Central American and Caribbean Games 2006

The 20th Central American and Caribbean Games took place from July 17th to 30th, 2006 in the Colombian city ​​of Cartagena .

The most successful nation was Cuba , whose athletes won 139 gold medals in 449 competitions.

Participating Nations

32 countries took part in the Central American and Caribbean Games with a total of 4865 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  Cuba  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 38 sports. For the first time competitions in water skiing were held. The rowing competitions took place in Mexico , the handball , racquetball , badminton , hockey and modern pentathlon competitions in the Dominican Republic . Due to the lack of a venue in Cartagena within Colombia, further venues were found: the cycling , shooting and bowling competitions took place in Barranquilla , the horse riding competitions in Bogotá .

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 Water-skiing Diving

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

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	Cuba	139	86	60	285
02	Mexico	107	82	87	276
03	Colombia	72	70	77	219
04th	Venezuela	49	90	124	263
05	Puerto Rico	24	19th	53	96
06th	Dominican Republic	22nd	31	44	97
07th	Jamaica	8th	6th	7th	21st
08th	El Salvador	6th	12	29	47
09	Barbados	6th	2	11	19th
10	Guatemala	5	13	30th	48
11	Panama	2	5	7th	14th
12	Costa Rica	2	1	2	5
13	Netherlands Antilles	2	1	1	4th
14th	Trinidad and Tobago	1	9	11	21st
15th	American Virgin Islands	1	2	-	3
15th	Cayman Islands	1	2	-	3
17th	Guyana	1	1	-	2
18th	British Virgin Islands	1	-	-	1
19th	Bahamas	-	6th	4th	10
20th	Haiti	-	5	3	8th
21st	Honduras	-	2	3	5
22nd	Grenada	-	2	-	2
23	St. Kitts and Nevis	-	1	2	3
24	St. Lucia	-	1	1	2
25th	Nicaragua	-	-	4th	4th
26th	Antigua and Barbuda	-	-	1	1
26th	Bermuda	-	-	1	1
26th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	-	-	1	1
26th	Suriname	-	-	1	1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Enrique Montesinos: Los juegos regionales más antiguos. (pdf; 17.5 MB) In: mayaguez2010.com. 2009, pp. 117–121 , archived from the original on March 27, 2012 ; accessed on October 12, 2019 (Spanish). 
2. ↑ XX Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos y del Caribe Cartagena 2006. In: cartagena2006.gov.co. 2015, archived from the original on October 6, 2007 ; accessed on October 12, 2019 (Spanish). 
3. ^ 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 12, 2019 (Spanish). 
4. ^ 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 12, 2019 (Spanish).