Athletics at the XXII CAC Games
Dates	November 23–30
Host city	Veracruz, Mexico
Venue	Heriberto Jara Corona Stadium
Events	47
Participation	417 athletes from 31 nations
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The Athletics competition at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games was held in Veracruz, Mexico.

The tournament was held from 23 to 30 November at the Heriberto Jara Corona Stadium. Detailed reports and an appraisal of the results were given. ^{[1] [2]}

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (w: +0.9 m/s)	Rolando Palacios   Honduras	10.27	Levi Cadogan   Barbados	10.27	Yaniel Carrero   Cuba	10.28
200 m (w: -1.8 m/s)	Roberto Skyers   Cuba	20.47	Reynier Mena   Cuba	20.54	José Carlos Herrera   Mexico	20.63
400 m	Raidel Acea   Cuba	45.36	Yoandys Lescay   Cuba	45.56	Alberth Bravo   Venezuela	45.82
800 m	Andy González   Cuba	1:45.73	Rafith Rodríguez   Colombia	1:45.74	Wesley Vázquez   Puerto Rico	1:46.05
1500 m	Andy González   Cuba	3:45.52	Pablo Solares   Mexico	3:45.62	Christopher Sandoval   Mexico	3:47.55
5000 m	Juan Luis Barrios   Mexico	14:15.98	Iván Darío González   Colombia	14:25.16	Mario Pacay   Guatemala	14:27.34
10,000 m	Juan Luis Barrios   Mexico	29:13.63	Juan Carlos Romero   Mexico	29:28.32	Iván Darío González   Colombia	29:41.31
110 m hurdles (w: +0.7 m/s)	Yordan Luis O'Farrill   Cuba	13.46	Jhoanis Portilla   Cuba	13.53	Greggmar Swift   Barbados	13.59
400 m hurdles	Omar Cisneros   Cuba	49.56	Eric Alejandro   Puerto Rico	50.05	Leslie Murray   U.S. Virgin Islands	50.21
3000 m steeplechase	Marvin Blanco   Venezuela	8:43.76	José Peña   Venezuela	8:45.04	Luis Enrique Ibarra   Mexico	8:48.42
4 X 100 m relay	Cuba César Yadiel Ruiz Reynier Mena Yadier Luis Yaniel Carrero	38.94	Dominican Republic Gustavo Cuesta Yoandry Andújar Stanly del Carmen Yancarlos Martínez	39.01	Venezuela Alberto Aguilar Dubeiker Cedeño Álvaro Cassiani Arturo Ramírez	39.22
4 X 400 m relay	Cuba William Collazo Raidel Acea Osmaidel Pellicier Yoandys Lescay	3:00.70 GR	Venezuela Alberto Aguilar Alberth Bravo José Meléndez Freddy Mezones	3:01.80	Colombia Bernardo Baloyes Carlos Lemos Diego Palomeque Rafith Rodríguez	3:02.52
Marathon	Richer Pérez   Cuba	2:19:13	José Amado García   Guatemala	2:19:45	Daniel de Jesús Vargas   Mexico	2:20:27
20 km walk [3]	Horacio Nava   Mexico	1:25:05	Éider Arévalo   Colombia	1:26:03	José Leonardo Montaña   Colombia	1:27:30
50 km walk	Erick Bernabé Barrondo   Guatemala	3:49:40 GR	Omar Zepeda   Mexico	3:52:45	Cristián David Berdeja   Mexico	3:53:39
High jump	Sergio Mestre   Cuba	2.26 m	Eure Yánez   Venezuela	2.24 m	Ryan Ingraham   Bahamas	2.24 m
Pole vault	Lázaro Borges   Cuba	5.30 m	Yankier Lara   Cuba	5.10 m	Raúl Alejandro Ríos   Mexico	5.00 m
Long jump	David Registe   Dominica	7.79 m (w: -0.2 m/s)	Muhammad Taqi Abdul-Halim   U.S. Virgin Islands	7.75 m (w: -0.6 m/s)	Yunior Díaz   Cuba	7.66 m (w: -0.9 m/s)
Triple jump	Ernesto Revé   Cuba	16.94 m (w: -0.1 m/s)	Lázaro Martínez   Cuba	16.91 m (w: -0.6 m/s)	Yordanys Durañona   Dominica	16.67 m (w: -0.4 m/s)
Shot put	Mario Cota   Mexico	19.30 m	Stephen Sáenz   Mexico	19.27 m	Raymond Brown   Jamaica	18.30 m
Discus	Jorge Yedián Fernández   Cuba	63.17 m	Mauricio Ortega   Colombia	60.69 m	Mario Cota   Mexico	58.21 m
Hammer	Roberto Janet   Cuba	74.11 m	Reinier Mejías   Cuba	71.81 m	Roberto Sawyers   Costa Rica	70.66 m
Javelin	Guillermo Martínez   Cuba	79.27 m	Juan José Méndez   Mexico	76.80 m	Osmany Laffita   Cuba	76.28 m
Decathlon	Yordanis García   Cuba	7854 pts	José Ángel Mendieta   Cuba	7517 pts	Roman Garibay   Mexico	7243 pts

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (w: +1.5 m/s)	Andrea Purica   Venezuela	11.29	Nediam Vargas   Venezuela	11.43	LaVerne Jones   U.S. Virgin Islands	11.54
200 m (w: -1.8 m/s)	Nercely Soto   Venezuela	23.14	María Alejandra Idrobo   Colombia	23.52	Allison Peter   U.S. Virgin Islands	23.54
400 m	Lisneidys Inés Veitía   Cuba	51.72	Daisiuramis Bonne   Cuba	52.49	Yenifer Padilla   Colombia	52.95
800 m	Rose Mary Almanza   Cuba	2:00.79	Cristina Guevara   Mexico	2:01.68	Gabriela Medina   Mexico	2:02.36
1500 m	Muriel Coneo   Colombia	4:14.84 GR	Cristina Guevara   Mexico	4:16.51	Adriana Muñoz   Cuba	4:20.50
5000 m	Brenda Flores   Mexico	16:02.64 GR	Sandra López   Mexico	16:13.23	Yudileyvis Castillo   Cuba	16:16.21
10,000 m	Brenda Flores   Mexico	35:54.44	Kathya García   Mexico	36:23.32	Yudileyvis Castillo   Cuba	36:29.04
100 m hurdles (w: -0.8 m/s)	Lina Marcela Flórez   Colombia	13.19	Briggite Merlano   Colombia	13.19	Kierre Beckles   Barbados	13.47
400 m hurdles	Zudikey Rodríguez   Mexico	56.79	Magdalena Mendoza   Venezuela	57.67	Zurian Hechavarria   Cuba	57.74
3000 m steeplechase	Ángela Figueroa   Colombia	10:05.25	Muriel Coneo   Colombia	10:07.94	Beverly Ramos   Puerto Rico	10:08.39
4 X 100 m relay	Venezuela Nediam Vargas Andrea Purica Nelsibeth Villalobos Nercely Soto	43.53	Colombia Lina Marcela Flórez María Alejandra Idrobo Darlenis Obregón Eliecith Palacios	44.02	Cuba Geylis Montes Arialis Gandulla Greter Guillén Dulaimi Debora Odelin	44.19
4 X 400 m relay	Cuba Lisneidys Inés Veitía Gilda Isbely Casanova Yameisi Borlot Daisiuramis Bonne	3:29.69	Mexico Natali Brito Gabriela Medina Mariel Espinosa Zudikey Rodríguez	3:33.16	Colombia Norma González Zulley Melissa Torres Yenifer Padilla Evelis Aguilar	3:34.14
Marathon	Margarita Hernández   Mexico	2:41:16 GR	Dailín Belmonte   Cuba	2:42:01	Zuleima Amaya   Venezuela	2:42:27
20 km walk [4]	Mirna Ortiz   Guatemala	1:35:43 GR	Sandra Arenas   Colombia	1:36:29	Ingrid Hernández   Colombia	1:37:11
High jump	Levern Spencer   Saint Lucia	1.89 m	Priscilla Frederick   Antigua and Barbuda	1.83 m	Kashany Ríos   Panama	1.80 m
Pole vault	Yarisley Silva   Cuba	4.60 m GR	Diamara Planell   Puerto Rico	4.15 m	Robeilys Peinado   Venezuela	4.15 m
Long jump	Chantel Malone   British Virgin Islands	6.46 m (w: -0.3 m/s)	Irisdaymi Herrera   Cuba	6.36 m (w: +0.9 m/s)	Zoila Flores   Mexico	6.26 m (w: +1.0 m/s)
Triple jump	Caterine Ibargüen   Colombia	14.57 m (w: -0.4 m/s) GR	Dailenys Alcántara   Cuba	14.09 m (w: -0.3 m/s)	Yosiri Urrutia   Colombia	13.89 m (w: +0.3 m/s)
Shot put	Cleopatra Borel   Trinidad and Tobago	18.99 m	Yaniuvis López   Cuba	17.88 m	Sandra Lemos   Colombia	17.50 m
Discus	Denia Caballero   Cuba	64.47 m GR	Yaime Pérez   Cuba	62.42 m	Johana Martínez   Colombia	56.27 m
Hammer	Yipsi Moreno   Cuba	71.35 m GR	Yurisleydi Ford   Cuba	69.62 m	Johana Moreno   Colombia	67.77 m
Javelin	Flor Ruiz   Colombia	63.80 m GR	Abigail Gómez   Mexico	57.28	Coralys Ortiz   Puerto Rico	54.53
Heptathlon	Yorgelis Rodríguez   Cuba	5984 pts GR	Yusleidys Mendieta   Cuba	5819 pts	Alysbeth Felix   Puerto Rico	5721 pts

Medal table

  *   Host nation ( Mexico)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	23	15	8	46
2	Mexico*	8	11	10	29
3	Colombia	5	9	10	24
4	Venezuela	4	5	4	13
5	Guatemala	2	1	1	4
6	Dominica	1	0	1	2
7	British Virgin Islands	1	0	0	1
	Honduras	1	0	0	1
	Saint Lucia	1	0	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	1	0	0	1
11	Puerto Rico	0	2	4	6
12	U.S. Virgin Islands	0	1	3	4
13	Barbados	0	1	2	3
14	Antigua and Barbuda	0	1	0	1
	Dominican Republic	0	1	0	1
16	Bahamas	0	0	1	1
	Costa Rica	0	0	1	1
	Jamaica	0	0	1	1
	Panama	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		47	47	47	141

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 417 athletes from 31 countries participated in the event.

References

External links

• Official Website