Athletics at the 1951 Pan American Games
International sporting event
Athletics at the 1951 Pan American Games | |
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Venue | River Plate Stadium |
Date | 27 February – 6 March |
Competitors | 243 from 15 nations |
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The Athletics Competition at the 1951 Pan American Games was held in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. A total of 15 nations participated, with 243 athletes representing them in 33 athletics events.
Medal summary
Men's events
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Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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100 metres details | Rafael Fortún![]() | 10.6 | Art Bragg![]() | 10.6 | Herb McKenley![]() | 11.0 |
200 metres details | Rafael Fortún![]() | 21.3 | Art Bragg![]() | 21.4 | Herb McKenley![]() | 21.5 |
400 metres details | Mal Whitfield![]() | 47.8 | Hugo Maiocco![]() | 48 | Herb McKenley![]() | 48.2 |
800 metres details | Mal Whitfield![]() | 1:53.2 | Bill Brown![]() | 1:53.3 | Hugo Maiocco![]() | 1:53.6 |
1500 metres details | Browning Ross![]() | 4:00.4 | Guillermo Solá![]() | 4:00.5 | John Twomey![]() | 4:02.0 |
5000 metres details | Ricardo Bralo![]() | 14:57.2 | John Twomey![]() | 14:57.5 | Gustavo Rojas![]() | 15:06.4 |
10,000 metres details | Curt Stone![]() | 31:08.6 | Ricardo Bralo![]() | 31:09.4 | Ezequiel Bustamente![]() | 32:31.8 |
Marathon details | Delfo Cabrera![]() | 2:35:01 | Reinaldo Gorno![]() | 2:45:00 | Luis Velásquez![]() | 2:46:03 |
110 metres hurdles details | Dick Attlesey![]() | 14.0 | Estanislao Kocourek![]() | 14.2 | Samuel Anderson![]() | 14.2 |
400 metres hurdles details | Jaime Aparicio![]() | 53.4 | Wilson Carneiro![]() | 53.7 | Don Halderman![]() | 54.5 |
3000 metres steeplechase details | Curt Stone ![]() | 9:32.0 | Browning Ross ![]() | 9:32.0 | Pedro Caffa![]() | 9:44.6 |
4 × 100 metres relay details | ![]() Donald Campbell Art Bragg Dick Attlesey John Voight | 41.0 | ![]() Raúl Mazorra Angel García Jesús Farrés Rafael Fortún | 41.2 | ![]() Gerardo Bönnhoff Adelio Márquez Fernando Lapuente Mariano Acosta | 41.8 |
4 × 400 metres relay details | ![]() Bill Brown Mal Whitfield John Voight Hugo Maiocco | 3:09.9 | ![]() Jaime Hitelman Reinaldo Martín Muller Gustavo Ehlers Jörn Gevert | 3:17.7 | ![]() Guido Veronese Máximo Guerra Julio Ferreyra Eduardo Balducci | 3:18.4 |
10,000 metres walk details | Henry Laskau![]() | 50:26.8 | Luis Turza![]() | 52:27.5 | Martín Casas![]() | 52:59.6 |
50 kilometres walk details | Sixto Ibáñez![]() | 5:06:07 | James Jackson![]() | 5:21:13 | Amando González![]() | 5:27:01 |
High jump details | Virgil Severns![]() | 1.95 | Cal Clark![]() | 1.90 | Adilton de Almeida![]() | 1.90 |
Pole vault details | Bob Richards![]() | 4.50 | Jaime Piqueras![]() | 3.90 | Sinibaldo Gerbasi![]() | 3.90 |
Long jump details | Gay Bryan![]() | 7.14 | Albino Geist![]() | 7.09 | Jim Holland![]() | 6.95 |
Triple jump details | Adhemar da Silva![]() | 15.19 | Hélio da Silva![]() | 15.17 | Bruno Witthaus![]() | 14.34 |
Shot put details | Jim Fuchs![]() | 17.25 | Juan Kahnert![]() | 14.27 | Nadim Marreis![]() | 14.07 |
Discus throw details | Jim Fuchs![]() | 48.91 | Dick Doyle![]() | 47.28 | Elvio Porta![]() | 44.93 |
Hammer throw details | Emilio Ortíz![]() | 48.04 | Manuel Etchepare![]() | 46.12 | Arturo Melcher![]() | 45.70 |
Javelin throw details | Ricardo Héber![]() | 68.08 | Steve Seymour![]() | 67.08 | Horst Walter![]() | 66.33 |
Decathlon details | Hernán Figueroa![]() | 6610 | Hernán Alzamora![]() | 6063 | Enrique Salazar![]() | 4380 |
Women's events
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- nb Hortensia López García finished 5th in the preliminary round and advanced to the final, winning the women's javelin throw with a distance of 39.45m. Her performance was challenged that same day by the Panama athletics delegation, which claimed that only the top 4 athletes should have advanced to the final instead of the top 6. García's finals performance was briefly discounted, moving Judith Caballero of Panama up to the bronze medal position, but it was reinstated the next day.[1] Some sources still list García's preliminary round mark of 32.68m as her final result.[2]
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 17 | 11 | 6 | 34 |
2 | ![]() | 7 | 8 | 12 | 27 |
3 | ![]() | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
4 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
5 | ![]() | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
6 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
7 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
9 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
11 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
12 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
13 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (13 entries) | 33 | 33 | 33 | 99 |
Participating nations
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Athletics at the 1951 Pan American Games.
- Olderr, Steven (2009). The Pan American Games: A Statistical History, 1951-1999, bilingual edition. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0786443367. ISBN 978-0-7864-4336-9.
- GBR Athletics: Pan American Games
- Sports 123: Athletics at the Wayback Machine (archived October 4, 2011)