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The 1969 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Juan Abrantes in Havana, Cuba between 17–19 August.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Hermes Ramírez  Cuba	10.4 CR	José Triana  Cuba	10.7	Carl Edmund  Panama	10.8
200 metres	Hermes Ramírez  Cuba	21.0 CR	Pedro Fernández  Cuba	21.5	Carl Edmund  Panama	21.8
400 metres	Juan Franceschi  Puerto Rico	47.0 CR	Garth Case  Jamaica	47.4	Antonio Álvarez  Cuba	47.9
800 metres	Luis Dubouchet  Cuba	1:50.1 CR	Herminio Isaac  Puerto Rico	1:51.5	Carlos Martínez  Mexico	1:53.2
1500 metres	Sergio González  Mexico	3:52.2 CR	Carlos Martínez  Mexico	3:53.2	Lázaro Valdivieso  Cuba	3:54.8
5000 metres	Sergio González  Mexico	14:59.4 CR	Andrés Romero  Mexico	15:00.8	Carlos Báez  Puerto Rico	15:37.0
10,000 metres	Sergio González  Mexico	31:13.3	Andrés Romero  Mexico	31:21.5	Felipe Chaviano  Cuba	32:46.4
Half marathon	Pablo Garrido  Mexico	1:08:53 CR	Jacinto Sabinal  Mexico	1:11:35	Patricio Larriñaga  Cuba	1:12:10
110 metres hurdles	Juan Morales  Cuba	14.4 CR	Pedro Fernández  Cuba	14.4	Richard Davis  Panama	17.0
400 metres hurdles	Miguel Olivera  Cuba	53.9	Juan García  Cuba	53.9	Richard Davis  Panama	67.0
3000 metres steeplechase	Antonio Villanueva  Mexico	9:04.0 CR	Rigoberto Mendoza  Cuba	9:06.6	Bulmaro Olguín  Mexico	9:08.5
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Leighton Priestley Garth Case Ashton Waite Victor Lyle	42.2	Panama Gilberto Ansell Alberto Bloomfield Jacinto Tejeda Baptiste	43.4
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Antonio Álvarez Carlos Felipe Martínez Manuel Montalvo Rodobaldo Díaz	3:13.1 CR	Jamaica Alfred Daley Delroy Morgan Leighton Priestley Garth Case	3:15.8	Panama Alberto Bloomfield Lara Jacinto Tejeda Gilberto Ansell	3:20.5
20 km road walk	Pascual Ramírez  Mexico	1:39:57 CR	José Oliveros  Mexico	1:40:06	Euclides Calzado  Cuba	1:41:05
High jump	Miguel Durañona  Cuba	1.95	Bernabé Luaces  Cuba	1.95	Trevor Tennant  Jamaica	1.90
Pole vault	Roberto Moré  Cuba	4.52 CR	Jorge Miranda  Puerto Rico	4.10	Guillermo González  Puerto Rico	4.10
Long jump	Ernesto Boy  Cuba	7.46	David Cruz  Puerto Rico	7.33	Victor Brooks  Jamaica	7.31
Triple jump	José Hernández  Cuba	15.60 CR	Ricardo Carnejo  Cuba	15.56	Iván Baldayo  Venezuela	15.44
Shot put	Benigno Hodelín  Cuba	15.78	Modesto Mederos  Cuba	15.68	Jorge Marrero  Puerto Rico	14.78
Discus throw	Bárbaro Cañizares  Cuba	54.70 CR	Javier Moreno  Cuba	50.84	Ignacio Reinosa  Puerto Rico	48.92
Hammer throw	Víctor Suárez  Cuba	56.10	Jesús Fuentes  Cuba	53.60	Pedro Granell  Puerto Rico	53.56
Javelin throw	Salomón Robbins  Mexico	69.98 CR	Francisco Mena  Cuba	69.70	Julio Loredo  Cuba	69.50
Decathlon	Jesús Mirabal  Cuba	6492 CR	José Díaz  Cuba	6040

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	11.6	Fulgencia Romay  Cuba	11.8	Margarita Martínez  Panama	12.8
200 metres	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	23.8 CR	Violeta Quesada  Cuba	23.8	Margarita Martínez  Panama	25.8
400 metres	Carmen Trustée  Cuba	55.2 CR	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	55.3	Lucía Quiroz  Mexico	58.5
800 metres	Carmen Trustée  Cuba	2:12.2 CR	Lucía Quiroz  Mexico	2:14.1	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	2:14.9
100 metres hurdles	Lourdes Jones  Cuba	14.7 CR	Raquel Martínez  Cuba	14.7	Beatriz Aparicio  Panama	16.5
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Miguelina Cobián Fulgencia Romay Cristina Hechavarria Marcia Garbey	45.9	Panama Rosalia Abadia Nivia Trejos Yolanda Knight Margarita Martínez	50.3	Jamaica Debbie Byfield-White Carol Cummings Colleen Livingstone Janet Stanford	50.8
High jump	Hilda Fabré  Cuba	1.55 CR	Silvia Tapia  Mexico	1.55	Lucía Duquet  Cuba	1.55
Long jump	Marina Samuells  Cuba	6.08 CR	Marcia Garbey  Cuba	6.07	Carol Cummings  Jamaica	5.52
Shot put	Hilda Ramírez  Cuba	14.02 CR	Grecia Hamilton  Cuba	13.95	Guadalupe Lartigue  Mexico	13.00
Discus throw	Carmen Romero  Cuba	51.41 CR	María Cristina Betancourt  Cuba	47.78	Eileen Hibbert  Jamaica	38.52
Javelin throw	Milagros Bayard  Cuba	45.28	Tomasa Núñez  Cuba	42.72	Ana López  Panama	35.84
Pentathlon	Daisy Hechevarría  Cuba	3974	Josefa Reyes  Cuba	3640

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	26	21	8	55
2	Mexico (MEX)	7	7	4	18
3	Puerto Rico (PUR)	1	3	5	9
4	Jamaica (JAM)	1	2	5	8
5	Panama (PAN)	0	2	9	11
6	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		35	35	32	102

External links

• Men Results – GBR Athletics
• Women Results – GBR Athletics

• Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics
• 1969 in athletics (track and field)
• International athletics competitions hosted by Cuba
• Sport in Havana
• 1969 in Cuban sport