The athletics competition in the 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Havana, Cuba.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Alberto Torriento  Cuba	11.1	Gustavo Alfonso  Cuba		Reginald Bedford  Panama
200 metres	Reginald Bedford  Panama	22.2	Eugenio Guerra  Puerto Rico		Mario Gómez  Mexico
400 metres	Reginald Bedford  Panama	49.6	José Moraila  Mexico		Luciano Iturbe  Mexico
800 metres	Darío Álvarez  Cuba	2:00.6	Luciano Iturbe  Mexico		Juan Gutsens  Cuba
1500 metres	Darío Álvarez  Cuba	4:18.2	Pedro Lugo  Mexico		Enrique Velasco  Mexico
5000 metres	Felipe Jardines  Mexico	16:28.0	Ascencio Galicia  Mexico		Delfino Campos  Mexico
10,000 metres	Felipe Jardines  Mexico	35:21.6	Francisco Morales  Mexico		Antonio Rodríguez  Costa Rica
110 metres hurdles	Fernando Navarro  Panama	15.6	José Sorzano  Cuba		Carlos Molina  Guatemala
400 metres hurdles	Porfirio Franca  Cuba	58.4	Francisco Montalvo  Cuba		José María Suárez  Cuba
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Alberto Torriente Conrado Rodríguez Gustavo Alfonso Julio Seino	43.4	Mexico Francisco Robledo Mario García José R. del Río Mario Gómez	44.0e	Panama Rafael Arana Antonio R. Jaén Alberto Belisario Reginald Bedford	44.0e
4 × 400 metres relay	Mexico José M. Alvarez Carlos de Anda Lucílo Iturbe Jesús Moraila	3:26.6	Cuba Mario González Juan Gutsens José Suárez Horacio Gómez	3:30.2e	Guatemala Gonzalo Palarea Manuel Hernández Ricardo Dastin Carlos Lara
High jump	Rafael Pérez  Cuba	1.75	Joseph MacKenzie  Jamaica	1.75	Fernando Navarro  Panama	1.70
Pole vault	Humberto Villa  Cuba	3.64	Manuel Luciano  Puerto Rico	3.64	José Sanjurjo  Cuba	3.48
Long jump	Fernando Navarro  Panama	6.72	Carlos Zamarripa  Mexico	6.60	José Torriente  Cuba	6.57
Triple jump	Manuel Suárez  Cuba	13.71	Manuel García  Cuba	13.14	José Fernández  Cuba	13.04
Shot put	Juan Mendizabal  Cuba	12.25	Armando Rodríguez  Honduras	12.10	Ricardo Villar  Cuba	11.92
Discus throw	Miguel Gutiérrez  Cuba	41.12	René de la Torre  Cuba	34.35	Rafael Martínez  Cuba	34.31
Hammer throw	Francisco Robledo  Mexico	41.05	Troadio Hernández  Cuba	40.98	Oswaldo Duyos  Cuba	36.84
Javelin throw	Porfirio Espinosa  Cuba	50.57	Cándido González  Cuba	50.30	Mario Robau  Cuba	49.53
Pentathlon	Alberto Fernández  Cuba	3051	Fernando Navarro  Panama	2846	Miguel Gutiérrez  Cuba	2789

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	12	8	10	30
2	Mexico (MEX)	4	7	4	15
3	Panama (PAN)	4	1	3	8
4	Puerto Rico (PUR)	0	2	0	2
5	Honduras (HON)	0	1	0	1
	Jamaica (JAM)	0	1	0	1
7	Guatemala (GUA)	0	0	2	2
8	Costa Rica (CRC)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		20	20	20	60