Swimming at the 19th Central American and Caribbean Games occurred in November 2002 in San Salvador, El Salvador. The competition consisted of 32 events: 16 for males, 16 for females; with 13 individual and 3 relays each. All were swum in a long course (50m) pool.

Results

Men

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 freestyle	Ricardo Busquets     Puerto Rico	22.55 =GR	Camilo Becerra     Colombia	23.05	Francisco Sánchez     Venezuela	23.33
100 freestyle	Ricardo Busquets     Puerto Rico	50.25	Francisco Páez     Venezuela	51.93	Josh Ilika     Mexico	52.08
200 freestyle	Josh Ilika     Mexico	1:52.15	Ricardo Monasterio     Venezuela	1:54.20	Edwin Maldonado     Venezuela	1:54.47
400 freestyle	Ricardo Monasterio     Venezuela	3:57.63 GR	Edwin Maldonado     Venezuela	4:01.04	Leonardo Salinas     Mexico	4:03.11
1500 freestyle	Ricardo Monasterio     Venezuela	15:39.90 GR	Edwin Maldonado     Venezuela	15:54.32	Iván López     Mexico	15:56.26
100 backstroke	Juan Rodela     Mexico	58.00	Diego Urreta     Mexico	58.28	Nicholas Neckles     Barbados	58.39
200 backstroke	Diego Urreta     Mexico	2:05.06	Juan Rodela     Mexico	2:05.35	Nicholas Neckles     Barbados	2:07.67
100 breaststroke	Francisco Suriano     El Salvador	1:04.51	Hiram Carrión     Puerto Rico	1:05.39	Alvaro Fortuny     Guatemala	1:05.57
200 breaststroke	Francisco Suriano     El Salvador	2:20.60	Alvaro Fortuny     Guatemala	2:22.87	Leopoldo Andara     Venezuela	2:26.19
100 butterfly	Josh Ilika     Mexico	53.86 =GR	Francisco Sánchez     Venezuela	54.86	Camilo Becerra     Colombia	54.97
200 butterfly	Juan Veloz     Mexico	1:58.45 GR	Andrew Livingston     Puerto Rico	2:01.37	Pablo Marmolejo     Mexico	2:03.85
200 I.M.	Diego Urreta     Mexico	2:05.99 GR	César Uribe     Mexico	2:08.53	Kevin Gleason     Virgin Islands	2:09.76
400 I.M.	Juan Veloz     Mexico	4:31.83	Leopoldo Andara     Venezuela	4:38.35	Hiram Carrión     Puerto Rico	4:39.53
4x100  free relay	Venezuela   Oswaldo Quevedo,   Francisco Páez,   Albert Subirats,   Francisco Sánchez	3:25.76	Mexico   Javier Diaz,   Alejandro Siqueiros,   Emilio Montero,   Josh Ilika	3:27.26	Puerto Rico   Ricardo Busquets,   Orlando Torres,   Andrew Livingston,   Hiram Carrión	3:32.05
4x200  free relay	Mexico   Alejandro Siqueiros,   Josh Ilika,   Leonardo Salinas,   Juan Veloz	7:37.36 GR	Venezuela   Ricardo Monasterio,   Eduardo Ramírez,   Manuel Colmenares,   Edwin Maldonado	7:43.79	Puerto Rico   Hiram Carrión,   Orlando Torres,   Andrew Livingston,   Ricardo Busquets	7:58.88
4x100  medley relay	Mexico   Juan Rodela,   Marco González,   Josh Ilika,   Alejandro Siqueiros	3:47.52	Venezuela   Gabriel Tirabasi,   Gerardo Jiménez,   Francisco Sánchez,   Francisco Páez	3:49.48	Puerto Rico   Ricardo Busquets,   Hiram Carrión,   Andrew Livingston,   Orlando Torres	3:51.23

Female

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 freestyle	Eileen Coparropa     Panama	25.68 GR	Arlene Semeco     Venezuela	26.42	Linda McEachrane     Trinidad and Tobago	26.99
100 freestyle	Eileen Coparropa     Panama	56.58 GR	Arlene Semeco     Venezuela	57.87	Angela Chuck     Jamaica	58.91
200 freestyle	Angela Chuck     Jamaica	2:07.81	Atenas López     Mexico	2:08.09	Golda Marcus     El Salvador	2:08.22
400 freestyle	Sonia Álvarez     Puerto Rico	4:28.76	Tania Galindo     Mexico	4:29.58	Golda Marcus     El Salvador	4:31.02
800 freestyle	Tania Galindo     Mexico	9:05.11	Claudia Garias     Mexico	9:06.09	Golda Marcus     El Salvador	9:15.72
100 backstroke	Gisela Morales     Guatemala	1:06.17	Tatiana Maristany     Mexico	1:06.80	Carolina Rivera     Venezuela	1:07.20
200 backstroke	Gisela Morales     Guatemala	2:20.57	Tatiana Maristany     Mexico	2:25.20	Yara Saldaña     Mexico	2:26.48
100 breaststroke	Adriana Marmolejo     Mexico	1:13.94	Alejandra González     Puerto Rico	1:15.45	Carla Mojica     Puerto Rico	1:17.26
200 breaststroke	Adriana Marmolejo     Mexico	2:37.84	Carla Mojica     Puerto Rico	2:43.18	Norma Bernal     Mexico	2:47.76
100 butterfly	Paola España     Mexico	1:03.33	María Rodríguez     Venezuela	1:03.78	Teresa Víctor     Mexico	1:03.91
200 butterfly	Heather Roffey     Cayman Islands	2:19.23	Paola España     Mexico	2:20.02	María Rodríguez     Venezuela	2:21.31
200 I.M.	Adriana Marmolejo     Mexico	2:23.73	Sonia Álvarez     Puerto Rico	2:25.23	Vanessa Martínez     Puerto Rico	2:25.56
400 I.M.	Sonia Álvarez     Puerto Rico	5:06.96	Nancy García     Mexico	5:09.90	Vanessa Martínez     Puerto Rico	5:12.54
4x100  free relay	Venezuela   Ximena Vilar   Diana López   Daniela Aponte   Arlene Semeco	3:57.55 GR	Mexico   Tatiana Maristany   Atenas López   Jascquelina Paredes   Lorena Pontones	3:58.12	Puerto Rico   Solimar Mojica   Solmani Mojica   Gretchen Gotay   Sonia Álvarez	4:00.27
4x200  free relay	Puerto Rico   Solimar Mojica   Vanessa Martínez   Gretchen Gotay   Sonia Álvarez	8:39.75 GR	Mexico   Carolina Moreno   Tania Galindo   Mayra Miranda   Atenas López	8:42.50	Venezuela   Arlene Semeco   Oriana Galindo   Daniela Aponte   Diana López	8:46.27
4x100  medley relay	Mexico   Tatiana Maristany   Adriana Marmolejo   Paola España   Atenas López	4:23.42 GR	Venezuela   María Carolina Rivera   Corina Goncalves   María Rodriguez   Arlene Semeco	4:24.67	Puerto Rico   Emily Plummer   Alejandra González   Vanessa Martínez   Solimar Mojica	4:30.68

References

• (in Spanish) The Oldest Regional Games: Central American & Caribbean Sports Games, by Enrique Montesinos. Published by CACSO in 2009; retrieved 2012-04.