Athletics at the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games

The athletics competition in the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games were held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Enrique Figuerola Template:Flagcountry	10.2	Edwin Roberts Template:Flagcountry	10.3	Carl Plaskett Template:Flagcountry	10.5
200 metres	Edwin Roberts Template:Flagcountry	20.8 /20.70?	Carl Plaskett Template:Flagcountry	21.4 /21.21?	Enrique Figuerola Template:Flagcountry	21.5 /21.24?
400 metres	Juan Franceschi Template:Flagcountry	46.7 /46.77?	Rupert Hoilette Template:Flagcountry	46.9 /47.03?	Rodobaldo Díaz Template:Flagcountry	47.0 /47.10?
800 metres	Neville Myton Template:Flagcountry	1:50.2	Lennox Yearwood Template:Flagcountry	1:51.7	Benedict Cayenne Template:Flagcountry	1:54.3
1500 metres	Álvaro Mejía Template:Flagcountry	3:50.3	Orlando Martínez Template:Flagcountry	3:52.4	José Neri Template:Flagcountry	3:52.4
5000 metres	Álvaro Mejía Template:Flagcountry	14:42.6	José Neri Template:Flagcountry	14:56.4	Valentín Robles Template:Flagcountry	15:33.2
10,000 metres	Álvaro Mejía Template:Flagcountry	31:34.0	Valentín Robles Template:Flagcountry	32:11.0	Juan Martínez Template:Flagcountry	32:13.0
Half marathon	Valentín Robles Template:Flagcountry	01:13:47	Pedro Cárdenas Template:Flagcountry	01:14:24	Antonio Ibarra Template:Flagcountry	01:17:01
110 metres hurdles	Hernando Arrechea Template:Flagcountry	14.2w	Ray Harvey Template:Flagcountry	14.4w	Juan Morales Template:Flagcountry	14.5w
400 metres hurdles	Heriberto Cruz Template:Flagcountry	52.4	Víctor Maldonado Template:Flagcountry	52.5	Arístides Pineda Template:Flagcountry	53.5
3000 metre steeplechase	Flavio Buendía Template:Flagcountry	9:32.6	Rolf Duwe Template:Flagcountry	9:37.8	Rigoberto Mendoza Template:Flagcountry	9:38.4
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Wellesley Clayton Pablo McNeil Ernest Headley Michael Fray	40.5	Template:Flagcountry Cipriani Phillips Winston Short Henry Noel Edwin Roberts	40.6	Template:Flagcountry Félix Eugellés Juan Morales Manuel Montalvo Enrique Figuerola	40.6
4 × 400 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Clifton Forbes Melville Spence Neville Myton Rupert Hoilette	3:08.8	Template:Flagcountry Ben Cayenne Lennox Yearwood Edwin Skinner Edwin Roberts	3:09.4	Template:Flagcountry Juan Franceschi Rafael Vega José Andino Germán Guenard	3:10.3
10,000 metre track walk	José Pedraza Template:Flagcountry	51:32.4	Euclides Calzado Template:Flagcountry	51:43.4	David Jiménez Template:Flagcountry	52:17.8
High jump	Teodoro Palacios Template:Flagcountry	2.03	Anton Norris Template:Flagcountry	1.98	Luis Planchart Template:Flagcountry	1.93
Pole vault	Rolando Cruz Template:Flagcountry	4.54	Rubén Cruz Template:Flagcountry	4.30	Luis Quintero Template:Flagcountry	4.15
Long jump	Wellesley Clayton Template:Flagcountry	7.64	Abelardo Pacheco Template:Flagcountry	7.55	Byron Lewis Template:Flagcountry	7.51
Triple jump	Tim Barrett Template:Flagcountry	15.76	José Hernández Template:Flagcountry	15.72	Trevor Thomas Template:Flagcountry	15.42
Shot put	Fidel Estrada Template:Flagcountry	15.36	Roy Hollingsworth Template:Flagcountry	15.36	Benigno Hodelín Template:Flagcountry	15.34
Discus throw	Roy Hollingsworth Template:Flagcountry	52.10	Javier Moreno Template:Flagcountry	48.71	Dagoberto González Template:Flagcountry	48.16
Hammer throw	Enrique Samuells Template:Flagcountry	68.11	Adolfo Martín Template:Flagcountry	56.59	Marcelino Borrero Template:Flagcountry	52.38
Javelin throw	Justo Perelló Template:Flagcountry	74.74	Francisco Mena Template:Flagcountry	69.57	Jesús Rodríguez Template:Flagcountry	68.59
Pentathlon	Jorge García Template:Flagcountry	3153	Francisco Mena Template:Flagcountry	3467	Ramón Iriarte Template:Flagcountry	3389

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Miguelina Cobián Template:Flagcountry	11.7 /11.69?	Cristina Hechevarría Template:Flagcountry	11.9 /11.79?	Carmen Smith Template:Flagcountry	11.9 /11.86?
200 metres	Una Morris Template:Flagcountry	24.2	Miguelina Cobián Template:Flagcountry	24.8	Vilma Charlton Template:Flagcountry	24.9
80 metres hurdles	Carmen Smith Template:Flagcountry	11.1	Doreldeen Pagan Template:Flagcountry	11.6	Daisy Hechevarría Template:Flagcountry	11.6
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Adlin Mair Una Morris Vilma Charlton Carmen Smith	46.2	Template:Flagcountry Irene Martínez Cristina Hechevarría Fulgencia Romay Miguelina Cobián	46.5	Template:Flagcountry Aledene Holder Freida Nicholls Arlene Babb Patsy Callender	49.5
High jump	Patsy Callender Template:Flagcountry	1.65	Hilda Fabré Template:Flagcountry	1.60	Julia Pérez Template:Flagcountry	1.55
Long jump	Irene Martínez Template:Flagcountry	5.87	Beverley Welsh Template:Flagcountry	5.72	Marcia Garbey Template:Flagcountry	5.47
Shot put	Hilda Ramírez Template:Flagcountry	12.72	Guadalupe Lartigue Template:Flagcountry	12.23	Francisca Roberts Template:Flagcountry	12.02
Discus throw	Caridad Agüero Template:Flagcountry	43.37	Joan Gordon Template:Flagcountry	39.84	Carmen Romero Template:Flagcountry	39.07
Javelin throw	Hilda Ramírez Template:Flagcountry	39.34	Blanca Umaña Template:Flagcountry	37.39	María Moreno Template:Flagcountry	36.47