The 1989 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Sixto Escobar in San Juan, Puerto Rico between 27–29 July.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Joel Isasi   Cuba	10.33	Andrés Simón   Cuba	10.34	Andrew Smith   Jamaica	10.47
200 metres	Edgardo Guilbe   Puerto Rico	20.53 CR	Clive Wright   Jamaica	20.55	Patrick O'Connor   Jamaica	20.95
400 metres	Roberto Hernández   Cuba	44.84 CR	Lázaro Martínez   Cuba	45.56	Seibert Straughn   Barbados	45.63
800 metres	Jorge Rosales   Cuba	1:50.24	Luis Toledo  Mexico	1:50.29	Jorge Irizarry   Puerto Rico	1:51.33
1500 metres	Linton McKenzie   Jamaica	3:41.27 CR	José López   Venezuela	3:41.56	José Isaac   Cuba	3:42.30
5000 metres	Armando Quintanilla  Mexico	14:10.00	Ignacio Fragoso  Mexico	14:28.50	José Morales   Guatemala	14:35.00
10,000 metres	Salvador Parra  Mexico	29:29.73 CR	Alberto Cuba   Cuba	29:36.48	Oscar González   Venezuela	29:48.00
Half marathon	Salvador García  Mexico	1:07:56	César Mercado   Puerto Rico	1:08:38	Horacio Cabrera  Mexico	1:08:41
110 metres hurdles	Emilio Valle   Cuba	13.48 CR	Andrew Parker   Jamaica	13.89	Elvis Cedeño   Venezuela	14.09
400 metres hurdles	Domingo Cordero   Puerto Rico	50.22	Juan Gutiérrez  Mexico	50.80	Wilfredo Ferrer   Venezuela	50.95
3000 metres steeplechase	Juan Ramón Conde   Cuba	8:48.13	Adalberto Vélez  Mexico	8:48.19	José Martínez   Venezuela	8:51.81
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica John Mair Andrew Smith Patrick O'Connor Clive Wright	39.51	Cuba Joel Isasi Jaime Jefferson Andrés Simón Emilio Valle	39.89	Puerto Rico	40.7
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Roberto Hernández Lázaro Martínez Agustín Pavo Juan Carlos Hernández	3:04.90	Jamaica John Taylor Howard Burnett Devon Morris Patrick O'Connor	3:05.57	Puerto Rico	3:12.70
20 km road walk	Martín Bermúdez  Mexico	1:28:11 CR	Ernesto Canto  Mexico	1:29:02	Daniel Vargas   Cuba	1:30:42
High jump	Javier Sotomayor   Cuba	2.44 CR	Troy Kemp   Bahamas	2.26	Antonio Burgos   Puerto Rico	2.24
Pole vault	Ángel García   Cuba	4.95	Miguel Escoto  Mexico	4.85	Konstantín Zagustín   Venezuela	4.60
Long jump	Jaime Jefferson   Cuba	7.96	Luis Bueno   Cuba	7.92	Elmer Williams   Puerto Rico	7.78
Triple jump	Jorge Reyna   Cuba	17.12 CR	Juan Miguel López   Cuba	16.54	Steve Hanna   Bahamas	16.07
Shot put	Jorge Montenegro   Cuba	17.49	Samuel Crespo   Puerto Rico	17.25	Hubert Maingot   Trinidad and Tobago	16.39
Discus throw	Roberto Moya   Cuba	62.12	Gabriel Pedroso   Cuba	56.86	Samuel Crespo   Puerto Rico	51.00
Hammer throw	René Díaz   Cuba	62.90	Guillermo Guzmán  Mexico	59.56	Eddy Concepción   Cuba	57.00
Javelin throw	Ramón González   Cuba	78.64 CR	Héctor Duharte   Cuba	74.74	Luis Carrasco   Venezuela	66.32
Decathlon	Antonio Greene   Bahamas	7421 NR	Antonio Greene   Bahamas	7421	José Velázquez   Venezuela	7083

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.6 m/s)	Pauline Davis   Bahamas	11.25	Liliana Allen   Cuba	11.32	Angela Williams   Trinidad and Tobago	11.51
200 metres	Grace Jackson   Jamaica	22.36 CR	Angela Williams   Trinidad and Tobago	23.01	Liliana Allen   Cuba	23.27
400 metres	Ana Fidelia Quirot   Cuba	50.63 CR	Angela Joseph   Trinidad and Tobago	52.40	Grace Jackson   Jamaica	53.00
800 metres	Ana Fidelia Quirot   Cuba	2:02.24 CR	Donna-Mae Bean   Bermuda	2:12.10	Sonia Escalera   Puerto Rico	2:12.60
1500 metres	Milagro Rodríguez   Cuba	4:24.37	Olga Ávalos  Mexico	4:27.40	Lorie Ann Adams   Guyana	4:38.90
3000 metres	María del Carmen Díaz  Mexico	9:34.00 CR	Milagro Rodríguez   Cuba	9:36.30	Olga Ávalos  Mexico	9:39.20
10,000 metres	Araceli Salas  Mexico	35:15.90	Maribel Durruty   Cuba	35:27.70	Santa Velázquez  Mexico	35:43.50
100 metres hurdles	Odalys Adams   Cuba	13.01 CR	Aliuska López   Cuba	13.33	Michelle Freeman   Jamaica	13.64
400 metres hurdles	Elsa Jiménez   Cuba	58.03	Monique Millar   Bahamas	60.81	Alejandra Quintanar  Mexico	61.25
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Odalys Adams Liliana Allen Aliuska López Eusebia Riquelme	45.12	Bahamas ? ? ? Pauline Davis	46.50	Puerto Rico	49.46
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Ana Fidelia Quirot Mercedes Álvarez Elsa Jiménez Milagros Rodríguez	3:34.46	Bahamas	3:39.46	Puerto Rico	3:53.10
10000 m track walk	Graciela Mendoza  Mexico	48:19.28 CR	Maricela Chávez  Mexico	51:53.87
High jump	Silvia Costa   Cuba	1.85	Ioamnet Quintero   Cuba	1.80	Mayra Medina   Puerto Rico	1.70
Long jump	Eloína Echevarría   Cuba	6.59	Euphemia Huggins   Trinidad and Tobago	6.47	Daphne Saunders   Bahamas	6.41
Shot put	Herminia Fernández   Cuba	16.07	Idalmis Leyva   Cuba	14.17	Virginia Salomón   Venezuela	14.12
Discus throw	Idalmis Leyva   Cuba	58.76	Olga Gómez   Cuba	55.16	Denise Taylor   Bahamas	39.90
Javelin throw	Laverne Eve   Bahamas	62.42	Dulce García   Cuba	61.18	Herminia Bouza   Cuba	57.82
Heptathlon	Yolaida Pompa   Cuba	5224	Dornel Butler   Bahamas	5053	Lucila Carmona  Mexico	4388

Medal table

  *   Host nation ( Puerto Rico)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	26	16	5	47
2	Mexico (MEX)	7	9	5	21
3	Bahamas (BAH)	3	6	3	12
4	Jamaica (JAM)	3	3	4	10
5	Puerto Rico (PUR)*	2	2	10	14
6	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	0	3	2	5
7	Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	8	9
8	Bermuda (BER)	0	1	0	1
9	Barbados (BAR)	0	0	1	1
	Guatemala (GUA)	0	0	1	1
	Guyana (GUY)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		41	41	40	122

See also

• 1989 in athletics (track and field)

External links

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