Athletics at the 1938 Central American and Caribbean Games

The athletics competition in the 1938 Central American and Caribbean Games were held at the Estadio Nacional in Panama City, Panama. It was the first time women's events were included.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Jennings Blackett Panama	10.4	Jacinto Ortiz Cuba	10.4e	Eulalio Villodas Puerto Rico	10.6e
200 metres	Jacinto Ortiz Cuba	21.7	Eulalio Villodas Puerto Rico	21.8e	Arthur Jones Jamaica	22.0e
400 metres	Arturo Baker Panama	49.7	Adolfo Curiel Mexico		Gilberto Castruita Mexico
800 metres	Arthur Wint Jamaica	1:56.3	Alfredo Mariscal Mexico	1:56.6e	Pedro Zúñiga Mexico	1:56.7e
1500 metres	Guy Grant Jamaica	4:13.6	Alfredo Cortés Mexico	4:13.8e	Miguel Corona Mexico
5000 metres	Guy Grant Jamaica	17:55.1	Jesús Borgonio Mexico		Maríano Ramírez Mexico
10,000 metres	Agustín Romero Mexico	34:15.1	Guadalupe Martínez Mexico		José López El Salvador
Marathon	José Thompson Panama	03:01:04	Estanislao Galicia Mexico		Hilario Hernández Mexico
110 metres hurdles	Horacio Quiñones Puerto Rico	14.8	Teófilo Colón Puerto Rico	14.9e	Roberto Sánchez Mexico	15.2e
400 metres hurdles	Evelio Espinosa Cuba	55.8	Salvador Torrós Puerto Rico	55.9e	Arthur Wint Jamaica
4 x 100 m relay	Puerto Rico Eulalio Villodas Eugenio Guerra Rubén Malavé Gaspar Vázquez	42.2	Panama Teófilo Thomas Gilberto Campbell Jennings Blackett Carlos Belisario	42.7e	Cuba Jacinto Ortiz José Acosta Norberto Verrier Hilario Sotolongo	42.8e
4 x 400 m relay	Panama Harold Scott Stanley Edgardo Wesley Chevans Arturo Baker	3:21.5	Mexico Adolfo Curiel Alfredo Mariscal Gilberto Castruita Enrique Sánchez	3:23.0e	Cuba Armando Baluja Gerardo Casanova Luis Vázquez Evelio Espínola	3:24.5e
High jump	Juan Luyanda Puerto Rico	1.89	Arturo Baker Panama	1.87	Juan Rafael Palmer Puerto Rico	1.83
Pole vault	Rigoberto Pérez Mexico	3.74	José Sabater Puerto Rico	3.65	Manuel Boyer Puerto Rico	3.65
Long jump	Juan Luyanda Puerto Rico	6.75	Juan Rafael Palmer Puerto Rico	6.69	Salvador Torrós Puerto Rico	6.55
Triple jump	Juan Rafael Palmer Puerto Rico	13.86	Juan Luyanda Puerto Rico	13.76	Orlando Bello Cuba	13.75
Shot put	Antulio Pietri Puerto Rico	13.50	Fernando Torres Puerto Rico	13.30	Ian Murphy Puerto Rico	13.08
Discus throw	Ian Murphy Puerto Rico	42.42	Heriberto Alonso Cuba	40.73	Miguel Gutiérrez Cuba	40.47
Hammer throw	Bernabé Sánchez Cuba	39.85	Francisco González Mexico	38.18	Ignacio Vázquez Cuba	37.45
Javelin throw	Antonio Figueroa Puerto Rico	64.11	Mario Salas Cuba	58.76	Wilfredo Benítez Mexico	56.43
Pentathlon	Salvador Torrós Puerto Rico	3459	Manuel Suárez Cuba	3158	Juan Luyanda Puerto Rico	3097

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Nola Thorne Panama	12.6	Nilda Villaverde Panama	12.6e	Adela Montilla Panama	12.7e
80 metres hurdles	Nola Thorne Panama	13.3	Aura Morales Panama	13.6e	Nilda Villaverde Panama
4 x 100 m relay	Panama Natalia Taivez Nola Thorne Adela Montilla Nilda Villaverde	51.3	Cuba Marta Velasco Carmen Ortega Zenaida Castro Olga Agüero		Jamaica Gertrude Messam Rhona Saunders Beryl Delgado Icis Clarke
High jump	Lilia Wilson Panama	1.41	Beryl Delgado Jamaica	1.39	Isabel Sullivan Panama	1.32
Discus throw	Rebecca Coldberg Puerto Rico	27.81	Esperanza Morales Mexico	24.89	Irma Cornejo El Salvador	23.89
Javelin throw	Rebecca Coldberg Puerto Rico	30.25	Marina Soto Mexico	29.30	Florinda Viamontes Cuba	28.16

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Puerto Rico (PUR)	11	7	6	24
2	Panama (PAN)	8	4	3	15
3	Cuba (CUB)	3	5	6	14
4	Jamaica (JAM)	3	1	3	7
5	Mexico (MEX)	2	10	7	19
6	El Salvador (ESA)	0	0	2	2
Totals (6 entries)		27	27	27	81

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.