SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, June 19, 2023. – The Beach Volleyball competition at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador will run from June 21-27 in Costa del Sol, a discipline that has been dominated by Cuba men and equally divided between Mexico and Cuba in women.
Cuba has won the men’s event on four occasions since the inception of the Central American Games in 1998 in Maracaibo, Venezuela, two of them in a row (Veracruz, Mexico 2014 and Barranquilla, Colombia 2018).
Cubans Sergio González and Nivaldo Díaz earned the men’s title in the past two editions in Veracruz and Barranquilla.
Mexico men have stepped on the CAC podium in each of the six tournaments, where the biggest NORCECA medalist, Olympic Juan Virgen has earned two silver medals, at Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 2010 and Barranquilla, Colombia 2018, and a bronze medal in Veracruz, Mexico 2014.
In the women’s field, both Mexico and Cuba have won three gold medals each, and as well as in the men’s competition, Cuba has back-to-back gold medals in the past two editions of the Games.
Leila Martinez won both gold medals, first with Lianma Flores in Veracruz 2014 and in Barranquilla 2018 pairing with Mailen Deliz.
All these Cuban medalists have now stepped down for a new generation of Cuban athletes to take on their legacy.
Men’s Podiums
| 1998 | Rossell/Chambers CUB | Jackson/Sotelo MEX | De Jesús/Velasco PUR |
| 2002 | Hernández/Papaleo PUR | Rodríguez/Hernández MEX | Vásquez/Rodríguez VEN |
| 2006 | Álvarez/Villar CUB | Henríquez/Hernández VEN | Ontiveros/Ontiveros MEX |
| 2010 | Hernández/Villafañe VEN | Miramontes/Vírgen MEX | Irizarry/Rodríguez PUR |
| 2014 | González/Díaz CUB | Villafañe/Henríquez VEN | Vírgen/Ontiveros MEX |
| 2018 | González/Díaz CUB | Vírgen/Ontiveros MEX | Murray/Manjarres COL |
Composite Medals
| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| CUB | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| VEN | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| PUR | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| MEX | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| COL | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Women’s Podiums
| 1998 | Amaral/Huerta MEX | Ferrer/Blanco CUB | Abreu/Zambrano VEN |
| 2002 | García/Gaxiola MEX | Rodríguez/Cova VEN | Bonilla/Santos DOM |
| 2006 | Fernández/Larrea CUB | Vírgen/Revuelta MEX | Rodríguez/García VEN |
| 2010 | Candelas/García MEX | Acevedo/Santiago PUR | Galindo/Galindo COL |
| 2014 | Flores/Martínez CUB | Candelas/Revuelta MEX | Pazo/Agudo VEN |
| 2018 | Leila/Maylen CUB | Yuli/Diana COL | Agudo/Gabi VEN |
Composite Medals
| Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| MEX | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| CUB | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| VEN | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| PUR | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DOM | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| COL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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