Athletics at the 1951 Pan American Games – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres at the Pan American Games

The men's 800 metres event at the 1951 Pan American Games was held at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires on 28 February and 1 March.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mal Whitfield  United States	Bill Brown  United States	Hugo Maiocco  United States

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Mal Whitfield	United States	1:57.7	Q
2	1	Julio Ferreyra	Argentina	1:57.8	Q
3	1	Frank Prince	Panama	1:58.1	Q
4	1	Argemiro Roque	Brazil	1:58.1	Q
5	1	Hugo Maiocco	United States	?:??.?	Q
6	1	Wilfred Tull	Trinidad and Tobago	?:??.?
7	1	Filemón Camacho	Venezuela	?:??.?
8	1	Rubén Figueredo	Paraguay	?:??.?
	1	Samuel Álvarez	Mexico	DNS
1	2	Eduardo Balducci	Argentina	1:57.2	Q
2	2	Evelio Planas	Cuba	1:58.2	Q
3	2	Bill Brown	United States	1:58.3	Q
4	2	Luis Modeste	Trinidad and Tobago	1:58.9	Q
5	2	Adolfo Augustin	Argentina	?:??.?	Q
6	2	Libardo Mora	Colombia	?:??.?
7	2	Luís Rodrigues	Brazil	?:??.?
8	2	Anastasio Zelaya	Paraguay	?:??.?
9	2	Rogelio Gómez	Peru	?:??.?

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mal Whitfield	United States	1:53.2
	Bill Brown	United States	1:53.3
	Hugo Maiocco	United States	1:53.6
4	Julio Ferreyra	Argentina	1:53.6
5	Argemiro Roque	Brazil	1:54.6e
6	Eduardo Balducci	Argentina	1:54.7e
7	Adolfo Augustin	Argentina	1:55.6e
8	Evelio Planas	Cuba	1:56.6e
9	Luis Modeste	Trinidad and Tobago	?:??.?
10	Frank Prince	Panama	?:??.?