1938 Central American and Caribbean Games
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The 4th Central American and Caribbean Games
were held in Panama City
, the capital city of Panama
. These games were held 3 years after the last games, this was to get the games back to the year they should have been, after a 5 year break on the previous games. The Games were held from 5 February to 24 February 1938. They included 1.216 athletes from ten nations, competing in sixteen different sports.
Central American and Caribbean Games
The Central American and Caribbean Games are a multi-sport regional championships event, held quadrennial , typically in the middle year between Summer Olympics...
were held in Panama City
Panama City
Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...
, the capital city of Panama
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...
. These games were held 3 years after the last games, this was to get the games back to the year they should have been, after a 5 year break on the previous games. The Games were held from 5 February to 24 February 1938. They included 1.216 athletes from ten nations, competing in sixteen different sports.
Medal table
| Place | Nation | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 | 32 | 16 | 72 | |
| 2 | 24 | 22 | 20 | 66 | |
| 3 | 24 | 17 | 19 | 60 | |
| 4 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 38 | |
| 5 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 22 | |
| 6 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | |
| 7 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 13 | |
| 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 100 | 96 | 92 | 288 | |