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The Games are open for member federations of the Central American Sports Organization (Spanish: Organización Deportiva Centroamericana) ORDECA in Central American countries. [1] (in Spanish) The Games have had an equivalent to the Olympic Flame, being ignited in Q'umarkaj, one of the ancient cultural Mayan centers located in El Quiché ...
Silver coin: 5 Balboas, Panama - 11th Central American and Caribbean Games, 1970 Central American and Caribbean Games 2010, Triathlon, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. The Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC or CACGs) are a multi-sport regional championship event, held quadrennial (once every four years), typically in the middle (even) year between Summer Olympics.
Central American Games records in athletics are set by athletes competing from a range of member nations of the Organización Deportiva Centroamericana commonly known as ORDECA. The Central American Games is a quadrennial event which began in 1973.
The record number of hat-tricks in a single Central American and Caribbean Games is ten, during the 1946 edition. The only player to have scored three hat-tricks is Costa Rica's Hernán Bolaños , one in the inaugural edition in 1930 and two in 1938 , in which he was the top goal scorer with 10 goals.
Originally billed as the Central American Sports Games (Spanish: Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos), the idea for a multi-sport regional event in Central America was formalized by the Central American Congress, an association of regional Olympic committees, on July 4, 1924 in a document stating the goals and rules of the future event.
The Central American and Caribbean Games is a quadrennial event which began in 1926. The Games records in athletics are set by athletes who are representing one of the Centro Caribe Sports member federations. Both the initial records [1] and the records broken in 2010 [2] can be found on the official Games webpage.
Athletics was a sport at the inaugural Central American Games in 1926 (later renamed the Central American and Caribbean Games) and it has remained part of the event's sporting programme throughout its history. [1]
The second Central American and Caribbean Games (Spanish: Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos) were held in Havana, Cuba from 15 March to 5 April 1930. The event featured 596 athletes from nine nations (Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, and Puerto Rico), competing in ten sports. Women participated in ...