The fourth Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Panama City, the capital city of Panama at Estadio Olímpico Nacional. These games were held 3 years after the last games, this was to get the games back to the year they should have been, after a 5-year break on the previous games. The Games were held from 5 February to 24 February 1938. They included 1,216 athletes from ten nations, competing in sixteen different sports.
Sports
Athletics ()
Baseball ()
Basketball ()
Basque Pelota ()
Boxing ()
Cycling ()
Diving ()
Equestrian ()
Fencing ()
Football ()
Golf ()
Shooting ()
Swimming ()
Tennis ()
Volleyball ()
Water polo ()
Weightlifting ()
Wrestling ()
Medal table
| Place | Nation | 
|
|
|
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Mexico
|
24 | 32 | 16 | 72 |
| 2 |  Panama
|
24 | 22 | 20 | 66 |
| 3 |  Cuba
|
24 | 17 | 19 | 60 |
| 4 |  Puerto Rico
|
16 | 11 | 11 | 38 |
| 5 |  Jamaica
|
9 | 5 | 8 | 22 |
| 6 |  Venezuela
|
3 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 7 |  El Salvador
|
0 | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| 8 |  Costa Rica
|
0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 |  Colombia
|
0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 |  Nicaragua
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 100 | 96 | 92 | 288 | |
References
- ^ Memoria oficial de los IV Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos y del Caribe Panama 1938 (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 November 2023.
- (in Spanish) Meta
- (in Spanish) Official Results[usurped]