1972 Central American Championships in Athletics

Some results and medal winners could be reconstructed from the archive of Costa Rican newspaper La Nación.^[1][2]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres
200 metres
400 metres
800 metres
1500 metres	Rafael Ángel Pérez (CRC)	3:54.4	Julio Quevedo (GUA)	3:56.5	Luís Gamboa (CRC)	3:59.1
5000 metres	Rafael Ángel Pérez (CRC)	15:17.8	Clovis Morales (HON)	15:22.5	Gonzao Bonilla (CRC)	15:26.9
10,000 metres
Marathon
110 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles	Milwood Amos (PAN)	52.6	(PAN)		Santiago Vargas (CRC)	58.9
3000 metres steeplechase
4 x 100 metres relay	Panama		Costa Rica	42.8	Guatemala	43.1
4 x 400 metres relay
20 Kilometres Road Walk	Hipólito López (HON)	1:56	Raúl Ianza (HON)	1:58	Oscar Díaz (ESA)	1:59
High Jump
Pole Vault
Long Jump	Salomón Rowe (GUA)	7.10	(PAN)		Martín Douglas (CRC)	6.69
Triple Jump
Shot Put	Mauricio Jubis (ESA)	13.06	(PAN)		(PAN)
Discus Throw	Joaquín Rodas (ESA)	39.71	Eduardo Hasbun (ESA)	38.98	Mauricio Jubis (ESA)	38.96
Hammer Throw
Javelin Throw
Pentathlon

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres
200 metres
400 metres
800 metres
1500 metres	Rosalía Abadía (PAN)	5:05.2	Silvia Molina (GUA)	5:05.7	(PAN)
100 metres hurdles
4 x 100 metres relay	Panama Martínez Diva Bishop Clotilde Morales Rosalía Abadía	46.8	Costa Rica	51.7	El Salvador	52.5
High Jump	Diva Bishop (PAN)	1.44	(PAN)		Flora Torres (ESA)	1.35
Long Jump
Shot Put
Discus Throw	Marta Ramos (ESA)	11.71	(PAN)		Celia de Martínez (GUA)	10.12
Hammer Throw
Javelin Throw	Gené Clark (CRC)	32.00	(PAN)		Evelina Mona (ESA)	30.26
Pentathlon

The table below displays the medal count after 2 of 3 competition days.^[1][2]

  *   Host nation (Panama)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Panama (PAN)*	12	13	9	34
2	Costa Rica (CRC)	3	2	4	9
3	El Salvador (ESA)	3	1	5	9
4	Guatemala (GUA)	1	2	2	5
5	Honduras (HON)	1	2	0	3
Totals (5 entries)		20	20	20	60