1982 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics explained

V Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships
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Host City:	Bridgetown, Barbados
Dates:	23–25 July
Nations Participating:	18
Athletes Participating:	about 320 (186 junior, 134 youth)
Events:	75 (39 junior, 36 youth)
Level:	Junior and Youth
Previous:	1980 Nassau
Next:	1984 San Juan

The 5th Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships was held in Bridgetown, Barbados, on 23–25 July 1982.

Medal summary

Medal winners are published by category: Junior A, Male, Junior A, Female, and Junior B. Complete results can be found on the World Junior Athletics History website.

Male Junior A (under 20)

100 metres	10.51	10.53	10.60
200 metres	21.20	21.29	21.52
400 metres	47.50	47.61	47.99
800 metres	1:56.58	1:56.60	1:56.82
1500 metres	3:55.78	3:55.81	3:56.00
5000 metres	14:43.35	14:45.70	14:52.06
10,000 metres	32:22.54	32:54.80	33:44.75
Half Marathon	1:12:28	1:17:20	1:22:24
3000 metres steeplechase	9:18.88	9:31.85	9:35.00
110 metres hurdles	14.62	14.84	14.87
400 metres hurdles	56.02	57.12	59.00
High jump	2.03	1.98	1.98
Pole vault	3.43	3.43	3.35
Long jump	7.60	7.53	7.19
Triple jump	15.83	15.67	15.01
Shot put	13.75	13.54	13.53
Discus throw	42.34	41.20	40.16
Hammer throw	59.56	44.74	43.36
Javelin throw	58.12	58.06	57.38
Decathlon	6449	6388	6279
10,000 metres track walk	44:13.55	46:19.64	49:47.01
4 × 100 metres relay	40.68	40.92	41.44
4 × 400 metres relay	3:14.08	3:16.99	3:17.32

Female Junior A (under 20)

100 metres	11.80	11.86	12.08
200 metres	23.86	23.98	24.20
400 metres	54.53	55.26	55.73
800 metres	2:16.07	2:16.82	2:17.03
1500 metres	4:43.25	4:44.74	4:45.00
3000 metres	10:06.57	10:08.00	10:35.27
100 metres hurdles	15.30	15.40	15.50
400 metres hurdles	65.98	68.99	69.99
High jump	1.69	1.67	1.67
Long jump	5.88	5.85	5.76
Shot put	14.14	14.10	13.26
Discus throw	45.94	44.60	39.50
Javelin throw	53.80	49.55	47.38
Heptathlon	4596	4156	3570
4 × 100 metres relay	46.63	47.13	47.56
4 × 400 metres relay	3:43.96	3:51.24	3:54.03

Male Junior B (under 17)

100 metres	11.00	11.31		11.35
200 metres	22.03	22.46		22.69
400 metres	50.65	51.05		51.10
800 metres	2:02.31	2:03.36		2:04.43
1500 metres	4:10.70	4:12.48		4:14.60
3000 metres	9:08.71	9:24.67		9:35.73
2000 metres steeplechase	6:29.90	6:35.17		6:45.85
110 metres hurdles	15.50	15.59		16.37
400 metres hurdles	56.33	59.26		59.37
High jump	1.92	1.82		1.77
Pole vault	3.20	2.74		2.64
Long jump	6.95	6.80		6.80
Triple jump	13.75	13.69		13.67
Shot put	14.63	14.52		14.46
Discus throw	49.74	42.26		40.10
Hammer throw	41.64	29.60		22.42
Javelin throw	58.34	56.34		51.26
Heptathlon	3840	3340		2809
5000 metres track walk	22:52.46	22:54.47		???
4 × 100 metres relay	43.45	44.60	García Nelson Corvis Louis Blanco Pomeo	44.97
4 × 400 metres relay	3:24.25	3:25.14		3:33.78

Female Junior B (under 17)

100 metres	11.89	12.14		12.23
200 metres	23.90	24.65		24.96
400 metres	55.90	57.13		57.40
800 metres	2:17.52	2:18.59		2:19.12
1200 metres	3:44.15	3:44.6		3:51.19
100 metres hurdles	15.72	15.75		17.16
300 metres hurdles	47.99	48.16		48.90
High jump	1.59	1.56		1.53
Long jump	5.22	5.15		5.14
Shot put	10.90	10.25		9.73
Discus throw	36.66	27.88		24.82
Javelin throw	39.90	37.52		36.24
Pentathlon	2512	2445		2276
4 × 100 metres relay	49.66	49.83	Figueroa Burgos Rivera Clemente	50.35
4 × 400 metres relay	3:56.08	3:57.01	Rivera Clemente Burgos Diana García	4:04.15

Participation (unofficial)

The British Virgin Islands, Colombia, Grenada, Martinique, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines competed for the first time at the championships. Detailed result lists can be found on the World Junior Athletics History website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 320 athletes (186 junior (under-20) and 134 youth (under-17)) from about 18 countries, again a new record number of participating nations:

(3)
(19)
(61)
(4)
(1)
(5)
(16)
(1)
(8)
(1)
(34)
(2)
México(25)
(7)
(56)
(4)
(26)
(47)