Americas Continental championships · since 1973

1973 Central American Games

Guatemala City, Guatemala 28 Nov – 1 Dec 1973

events: 38
medals awarded: 114
nations on the podium: 6
world records: 0

Podiums

Sprints

100m

Rolando Mendieta 10.9

Irwin Weeks 11.1

Carlos Aguilar 11.2

Sprints

200m

Rolando Mendieta 22.1

Irwin Weeks 22.5

Carlos Abott 22.6

Sprints

400m

Ricardo Worrell 48.2

Carlos Abott 48.9

Francisco Menocal 49.5

Middle & long

800m

Santiago Vargas 1:58.9

Enrique Ramirez 1:59.7

Jose Blackburn 2:01.0

Middle & long

1500m

Enrique Ramirez 4:04.0

Julio Quevedo 4:04.8

Santiago Vargas 4:05.0

Middle & long

5000m

Juan Rafael Perez 15:05.2

Julio Quevedo 15:12.6

Virgilio Herrera 15:15.4

Middle & long

10,000m

Juan Rafael Perez 31:17.4

Julio Quevedo 32:04.4

Virgilio Herrera 32:16.3

Road

Marathon

Carlos Cuque Lopez 2:23:52

Clovis Morales 2:34:40

Juan Jose Contreras 2:40:09

Middle & long

3000m steeplechase

Juan Rafael Perez 9:42.8

Luis Alberto Gamboa 10:01.6

Juan Garrido 10:14.4

Hurdles

110m hurdles

Ricardo Worrell 15.2

Cesar Duff 15.3

Omar Martinez 17.2

Hurdles

400m hurdles

Ricardo Worrell 54.2

Francisco Menocal 56.9

Luis Rene Escobar NR 57.2

Jumps

High jump

Roberto MacFarlane 1.75

Omar Martinez 1.60

Yodi Elizondo 1.40

Jumps

Pole vault

Luis Rossi 4.04

Luis Perez 3.80

Hector Olano 3.40

Jumps

Long jump

Salomon Rowe 7.77

Martin Douglas 6.54

Roberto MacFarlane 6.43

Jumps

Triple jump

Cesar Duff 14.91

Martin Douglas 14.44

Salomon Rowe 14.15

Throws

Shot put

Roberto Ibanez 14.30

Mauricio Jubis NR 13.91

Ivan Turcios 13.81

Throws

Discus throw

Joaquin Rodas Pena 45.08

Armando Mejia 43.24

Ivan Turcios 43.22

Throws

Hammer throw

Juan Pedro Varela 47.22

Francisco Arguello 42.98

Rene Lynch 42.02

Throws

Javelin throw

Jose Peralta Old system javelin 57.94

Rudy Aguilar Ruano 57.64

Rene Lynch 53.88

Race walks

20 km race walk

Juan Solorzano 1:53:58

Raul Lanza 1:54:56

Carlos Vanegas 2:03:28

Race walks

50 km race walk

Hipolito Lopez 5:35:29

Carlos Vanegas 5:52:15

Cirilo Sequen Garcia 5:58:48

Combined

Decathlon

Jose Peralta 5383 pts

Jose Miguel Vega 5274 pts

Rafael Santos 4991 pts

Relays

4x100m

Panama

Rolando Mendieta Cesar Duff Armando Martin Irwin Weeks

43.1

Guatemala

Carlos Aguilar Oscar Gallardo Miguel Angel Mayorga Omar Martinez

43.6

Costa Rica

Carlos Poveda Carlos Abott Roberto MacFarlane Horacio Vargas

44.6

Relays

4x400m

Guatemala

Oscar Gallardo Enrique Ramirez Belarmino Pelaez Salomon Rowe

3:21.4

Panama

Armando Martin Ricardo Worrell Irwin Weeks Jose Blackburn

3:23.7

Costa Rica

Jose Miguel Vega Santiago Vargas Fernando Chacon Carlos Abott

3:24.6

Medal table

6 nations · 114 medals

#	Nation				Total
1	Panama PAN	17	8	6	31
2	Costa Rica CRC	6	7	9	22
3	El Salvador ESA	6	5	4	15
4	Guatemala GUA	5	12	13	30
5	Nicaragua NCA	3	4	6	13
6	Honduras HON	1	2	0	3