Nataly Michel, Denisse Hernandez and Melissa Rebolledo represented Mexico in the women's foil final against Venezuela's Isis Giménez, Liz Rivero and Anabella Acurero, and held on to a 32-31 victory despite their opponents threatening a comeback from 25-20 behind at the Gimnasio de Universidad de El Salvador.

Colombia took the bronze in the women's foil by beating hosts El Salvador 45-31, but lost the men's épée team final 26-25 to Venezuela.

In the women's hockey final at Parque del Este, Sofia Pérez scored a late equaliser for Mexico against Cuba to ensure the match finished level at 1-1, and her team went on to win the shoot-out 3-2.

The bronze-medal match also went to a shoot-out, won 4-2 by Barbados after a 2-2 draw against the Dominican Republic.

Mexico won the men's and women's triathlon titles at Costa del Sol, but were denied further team success in the men's basketball final at the Gimnasio Nacional, which was won 89-72 by the Dominican Republic.

Puerto Rico overcame Nicaragua 79-59 to take bronze.

However, Mexico found further joy in taekwondo at the Juan Pablo Duarte venue as world bronze medallist Brandon Plaza triumphed 5-1, 7-1 against Jefferson Ochoa of Colombia in the men's under-58 kilograms final.

Silver medallist at the World Championships in Baku Carlos Sansores was forced to settle for the same result in San Salvador as he lost 0-1, 7-1, 3-3 to Olympic bronze medallist Rafael Alba of Cuba in the men's over-80kg, and former world champion Daniela Souza lost 1-4, 9-2, 6-2 to Andrea Ramírez of Colombia in the women's under-49kg final.

A second gold for Colombia came in the women's over-67kg, as Gloria Mosquera beat Crystal Weekes of Puerto Rico 5-2, 0-0.

Colombia won all six speed skating golds at the Patinódromo El Polvorín, including doubles for Fabriana Arias in the women's 10,000 metres points elimination and 10,000m elimination and Jorge Escobar in the men's equivalent races.

Diving golds at the Complejo Deportivo el Polvorín went to Mexico through Diego Garcia and Yolotl Martinez in the men's 3m springboard synchronised final, their 361.86 score beating Colombia's Luis Uribe and Daniel Restrepo by just 0.39, and Cuba through Anisley García's 297.35 in the women's 10m platform.

At the Parque Recreativo Apulo, Venezuela won the men's and women's five kilometres open water swimming titles, Diego Vera triumphing by around seven seconds in 57min 22.6sec in the former and Paola Pérez by more than 90 seconds in 1 hour 1min 34.8sec in the latter.

Road cycling individual time-trial golds in Turicentro Ichanmichen went to Cuba's Arlenis Sierra in 27min 10.16sec over 21km in the women's and Miguel Ángel López of Colombia in 49:07.94 over 41.4km in the men's.

St Vincent and the Grenadines won their first gold medal of the Games in athletics at the Estadio Nacional Jorge "El Mágico" González, Handal Roban winning the men's 800m in 1:45.93, after Venezuela's José Maitia, who crossed the finish line first was disqualified for an infringement.

Rose Almanza led a Cuban one-two in the women's 800m in 2:01.75.

Alexander Ogando took men's 200m gold for the Dominican Republic with a time of 19.99, and 22.80 won the women's race for Yanique Dayle of Jamaica.

Olympic champion and world record holder Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela added Central American and Caribbean Games gold to her list of honours with a 15.16m effort in the women's triple jump.

Puerto Rico won two athletics golds through Jerome Vega's 74.83m in the men's hammer throw and Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn's 12.61 in the 100m hurdles, while 110m hurdles victory went to Shane Brathwaite of Barbados in 13.64 on a photo finish in front of the Cayman Islands' Rasheem Brown.

Mario Diaz of Cuba was the day's other athletics winner with a 62.57m effort in the men's discus throw.

A total of 42 medal events are scheduled across 14 sports tomorrow, with the Games due to conclude on Saturday (July 8).

Mexico lead the medals table with 116 golds, followed by Colombia on 68 and Cuba on 59.