The athletics competition in the 1959 Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Caracas, Venezuela.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Manuel Rivera  Puerto Rico	10.87	Horacio Esteves  Venezuela	10.91	Lloyd Murad  Venezuela	10.92
200 metres	Manuel Rivera  Puerto Rico	21.79	Rafael Romero  Venezuela	21.92	Lloyd Murad  Venezuela	22.40
400 metres	Ovidio de Jesús  Puerto Rico	48.73	Iván Rodríguez  Puerto Rico	48.93	Evaristo Edie  Venezuela	49.98
800 metres	Ralph Gomes  British Guiana	1:57.7	Harvey Borrero  Colombia	1:58.4	Jorge Leal  Mexico	1:58.8
1500 metres	Harvey Borrero  Colombia	4:04.37	Alfredo Tinoco  Mexico	4:06.00	Ralph Gomes  British Guiana	4:08.16
5000 metres	Isidro Segura  Mexico	15:41.94	Guadalupe Jiménez  Mexico	15:55.06	Marciano Castillo  Mexico	15:56.10
10000 metres	Josafath Hernández  Mexico	32:51.36	Isidro Segura  Mexico	32:59.17	Pedro Peralta  Mexico	33:25.51
Half marathon	Pedro Peralta  Mexico	01:10:29	Pedro Alvarado  Mexico	01:11:47	Germán Lozano  Colombia	01:13:40
110 metres hurdles	Teófilo Davis Bell  Venezuela	15.39	Teófilo Colón  Puerto Rico	15.95	Víctor Maldonado  Venezuela	16.05
400 metres hurdles	Ovidio de Jesús  Puerto Rico	53.42	Víctor Maldonado  Venezuela	54.18	Oscar Fernández  Mexico	55.51
3000 metre steeplechase	Alfredo Tinoco  Mexico	10:50.8*	Luciano Gómez  Mexico	11:11.6*	Hernando Ruíz  Colombia	11:45.5*
4 × 100 metres relay	Venezuela Clive Bonas Lloyd Murad Horacio Esteves Rafael Romero	42.14	Puerto Rico Miguel Rivera Rubén Díaz Ramón L. Vega Manuel Rivera	42.27	Panama Luis E. Carter Hubert Brown Martín Francis Manuel Rivas	42.71
4 × 400 metres relay	Puerto Rico Frank Rivera Manuel Rivera Ovidio de Jesús Iván Rodríguez	3:16.91	Venezuela Emilio Romero Davis Welch Guillermo Rocca Evaristo Edie	3:22.88	Mexico Rodolfo Ramírez Oscar Fernández Juan J. Godínez Jorge Terán	3:24.46
High jump	Teodoro Palacios  Guatemala	1.91	Julio Lleras  Puerto Rico	1.91	Roberto Procel  Mexico	1.89
Pole vault	Rolando Cruz  Puerto Rico	4.40	Rubén Cruz  Puerto Rico	3.96	Miguel Rivera  Puerto Rico	3.79
Long jump	Deryck Taylor  Jamaica	7.07	Julio Lleras  Puerto Rico	6.67	Jesús Piña  Venezuela	6.60
Triple jump	Pedro Camacho  Puerto Rico	14.67	Rumildo Cruz  Puerto Rico	14.38	Julio Lleras  Puerto Rico	14.32
Shot put	Eduardo Adriana  Netherlands Antilles	14.59	Ramón Rosario  Puerto Rico	14.48	Rafael Trompiz  Venezuela	14.00
Discus throw	Daniel Cereali  Venezuela	44.95	Mauricio Rodríguez  Venezuela	42.27	Omar Fierro  Mexico	42.16
Hammer throw	Daniel Cereali  Venezuela	51.17dh	Rubén Dávila  Puerto Rico	46.86dh	Francisco Fragoso  Mexico	46.75dh
Javelin throw	Carlos Fajer  Mexico	62.36	Santiago Durham  Mexico	59.65	Jesús Barbera  Venezuela	59.02
Pentathlon	Rodolfo Mijares  Mexico	2723	Héctor Román  Puerto Rico	2627	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	2540

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Jean Holmes  Panama	13.04	Yolanda Vinocourt  Mexico	13.31	María Treviño  Mexico	13.33
80 metres hurdles	Guillermina Peña  Mexico	12.87	Benilda Ascanio  Venezuela	12.92	Silvia Hunte  Panama	13.43
4 × 100 metres relay	Panama Marcela Daniel Lorraine Dunn Silvia Hunte Jean Holmes	50.51 (50.5)	Mexico Guillermina Peña Raquel Trujillo Ma. Teresa Treviño Yolanda Vincourt	51.81 (51.7)	Venezuela Benilde Ascanio Alvia Ford Biserka de Vamich Morella Ettedgui	53.26 (53.2)
High jump	Benilda Ascanio  Venezuela	1.43	Margarita Kabsch  Mexico	1.40	Silvia Hunte  Panama	1.40
Discus throw	Lili Schulter  Mexico	40.79	Ivonne Rojano  Mexico	37.19	Nerva Matheus  Venezuela	31.04
Javelin throw	Berta Chiú  Mexico	35.21	Raquel Trujillo  Mexico	35.14	Mercedes García  Venezuela	34.75

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Mexico (MEX)	9	11	9	29
2	Puerto Rico (PUR)	7	10	2	19
3	Venezuela (VEN)	5	6	11	22
4	Panama (PAN)	2	0	3	5
5	Colombia (COL)	1	1	2	4
6	British Guiana (BGU)	1	0	1	2
7	Guatemala (GUA)	1	0	0	1
	Jamaica (JAM)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands Antilles (AHO)	1	0	0	1
Totals (9 entries)		28	28	28	84

References

• Montesinos, Enrique (2013). "The Oldest Regional Games: Central American & Caribbean Sports Games" (PDF). CACSO.
• "Central American and Caribbean Games (Men)". GBR Athletics.
• "Central American and Caribbean Games (Women)". GBR Athletics.