The 1977 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Heriberto Jara Corona in Xalapa, Mexico between 5–7 August.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Hasely Crawford  Trinidad and Tobago	10.38A	Silvio Leonard  Cuba	10.43A	Osvaldo Lara  Cuba	10.63A
200 metres	Silvio Leonard  Cuba	20.70A	Osvaldo Lara  Cuba	21.13A	Rudy Levarity  Bahamas	21.43A
400 metres	Seymour Newman  Jamaica	45.66A CR	Alberto Juantorena  Cuba	45.67A	Charles Joseph  Trinidad and Tobago	46.27A
800 metres	Seymour Newman  Jamaica	1:46.13A CR	Jorge Ortíz  Puerto Rico	1:48.67A	Eduardo Castro  Mexico	1:49.53A
1500 metres	Luis Medina  Cuba	3:46.71A	Eduardo Castro  Mexico	3:48.47A	Osmán Escobar  Venezuela	3:53.10A
5000 metres	Rodolfo Gómez  Mexico	14:04.9A	Domingo Tibaduiza  Colombia	14:05.0A	Victoriano López  Guatemala	14:09.8A
10,000 metres	Domingo Tibaduiza  Colombia	30:17.4A	Rodolfo Gómez  Mexico	30:17.5A	Juan Pérez  Costa Rica	30:23.0A
Half marathon	Rafael Ángel Pérez  Costa Rica	1:06:32A	Mario Cuevas  Mexico	1:07:07A	Aldo Allen  Cuba	1:07:43A
110 metres hurdles	Alejandro Casañas  Cuba	13.55A CR	Dionisio Vera  Cuba	14.32A	José Cartas  Mexico	14.48A
400 metres hurdles	Dámaso Alfonso  Cuba	51.77A	Frank Montiéh  Cuba	51.81A	Enrique Aguirre  Mexico	52.30A
3000 metres steeplechase	Carlos Martínez  Mexico	8:51.0A	José Cobo  Cuba	9:01.1A	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	9:03.1A
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Alejandro Casañas Osvaldo Lara Silvio Leonard Juan Morales	39.86A	Trinidad and Tobago Hasely Crawford Charles Joseph Edwin Noel Ephraim Serrette	40.16A	Venezuela Humberto Galea José Chacín Victor Escobar Hipolito Ovalles	40.71A
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Frank Montiéh Juan Morales Luis Delgado Alberto Juantorena	3:09.24A	Venezuela Hipolito Brown Eric Phillips Osman Escobar José Moisés Zambrano	3:10.39A	Puerto Rico Jorge Ortiz Jesús Cabrera José Santiago Istvan de Jesús	3:11.78A
20 km road walk	Daniel Bautista  Mexico	1:29:34A CR	Enrique Vera  Mexico	1:34:48A	Rigoberto Medina  Cuba	1:40:04A
High jump	Richard Spencer  Cuba	2.15A CR	Clark Godwin  Bermuda	2.07A	Cristóbal de León  Dominican Republic	2.03A
Pole vault	Roberto Moré  Cuba	4.93A CR	Elberto Pratt  Mexico	4.75A	Luis Mascorro  Mexico	4.60A
Long jump	David Giralt  Cuba	7.96A CR	Salomón Rowe  Guatemala	7.79A NR	Steve Hanna  Bahamas	7.68A
Triple jump	Carmelo Martínez  Cuba	16.22A CR	Alejandro Herrera  Cuba	15.66A	Peter Pratt  Bahamas	15.42A
Shot put	Julián Mejías  Cuba	17.50A CR	Pablo Lamothe  Cuba	16.46A	Hubert Maingot  Trinidad and Tobago	15.72A
Discus throw	Julián Morrinson  Cuba	60.82A CR	Luis Delís  Cuba	59.02A	Bradley Cooper  Bahamas	54.08A
Hammer throw	Ángel Cabrera  Cuba	66.74A CR	Guillermo Orozco  Cuba	63.56A	Alfonso Rodríguez  Mexico	53.60A
Javelin throw	Juan Jarvis  Cuba	77.54A CR	Reinaldo Patterson  Cuba	74.82A	Robert Moulder  Bermuda	71.83A
Decathlon	Rigoberto Salazar  Cuba	7207A	José Montezuma  Venezuela	6791A	Doel Bonilla  Puerto Rico	6508A

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Silvia Chivás  Cuba	11.53A	Lelieth Hodges  Jamaica	11.71A	Isabel Taylor  Cuba	11.82A
200 metres	Silvia Chivás  Cuba	23.82A	Jackie Pusey  Jamaica	23.82A	Freida Davy  Barbados	24.05A
400 metres	Beatriz Castillo  Cuba	52.76A CR	Helen Blake  Jamaica	52.88A	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	53.05A
800 metres	Charlotte Bradley  Mexico	2:07.46A	Helen Blake  Jamaica	2:08.87A	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	2:09.13A
1500 metres	Charlotte Bradley  Mexico	4:29.65A	Melquises Fonseca  Cuba	4:42.06A	Thelma Zúñiga  Costa Rica	4:45.78A
3000 metres	Charlotte Bradley  Mexico	10:00.61A CR	Melquises Fonseca  Cuba	10:13.73A	Susana Herrera  Mexico	10:27.74A
100 metres hurdles	Grisel Machado  Cuba	14.30A	Carmen Zamora  Cuba	14.58A	Vilma París  Puerto Rico	14.81A
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Asunción Acosta Silvia Chivás Isabel Taylor Marta Zulueta	45.51A	Puerto Rico Margaret de Jesús Nilsa París Vilma París Nerva Bultron	46.93A	Trinidad and Tobago Janice Bernard June Smith Esther Hope Rebecca Roberts	47.20A
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Nery McKeen Asunción Acosta Beatriz Castillo Aurelia Pentón	3:37.50A CR	Jamaica Helen Blake Jackie Pusey Verone Webber Ruth Williams-Simpson	3:42.38A	Puerto Rico Madeline de Jesús Margaret de Jesús Vilma París Georgina López	3:48.57A
High jump	Angela Carbonell  Cuba	1.75A	Reina Mateu  Cuba	1.65A	Monica Johnson  Bermuda	1.60A
Long jump	Dora Thompson  Cuba	6.14A CR	Shonel Ferguson  Bahamas	5.95A	Nancy Núñez  Cuba	5.91A
Shot put	Caridad Romero  Cuba	13.94A	Marcelina Rodríguez  Cuba	13.88A	Patricia Andrus  Venezuela	12.60A
Discus throw	Caridad Romero  Cuba	49.58A	Salvadora Vargas  Cuba	48.92A	María Gómez  Mexico	40.22A
Javelin throw	María Beltrán  Cuba	53.86A CR	Guadalupe López  Mexico	48.56A	Sonya Smith  Bermuda	46.72A
Pentathlon	Elida Aveillé  Cuba	3313A	Marisela Peralta  Dominican Republic	3303A	Evelyn Abreu  Venezuela	3289A

A = affected by altitude

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	27	17	7	51
2	Mexico (MEX)	6	6	7	19
3	Jamaica (JAM)	2	5	0	7
4	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	1	1	3	5
5	Colombia (COL)	1	1	0	2
6	Costa Rica (CRC)	1	0	2	3
7	Venezuela (VEN)	0	2	5	7
8	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	2	4	6
9	Bahamas (BAH)	0	1	4	5
10	Bermuda (BER)	0	1	3	4
11	Dominican Republic (DOM)	0	1	1	2
	Guatemala (GUA)	0	1	1	2
13	Barbados (BAR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		38	38	38	114