IX Central American Championships in Athletics
Dates	5–8 November 1980
Host city	Guatemala City, Guatemala
Venue	Estadio Mateo Flores
Level	Senior
Events	39
Participation	3 nations
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The 9th Central American Championships in Athletics were held in Guatemala City, Guatemala, between 5 and 8 November 1980.^[1]

A total of 39 events were contested, 24 by men, 15 by women.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Héctor Daley  Panama	10.5	Alfonso Pitters  Panama	10.6	Emilio Moss  Guatemala	10.7
200 metres	Héctor Daley  Panama	21.2	Víctor Henry  Panama	22.0	Emilio Moss  Guatemala	22.1
400 metres	Alfonso Pitters  Panama	49.8	Francisco Recinos  Guatemala	50.0	Orlando Ruano  Guatemala	50.2
800 metres	Cristobal Méndez  Panama	1:54.4	Orlando Ruano  Guatemala	1:58.5	Francisco López  El Salvador	1:59.5
1500 metres	Francisco Piedra  Guatemala	4:07.2	Luis Aguillón  El Salvador	4:09.1	Jesús Jérez  Guatemala	4:10.7
5000 metres	Óscar Lara  Guatemala	15:22.9	José Hernández  El Salvador	15:52.9	Juan Vásquez  El Salvador	15:57.6
10,000 metres	Virgilio Herrera  Guatemala	31:00.5	Jaime Hernández  El Salvador	33:19.2	Juan Francisco Vásquez  El Salvador	33:20.9
Marathon	Carlos Cuque López  Guatemala	2:19:20	Juan Sacarías  Guatemala	2:32:36	Carlos Acosta  Guatemala	2:41:30
110 metres hurdles	Salvador Ruiz  Panama	15.7	Roy Bennett  Guatemala	15.8	Milton Gálvez  Guatemala	16.7
400 metres hurdles	Salvador Ruiz  Panama	55.3	Fidel Camargo  Panama	56.1	Rubén Quintanilla  El Salvador	56.7
3000 metres steeplechase	Óscar Lara  Guatemala	9:57.5	Luis Alfonso  El Salvador	10:17.3	Rolando Martínez  Panama	10:24.4
4 × 100 metres relay	Guatemala	43.1	El Salvador	43.3	Only two finishing teams
4 × 400 metres relay	Panama	3:22.5	El Salvador	3:25.2	Guatemala	3:26.4
20 kilometres walk	Mario Rodríguez  Panama	1:37:01	José Alonso  Guatemala	1:39:34	Leonel Ramos  Panama	1:41:26
50 kilometres walk	Arturo Calderón  Guatemala	5:07:53 NR	Marco Juárez  Guatemala	5:10:51	Ricardo Concepción  Panama	5:14:53
High jump	Gerardo Alcazar  Guatemala	1.80	Ernesto Oqueli  El Salvador	1.75	Omar Martínez  Guatemala	1.75
Pole vault	Rudy Aguilar  El Salvador	3.45	Manolo Fearon  Guatemala	3.45	Omar Martínez  Guatemala	3.30
Long jump	Salomón Rowe  Guatemala	7.48	Héctor Murillo  Panama	6.58	Danilo Melgar  Guatemala	6.50
Triple jump	Salomón Rowe  Guatemala	15.22	Héctor Murillo  Panama	14.77	Samuel Abarca  El Salvador	13.53
Shot put	César Sajche  Guatemala	13.40	Eustacio de León  Panama	13.22	Juan Enrique Galdámez  El Salvador	13.12
Discus throw	César Sajche  Guatemala	37.66	Marcelo Gaytán  Guatemala	35.70	Eduardo Hasbún  El Salvador	34.92
Hammer throw	Juan Pedro Varela  El Salvador	44.70	Hugo Berganza  Guatemala	38.30	Igor Morales  Guatemala	37.80
Javelin throw	Eustacio de León  Panama	64.05	Rudy Aguilar  El Salvador	63.14	Héctor Phemmings  Panama	60.64
Decathlon	Rudy Aguilar  El Salvador	5782	Sergio Catalán  Guatemala	5516	Manuel Carranza  Guatemala	4547

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Zaida Núñez  Panama	12.0	Mayra Figueroa  Guatemala	12.3	Patricia Quiñónez  Guatemala	12.4
200 metres	Zaida Núñez  Panama	25.0	Christa Schumann  Guatemala	26.0	Irma Ambulo  Panama	26.1
400 metres	Patricia Meighan  Guatemala	58.1	Irma Ambulo  Panama	58.5	Zaida Núñez  Panama	59.9
800 metres	Patricia Meighan  Guatemala	2:21.2	Sonia Lemus  Guatemala	2:23.2	Norma Franco  El Salvador	2:28.8
1500 metres	Norma Franco  El Salvador	5:01.6	Kriscia García  El Salvador	5:07.2	Cristina Girón  Guatemala	5:07.2
100 metres hurdles	Amapola Arimany  Guatemala	15.7	Mayra Figueroa  Guatemala	15.9	Analú Gálvez  Guatemala	18.1
400 metres hurdles	Patricia Meighan  Guatemala	65.5	Mayra Figueroa  Guatemala	68.5	Rina Francos  El Salvador	72.3
4 × 100 metres relay	El Salvador	51.4	Only one finishing team
4 × 400 metres relay	Guatemala	4:10.5	El Salvador	4:11.5	Only two finishing teams
High jump	María Stella Pacheco  Guatemala	1.53	Nora Hernández  Guatemala	1.53	Sintia Rollox  Panama	1.40
Long jump	Christa Schumann  Guatemala	5.06	Nora Hernández  Guatemala	4.79	Sonia Chávez  El Salvador	4.77
Shot put	Marta Centeno  Guatemala	11.06	Yolanda Marquínez  Panama	10.45	María Eugenia Díaz  Guatemala	9.45
Discus throw	Patricia Comandari  El Salvador	34.88	Marta Centeno  Guatemala	34.50	Yolanda Marquínez  Panama	34.22
Javelin throw	Carmen Valenzuela  Guatemala	32.81	Carmen Miller  Guatemala	31.10	Maricela Sol  El Salvador	27.32
Heptathlon	Amapola Arimany  Guatemala	2976	María Stella Pacheco  Guatemala	2868	Lucrecia Aragón  Guatemala	2425

  *   Host nation (Guatemala)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Guatemala (GUA)*	22	20	17	59
2	Panama (PAN)	11	8	8	27
3	El Salvador (ESA)	6	10	10	26
Totals (3 entries)		39	38	35	112