Athletics at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games

Template:Short description Template:Infobox Athletics Championships The athletics competition at the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games was held at the Estadio Atanasio Girardot in Medellín, Colombia.

It was the first time that women's 1500 metres and 4 × 400 metres relay events were held at the Games. It was also the last appearance of women's pentathlon before being replaced by the heptathlon from the next edition on.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Silvio Leonard Template:Flagcountry	10.10 Template:AthAbbr	Osvaldo Lara Template:Flagcountry	10.11	Guy Abrahams Template:Flagcountry	10.20
200 metres	Silvio Leonard Template:Flagcountry	20.49 Template:AthAbbr	Anthony Husbands Template:Flagcountry	21.00	Guy Abrahams Template:Flagcountry	21.15
400 metres	Alberto Juantorena Template:Flagcountry	44.27 Template:AthAbbr	Joseph Coombs Template:Flagcountry	45.41	Seymour Newman Template:Flagcountry	46.11
800 metres	Alberto Juantorena Template:Flagcountry	1:47.23 Template:AthAbbr	Gerold Pawirodikromo Template:Flagcountry	1:47.46	Leandro Civil Template:Flagcountry	1:47.66
1500 metres	Luis Medina Template:Flagcountry	3:44.47	Eduardo Castro Template:Flagcountry	3:45.14	Osmán Escobar Template:Flagcountry	3:45.89
5000 metres	Rodolfo Gómez Template:Flagcountry	13:55.08	Domingo Tibaduiza Template:Flagcountry	13:56.88	José Gómez Template:Flagcountry	14:27.33
10,000 metres	Rodolfo Gómez Template:Flagcountry	29:34.64 Template:AthAbbr	Domingo Tibaduiza Template:Flagcountry	29:38.66	Luis Hernández Template:Flagcountry	30:23.84
Marathon	Radamés Vega Template:Flagcountry	2:22:34 Template:AthAbbr	Mario Cuevas Template:Flagcountry	2:23:07	José Granajo Template:Flagcountry	2:26:04
110 metres hurdles	Alejandro Casañas Template:Flagcountry	13.67 Template:AthAbbr	Mariano Reyes Template:Flagcountry	14.68	Karl Smith Template:Flagcountry	14.71
400 metres hurdles	Clive Barriffe Template:Flagcountry	50.16 Template:AthAbbr	Julio Ferrer Template:Flagcountry	50.86	Alexis Misignak Template:Flagcountry	50.97
3000 metres steeplechase	José Cobo Template:Flagcountry	8:46.39 Template:AthAbbr	Carlos Martínez Template:Flagcountry	8:52.13	Jaime Villate Template:Flagcountry	8:56.29
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Eldwin Noel Hasely Crawford Anthony Husbands Ephraim Serrette	39.13 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagcountry Juan Saborit Alejandro Casañas Silvio Leonard Osvaldo Lara	39.44	Template:Flagcountry Juan Contreras Gregorio García Enrique Almarante Rafael Félix	39.62
4 × 400 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Clive Barriffe Oliver Heywood Floyd Brown Bert Cameron	3:03.76 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagcountry Anthony Myers Michael Paul Mike Solomon Joseph Coombs	3:05.01	Template:Flagcountry Alexis Misignak Ernesto Vinent Carlos Álvarez Alberto Juantorena	3:05.57
20 kilometre road walk	Daniel Bautista Template:Flagcountry	1:29:10 Template:AthAbbr	Raúl González Template:Flagcountry	1:31:58	Jorge Quiñones Template:Flagcountry	1:39:31
High jump	Richard Spencer Template:Flagcountry	2.12 Template:AthAbbr	Rodolfo Madrigal Template:Flagcountry	2.12 =Template:AthAbbr	Jamil Justiniano Template:Flagcountry	2.09
Pole vault	Augusto Perdomo Template:Flagcountry	5.00 Template:AthAbbr	Elberto Pratt Template:Flagcountry	4.80	Rubén Camino Template:Flagcountry	4.80
Long jump	David Giralt Template:Flagcountry	7.82 Template:AthAbbr	Milán Matos Template:Flagcountry	7.77	Ron Chambers Template:Flagcountry	7.77
Triple jump	Steve Hanna Template:Flagcountry	16.60 Template:AthAbbr	Juan Velázquez Template:Flagcountry	16.43	Alejandro Herrera Template:Flagcountry	16.10
Shot put	Humberto Calvario Template:Flagcountry	17.51 Template:AthAbbr	Nicolás Hernández Template:Flagcountry	17.36	Jesús Ramos Template:Flagcountry	16.83
Discus throw	Luis Delís Template:Flagcountry	58.62 Template:AthAbbr	Julián Morrinson Template:Flagcountry	58.56	Brad Cooper Template:Flagcountry	54.24
Hammer throw	Armando Orozco Template:Flagcountry	69.86 Template:AthAbbr	Genovevo Morejón Template:Flagcountry	69.14	Luis Martínez Template:Flagcountry	56.22
Javelin throw	Antonio González Template:Flagcountry	78.74 Template:AthAbbr	Amado Morales Template:Flagcountry	70.54	Reinaldo Patterson Template:Flagcountry	63.64
Decathlon	Rigoberto Salazar Template:Flagcountry	7483 Template:AthAbbr	Miguel Subarnaba Template:Flagcountry	6954	José Montezuma Template:Flagcountry	6842

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Silvia Chivás Template:Flagcountry	11.47	Lelieth Hodges Template:Flagcountry	11.63	Isabel Taylor Template:Flagcountry	11.74
200 metres	Silvia Chivás Template:Flagcountry	23.01 Template:AthAbbr	Janice Bernard Template:Flagcountry	24.01	Maureen Gottshalk Template:Flagcountry	24.42
400 metres	Aurelia Pentón Template:Flagcountry	50.56 Template:AthAbbr	Beatriz Castillo Template:Flagcountry	51.27	Helen Blake Template:Flagcountry	53.40
800 metres	Aurelia Pentón Template:Flagcountry	2:01.38 Template:AthAbbr	Charlotte Bradley Template:Flagcountry	2:03.58	Nery McKeen Template:Flagcountry	2:04.48
1500 metres	Charlotte Bradley Template:Flagcountry	4:30.78 Template:AthAbbr	Ileana Hocking Template:Flagcountry	4:35.88	Susana Herrera Template:Flagcountry	4:39.62
100 metres hurdles	Grisel Machado Template:Flagcountry	13.31 Template:AthAbbr	Marisela Peralta Template:Flagcountry	14.23	Carmen Zamora Template:Flagcountry	14.29
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Grisel Machado Silvia Chivás Carmen Valdés Isabel Taylor	44.37 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagcountry Leleith Hodges Dorothy Scott Maureen Gottschalk Jacqueline Pusey	44.41	Template:Flagcountry Rebeca Roberts Joane Gardner Janice Bernard Esther Hope	45.13
4 × 400 metres relay	Template:Flagcountry Ana Guibert Ana Fidelia Quirot Beatriz Castillo Aurelia Pentón	3:31.34 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagcountry Ruth Williams-Simpson Norma Lee Maureen Gottschalk Helen Blake	3:41.69	Template:Flagcountry Angelita Lind Ileana Hocking Madeline de Jesús Vilma Paris	3:46.58
High jump	Angela Carbonell Template:Flagcountry	1.75 Template:AthAbbr	Grace Jackson Template:Flagcountry	1.70	Elisa Ávila Template:Flagcountry	1.65
Long jump	Shonel Ferguson Template:Flagcountry	6.41	Ana Alexander Template:Flagcountry	6.25	Eloína Echevarría Template:Flagcountry	6.12
Shot put	Hilda Ramírez Template:Flagcountry	17.00 Template:AthAbbr	Marcelina Rodríguez Template:Flagcountry	14.97	Vicky López Template:Flagcountry	13.42
Discus throw	Carmen Romero Template:Flagcountry	60.54 Template:AthAbbr	María Cristina Betancourt Template:Flagcountry	57.58	Selene Saldarriaga Template:Flagcountry	41.28
Javelin throw	María Caridad Colón Template:Flagcountry	63.40 Template:AthAbbr	María Beltrán Template:Flagcountry	54.86	Guadalupe López Template:Flagcountry	49.80
Pentathlon	Elida Aveillé Template:Flagcountry	3636	Alix Castillo Template:Flagcountry	3625	Laura Vázquez Template:Flagcountry	3511