Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation

History

With the initiative of the Mexican representative Carlos de Anda Dominguez, at the 10th Central American and Caribbean Games held in June 1966 in the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, the need for the formation of a Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation was discussed as well as a proposal for organizing the first Central American and Caribbean Championships.

The first Championships were held on the 5th and 6 May 1967, in Xalapa, Mexico. Discussion about the formation of the Confederation was started at this time.

In Winnipeg, Canada, during the celebration of the V Pan American Games, a tentative constitution was approved, a permanent committee elected and the site of the second Central American and Caribbean Championships was awarded to Cali, Colombia, for August 1969, with Havana, Cuba, as the alternate site.

The Constitution was finally adopted on the occasion of the second Championships in August 1969. It has been revised and amended at General Assemblies in Guadalajara, Mexico, June 16, 1979; San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 5, 1979; Nassau, Bahamas, August 22, 1980; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, July 11, 1981; Maracaibo, Venezuela, August 18, 1998; Bridgetown, Barbados, June 27, 1999, San Juan, Puerto Rico, July 16, 2000, Bridgetown, Barbados, July 7, 2002 and San Salvador, El Salvador, December 4, 2002, Havana, Cuba, July 5, 2009, Santo Domingo 2010, Mayaguez 2010.

Presidents

The current president of the confederation, Alain Jean-Pierre of Haiti was elected at the CACAC Congress held in San Salvador, El Salvador, in 2012.{{Citation | access-date = July 6, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304195033/http://www.trinidadexpress.com/sports/Serrette_elected_CACAC_vice-president-161304485.html | archive-date = March 4, 2016 | url-status = dead Víctor López of Puerto Rico, who was elected firstly in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in 1998, and re-elected in Grenada in 2003, and in Cali, Colombia, in 2008.

Competitions

CACAC organises five different championships: senior championships, junior championships, cross country championships, age group championships and under-17 (youth) championships.

• Central American and Caribbean Senior Championships
• Central American and Caribbean Junior/Youth Championships
• Central American and Caribbean Cross Country Championships
• Central American and Caribbean Age Group Championships

A Central American and Caribbean Half Marathon Cup was held once in Negril in 2005, incorporated into the Reggae Marathon in Jamaica, but did not get renewed after this debut event after only two nations entered.

Member federations

CACAC consists of 34 member federations and 5 observer members: 29 of the member federations are members of NACAC (all NACAC members are represented except the federations from Canada and the USA), and 5 of the member federations are members of CONSUDATLE (Colombia, Guyana, Panama, Suriname, and Venezuela). The 5 observer members are non-World Athletics members.

Former member associations

At their Council Meeting, the IAAF announced, that because the Netherlands Antilles has ceased to exist as a separate territory (one of 21 IAAF Members that are not countries but territories), athletes will not compete anymore as AHO but as Netherlands, and IAAF membership will drop from 213 to 212. The CACAC published the decision in their own newsletter.{{ Citation |access-date=July 22, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008012122/http://www.cacacathletics.org/web_documents/02.8.2010_--____dec.24_cac_news-doping-transfer-_new_members.pdf |archive-date=October 8, 2011

References

References

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2. Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation. "President Welcome Message".
3. [[Carlos de Anda]]
4. Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation. (December 2010). "CACAC Constitution - Competition Rules (UpdDEC2010)".
5. {{Citation. Clavelo Robinson. Javier. (July 8, 2008). "Victor Lopez re-elected CACAC President". link. [[World Athletics]]
6. CACAC. "Dr. Ricardo Gerónimo PÉREZ SARRÍA".
7. {{Citation. Clavelo Robinson. Javier. (November 28, 2007). "23 athletics greats to be inducted into the CAC Hall of Fame". link. [[IAAF]]
8. [http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/hosts-win-first-cac-half-marathon-cup Hosts win first CAC Half Marathon Cup]. IAAF (2005-12-07). Retrieved on 2015-03-05.
9. IAAF. (November 19, 2011). "IAAF Council Meeting, Monaco, Day One".