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.

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  British 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 Percival 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  British 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 Aguero  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	British 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

• 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.