Athletics at the 1959 Central American and Caribbean Games – Results

These are the results of the athletics competition at the 1959 Central American and Caribbean Games which took place between 7 and 12 January 1959, at the Olympic Stadium in Caracas, Venezuela.

Men's results 100 metres

Heats – 7 January Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Horacio Esteves 10.8 Q 2 1 Santiago Plaza 10.8 Q 3 1 Ramón Vega 10.8 4 1 Martín Francis 11.3 5 1 Orlando Stanley 11.7 1 2 Lloyd Murad 10.8 Q 2 2 Keswick Smalling 10.8 Q 3 2 Rubén Díaz 10.8 4 2 Manuel Rivas 10.9 5 2 Sergio Higuera 11.2 1 3 Manuel Rivera 10.6 Q 2 3 Rafael Romero 10.6 Q 3 3 Dennis Johnson 10.7 4 3 Luis Carter 11.1 5 3 René Ahumada 11.8 Final – 8 January Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Manuel Rivera 10.9 (10.87) Horacio Esteves 10.9 (10.91) Lloyd Murad 10.9 (10.92) 4 Rafael Romero 10.9 5 Santiago Plaza 10.9 6 Keswick Smalling 11.2

200 metres

Heats – 9 January Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Rafael Romero 22.3 Q 2 1 Iván Rodríguez 22.7 Q 3 1 Sergio Higuera 22.9 4 1 Martín Francis 24.0 1 2 Manuel Rivera 21.6 Q 2 2 Lloyd Murad 22.3 Q 3 2 Manuel Rivas 22.3 4 2 Dennis Johnson 22.8 1 3 Keswick Smalling 22.5 Q 2 3 Santiago Plaza 22.5 Q 3 3 Ramón Vega 22.5 4 3 Alfonso Bruno 22.7 5 3 Luis Carter 23.1 Final – 10 January Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Manuel Rivera 21.7 (21.79) Rafael Romero 21.7 (21.92) Lloyd Murad 22.2 (22.40) 4 Santiago Plaza 22.4 5 Iván Rodríguez 22.4 6 Keswick Smalling 22.6

400 metres

Heats – 9 January Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Iván Rodríguez 49.2 Q 2 1 Juan José Godínez 51.5 Q 3 1 Rodolfo Ramírez 51.6 Q 4 1 Erick McFarlane 51.8 5 1 Euromides García 56.2 1 2 Ovidio de Jesús 48.7 Q 2 2 Frank Rivera 49.7 Q 3 2 Evaristo Edie 49.8 Q 4 2 Jorge Terán 49.9 5 2 Emilio Romero 50.0 Final – 10 January Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Ovidio de Jesús 48.6 (48.73) Iván Rodríguez 49.0 (48.93) Evaristo Edie 49.8 (49.98) 4 Frank Rivera 50.3 5 Rodolfo Ramírez 50.9 6 Juan José Godínez 51.2

800 metres

Heats – 7 January Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Ralph Gomes 1:59.8 Q 2 1 Harvey Borrero 2:00.4 Q 3 1 Frank Rivera 2:01.3 Q 4 1 Enrique Alfonzo 2:01.3 Q 5 1 José Manuel Luna 2:04.0 6 1 Frankie Montes 7 1 Guillermo Rocca 1 2 Agustín Pantón 2:00.4 Q 2 2 Wilfredo Vélez 2:00.5 Q 3 2 Jorge Leal 2:00.7 Q 4 2 Albano Ariza 2:01.1 Q 5 2 Rodolfo Ramírez 2:02.7 6 2 Luis Belló 2:04.5 Final – 8 January Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Ralph Gomes 1:57.7 Harvey Borrero 1:58.4 Jorge Leal 1:58.8 4 Frank Rivera 1:59.0 5 Albano Ariza 1:59.3 6 Wilfredo Vélez 1:59.5 Enrique Alfonzo Agustín Pantón

1500 metres 11 January Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Harvey Borrero 4:04.0 (4:04.37) , Alfredo Tinoco 4:05.6 (4:06.00) Ralph Gomes 4:06.0 (4:08.16) 4 Frankie Montes 4:08.7 5 José Manuel Luna 4:10.6 6 Hernando Ruiz 4:11.0 César Colón Rodolfo Méndez Albano Ariza Alfonso Tinoco Julio Marín Julio Quevedo Rómulo Méndez Enrique Alfonzo Carlos Mujica Filemón Camacho Agustín Pantón

5000 metres 9 January Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Isidro Segura 15:41.6 (15:41.94) Guadalupe Jiménez 15:54.7 (15:55.06) Marciano Castillo 15:55.4 (15:56.10) 4 Manuel Cabrera 16:02.6 5 Germán Lozano 16:17.7 6 Javier Alarcón 16:27.4 Rigoberto Guzmán Ralph Gomes Guillermo Oxiaj Macario Subuyuj Florencio Boches Filemón Camacho Carlos Mujica Florentino Oropeza Carlos Quiñónez Rodolfo Méndez Luis Torres

10,000 metres 7 January Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Josafath Hernández 32:50.8 (32:51.36) Isidro Segura 32:58.8 (32:59.17) Pedro Peralta 33:54.3 (33:25.51) 4 Germán Lozano 34:30.0 5 Manuel Cabrera 34:42.3 6 Javier Alarcón 35:08.7 Pedro Torres Florentino Oropeza Santos Tovar Víctor Tua Agustín Reyes Luis Torres Guillermo Oxiaj

Half marathon 12 January Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Pedro Peralta 1:10:29 Pedro Alvarado 1:11:47 Germán Lozano 1:13:40 4 Isidro Resendiz 1:13:40 5 Florencio Boches 1:14:40 6 Manuel Cabrera 1:14:43 Macario Subuyuj Guillermo Oxiaj Luis Torres Carlos Quiñónez Agustín Reyes Santos Tovar Víctor Tua José Manuel Meza Pedro Torres Javier Alarcón Clem Fields

110 metres hurdles

Heats – 9 January Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Teófilo Davis Bell 15.1 Q 2 1 Teófilo Colón 15.1 Q 3 1 John Muñoz 16.1 Q 4 1 Alfredo González 16.2 5 1 Gabriel Roldán 16.8 1 2 Juan Lebrón 15.6 Q 2 2 Arthur Perkins 15.6 Q 3 2 Víctor Maldonado 16.1 Q 4 2 Heriberto Cuevas 16.1 5 2 Leopoldo Vásquez 16.3 Final – 10 January Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Teófilo Davis Bell 15.2 (15.39) Teófilo Colón 15.9 (15.95) Víctor Maldonado 16.0 (16.05) 4 Arthur Perkins 16.0 5 John Muñoz 16.0 6 Juan Lebrón 16.3

400 metres hurdles

Heats – 7 January Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Ovidio de Jesús 55.5 Q 2 1 Víctor Maldonado 58.3 Q 3 1 Gabriel Roldán Q 4 1 Juan Leiva 1 2 Juan Montes 56.6 Q 2 2 Tito Bracho 57.2 Q 3 2 Óscar Fernández 57.4 Q 4 2 Heriberto Cuevas 5 2 Arthur Perkins Final – 8 January Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Ovidio de Jesús 53.4 (53.42) Víctor Maldonado 54.2 (54.18) Óscar Fernández 55.2 (55.51) 4 Gabriel Roldán 55.4 5 Juan Montes 56.0 6 Tito Bracho 56.3

3000 metres steeplechase 8 January Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Alfredo Tinoco 10:50.8 Luciano Gómez 11:11.6 Hernando Ruíz 11:45.5 4 Arturo Martínez 11:59.3 5 Víctor Hurtarte 12:06.9 6 Rigoberto Guzmán 12:09.3 José Otto Escobedo Clem Fields Harvey Borrero Domingo Aranguren Malcolm Fuentes Julio Quevedo Víctor Tricoche Benjamín Rodríguez Pedro Mariani

4 × 100 metres relay 12 January Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes Clive Bonas, Lloyd Murad, Horacio Esteves, Rafael Romero 42.2 (42.14) Miguel Rivera, Rubén Díaz, Ramón Vega, Manuel Rivera 42.2 (42.27) Luis Carter, Humberto Brown, Martín Francis, Manuel Rivas 42.8 (42.71) 4 43.7 5 Dennis Johnson, Keswick Smalling, Deryck Taylor, Audley Hewitt 44.0

4 × 400 metres relay 12 January Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes Frank Rivera, Manuel Rivera, Ovidio de Jesús, Iván Rodríguez 3:16.9 (3:16.91) Emilio Romero, Davis Welch, Guillermo Rocca, Evaristo Edie 3:22.8 (3:22.88) Rodolfo Ramírez, Oscar Fernández, Juan José Godínez, Jorge Terán 3:24.4 (3:24.46) 4 3:25.5

High jump 7 January Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Teodoro Palacios 1.91 Julio Llera 1.91 Roberto Procel 1.89 4 Gilberto Siritt 1.85 5 Rafael Orta 1.85 6 Francisco Acuña 1.82 7 Leopoldo Vásquez 1.77 8 Edwin Conception 1.77 9 Johnson Viviane 1.71 10 Víctor Carmona 1.71

Pole vault 9 January Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Rolando Cruz 4.40 Rubén Cruz 3.96 Miguel Rivera 3.79 4 Brígido Iriarte 3.79 5 Salvador Paredes 3.55 6 Luis Padilla 3.40

Long jump 8 January Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Deryck Taylor 7.07 Julio Llera 6.67 Jesús Piña 6.60 4 Clive Bonas 6.60 5 Héctor Román 6.55 6 Roberto Procel 6.54 7 Gifford Archer 6.30 8 Rodolfo Mijares 6.25 9 Pedro Planas 6.23 10 Johnny Paradizo 6.07

Triple jump 10 January Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Pedro Camacho 14.67 Rumildo Cruz 14.38 Julio Llera 14.32 4 Hernán Caraballo 14.02 5 Deryck Taylor 13.84 6 José Lenin Rodríguez 13.54

Shot put 8 January Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Eduardo Adriana 14.59 Ramón Rosario 14.48 Rafael Trompiz 14.00 4 Pedro Nieves 13.85 5 José María Bracho 13.80 6 Raúl Matos 13.20 7 Héctor Thomas 12.94

Discus throw 9 January Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Daniel Cereali 44.95 Mauricio Rodríguez 42.27 Omar Fierro 42.16 4 Francisco Córcega 42.06 5 Ramón Rosario 41.39 6 Raúl Matos 39.51 7 Francisco Estopier 39.18 8 Santiago Durham 38.20 9 Rubén Dávila 37.65

Hammer throw 10 January Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Daniel Cereali 51.17 Rubén Dávila 46.86 Francisco Fragoso 46.75 4 Alejandro Rueda 43.38 5 Mauricio Rodríguez 42.57 6 Ángel Vélez 42.54 7 Mario González 41.91 8 Carlos Hidalgo 41.74 9 Emérico Vanich 40.10

Javelin throw 11 January – old model Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Carlos Fajer 62.36 Santiago Durham 59.65 Jesús Barbera 59.02 4 Aníbal Arroyo 58.70 5 Benigno Santiago 55.90 6 Emilio Navarro 55.37 7 Antonio Rubio 47.90 8 Johnny Paradizo 46.68

Pentathlon 12 January – 1952 tables

RankAthleteNationalityLJJT200mDT1500mPointsNotes Rodolfo Mijares 6.41 47.74 23.0 36.55 4:50.1 2723 Héctor Román 6.73 52.43 23.0 38.93 6:07.4 2627 Héctor Thomas 6.81 48.48 23.4 35.75 5:27.0 2540 4 Osmán Ludovic 6.40 51.47 22.8 34.43 5:35.5 2496 5 Johnny Pradizo 6.45 52.88 24.3 34.12 5:07.1 2475 6 Omar Fierro 5.50 47.26 24.0 41.22 4:54.3 2451 7 Leopoldo Vásquez 6.48 48.78 24.1 31.47 4:57.9 2438 8 Emilio Navarro 5.70 56.87 24.4 32.23 5:19.5 2245 9 Orlando Stanley 6.21 41.77 23.1 28.08 5:26.9 2124 10 Pedro Alfonso Jérez 5.60 39.83 25.3 27.40 4:44.0 1937 11 Eduardo Aburto 4.96 38.96 26.0 21.15 5:09.6 Brígido Iriarte 6.05 54.26

Women's results 100 metres

Heats – 9 January Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Jean Holmes 12.9 Q 2 1 María Teresa Treviño 13.1 Q 3 1 Silvia Hunte 13.1 Q 4 1 Morella Ettedgui 13.3 1 2 Yolanda Vincourt 13.3 Q 2 2 Alvia Ford 13.4 Q 3 2 Raquel Trujillo 13.4 Q 4 2 Marcela Daniel 13.8 5 2 Biserka de Vanich 13.9 Final – 10 January Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Jean Holmes 12.8 (13.04) 4 Yolanda Vincourt 13.3 (13.31) 1 María Teresa Treviño 13.4 (13.33) 4 2 Silvia Hunte 13.4 5 6 Raquel Trujillo 13.9 6 5 Alvia Ford 13.9

80 metres hurdles

Heats – 10 January Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Benilde Ascanio 12.9 Q 2 1 Silvia Hunte 13.0 Q 3 1 Gladys Azcuaga 13.7 Q 4 1 Margarita Kabsch 14.5 1 2 Guillermina Peña 13.3 Q 2 2 Nerva Matheus 13.3 Q 3 2 Lorraine Dunn 14.1 Q 2 Biserka de Vanich Final – 11 January Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Guillermina Peña 12.9 (12.87) Benilde Ascanio 12.9 (12.92) Silvia Hunte 13.4 (13.43) 4 Lorraine Dunn 13.5 5 Nerva Matheus 13.7 6 Gladys Azcuaga 14.0

4 × 100 metres relay 12 January Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes Marcela Daniel, Lorraine Dunn, Silvia Hunte, Jean Holmes 50.5 (50.51) Guillermina Peña, Raquel Trujillo, María Teresa Treviño, Yolanda Vincourt 51.7 (51.81) Benilde Ascanio, Alvia Ford, Biserka de Vanich, Morella Ettedgui 53.2 (53.26)

High jump 8 January Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Benilde Ascanio 1.43 Margarita Kabsch 1.40 Silvia Hunte 1.40 4 Diana Gerling 1.37 5 Teresa Meléndez 1.32 6 Gladys Azcuaga 1.32 7 Lorraine Dunn 1.32 8 Alvia Ford 1.32

Discus throw 7 January Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Lili Schluter 40.79 Ivonne Rojano 37.19 Nerva Matheus 31.04 4 Bertha Chiú 30.74 5 Mercedes García 30.65 6 Francisca Roberts 29.10

Javelin throw 10 January – old model Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Berta Chiú 35.21 Raquel Trujillo 35.14 Mercedes García 34.75 4 Ana Mercedes Campos 34.39 5 Nelly Romero 31.34 6 Ivonne Rojano 28.79

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