The athletics competition in the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games were held at the Estadio Pedro Marrero in Havana, Cuba.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Leandro Peñalver  Cuba	10.16	Osvaldo Lara  Cuba	10.26	Juan Núñez  Dominican Republic	10.33
200 metres	Leandro Peñalver  Cuba	20.42	Osvaldo Lara  Cuba	20.94	Juan Núñez  Dominican Republic	21.04
400 metres	Bert Cameron  Jamaica	45.10	Agustín Pavó  Cuba	45.87	Carlos Reyté  Cuba	46.34
800 metres	Alberto Juantorena  Cuba	1:45.15	William Wuycke  Venezuela	1:45.75	Bárbaro Serrano  Cuba	1:46.66
1500 metres	Eduardo Castro  Mexico	3:41.84	Luis Medina  Cuba	3:41.92	Ignacio Melesio  Mexico	3:42.03
5000 metres	Eduardo Castro  Mexico	14:11.05	Luis Medina  Cuba	14:24.81	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	14:24.94
10,000 metres	Aldo Allen  Cuba	30:13.12	Enrique Aquino  Mexico	30:15.35	José Alcalá  Mexico	30:28.04
Marathon	Jorge González  Puerto Rico	02:26:40	Radamés González  Cuba	02:28:12	Miguel Cruz  Mexico	02:30:37
110 metres hurdles	Alejandro Casañas  Cuba	13.38	Juan Saborit  Cuba	13.91	Modesto Castillo  Dominican Republic	13.95
400 metres hurdles	Frank Montiéh  Cuba	50.64	Jorge Batista  Cuba	50.98	Greg Rolle  Bahamas	51.18
3000 metre steeplechase	José Cobo  Cuba	8:49.52	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	8:52.50	Pedro Guibert  Cuba	8:58.08
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Osvaldo Lara Alejandro Casañas Leandro Peñalver Juan Saborit	39.15	Jamaica Joseph Boyd Earle Laing Mark Senior Floyd Brown	39.94	Dominican Republic Juan Contreras Wilfredo Almonte Juan Núñez Gerardo Suero	40.11
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Agustín Pavó Carlos Reyté Roberto Ramos Alberto Juantorena	3:03.59	Jamaica Floyd Brown Mark Senior Bert Cameron Karl Smith	3:04.78	Trinidad and Tobago Michael Puckerin Joseph Coombs Ali St. Louis Andrew Bruce	3:08.20
20 kilometre road walk	Ernesto Canto  Mexico	1:29:22	Raúl González  Mexico	1:31:27	Alfredo Garrido  Cuba	1:39:00
50 kilometre road walk	Félix Gómez  Mexico	4:05:03	Raúl González  Mexico	4:10:34	David Castro  Cuba	4:43:53
High jump	Francisco Centelles  Cuba	2.25	Steve Wray  Bahamas	2.17	Clarence Saunders  Bermuda	2.17
Pole vault	Rubén Camino  Cuba	5.00	José Echevarría  Cuba	5.00	Miguel Escoto  Mexico	4.90
Long jump	Delroy Poyser  Jamaica	7.90	Wilfredo Almonte  Dominican Republic	7.82	Steve Hanna  Bahamas	7.80
Triple jump	Steve Hanna  Bahamas	16.73	Lázaro Betancourt  Cuba	16.64	Jorge Reyna  Cuba	16.61
Shot put	Luis Delís  Cuba	18.88	Radai Mendoza  Puerto Rico	16.21	Paul Ruiz  Cuba	16.14
Discus throw	Luis Delís  Cuba	70.20	Brad Cooper  Bahamas	66.72	Juan Martínez  Cuba	62.82
Hammer throw	Genovevo Morejón  Cuba	67.10	Alfredo Luis  Cuba	66.14	Andrés Polemil  Dominican Republic	56.14
Javelin throw	Dionisio Quintana  Cuba	82.40	Amado Morales  Puerto Rico	79.36	Antonio González  Cuba	74.86
Decathlon	Liston Bochette  Puerto Rico	7349	Guillermo Sánchez  Mexico	7345	Carlos Palacios  Cuba	7236

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Luisa Ferrer  Cuba	11.55	Janice Bernard  Trinidad and Tobago	11.57	Marie Lande Mathieu  Puerto Rico	11.63
200 metres	Luisa Ferrer  Cuba	23.44	Angela Williams  Trinidad and Tobago	23.75	Marie Lande Mathieu  Puerto Rico	23.83
400 metres	June Griffith  Guyana	51.89	Mercedes Álvarez  Cuba	52.32	Cathy Rattray  Jamaica	52.39
800 metres	Nery McKeen  Cuba	2:04.22	Angelita Lind  Puerto Rico	2:04.24	María Ribeaux  Cuba	2:04.47
1500 metres	Angelita Lind  Puerto Rico	4:25.94	Sergia Martínez  Cuba	4:26.69	Alicia Diffourt  Cuba	4:27.96
3000 metres	Sergia Martínez  Cuba	9:37.32	Marisela Rivero  Venezuela	9:38.40	María Cuesta  Cuba	9:41.66
100 metres hurdles	Grisel Machado  Cuba	13.18	Marisela Peralta  Dominican Republic	14.07	June Caddle  Barbados	14.08
400 metres hurdles	Sandra Farmer  Jamaica	58.15	Mercedes Mesa  Cuba	58.65	Stephanie Vega  Puerto Rico	59.11
4 × 100 metres relay	Trinidad and Tobago Gillian Forde Maxime McMillan Angela Williams Janice Bernard	44.86	Jamaica Verónica Findlay Cathy Rattray Anthea Johnson Jacqueline Pusey	45.77	Cuba Luisa Ferrer Idania Pino Ester Petitón Grisel Machado	45.85
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Mercedes Alvarez Ana Fidelia Quirot Mercedes Mesa Nery McKeen	3:35.22	Puerto Rico Nilsa Paris Stephanie Vega Margaret de Jesús Marie Lande Mathieu	3:36.52	Jamaica Jacqueline Pusey Cathy Rattray Sandra Farmer Anthea Johnson	3:37.86
High jump	Silvia Costa  Cuba	1.90	Angela Carbonell  Cuba	1.81	Iraima Parra  Venezuela	1.78
Long jump	Eloína Echevarría  Cuba	6.53	Shonel Ferguson  Bahamas	6.47	Madeline de Jesús  Puerto Rico	6.47
Shot put	María Elena Sarría  Cuba	19.36	Rosa Fernández  Cuba	17.54	Luz Bohórquez  Venezuela	13.63
Discus throw	María Cristina Betancourt  Cuba	63.76	Carmen Romero  Cuba	61.98	Yunaira Piña  Venezuela	46.86
Javelin throw	María Caridad Colón  Cuba	62.80	Mayra Vila  Cuba	60.22	Marieta Riera  Venezuela	51.50
Heptathlon	Elida Aveillé  Cuba	5579	Victoria Despaigne  Cuba	5210	Leyda Castro  Dominican Republic	5123

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	27	19	14	60
2	Mexico (MEX)	4	4	4	12
3	Puerto Rico (PUR)	3	4	4	11
4	Jamaica (JAM)	3	3	2	8
5	Bahamas (BAH)	1	3	2	6
6	Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)	1	2	1	4
7	Guyana (GUY)	1	0	0	1
8	Venezuela (VEN)	0	3	5	8
9	Dominican Republic (DOM)	0	2	6	8
10	Barbados (BAR)	0	0	1	1
	Bermuda (BER)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		40	40	40	120