The athletics competition in the 1970 Central American and Caribbean Games were held at the Estadio Revolución in Panama City, Panama.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Pablo Montes  Cuba	10.24	Hermes Ramírez  Cuba	10.28	Michael Fray  Jamaica	10.45
200 metres	Pablo Montes  Cuba	21.20	Germán Solís  Cuba	21.30	Hermes Ramírez  Cuba	21.40
400 metres	Antonio Álvarez  Cuba	46.6	Melesio Piña  Mexico	46.9	Misael Curiel  Venezuela	47.1
800 metres	Herminio Isaac  Puerto Rico	1:49.8	Ricardo Bailey  Panama	1:49.9	Donaldo Arza  Panama	1:50.3
1500 metres	Byron Dyce  Jamaica	3:45.8	Donaldo Arza  Panama	3:46.1	Mario Pérez  Mexico	3:47.2
5000 metres	Mario Pérez  Mexico	14:24.4	Juan Martínez  Mexico	14:24.8	Pedro Miranda  Mexico	14:25.4
10,000 metres	Juan Martínez  Mexico	30:49.0	Mario Pérez  Mexico	30:51.6	Andrés Romero  Mexico	30:57.6
Marathon	Alfredo Peñaloza  Mexico	02:47:23	Antonio Capote  Cuba	02:48:59	Patricio Larriñaga  Cuba	02:50:38
110 metres hurdles	Juan Morales  Cuba	14.0	Arnaldo Bristol  Puerto Rico	14.2	Guillermo Núñez  Cuba	14.5
400 metres hurdles	Juan García  Cuba	50.6	Césare Sánchez  Mexico	50.6	Miguel Olivera  Cuba	51.3
3000 metre steeplechase	Héctor Villanueva  Mexico	8:53.2	Antonio Villanueva  Mexico	8:53.4	Rigoberto Mendoza  Cuba	8:55.2
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Hermes Ramírez Pablo Montes Juan Morales José Triana	39.4	Colombia Arquímides Mina Jimmy Sierra Wenceslao Ferrín Pedro Grajales	40.8	Puerto Rico Enrique Montalvo Víctor López Jorge Vizcarrondo Arnaldo Bristol	40.8
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Miguel Olivera Rodobaldo Díaz Juan García Antonio Álvarez	3:06.4	Mexico Melesio Piña Carmelo Reyes Javier Sardo Alejandro Sánchez	3:07.8	Puerto Rico Tomás Fernández Raymond Garay Orominio Santaella Carlos Morell	3:09.0
20 kilometre road walk	Eladio Compos  Mexico	1:41:14	Francisco Chávez  Mexico	1:43:19	Lucas Lara  Cuba	1:44:38
High jump	Miguel Durañona  Cuba	2.06	Teodoro Palacios  Guatemala	1.98	Lloyd Turnquist  Bahamas	1.95
Pole vault	Juan Laza  Cuba	4.65	Arturo Esquerra  Mexico	4.40	Jorge Miranda  Puerto Rico	4.30
Long jump	Abelardo Pacheco  Cuba	7.69	Jorge Stevens  Cuba	7.49	Galdino Flores  Mexico	7.43
Triple jump	Pedro Pérez  Cuba	16.33	José Hernández  Cuba	15.79	Juan Velázquez  Cuba	15.61
Shot put	Benigno Hodelín  Cuba	16.46	Silván Hemming  Cuba	16.29	Modesto Mederos  Cuba	15.28
Discus throw	Bárbaro Cañizares  Cuba	56.04	Dagoberto González  Colombia	54.48	Javier Moreno  Cuba	53.64
Hammer throw	Víctor Suárez  Cuba	57.06	Pedro Granell  Puerto Rico	53.74	Jesús Ulloa  Cuba	52.26
Javelin throw	Amado Morales  Puerto Rico	76.40	Donald Vélez  Nicaragua	72.12	Justo Perelló  Cuba	70.52
Decathlon	Jesús Mirabal  Cuba	6997	José Díaz  Cuba	6934	Héctor Thomas  Venezuela	6918

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	11.4w	Fulgencia Romay  Cuba	11.6w	Cristina Hechevarría  Cuba	11.6w
200 metres	Miguelina Cobián  Cuba	23.5	Violeta Quesada  Cuba	23.9	Fulgencia Romay  Cuba	24.3
400 metres	Carmen Trustée  Cuba	52.5	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	54.3	Marcela Chivás  Cuba	55.1
800 metres	Carmen Trustée  Cuba	2:14.8	Lucía Quiroz  Mexico	2:15.8	Rosalía Abadía  Panama	2:16.4
100 metres hurdles	Marlene Elejalde  Cuba	13.9w	Lourdes Jones  Cuba	14.2w	Raquel Martínez  Cuba	14.5w
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Marlene Elejalde Cristina Hechevarría Fulgencia Romay Miguelina Cobián	44.7	Panama Margarita Martínez Patricia Morgan Dolores Cox Nivia Trejos	47.3	Mexico Mercedes Román Enriqueta Basilio Lucía Quiroz Silvia Tapia	48.1
High jump	Hilda Fabré  Cuba	1.73	Lucía Duquet  Cuba	1.68	Marima Rodríguez  Cuba	1.64
Long jump	Marcia Garbey  Cuba	6.60	Marina Samuells  Cuba	6.31w	Miriam Pupo  Cuba	6.00w
Shot put	Grecia Hamilton  Cuba	14.56	Hilda Ramírez  Cuba	13.85	Carmen Romero  Cuba	13.63
Discus throw	Carmen Romero  Cuba	53.54	María Cristina Betancourt  Cuba	46.08	Hilda Ramírez  Cuba	44.10
Javelin throw	Tomasa Núñez  Cuba	45.64	Hilda Ramírez  Cuba	45.46	Blanca Umaña  Colombia	43.54
Pentathlon	Marlene Elejalde  Cuba	4534	Marcia Garbey  Cuba	4428	Mercedes Román  Mexico	4243

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	27	17	19	63
2	Mexico (MEX)	5	9	6	20
3	Puerto Rico (PUR)	2	2	3	7
4	Jamaica (JAM)	1	0	1	2
5	Panama (PAN)	0	3	2	5
6	Colombia (COL)	0	2	1	3
7	Guatemala (GUA)	0	1	0	1
	Nicaragua (NIC)	0	1	0	1
9	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	2	2
10	Bahamas (BAH)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		35	35	35	105