GUADALAJARA, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurdler Dayron Robles and pole vaulter Lazaro Borges led Cuba to four Pan-American Games records to seal their athletics dominance on the final day of competition at the Telmex stadium Friday.

Discus thrower Yarelys Barrios and Guillermo Martinez in the javelin also set Games records as the Cubans kept Brazil firmly in second place in the track and field medals table of the quadrennial event.

Cuba finished with 18 gold medals and 33 overall to Brazil's nine and 22 with the United States third (four and 16).

Olympic champion Robles retained his 110 meters hurdles title in 13.10 seconds, well short of his three-year-old world record of 12.87, but 0.07 seconds better than Cuban Anier Garcia's previous record set at Winnipeg in 1999.

"I had the idea of this record always in my mind," Robles told reporters after the final in which Colombian Paulo Cesar Villar was second in 13.27 and Cuban Orlando Ortega third in 13.30.

It was a satisfying finish to a troubled season for Robles after disqualification at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea where he came through first but was ruled to have made contact with Chinese rival Liu Xiang.

Borges, the silver medal winner in Daegu, enthralled the crowd with his win at 5.80 meters, a Games record, after securing the gold medal at 5.70 when silver medallist Jeremy Scott of the U.S. failed.

RAISING THE BAR

The bar was raised to 5.76, one centimetre higher than the record set by American Patrick Manson in Mar de Plata, Argentina in 1995. It took Borges three attempts to surpass that height but only one, to massive applause, when the bar was then raised to 5.80.

Barrios, Olympic runner-up in 2008, retained her Pan-Am title with her first throw, a personal best 66.40.

That mark was superior to her bronze medal finish in Daegu of 65.73 meters and the 65.58 record set by compatriot Maritza Marten in Indianapolis in 1987.

Martinez, third at the world championships, hurled the javelin for a personal best of 87.20 meters with his first throw, 6.52 meters further than compatriot Emeterio Gonzalez's 2003 record.

Cyrus Hoestetler of the U.S. was second with 82.24 and Argentine 18-year-old Braian Toledo, the Olympic Youth champion, third with a personal best 79.53.

Cubans were pushed into second and third place in the women's triple jump won by world bronze medallist Catherine Ibarguen of Colombia with a Games record leap of 14.92 meters.

It was 12 centimetres better than the previous record set four years ago in Rio de Janeiro by Cuba's Yargeris Savigne, who won silver, with Mabel Gay taking bronze.

There were also Cuban gold medals in the men's 800 meters for Andy Gonzalez and both 4x400 meters relay teams but the islanders had to settle for fourth place in both 4x100.

The Brazilians took the sprint relays, winning the women's in a national record time before the men equaled the 12-year-old Games record of 38.15 seconds set by a Brazil quartet in 1999.

Jamaica, relay world record holders and champions with Usain Bolt in their line-up in 37.04 seconds in Daegu, were not even represented in the men's race after their second string quartet was disqualified in Thursday's semi-finals for a late baton change.

Sara Marie Hall won the women's steeplechase in a rare athletics gold medal for a United States development team in a slow time of 10 minutes 3.16 seconds, while Venezuelan Jose Pena won the men's race in 8:48.19. (Editing by Patrick Johnston)

By Rex Gowar