Central American and Caribbean Games 2002

The 19th Central American and Caribbean Games took place from November 23rd to December 7th, 2002 in San Salvador , the capital of El Salvador .

Since Cuba did not participate for the first time since 1959 , Mexico , whose athletes won 146 gold medals in a total of 448 competitions, was another nation at the top of the medal table for the first time since 1966 .

Participating Nations

31 countries took part in the Central American and Caribbean Games with a total of 4301 athletes.

American Virgin Islands  Antigua and Barbuda  Aruba  Bahamas  Barbados  Belize  Bermuda  British Virgin Islands  Cayman Islands  Costa Rica  Dominica

Dominican Republic  El Salvador  Guatemala  Grenada  Guyana  Haiti  Honduras  Jamaica  Colombia  Mexico  Nicaragua

Netherlands Antilles  Panama  Puerto Rico  St. Kitts and Nevis  St. Lucia  St. Vincent and the Grenadines  Suriname  Trinidad and Tobago  Venezuela

sports

The Central America and Caribbean Games featured 37 sports. New in the program were competitions in modern pentathlon and squash . Handball and racquetball were played in the Dominican Republic , sailing competitions in Mexico , canoeing in Guatemala and hockey in Puerto Rico .

badminton baseball basketball Archery bowling Boxing fencing Soccer Weightlifting Handball hockey Judo canoe

karate athletics Modern pentathlon Racquetball Cycling horse riding Rhythmic sports gymnastics Wrestling Roller skate rowing shoot swim sailing

Softball squash Synchronized swimming Taekwondo tennis Table tennis Triathlon do gymnastics volleyball Water polo Diving

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

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	Mexico	146	114	101	361
02	Venezuela	108	103	79	290
03	Colombia	63	59	57	179
04th	Dominican Republic	33	36	62	131
05	Puerto Rico	32	47	61	140
06th	Guatemala	20th	23	47	90
07th	El Salvador	18th	40	66	124
08th	Jamaica	6th	10	9	25th
09	Trinidad and Tobago	5	1	11	17th
10	Costa Rica	4th	3	6th	13
11	Haiti	2	2	6th	10
12	Panama	2	2	2	6th
13	American Virgin Islands	2	-	1	3
14th	Barbados	1	2	6th	9
15th	Suriname	1	1	2	4th
16	Honduras	1	-	8th	9
17th	Nicaragua	1	-	4th	5
18th	Cayman Islands	1	-	1	2
19th	British Virgin Islands	1	-	-	1
19th	St. Lucia	1	-	-	1
21st	Guyana	-	1	7th	8th
22nd	Antigua and Barbuda	-	1	1	2
23	Belize	-	-	2	2
23	Netherlands Antilles	-	-	2	2
23	St. Kitts and Nevis	-	-	2	2
26th	Bahamas	-	-	1	1
26th	Dominica	-	-	1	1
26th	Grenada	-	-	1	1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Enrique Montesinos: Los juegos regionales más antiguos. (pdf; 17.5 MB) In: mayaguez2010.com. 2009, pp. 112-116 , archived from the original on March 27, 2012 ; accessed on October 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2019 (Spanish).