The 1971 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica between 14–17 July.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Don Quarrie  Jamaica	10.2 CR	Lennox Miller  Jamaica	10.2	Pablo Montes  Cuba	10.4
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Don Quarrie  Jamaica	20.6 CR	Guillermo González  Puerto Rico	21.3	Pablo Montes  Cuba	21.3
400 metres	Alfred Daley  Jamaica	46.6 CR	Melesio Piña  Mexico	47.4	Raúl Dome  Venezuela	47.6
800 metres	Byron Dyce  Jamaica	1:49.7 CR	Leandro Civil  Cuba	1:49.7	Lennox Stewart  Trinidad and Tobago	1:50.0
1500 metres	Byron Dyce  Jamaica	3:46.8 CR	Antonio Colón  Puerto Rico	3:47.5	Carlos Martínez  Mexico	3:48.2
5000 metres	Héctor Ortiz  Puerto Rico	14:25.6 CR	Rodolfo Gómez  Mexico	14:25.8	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	14:30.0
10,000 metres	Valentín Robles  Mexico	31:32.0	Victoriano López  Guatemala	31:41.8	Héctor Ortiz  Puerto Rico	31:53.0
Half marathon	Andrés Romero  Mexico	1:10:24	John Mowatt  Jamaica	1:12:46	Lucas Lara  Cuba	1:12:50
110 metres hurdles (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Juan Morales  Cuba	13.8 CR	Arnaldo Bristol  Puerto Rico	13.9	Godfrey Murray  Jamaica	13.9
400 metres hurdles	Juan García  Cuba	52.1 CR	Francisco Dumeng  Puerto Rico	52.3	Fernando Montelongo  Mexico	52.7
3000 metres steeplechase	Lucirio Garrido  Venezuela	8:58.6 CR	Rigoberto Mendoza  Cuba	8:58.8	José Cobo  Cuba	9:11.6
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Alfred Daley Carl Lawson Don Quarrie Lennox Miller	39.2 CR	Puerto Rico Arnaldo Bristol Jorge Vizcarrondo Guillermo González Santiago Antonetti	40.7	Venezuela Alberto Marchán Félix Mata Jesús Rico Antonio González	40.7
4 × 400 metres relay	Jamaica Leighton Priestley Trevor Campbell Alfred Daley Garth Case	3:09.0 CR	Cuba Leandro Civil Rodobaldo Díaz Antonio Álvarez José Triana	3:10.1	Trinidad and Tobago Pat Marshall Alfred Logie Desmond Melville R. Brown	3:13.3
10,000 m track walk	Lucas Lara  Cuba	47:20.2 CR	Ismael Ávila  Mexico	47:43.8	Raúl González  Mexico	49:35.2
High jump	Pedro Yequez  Venezuela	1.98	Lloyd Scott  Jamaica	1.95	Miguel Durañona  Cuba	1.95
Pole vault	Roberto Moré  Cuba	4.80 CR	Juan Laza  Cuba	4.40	Guillermo González  Puerto Rico	4.30
Long jump	George Swanston  Trinidad and Tobago	7.43	Wilfredo Maisonave  Puerto Rico	7.38	Abelardo Pacheco  Cuba	7.19
Triple jump	Pedro Pérez  Cuba	15.94 CR	Juan Velázquez  Cuba	15.42	Tim Barrett  Bahamas	15.32
Shot put	Benigno Hodelín  Cuba	15.76	Alfredo Leyva  Cuba	15.33	Jorge Marrero  Puerto Rico	14.96
Discus throw	Bárbaro Cañizares  Cuba	55.50 CR	Javier Moreno  Cuba	54.44	Leopold Blake  Jamaica	46.04
Hammer throw	Víctor Suárez  Cuba	56.54	Jesús Fuentes  Cuba	53.98	Pedro Granell  Puerto Rico	53.54
Javelin throw	Juan Jarvis  Cuba	77.20 CR	Amado Morales  Puerto Rico	74.38	Justo Perelló  Cuba	71.40
Decathlon	Orlando Pedroso  Cuba	6779 CR	Jesús Mirabal  Cuba	6692	Dunstan Campbell  Grenada	6105

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.1 m/s)	Fulgencia Romay  Cuba	11.6	Silvia Chivás  Cuba	11.6	Rosie Allwood  Jamaica	11.9
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Fulgencia Romay  Cuba	23.6 CR	Silvia Chivás  Cuba	23.9	Diva Bishop  Panama	24.1
400 metres	Marilyn Neufville  Jamaica	53.5 CR	Carmen Trustée  Cuba	54.0	Yvonne Saunders  Jamaica	54.3
800 metres	Carmen Trustée  Cuba	2:14.6	Aurelia Pentón  Cuba	2:15.1	Beverly Franklin  Jamaica	2:15.8
1500 metres	Lucía Quiroz  Mexico	4:34.2 CR	Enriqueta Nava  Mexico	4:37.5	Melquises Fonseca  Cuba	4:38.5
100 metres hurdles	Marlene Elejalde  Cuba	13.7 CR	Lourdes Jones  Cuba	14.0	Carmen Smith-Brown  Jamaica	14.1
200 metres hurdles	Lourdes Jones  Cuba	28.0 CR	Raquel Martínez  Cuba	28.2	Enriqueta Basilio  Mexico	29.0
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Silvia Chivás Marlene Elejarde Fulgencia Romay Carmen Valdés	45.4	Jamaica Rosie Allwood Debbie Byfield-White Lelieth Hodges Marcia Swaby	46.0	Venezuela Lucia Vaamonde Adriana Marchena Zulay Montano Lourdes Vargas	47.2
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Beatriz Castillo Marcela Chibás Aurelia Pentón Carmen Trustée	3:38.6 CR	Jamaica Marilyn Neufville Yvonne Saunders-Mondesire Ruth Simpson Beverly Panton	3:41.0	Trinidad and Tobago Laura Pierre Joan Porter June Smith Cheryl Dyette	4:03.2
High jump	Audrey Reid  Jamaica	1.73 CR	Andrea Bruce  Jamaica	1.70	Marima Rodríguez  Cuba	1.67
Long jump	Marina Samuells  Cuba	5.93	Marcia Garbey  Cuba	5.68	Yvonne Saunders  Jamaica	5.65
Shot put	Carmen Romero  Cuba	14.25 CR	Grecia Hamilton  Cuba	14.04	Orlanda Lynch  Suriname	10.20
Discus throw	Carmen Romero  Cuba	55.24 CR	María Cristina Betancourt  Cuba	49.38	Orlanda Lynch  Suriname	34.02
Javelin throw	Tomasa Núñez  Cuba	51.64 CR	Milagros Bayard  Cuba	41.54	Celina Surga  Venezuela	37.56
Pentathlon	Marlene Elejalde  Cuba	4341 CR	Lucía Vaamonde  Venezuela	4333	Marcia Garbey  Cuba	4122

  *   Host nation (Jamaica)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)	22	19	10	51
2	Jamaica (JAM)*	9	6	7	22
3	Mexico (MEX)	3	4	4	11
4	Venezuela (VEN)	2	1	5	8
5	Puerto Rico (PUR)	1	7	4	12
6	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	1	0	3	4
7	Guatemala (GUA)	0	1	0	1
8	Suriname (NGY)	0	0	2	2
9	Bahamas (BAH)	0	0	1	1
	Grenada (GRN)	0	0	1	1
	Panama (PAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		38	38	38	114

• Men Results – GBR Athletics
• Women Results – GBR Athletics
• Finals results