The athletics competition at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games took place at the Estadio Pedro de Heredia in Cartagena, Colombia and lasted from July 25 to July 29. There were 23 events for men and 21 for women. A total of ten Games records were broken at the competition, in addition to a number of national records.

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Athletics at the XX CAC Games
The host stadium
Dates	July 25–29
Host city	Cartagena, Colombia
Venue	Estadio Pedro de Heredia
Events	44
Participation	444 athletes from 31 nations
Records set	10 Games records
← 2002 San Salvador 2010 Mayagüez → 2006 CAC Games

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The events were dominated by Cuban athletes, whereas teams like Jamaica did not send their strongest athletes. With 21 gold medals, Cuba won nearly half of the events and 45 medals were won by the country's athletes. Mexico was the next most successful nation, winning eight golds and fourteen medals overall. The hosts Colombia took third place on the medal tally, having won four golds, but also had the second greatest medal haul with nineteen in total. Jamaica, the Netherlands Antilles and Panama were the only other nations at the competition to win two golds or more.

  *   Host nation (Colombia)

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cuba	21	14	10	45
2	Mexico	8	3	3	14
3	Colombia*	4	8	7	19
4	Jamaica	2	3	5	10
5	Netherlands Antilles	2	0	0	2
	Panama	2	0	0	2
7	Dominican Republic	1	1	2	4
8	Puerto Rico	1	1	1	3
9	British Virgin Islands	1	0	0	1
	El Salvador	1	0	0	1
11	Bahamas	0	3	2	5
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	3	2	5
13	Grenada	0	2	0	2
14	Venezuela	0	1	3	4
15	Guatemala	0	1	2	3
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	1	2	3
17	Saint Lucia	0	1	1	2
18	Haiti	0	1	0	1
	U.S. Virgin Islands	0	1	0	1
20	Barbados	0	0	3	3
21	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		43	44	44	131

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• Note: Medal count excludes Dorian Scott's gold in the men's shot put as he was disqualified from the competition after a positive test for marijuana.^[1]