Central American and Caribbean Games 2018

The 23rd Central American and Caribbean Games took place from July 19 to August 3, 2018 in Barranquilla , Colombia . After 1946, the city hosted the major event for the second time.

Award

The games were initially awarded to the Guatemalan city ​​of Quetzaltenango on October 29, 2012 . In May 2014 Quetzaltenango was withdrawn from the competition. A second round of awards was initiated, at the end of which Barranquilla (Colombia) prevailed against the applications from Panama City (Panama) and Puerto La Cruz (Venezuela).

Participating Nations

37 countries with a total of 5854 athletes took part in the Central America and Caribbean Games.

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

El Salvador  French Guiana  Grenada  Guadeloupe  Guatemala  Guyana  Haiti  Honduras  Jamaica  Colombia  Cuba  Martinique

Mexico  Nicaragua  Panama  Puerto Rico  St. Kitts and Nevis  St. Lucia  St. Vincent and the Grenadines  Sint Maarten  Suriname  Trinidad and Tobago  Turks and Caicos Islands  Venezuela

sports

The Central America and Caribbean Games featured 37 sports.

badminton baseball basketball beach volleyball Archery bowling Boxing fencing Soccer Weightlifting golf Handball hockey

Judo canoe karate athletics Modern pentathlon Racquetball Cycling horse riding Wrestling Roller skate rowing rugby

shoot swim sailing Softball squash Taekwondo tennis Table tennis Triathlon do gymnastics volleyball Water-skiing

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

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	Mexico	132	118	91	341
02	Cuba	102	72	68	242
03	Colombia	79	94	97	270
04th	Venezuela	34	48	73	155
05	Dominican Republic	25th	29	53	107
06th	Guatemala	21st	22nd	41	84
07th	Puerto Rico	20th	29	38	87
08th	Jamaica	12	4th	11	27
09	Trinidad and Tobago	9	8th	13	30th
10	Bahamas	4th	2	1	7th
11	Panama	3	5	5	13
12	El Salvador	2	5	11	18th
13	Aruba	2	1	6th	9
14th	Barbados	2	-	4th	6th
15th	Costa Rica	1	6th	19th	26th
16	British Virgin Islands	1	1	1	3
17th	Suriname	1	-	1	2
18th	St. Lucia	1	-	-	1
19th	Bermuda	-	2	1	3
20th	Honduras	-	1	5	6th
21st	St. Kitts and Nevis	-	1	1	2
22nd	Grenada	-	1	-	1
22nd	Haiti	-	1	-	1
24	Nicaragua	-	-	9	9
25th	Cayman Islands	-	-	3	3
26th	American Virgin Islands	-	-	1	1
26th	Antigua and Barbuda	-	-	1	1
26th	Guadeloupe	-	-	1	1
26th	Guyana	-	-	1	1
26th	Martinique	-	-	1	1

Web links

• Official site (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Asamblea ODECABE, Islas Caimán ( Memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ ODECABE insiste: Guatemala está descartada para organizar Juegos 2018. In: panamaamerica.com.pa. May 12, 2014, accessed July 31, 2018 (Spanish). 
3. ↑ Iván Bernal Marín: Barranquilla, escogida como sede de los Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe 2018. In: elheraldo.co. June 11, 2014, accessed July 31, 2018 (Spanish).