	Trinidad and Tobago	1	2	1	4
8	Bahamas	1	0	2	3
9	Jamaica	0	1	7	8
10	Bermuda	0	1	0	1
	Costa Rica	0	1	0	1
	Guyana	0	1	0	1
	Haiti	0	1	0	1
14	Guatemala	0	0	2	2
15	El Salvador	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands Antilles	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		52	52	51	155

Participation

•   Antigua and Barbuda (3)
•   Aruba (1)
•   Bahamas (7)
•   Barbados (2)
• Belize (2)
•   Bermuda (2)
•   British Virgin Islands (1)
•   Cayman Islands (2)
•   Colombia (20)
•   Costa Rica (2)
•   Cuba (60)
•   Dominican Republic (3)
•   Grenada (7)
•   Guatemala (11)
•   Guyana (2)
•   Haiti (5)
•   Jamaica (21)
•   Mexico (30)
•   Netherlands Antilles (4)
•   Nicaragua (4)
•   Panama (2)
• Puerto Rico (44)
•   Saint Kitts and Nevis (9)
• Saint Lucia (4)
•   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
•   El Salvador (4)
•   Suriname (2)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (11)
•   United States Virgin Islands (14)
•   Venezuela (7)

See also

• 1993 in athletics (track and field)

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.