Swimming at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games

The Swimming competition at the 18th Central American and Caribbean Games was swum August 9–15, 1998 in Maracaibo, Venezuela.^[1] It featured events in a long course (50m) pool.

Results

Men

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 freestyle	Ricardo Busquets   Puerto Rico	22.55 GR	Francisco Sánchez   Venezuela	22.74	Marcos Hernández   Cuba	23.00
100 freestyle	Francisco Sánchez   Venezuela	50.05 GR	Marcos Hernández   Cuba	50.32	Ricardo Busquets   Puerto Rico	50.42
200 freestyle	Fernando Jácome   Colombia	1:54.28	Oscar Sotelo   Mexico	1:54.43	Ives Garcia   Cuba	1:54.71
400 freestyle	Ricardo Monasterio   Venezuela	3:58.88 GR	Alejandro Bermúdez   Colombia	3:58.89	Josh Ilika   Mexico	3:59.74
1500 freestyle	Ricardo Monasterio   Venezuela	15:57.50	Ives Garcia   Cuba	16:12.42	Ramon Valle   Honduras	16:26.25
100 backstroke	Rodolfo Falcón   Cuba	55.60 GR	Neisser Bent   Cuba	55.79	Ricardo Busquets   Puerto Rico	56.24
200 backstroke	Neisser Bent   Cuba	2:01.53 GR	Carlos Arena   Mexico	2:05.60	Alexis Perdomo   Venezuela	2:05.78
100 breaststroke	Gunter Rodríguez   Cuba	1:04.72	Francisco Suriano   El Salvador	1:04.73	Alvaro Fortuny   Guatemala	1:05.43
200 breaststroke	Gunter Rodríguez   Cuba	2:18.58	Francisco Suriano   El Salvador	2:18.91	Jose Lopez   Mexico	2:21.28
100 butterfly	Francisco Sánchez   Venezuela	53.86	Oswaldo Quevedo   Venezuela	53.93	Ricardo Busquets   Puerto Rico	54.32
200 butterfly	Andrew Livingston   Puerto Rico	2:00.54 GR	Juan Veloz   Mexico	2:01.44	Nelson Mora   Venezuela	2:01.46
200 I.M.	Neisser Bent   Cuba	2:07.12 GR	Gunter Rodríguez   Cuba	2:07.18	Alejandro Bermúdez   Colombia	2:07.50
400 I.M.	Gunter Rodríguez   Cuba	4:26.86 GR	Alejandro Bermúdez   Colombia	4:29.10	Santiago Lima   Mexico	4:34.01
4x100  free relay	Venezuela   Oswaldo Quevedo   Francisco Páez   Luis Rojas   Francisco Sánchez	3:23.49 GR	Cuba   Neisser Bent   Yohan García   Ives García   Marcos Hernández	3:26.91	Mexico   César Barrón   Carlos Arena   Guillermo Díaz   Oscar Sotelo	3:27.50
4x200  free relay	not swum
4x100  medley relay	Cuba   Rodolfo Falcón   Gunter Rodríguez   Yohan García   Marcos Hernández	3:44.61 GR	Mexico   Carlos Arena   José A. López   Jesús González   César Barrón	3:46.63	Puerto Rico   Ricardo Busquets   Arsenio López   Andrew Livingston   Eduardo González	3:47.23

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 freestyle	Eileen Coparropa   Panama	26.12 GR	Siobhan Cropper   Trinidad & Tobago	26.40	Deborah Figueroa   Cuba	26.82
100 freestyle[2]	Eileen Coparropa   Panama	57.60 GR	Deborah Figueroa   Cuba	58.47	Erin Volcán   Venezuela	58.81
200 freestyle[2]	Carolyn Adel   Suriname	2:03.22 NR	Janelle Atkinson   Jamaica	2:05.97	Erin Volcán   Venezuela	2:07.41
400 freestyle[2]	Carolyn Adel   Suriname	4:19.03 NR	Janelle Atkinson   Jamaica	4:20.99	Lucía Jiménez   Guatemala	4:31.09
800 freestyle	Carolyn Adel   Suriname	8:52.57 GR, NR	Janelle Atkinson   Jamaica	8:53.46	Irama Villareal   Mexico	9:08.06
100 backstroke	Carolyn Adel   Suriname	1:04.93 NR	Ana Maria Gonzalez   Cuba	1:05.04	Tessa Solomon   Netherlands Antilles	1:07.55
200 backstroke	Ana Maria Gonzalez   Cuba	2:19.66	Tania Galindo   Mexico	2:24.97	Irama Villareal   Mexico	2:24.99
100 breaststroke	Kenia Puertas   Venezuela	1:12.19 GR	Imaday Nunez   Cuba	1:13.79	Isabel Ceballos   Colombia	1:14.33
200 breastroke	Adriana Marmolejo   Mexico	2:37.12 GR	Kenia Puertas   Venezuela	2:37.94	Imaday Nunez   Cuba	2:38.95
100 butterfly	Siobhan Cropper   Trinidad & Tobago	1:03.01 GR	Melissa Mata   Costa Rica	1:03.56	Paola Espana   Mexico	1:03.78
200 butterfly	Melissa Mata   Costa Rica	2:16.89 GR	Carolyn Adel   Suriname	2:18.27 NR	Paola Espana   Mexico	2:18.73
200 I.M.[2]	Carolyn Adel   Suriname	2:19.31 GR, NR	Sonia Alvarez   Puerto Rico	2:23.64	Isabel Ceballos   Colombia	2:28.56
400 I.M.	Carolyn Adel   Suriname	4:52.42 GR, NR	Sonia Alvarez   Puerto Rico	5:01.38	Irma Villareal   Mexico	5:02.59
4x100  free relay[2]	Puerto Rico   Francheska Salib,   Lysandra Álvarez,   Vanessa García,   Solimar Mojica	4:00.20	Venezuela   Lauren Volcán,   Jenny Fuentes,   Daniela Aponte,   Erin Volcán	4:02.98	Colombia   Catalina Dangond,   Ana Uribe,   Gloria Díaz,   María A. Ortiz	4:07.79
4x200  free relay[2]	Puerto Rico   Solimar Mojica,   Lysandra Álvarez,   Gretchen Gotay,   Sonia Álvarez	8:40.26	Venezuela   Lauren Volcán,   Daniela Aponte,   Jenny Fuentes,   Erin Volcán	8:46.46	Colombia   Ana Uribe,   Gloria Díaz,   Isabel Ceballos,   Catalina Dangond	8:54.41
4x100  medley relay[3]	Cuba   Ana M. González,   Imaday Núñez,   Mikeila Torres,   Déborah Figueroa	4:23.90 GR	Colombia   Carolina Douglas,   Isabel Ceballos,   Andrea Duarte,   Catalina Dangond	4:29.23	Puerto Rico   Elaine López,   Francheska Salib,   Sonia Álvarez,   Vanessa García	4:36.18

Medal standings

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	9	8	4	21
2	Venezuela	6	5	4	15
3	Suriname	6	1	-	7
4	Puerto Rico	4	2	5	11
5	Panama	2	-	-	2
6	Mexico	1	5	9	15
7	Colombia	1	3	5	9
8	Trinidad and Tobago	1	1	-	2
8	Costa Rica	1	1	-	2
10	Jamaica	-	3	-	3
11	El Salvador	-	2	-	2
12	Guatemala	-	-	2	2
13	Honduras	-	-	1	1
13	Netherlands Antilles	-	-	1	1

References

• (Spanish) The Oldest Regional Games: Central American & Caribbean Sports Games, by Enrique Montesinos. Published by CACSO in 2009; retrieved 2012-04.

1. XVIII Central American and Caribbean Games (top-3 finishers). Published in SwimNews Magazine 1998-08. Retrieved online on 2012-04-21.
2. Daniela Villegas tested positive for a prohibited substance, and had her results nullified. This effected the medal standings in (and her/Mexico's times) the women's: 100 free (58.71), 200 free (2:05.18), 400 free (4:24.21), 200 I.M. (2:24.17), 4x100 Free Relay (4:00.99) and 4x200 Free Relay (8:39.68).
3. Venezuela originally finished second in the women's 4x100 Medley Relay at 4:27.84; however, the relay included Tahyani Villarroel who tested positive for a prohibited substance. The relay results was therefore nullified, and places adjusted.