1984 Central American Championships in Athletics

The 10th Central American Championships in Athletics were held in Guatemala City, Guatemala, between 15 and 18 June 1984.

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
← 1980 Guatemala City 1991 Tegucigalpa →

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

Medal summary

Men

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

Women

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

Medal table

  *   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