The 1989 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Sixto Escobar in San Juan, Puerto Rico between 27–29 July.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Joel Isasi  Cuba	10.33	Andrés Simón  Cuba	10.34	Andrew Smith  Jamaica	10.47
200 metres	Edgardo Guilbe  Puerto Rico	20.53 CR	Clive Wright  Jamaica	20.55	Patrick O'Connor  Jamaica	20.95
400 metres	Roberto Hernández  Cuba	44.84 CR	Lázaro Martínez  Cuba	45.56	Seibert Straughn  Barbados	45.63
800 metres	Jorge Rosales  Cuba	1:50.24	Luis Toledo  Mexico	1:50.29	Jorge Irizarry  Puerto Rico	1:51.33
1500 metres	Linton McKenzie  Jamaica	3:41.27 CR	José López  Venezuela	3:41.56	José Isaac  Cuba	3:42.30
5000 metres	Armando Quintanilla  Mexico	14:10.00	Ignacio Fragoso  Mexico	14:28.50	José Morales  Guatemala	14:35.00
10,000 metres	Salvador Parra  Mexico	29:29.73 CR	Alberto Cuba  Cuba	29:36.48	Oscar González  Venezuela	29:48.00
Half marathon	Salvador García  Mexico	1:07:56	César Mercado  Puerto Rico	1:08:38	Horacio Cabrera  Mexico	1:08:41
110 metres hurdles	Emilio Valle  Cuba	13.48 CR	Andrew Parker  Jamaica	13.89	Elvis Cedeño  Venezuela	14.09
400 metres hurdles	Domingo Cordero  Puerto Rico	50.22	Juan Gutiérrez  Mexico	50.80	Wilfredo Ferrer  Venezuela	50.95
3000 metres steeplechase	Juan Ramón Conde  Cuba	8:48.13	Adalberto Vélez  Mexico	8:48.19	José Martínez  Venezuela	8:51.81
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica John Mair Andrew Smith Patrick O'Connor Clive Wright	39.51	Cuba Joel Isasi Jaime Jefferson Andrés Simón Emilio Valle	39.89	Puerto Rico	40.7
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Roberto Hernández Lázaro Martínez Agustín Pavo Juan Carlos Hernández	3:04.90	Jamaica John Taylor Howard Burnett Devon Morris Patrick O'Connor	3:05.57	Puerto Rico	3:12.70
20 km road walk	Martín Bermúdez  Mexico	1:28:11 CR	Ernesto Canto  Mexico	1:29:02	Daniel Vargas  Cuba	1:30:42
High jump	Javier Sotomayor  Cuba	2.44 CR	Troy Kemp  Bahamas	2.26	Antonio Burgos  Puerto Rico	2.24
Pole vault	Ángel García  Cuba	4.95	Miguel Escoto  Mexico	4.85	Konstantín Zagustín  Venezuela	4.60
Long jump	Jaime Jefferson  Cuba	7.96	Luis Bueno  Cuba	7.92	Elmer Williams  Puerto Rico	7.78
Triple jump	Jorge Reyna  Cuba	17.12 CR	Juan Miguel López  Cuba	16.54	Steve Hanna  Bahamas	16.07
Shot put	Jorge Montenegro  Cuba	17.49	Samuel Crespo  Puerto Rico	17.25	Hubert Maingot  Trinidad and Tobago	16.39
Discus throw	Roberto Moya  Cuba	62.12	Gabriel Pedroso  Cuba	56.86	Samuel Crespo  Puerto Rico	51.00
Hammer throw	René Díaz  Cuba	62.90	Guillermo Guzmán  Mexico	59.56	Eddy Concepción  Cuba	57.00
Javelin throw	Ramón González  Cuba	78.64 CR	Héctor Duharte  Cuba	74.74	Luis Carrasco  Venezuela	66.32
Decathlon	Antonio Greene  Bahamas	7421 NR	Antonio Greene  Bahamas	7421	José Velázquez  Venezuela	7083

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.6 m/s)	Pauline Davis  Bahamas	11.25	Liliana Allen  Cuba	11.32	Angela Williams  Trinidad and Tobago	11.51
200 metres	Grace Jackson  Jamaica	22.36 CR	Angela Williams  Trinidad and Tobago	23.01	Liliana Allen  Cuba	23.27
400 metres	Ana Fidelia Quirot  Cuba	50.63 CR	Angela Joseph  Trinidad and Tobago	52.40	Grace Jackson  Jamaica	53.00
800 metres	Ana Fidelia Quirot  Cuba	2:02.24 CR	Donna-Mae Bean  Bermuda	2:12.10	Sonia Escalera  Puerto Rico	2:12.60
1500 metres	Milagro Rodríguez  Cuba	4:24.37	Olga Ávalos  Mexico	4:27.40	Lorie Ann Adams  Guyana	4:38.90
3000 metres	María del Carmen Díaz  Mexico	9:34.00 CR	Milagro Rodríguez  Cuba	9:36.30	Olga Ávalos  Mexico	9:39.20
10,000 metres	Araceli Salas  Mexico	35:15.90	Maribel Durruty  Cuba	35:27.70	Santa Velázquez  Mexico	35:43.50
100 metres hurdles	Odalys Adams  Cuba	13.01 CR	Aliuska López  Cuba	13.33	Michelle Freeman  Jamaica	13.64
400 metres hurdles	Elsa Jiménez  Cuba	58.03	Monique Millar  Bahamas	60.81	Alejandra Quintanar  Mexico	61.25
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Odalys Adams Liliana Allen Aliuska López Eusebia Riquelme	45.12	Bahamas ? ? ? Pauline Davis	46.50	Puerto Rico	49.46
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Ana Fidelia Quirot Mercedes Álvarez Elsa Jiménez Milagros Rodríguez	3:34.46	Bahamas	3:39.46	Puerto Rico	3:53.10
10000 m track walk	Graciela Mendoza  Mexico	48:19.28 CR	Maricela Chávez  Mexico	51:53.87
High jump	Silvia Costa  Cuba	1.85	Ioamnet Quintero  Cuba	1.80	Mayra Medina  Puerto Rico	1.70
Long jump	Eloína Echevarría  Cuba	6.59	Euphemia Huggins  Trinidad and Tobago	6.47	Daphne Saunders  Bahamas	6.41
Shot put	Herminia Fernández  Cuba	16.07	Idalmis Leyva  Cuba	14.17	Virginia Salomón  Venezuela	14.12
Discus throw	Idalmis Leyva  Cuba	58.76	Olga Gómez  Cuba	55.16	Denise Taylor  Bahamas	39.90
Javelin throw	Laverne Eve  Bahamas	62.42	Dulce García  Cuba	61.18	Herminia Bouza  Cuba	57.82
Heptathlon	Yolaida Pompa  Cuba	5224	Dornel Butler  Bahamas	5053	Lucila Carmona  Mexico	4388

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Puerto Rico)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	26	16	5	47
2	Mexico (MEX)	7	9	5	21
3	Bahamas (BAH)	3	6	3	12
4	Jamaica (JAM)	3	3	4	10
5	Puerto Rico (PUR)*	2	2	10	14
6	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	0	3	2	5
7	Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	8	9
8	Bermuda (BER)	0	1	0	1
9	Barbados (BAR)	0	0	1	1
	Guatemala (GUA)	0	0	1	1
	Guyana (GUY)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		41	41	40	122