The 1983 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Pedro Marrero in Havana, Cuba between 22–24 July.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.9 m/s)	Juan Núñez  Dominican Republic	10.16 CR NR	Tomás González  Cuba	10.37	Florencio Aguilar  Panama	10.48
200 metres (wind: +0.7 m/s)	Juan Núñez  Dominican Republic	20.65 NR	Tomás González  Cuba	20.96	Fabian Whymns  Bahamas	21.19
400 metres	Lázaro Martínez  Cuba	45.91	Agustín Pavó  Cuba	46.74	Edison Reyes  Venezuela	46.95
800 metres	Bárbaro Serrano  Cuba	1:47.67	Oslen Barr  Guyana	1:48.25	Hilario Barnet  Cuba	1:48.89
1500 metres	Ignacio Melecio  Mexico	3:46.66	Jorge Poll  Cuba	3:46.71	Félix Mesa  Cuba	3:47.59
5000 metres	Gerardo Alcalá  Mexico	14:11.91	Germán Peña  Colombia	14:22.45	Eduardo Navas  Venezuela	14:24.42
10,000 metres	Gerardo Alcalá  Mexico	31:05.86	Navel Parra  Cuba	31:10.99	Eddy Ríos  Cuba	31:16.50
Marathon	Víctor Mora  Colombia	2:58:51	Héctor Rodríguez  Colombia	2:59:35	Juan Brito  Colombia	3:01:31
110 metres hurdles (wind: +2.5 m/s)	Alejandro Casañas  Cuba	13.61w	Modesto Castillo  Dominican Republic	13.79w	Ángel Bueno  Cuba	13.93w
400 metres hurdles	David Charlton  Bahamas	50.07 CR	Greg Rolle  Bahamas	50.87	Victor Gómez  Cuba	51.24
3000 metres steeplechase	César Santiago  Puerto Rico	8:48.80	Rafael Colmenares  Venezuela	8:49.90	José Cobo  Cuba	8:55.70
4 × 100 metres relay	Cuba Tomás González Ángel Bueno Israel Alfonso Loreto Valdes	39.81	Bahamas Austin Albury Joey Wells Fabian Whymns Ricardo Gray	40.34	Venezuela Hipolito Brown Ángel Andrade Alberto Paolo Lugo Franco Francis	40.64
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Lázaro Martínez Agustín Pavó Carlos Reyté Roberto Ramos	3:05.12	Barbados David Charlton Allan Ingraham Greg Rolle Ricardo Gray	3:07.06	Venezuela Erick Phillips Aaron Phillips Ramon Edison Reyes ?	3:08.56
20 km road walk	David Castro  Cuba	1:29:44	Querubín Moreno  Colombia	1:29:54	Marcelino Colín  Mexico	1:33:49
High jump	Jorge Alfaro  Cuba	2.25 =CR	Clarence Saunders  Bermuda	2.19	Javier Sotomayor  Cuba	2.17
Pole vault	Edgardo Rivera  Puerto Rico	5.20 CR	Brian Morrissette  U.S. Virgin Islands	5.10	Rubén Camino  Cuba	5.00
Long jump	Juan Felipe Ortíz  Cuba	8.04 CR	Joey Wells  Bahamas	8.04	Jaime Jefferson  Cuba	8.03
Triple jump	Jorge Reyna  Cuba	16.95 CR	Lázaro Balcindes  Cuba	16.58	Ernesto Torres  Puerto Rico	15.91
Shot put	Paul Ruiz  Cuba	17.76	William Romero  Venezuela	16.29	Marciso Boué  Cuba	15.90
Discus throw	Bradley Cooper  Bahamas	63.26	Juan Martínez  Cuba	63.12	Raúl Calderón  Cuba	57.00
Hammer throw	Genovevo Morejón  Cuba	67.60 CR	Vicente Sánchez  Cuba	64.24	Luis Martínez  Puerto Rico	56.90
Javelin throw	Reinaldo Patterson  Cuba	79.76	Martín Álvarez  Cuba	76.74	Juan de la Garza  Mexico	75.22
Decathlon	Pedro Herrera  Cuba	7358 CR	Guillermo Sánchez  Mexico	7224	Douglas Rosado  Puerto Rico	6974
50 km road walk	Arturo Bravo  Mexico	4:21:01 CR	Rolando Hernández  Cuba	4:46:36	Félix Pérez  Cuba	4:53:18

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.9 m/s)	Luisa Ferrer  Cuba	11.52	Pauline Davis  Bahamas	11.60	Susana Armenteros  Cuba	11.66
200 metres	Luisa Ferrer  Cuba	23.38w	Pauline Davis  Bahamas	23.65w	Nilsa París  Puerto Rico	23.70w
400 metres	Ana Fidelia Quirot  Cuba	52.89	Mercedes Álvarez  Cuba	53.47	Oralee Fowler  Bahamas	54.57
800 metres	Nery McKeen  Cuba	2:04.26 CR	María Ribeaux  Cuba	2:06.84	Adriana Marchena  Venezuela	2:09.20
1500 metres	Eloína Kerr  Cuba	4:21.06 CR	Janice Carlo  Puerto Rico	4:25.09	Adriana Marchena  Venezuela	4:26.57
3000 metres	Sergia Martínez  Cuba	9:36.75 CR	Fabiola Rueda  Colombia	9:40.10	María Cuesta  Cuba	9:58.61
100 metres hurdles	Grisel Machado  Cuba	13.64 CR	Julieta Rosseaux  Cuba	14.19	Angie Marie Regis  Venezuela	14.23
400 metres hurdles	Alma Vázquez  Mexico	59.57	Felicia Candelario  Dominican Republic	60.06	Vilma París  Puerto Rico	60.84
4 × 100 metres relay	Bahamas Pauline Davis Shonel Ferguson Oralee Fowler Joanne Major	45.26	Puerto Rico Vilma París Nilsa París Margaret de Jesús Madeline de Jesús	46.69
4 × 400 metres relay	Cuba Ana Fidelia Quirot Mercedes Álvarez Nery McKeen Mercedes Mesa	3:34.97 CR	Puerto Rico Vilma París Nilsa París Margaret de Jesús Madeline de Jesús	3:39.36	Bahamas	3:54.37
High jump	Victoria Despaigne  Cuba	1.78	Amalia Montes  Mexico	1.75	Eunice Greene  Bahamas	1.75
Long jump	Shonel Ferguson  Bahamas	6.65 CR	Madeline de Jesús  Puerto Rico	6.49	Adelina Polledo  Cuba	6.23
Shot put	Marcelina Rodríguez  Cuba	17.00	Laverne Eve  Bahamas	14.75	Lissete Martínez  Cuba	14.67
Discus throw	Carmen Romero  Cuba	58.58	Hilda Ramos  Cuba	57.80	Yunaira Piña  Venezuela	46.04
Javelin throw	Iris de Grasse  Cuba	59.74 CR	María Beltrán  Cuba	56.40	Mariela Riera  Venezuela	53.84
Heptathlon	Victoria Despaigne  Cuba	5469 CR	Leyda Castro  Dominican Republic	5178	Genoveva Montano  Cuba	4870

  *   Host nation (Cuba)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba (CUB)*	26	15	16	57
2	Mexico (MEX)	5	2	2	9
3	Bahamas (BAH)	4	6	4	14
4	Puerto Rico (PUR)	2	4	5	11
5	Dominican Republic (DOM)	2	3	0	5
6	Colombia (COL)	1	4	2	7
7	Venezuela (VEN)	0	2	9	11
8	Barbados (BAR)	0	1	0	1
	Bermuda (BER)	0	1	0	1
	Guyana (GUY)	0	1	0	1
	U.S. Virgin Islands (VIR)	0	1	0	1
12	Panama (PAN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		40	40	39	119

• 1983 in athletics (track and field)

• Men Results – GBR Athletics
• Women Results – GBR Athletics