1990 Central American Games

The IV Central American Games (Spanish: IV Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos) was a multi-sport event that took place between 5–14 January 1990. The games were officially opened by Honduran president José Azcona. Torch lighter was Zacarías Arzú, who represented Honduras internationally in both baseball and football.

Participation
The Games saw the first appearance of athletes from Belize. Panamá did not participate because of the recent political and military incidents. Therefore, athletes from only 6 countries were reported to participate:


 * 🇧🇿 Belize (139)
 * 🇨🇷 Costa Rica (290)
 * 🇸🇻 El Salvador (368)
 * 🇬🇹 Guatemala (457)
 * 🇭🇳 Honduras (487)
 * 🇳🇮 Nicaragua (373)

The 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mexico were staged in November and December 1990.

Sports
The competition featured 23 disciplines from 22 sports (plus bodybuilding as exhibition).


 * Aquatic sports
 * Swimming pictogram.svg Swimming
 * Water polo pictogram.svg Water polo
 * Athletics pictogram.svg Athletics
 * Baseball pictogram.svg Baseball
 * Basketball pictogram.svg Basketball
 * Bodybuilding pictogram.svg Bodybuilding †
 * Bowling pictogram.svg Bowling
 * Boxing pictogram.svg Boxing
 * Chess pictogram.svg Chess
 * Cycling (road) pictogram.svg Cycling
 * Equestrian pictogram.svg Equestrian
 * Fencing pictogram.svg Fencing
 * Football pictogram.svg Football
 * Gymnastics (artistic) pictogram.svg Gymnastics
 * Judo pictogram.svg Judo
 * Racquets pictogram.svg Racquetball
 * Shooting pictogram.svg Shooting
 * Softball pictogram.svg Softball
 * Table tennis pictogram.svg Table tennis
 * Taekwondo pictogram.svg Taekwondo
 * Tennis pictogram.svg Tennis
 * Volleyball (indoor) pictogram.svg Volleyball
 * Weightlifting pictogram.svg Weightlifting
 * Wrestling pictogram.svg Wrestling

†: Exhibition event

Medal table
The table below is taken from El Diario de Hoy, San Salvador, El Salvador, and from El Nuevo Diario, Managua, Nicaragua.