Central American and Caribbean Games 1974

The 12th Central American and Caribbean Games took place from February 27 to March 13, 1974 in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo . The opening ceremony took place on the 130th anniversary of the country's declaration of independence.

Once again, Cuba was by far the most successful nation. With 101 gold medals in a total of 171 competitions, Cuba placed in the medal table ahead of Mexico , whose athletes won gold 26 times.

Participating Nations

23 countries took part in the Central America and Caribbean Games with a total of 2052 athletes. The Bermudas made their debut.

American Virgin Islands American Virgin Islands
Bahamas Bahamas
Barbados Barbados
Bermuda 1910 Bermuda
British Honduras British Honduras
Costa Rica Costa Rica
Dominican Republic Dominican Republic
El Salvador El Salvador

Guatemala Guatemala
Guyana Guyana
Haiti 1964 Haiti
Honduras Honduras
Jamaica Jamaica
Colombia Colombia
Cuba Cuba
Mexico Mexico

Nicaragua Nicaragua
Dutch Guiana 1959 Dutch Guiana
Netherlands Antilles 1959 Netherlands Antilles
Panama Panama
Puerto Rico Puerto Rico
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
Venezuela 1954 Venezuela

sports

The Central American and Caribbean Games featured 18 sports. Compared to the last event, tennis and sailing were taken back into the program, and softball was played for the first time in competitions of both sexes. For the first time, fencing was not part of the games.

Links marked in bold lead to the detailed results of the games

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	Cuba Cuba	101	55	35	191
02	Mexico Mexico	26th	30th	26th	82
03	Venezuela 1954 Venezuela	14th	16	26th	56
04th	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico	9	24	36	69
05	Colombia Colombia	9	17th	18th	44
06th	Costa Rica Costa Rica	3	3	2	8th
07th	Jamaica Jamaica	2	3	2	7th
08th	Netherlands Antilles 1959 Netherlands Antilles	2	-	5	7th
09	Panama Panama	1	12	11	24
10	Dominican Republic Dominican Republic	1	5	14th	20th
11	Barbados Barbados	1	2	1	4th
12	American Virgin Islands American Virgin Islands	1	-	1	2
13	British Honduras British Honduras	1	-	-	1
14th	Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago	-	2	3	5
15th	El Salvador El Salvador	-	2	1	3
16	Bahamas Bahamas	-	1	-	1
17th	Bermuda 1910 Bermuda	-	-	1	1
17th	Guatemala Guatemala	-	-	1	1
17th	Guyana Guyana	-	-	1	1
17th	Haiti 1964 Haiti	-	-	1	1
17th	Dutch Guiana 1959 Dutch Guiana	-	-	1	1

Individual evidence

^ Enrique Montesinos: Los juegos regionales más antiguos. (pdf; 17.5 MB) In: mayaguez2010.com. 2009, pp. 77-81 , archived from the original on March 27, 2012 ; accessed on October 8, 2019 (Spanish).
^ Enrique Montesinos: Los juegos regionales más antiguos. (pdf; 17.5 MB) In: mayaguez2010.com. 2009, pp. 540-544 , archived from the original on March 27, 2012 ; accessed on October 8, 2019 (Spanish).
^ Enrique Montesinos: Los juegos regionales más antiguos. (pdf; 17.5 MB) In: mayaguez2010.com. 2009, p. 545 , archived from the original on March 27, 2012 ; accessed on October 8, 2019 (Spanish).

[1] Enrique Montesinos: Los juegos regionales más antiguos. (pdf; 17.5 MB) In: mayaguez2010.com. 2009, pp. 77-81 , archived from the original on March 27, 2012 ; accessed on October 8, 2019 (Spanish).

[2] Enrique Montesinos: Los juegos regionales más antiguos. (pdf; 17.5 MB) In: mayaguez2010.com. 2009, pp. 540-544 , archived from the original on March 27, 2012 ; accessed on October 8, 2019 (Spanish).

[3] Enrique Montesinos: Los juegos regionales más antiguos. (pdf; 17.5 MB) In: mayaguez2010.com. 2009, p. 545 , archived from the original on March 27, 2012 ; accessed on October 8, 2019 (Spanish).