Athletics at the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games
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The athletics competition in the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games
1954 Central American and Caribbean Games
The 7th Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Mexico City, the capital city of Mexico. The games were held from the 5 March to the 20 March 1954, and included 1.356 athletes from twelve countries.-References:...

were held in Mexico City
Mexico City
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Mexico
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Men's events

100 metres
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

Rafael Fortún
Rafael Fortún
Rafael Emilio Fortún Chacón was a male sprinter from Cuba, who twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1948 and 1952.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Cuba
10.58A Les Laing
Les Laing
Leslie Alphonso "Les" Laing is an Jamaican track and field athlete. In the 1948 Summer Olympics he competed in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay. In the 1952 Summer Olympics he competed in the 200 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.-References:*...


 Jamaica
10.66A Raúl Mazorra
 Cuba
10.80A
200 metres
200 metres
A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

Les Laing
Les Laing
Leslie Alphonso "Les" Laing is an Jamaican track and field athlete. In the 1948 Summer Olympics he competed in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay. In the 1952 Summer Olympics he competed in the 200 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.-References:*...


 Jamaica
21.66A Jaime Aparicio
 Colombia
21.84A Martin Francis
 Panama
21.90A
400 metres
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...

Ángel García
Ángel García
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 Cuba
48.02A George Rhoden
George Rhoden
Competitor for JamaicaVincent George Rhoden is a former Jamaican athlete, winner of two Olympic gold medals in 1952....


 Jamaica
48.19A Ovidio de Jesús
Ovidio de Jesús
Ovidio de Jesús was a Puerto Rican sprinter. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics.-References:...


 Puerto Rico
48.27A
800 metres
800 metres
The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...

Frank Prince
 Panama
1:54.47A George Rhoden
George Rhoden
Competitor for JamaicaVincent George Rhoden is a former Jamaican athlete, winner of two Olympic gold medals in 1952....


 Jamaica
1:55.00A Eric Waldrom
 Panama
1:57.74A
1500 metres
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...

Frank Prince
 Panama
4:16.65A Heliodoro Martínez
 Mexico
4:16.81A Filemón Camacho
 Venezuela
4:17.71A
5000 metres
5000 metres
The 5000 metres is a popular running distance also known as 5 km or 5K in American English. It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics. "5000 metres" refers to racing on a track and "5K" usually refers to a roadrace or cross country event...

Doroteo Flores
 Guatemala
15:57.30A Eligio Galicia
 Mexico
16:04.52A Francisco Hernández
 Mexico
16:07.04A
10000 metres
10000 metres
The 10,000 metres or 10K is a common long distance running event. As "10,000 metres" it is a track event, and appears in athletics events such as the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics; as "10K" it is a roadrace or cross country running event...

Cruz Serrano
 Mexico
32:59.63A Doroteo Flores
 Guatemala
33:52.80A Francisco Hernández
 Mexico
34:00.19A
Half marathon
Half marathon
A half marathon is a road running event of . It is half the distance of a marathon and usually run on roads. Participation in half marathons has grown steadily recently. One of the main reasons for this is that it is a challenging distance, but does not require the same level of training that a...

Doroteo Flores
 Guatemala
1:15:20A Gustavo Ramírez
Gustavo Ramírez
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 Colombia
1:19:00A Guillermo Rojas
 Guatemala
1:19:01A
3000 metre steeplechase Eligio Galicia
 Mexico
10:22.38A Víctorio Solares
 Guatemala
10:51.49A José Grenados
 Mexico
11:00.80A
110 metres hurdles
110 metres hurdles
The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...

Samuel Anderson
 Cuba
14.3A Keith Gardner
Keith Gardner
Keith Alvin Saint Hope Gardner was a Jamaican athlete who competed in the 110 metre hurdles, 100 metres, 200 metres and 400 metres....


 Jamaica
14.5A Teófilo Davis Bell
 Venezuela
15.2A
400 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

Jaime Aparicio
 Colombia
53.35A Juan Leiva
 Venezuela
53.98A Amadeo Francis
 Puerto Rico
54.28A
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Roberto López
 Cuba
1.87A Gaspar Vigo
 Puerto Rico
1.87A Manuel Gómez
 Venezuela
1.85A
Pole Vault
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

José Barbosa
 Puerto Rico
4.05A Jorge Aguilera
 Mexico
3.90A Brígido Iriarte
 Venezuela
3.90A
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

Claudio Cabreja
 Cuba
7.46A Víctor Hernández
 Cuba
7.16A Keith Gardner
Keith Gardner
Keith Alvin Saint Hope Gardner was a Jamaican athlete who competed in the 110 metre hurdles, 100 metres, 200 metres and 400 metres....


 Jamaica
7.02A
Triple jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

Víctor Hernández
 Cuba
14.86A Claudio Cabreja
 Cuba
14.51A Gilberto Rondón
 Puerto Rico
14.18A
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

Ramón Rosario
 Puerto Rico
14.46A Eduardo Adriana
 Netherlands Antilles
14.45A Rafael Trompiz
 Venezuela
14.38A
Discus throw
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

Mauricio Rodríguez
 Venezuela
40.14A Alfonso Cruz
 Mexico
39.00A Heriberto Alonso
 Cuba
38.87A
Hammer throw
Hammer throw
The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...

Luis Betancourt
 Cuba
46.96A Jaime Annexy
 Puerto Rico
46.82A Enrique Lagoyete
 Colombia
45.19A
Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

Reinaldo Oliver
 Puerto Rico
67.71A Carlos Fajer
 Mexico
61.79A Guillermo Pasalacqua
 Puerto Rico
54.97A
Pentathlon
Pentathlon
A pentathlon is a contest featuring five different events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words pente and -athlon . The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Ancient Olympic Games...

Brígido Iriarte
 Venezuela
2748A Héctor Román
 Puerto Rico
2597A Reinaldo Oliver
 Puerto Rico
2494A
4 x 100 m relay  Jamaica 41.06A  Cuba 41.56A  Mexico 42.04A
4 x 400 m relay  Panama 3:12.25A  Puerto Rico 3:17.70A  Cuba 3:17.83A

Women's events

100 metres
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

Carlota Gooden
 Panama
12.32A Hyacinth Walters
 Jamaica
12.34A Julia Díaz
 Cuba
12.52A
80 metres hurdles
100 metres hurdles
The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...

Amalia Yubi
 Mexico
12.3A Kathleen Russell
 Jamaica
12.5A Gloria Tait
13.0A
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Kathleen Russell
 Jamaica
1.50A Kathleen Robotham
 Jamaica
1.47A Sheila Leyva
 Venezuela
1.42A
Discus throw
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

Alejandrina Herrera
 Cuba
37.18A Lili Schluter
 Mexico
36.04A Concepción Villanueva
 Mexico
35.51A
Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

Ana Campos
 Panama
38.82A Berta Chiú
 Mexico
38.43A Amalia Yubi
 Mexico
37.45A
4 x 100 m relay  Panama 47.49A  Jamaica 48.34A  Cuba 48.81A

Medal table

1  Cuba 8 3 5 16
2  Panama 6 0 3 9
3  Jamaica 3 8 1 12
4  Mexico 3 7 6 16
5  Puerto Rico 3 4 5 12
6  Guatemala 2 2 1 5
7  Venezuela 2 1 6 9
8  Colombia 1 2 1 4
9  Netherlands Antilles 0 1 0 1
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