The 1st Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships was held in Maracaibo, Venezuela on 12–15 December 1974, one and a half year after having already hosted the 4th CAC senior championships in July 1973.

Event summary The athletes from Mexico gained most of the gold medals. In the total medal count, Venezuela equalizes the Mexican result, both countries gaining 21 each.

In the under-20 men category, Anthony Husbands, Trinidad and Tobago, won two gold (100m, 200m) and one silver medal (4 × 100 m relay), double gold was won by José Briano from Mexico (3000m, 5000m), and Carmelo Martínez from Cuba (Long jump, Triple jump).

In the under-20 women category, Dorothy Scott, Jamaica, won three golds (100m, Long jump, 4 × 100 m relay), and Maureen Gottschalk, Jamaica, gained two golds (200m, 4 × 400 m relay) and one bronze medal (400m).

The event saw an early appearance of Ernesto Canto, Mexico, won the gold medal in the men's 20 kilometre walk event at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States. He was successful in the 10,000 metres track walk competition. Moreover, Luis Delís from Cuba won the Discus competition. He was going to win the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union, as well as silver at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, and bronze at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy.

Medal summary Medal winners are published by category: Junior A, Male, and Junior A, Female.

Male Junior A (under 20)

100 metres (4.1 m/s) 10.76 w 10.76 w 10.79 w200 metres (1.8 m/s) 21.37 21.40 21.42400 metres 48.00 48.11 48.93800 metres 1:55.1 1:55.5 1:56.01500 metres 3:58.3 4:02.5 4:04.13000 metres 8:51.4 8:52.6 8:53.15000 metres 15:05.3 15:11.1 15:11.22000 metres steeplechase 6:07.5 6:07.6 6:10.8110 metres hurdles 14.54 14.64 14.82400 metres hurdles 55.82 55.83 55.86High jump 1.99 1.99 1.84Pole vault 4.00 3.80 3.70Long jump 7.05 6.85 6.58Triple jump 15.58 13.82 13.80Shot put 13.88 13.68 13.00Discus throw 49.02 39.76 39.08Hammer throw 62.84 43.12 40.64Javelin throw 59.40 57.48 53.68Decathlon 6253 5653 561310,000 metres track walk 48:34.5 51:36.0 62:45.34 × 100 metres relay O. James David Green Roberts Everard Samuels 41.96 David Modeste Cyril Lewis Anthony Husbands Gary Andrews 42.10 Alexis Herrera Gómez Hipolito Brown Manuel Briceño 42.184 × 400 metres relay Anthony Meyers Anthony Lyons Searl Pascall Richard Ross 3:17.71 Ismael Castañeda César Romero Enrique Regis Alexis Herrera 3:19.54 Hamil Grimes Hardecourt Mark Stoute Trevor Small 3:21.52

Female Junior A (under 20) 100 metres (2.9 m/s) 11.77 w 12.04 w 12.07 w200 metres (3.5 m/s) 24.29 w 25.02 w 25.08 w400 metres 55.90 56.23 56.33800 metres 2:14.01 2:14.04 2:16.381500 metres 4:45.61 4:51.48 4:54.08100 metres hurdles (2.0 m/s) 14.57 14.83 14.94High jump 1.72 1.69 1.69Long jump 5.80 5.72 5.61Shot put 11.20 10.84 10.10Discus throw 34.38 31.38 28.80Javelin throw 42.04 37.12 36.80Pentathlon 3717 3697 30384 × 100 metres relay S. White Dorothy Scott E. Williams Lola Ramsay 46.86 Ann Adams Esther Hope Sandra Fournillier Janice Bernard 47.07 Virginia Rincón Deyanira Medina Carmen Álvarez Adriana Marchena 49.034 × 400 metres relay Reva Knight Verone Webber Jackie Pusey Maureen Gottschalk 3:51.91 Drucilla Maxwell Ann Adams Jennifer Augustine Carol Charles 3:52.51 Guadelupe Gómez Araceli Arana Guadalupe García María Ángeles Cato 3:55.27

Medal table (unofficial)

Participation (unofficial)

Detailed result lists can be found on the World Junior Athletics History website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 196 athletes from about 10 countries:

(1) (10) (3) (13) (4) (21) (30) (41) (30) (43)

References

External links Official CACAC Website World Junior Athletics History