Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation
The Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association is a confederation governing body of athletics for national governing bodies and multi-national federations within Central America and the Caribbean. Membership of the Confederation is open to all National Governing Bodies for Athletics in any country or territory in the region which is affiliated to the International Association of Athletics Federations. Other countries may be granted observer status and may, with permission of the Congress, be allowed to compete in open championships. They will, however, not be entitled to vote at the Congress.
The Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation should not be confused with the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association established later in 1988, being one of the official area associations of the International Amateur Athletic Federation, and also including federations from Canada and the USA. The CACAC considers the NACAC as parent organization,
and the CACAC constitution regulates that the IAAF Area Representative of the NACAC is an ex-officio member of its Permanent Executive Council.
History
With the initiative of the Mexican representative Mr. Carlos de Anda Dominguez, at the 10thCentral 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 Jalapa,
Veracruz, México. 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 Havanna, 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 was elected at the CACAC Congress held in San Salvador, El Salvador, in 2012. He followsVíctor López, who was elected firstly in Maracaibo, Venezuela, in 1998, and re-elected in Grenada in 2003, and in Cali, Colombia, in 2008.
Name | Country | Presidency |
Ricardo Gerónimo Pérez Sarría | 1967–1978 | |
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Bernard J. Nottage | 1982-1990 | |
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Víctor López | 1998–2012 | |
Alain Jean-Pierre | 2012- |
Competitions
The CACAC hold five different championships: senior championships, junior championships, cross country championships, age group championships and under-17 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