1984 Central American Championships in Athletics

X Central American Championships in Athletics
Dates	15–18 August 1984
Host city	Guatemala City, Guatemala
Venue	Estadio Mateo Flores
Level	Senior
Events	40
Participation	5 nations
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The 10th Central American Championships in Athletics were held in Guatemala City, Guatemala, between 15 and 18 June 1984.^[1]

A total of 40 events were contested, 24 by men, 16 by women.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Vladimir Samayoa  Guatemala	10.4	Glenn Abrahams  Costa Rica	10.5	Roberto Guillén  Nicaragua	10.6
200 metres	Vladimir Samayoa  Guatemala	21.5	Byron Chamorro  Nicaragua	22.1	Mario Morgan  Costa Rica	22.3
400 metres	Mario Brown  Costa Rica	48.8	Arturo Leiva  Guatemala	49.8	Carlos Alas  El Salvador	50.1
800 metres	Luis Mena  Costa Rica	1:53.6 NR	Alberto López  Guatemala	1:54.5	Luis Munguía  Nicaragua	1:55.3
1500 metres	Luis Mena  Costa Rica	3:56.8	Hugo Allan García  Guatemala	3:57.1	Alberto Paredes  Guatemala	4:02.0
5000 metres	Orlando Mora  Costa Rica	15:10.5	Miguel Vargas  Costa Rica	15:12.6	Eliezer López  Costa Rica	15:13.0
10,000 metres	Miguel Vargas  Costa Rica	31:45.2	Eliezer López  Costa Rica	31:45.4	Orlando Mora  Costa Rica	31:45.5
Marathon	Jorge Delgado  Costa Rica	2:26:11	Manuel Rodríguez  Guatemala	2:26:31	Carlos Alvarado  Guatemala	2:35:07
110 metres hurdles	Ángel Díaz  Guatemala	15.6	Arnaldo Monge  Costa Rica	16.0	Alex Kacher  Guatemala	16.1
400 metres hurdles	Luis Mungía  Nicaragua	55.7	José Miguel Vega  Costa Rica	57.1	Francisco Recinos  Guatemala	57.4
3000 metres steeplechase	Hugo Allan García  Guatemala	9:28.4	Eliezer López  Costa Rica	9:39.7	Freddy Arango  Guatemala	9:41.7
4 × 100 metres relay	Costa Rica Michael Pearson Mario Brown Mario Ramírez Glenn Abrahams	42.5	Nicaragua Rolando Martínez Harold Pérez Byron Chamorro Gary Lisby	42.6	Guatemala Emilio Moss Guillermo Parra Manuel Chinchilla Vladimir Samayoa	42.8
4 × 400 metres relay	Costa Rica Mario Brown Carlos Cunningham José Miguel Vega Michael Pearson	3:19.1 NR	Guatemala Sergio Aguilar Francisco Recinos Arturo Leiva Emilio Moss	3:20.7	El Salvador René Sermeño Rubén Quintanilla Carlos Alas René López	3:23.7
20 kilometres walk	Santiago Fonseca  Honduras	1:34:01 NR	Víctor Alonso  Guatemala	1:38:33	Sergio Guttiérrez  Costa Rica	1:40:25
50 kilometres walk	Santiago Fonseca  Honduras	4:31:55 NR	Arturo Roldán  Guatemala	4:40:24	Sergio Guttiérrez  Costa Rica	4:50:24
High jump	Ángel Díaz  Guatemala	1.90	Ricardo Campbell  Costa Rica	1.85	Estuardo López  Guatemala	1.85
Pole vault	Antonio Montepeque  Guatemala	3.60	Héctor Salvatierra  Guatemala	3.50	Carlos Fernández  Guatemala	3.40
Long jump	José Allen Rowe  Guatemala	6.38	Nélson de León  El Salvador	6.34	Espartaco Gaytán  Guatemala	6.30
Triple jump	Espartaco Gaytán  Guatemala	14.32	José Allen Rowe  Guatemala	13.84	Ángel Díaz  Guatemala	13.48
Shot put	Juan Turcios  Nicaragua	13.54	César Sajche  Guatemala	13.46	Juan Galdámez  El Salvador	13.33
Discus throw	Fernando Alonzo  Guatemala	40.98	Iván Turcios  Nicaragua	40.36	Ernesto Meléndez  El Salvador	39.60
Hammer throw	Víctor Taracena  Guatemala	49.72 NR	Igor Morales  Guatemala	46.04	Fernando Montepeque  Guatemala	42.44
Javelin throw	Domingo Reyes  Nicaragua	64.20	José Peralta  Nicaragua	61.30	Rudy Aguilar  El Salvador	60.50
Decathlon	Héctor Salvatierra  Guatemala	5200	Rudy Aguilar  El Salvador	4653	Fernando Chacón  Costa Rica	4471

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Crista Schumann  Guatemala	11.7 NR	Patricia Quiñones  Guatemala	11.9	Arlette Channer  Costa Rica	12.2
200 metres	Crista Schumann  Guatemala	24.6 NR	Patricia Meighan  Guatemala	24.8	Zoila Stewart  Costa Rica	25.4
400 metres	Patricia Meighan  Guatemala	56.2 NR	Maureen Stewart  Costa Rica	56.4	Zoila Stewart  Costa Rica	61.1
800 metres	Maureen Stewart  Costa Rica	2:12.8 NR	Patricia Meighan  Guatemala	2:15.3	Kriscia García  El Salvador	2:20.0
1500 metres	Kriscia García  El Salvador	4:44.1 NR	Carmen Montiel  Costa Rica	4:47.5	Aura Morales  Guatemala	4:55.9
3000 metres	Kriscia García  El Salvador	10:26.9 NR	Carmen Montiel  Costa Rica	10:43.1	Aura Morales  Guatemala	10:45.5
100 metres hurdles	Amapola Arimany  Guatemala	15.7	Lucrecia Aragón  Guatemala	18.1	Magdalena Molina  Costa Rica	18.3
400 metres hurdles	Leticia Jiménez  Guatemala	68.9	Virginia Boesche  Guatemala	69.1	Vilma Calvio  El Salvador	70.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Guatemala Patricia Meighan Elsa Zuñiga Patricia Quiñones Crista Schumann	47.9	Costa Rica Indra Hansen Sigrid Guttiérez Arlette Channer Zoila Stewart	48.6	Nicaragua Rosario Miranda Claudia Miranda Paula Cuadra Ana María Valle	52.6
4 × 400 metres relay	Guatemala Elsa Zuñiga Leticia Jiménez Crista Schumann Patricia Meighan	3:58.3 NR	Costa Rica Magdalena Molina Indra Hansen Zoila Stewart Maureen Stewart	4:10.1	El Salvador Arely Franco Zoila de Quintanilla Kriscia García Daysi Calvillo	4:15.0
High jump	Ruth Gallardo  El Salvador	1.45	Severena Crawford  Costa Rica	1.45	Lucrecia Aragón  Guatemala	1.40
Long jump	Patricia Quiñones  Guatemala	5.14	Arlette Channer  Costa Rica	5.02	Larissa Soto  Guatemala	4.78
Shot put	Glendorlee Pinnock  Costa Rica	11.02	Ave María Alpizar  Costa Rica	10.70	Mercedes Centero  Guatemala	10.42
Discus throw	María Lourdes Ruiz  Nicaragua	35.36 NR	Juana Carbajal  Nicaragua	33.14	Glendorlee Pinnock  Costa Rica	32.68
Javelin throw	Ana María Valle  Nicaragua	45.80 NR	María Lourdes Ruiz  Nicaragua	36.46	Iris Rosales  Guatemala	32.90
Heptathlon	Amapola Arimany  Guatemala	3707 NR	Larissa Soto  Guatemala	4614 NU20R	María Chavarría  Costa Rica	3288

  *   Host nation (Guatemala)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Guatemala (GUA)*	20	17	17	54
2	Costa Rica (CRC)	10	15	12	37
3	Nicaragua (NIC)	5	6	3	14
4	El Salvador (ESA)	3	2	8	13
5	Honduras	2	0	0	2
Totals (5 entries)		40	40	40	120