Athletics at the 1961 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1961 Summer Universiade was held at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria, in September 1961.[1]

Medalists

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Gold Silver Bronze
Ron Delany
  Ireland
Rudolf Klaban
  Austria
Wolfgang Schöll
  West Germany

Results

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Heats

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Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 Ron Delany   Ireland 1:56.7 Q
2 1 Mike Fleet   Great Britain 1:56.8 Q
3 1 Luc Baeyens   Belgium 1:56.80
5 1 Benito Tamiozzi   Italy 1:57.0
1 2 Vasily Savinkov   Soviet Union 1:53.6 Q
2 2 Wolfgang Schöll   West Germany 1:53.6 Q
3 2 Evelio Planas   Cuba 1:53.9 Q
4 2 Mamoru Morimoto   Japan 1:54.5
1 3 Zoltan Vamoș   Romania 2:00.9 Q
2 3 Norbert Haupert   Luxembourg 2:01.4 Q
3 3 Ahmet Akbaş   Turkey 2:01.7 Q
4 3 Volker Tulzer   Austria 1:57.0 (?)
1 4 John Holt   Great Britain 1:56.0 Q
2 4 Josef Odložil   Czechoslovakia 1:56.0 Q
3 4 Ohenia Asara   Ghana 1:56.2 Q
4 4 Mladen Zabev   Bulgaria 1:56.3
1 5 Özen Tuncel   Turkey 2:02.6 Q
2 5 Bruno Unseld   West Germany 2:02.6 Q
3 5 Milan Jílek   Czechoslovakia 2:02.6 Q
4 5 Hossein Ahmad Mir-Nezami   Iran 2:09.7
1 6 Per Knuts   Sweden 1:56.5 Q
2 6 Rudolf Klaban   Austria 1:56.9 Q
3 6 Georgi Zapundzhiev   Bulgaria 1:57.0 Q
4 6 Sokol Morina   Albania 1:57.4

Semifinals

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Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 Zoltan Vamoș   Romania 1:49.3 Q
2 1 Mike Fleet   Great Britain 1:49.5 Q
3 1 Vasily Savinkov   Soviet Union 1:49.5
4 1 Per Knuts   Sweden 1:50.0
5 1 Bruno Unseld   West Germany 1:52.4
6 1 Ohenia Asara   Ghana 1:54.1
1 2 Ron Delany   Ireland 1:50.7 Q
2 2 Rudolf Klaban   Austria 1:50.8 Q
3 2 Norbert Haupert   Luxembourg 1:51.6
4 2 Josef Odložil   Czechoslovakia 1:51.7
5 2 Evelio Planas   Cuba 1:54.7
6 2 Özen Tuncel   Turkey 2:00.2
1 3 Milan Jílek   Czechoslovakia 1:51.6 Q
2 3 Wolfgang Schöll   West Germany 1:51.9 Q
3 3 Volker Tulzer   Austria 1:52.3
4 3 John Holt   Great Britain 1:53.4
5 3 Georgi Zapundzhiev   Bulgaria 1:55.4
6 3 Ahmet Akbaş   Turkey 1:58.5

Final

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Rank Athlete Nationality Time Notes
  Ron Delany   Ireland 1:51.1
  Rudolf Klaban   Austria 1:51.4
  Wolfgang Schöll   West Germany 1:51.6
4 Milan Jílek   Czechoslovakia 1:51.9
5 Mike Fleet   Great Britain 1:52.1
6 Zoltan Vamoș   Romania 2:10.7

References

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