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Athletics at the 1951 Pan American Games

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Athletics at the 1951 Pan American Games
VenueRiver Plate Stadium
Date27 February – 6 March
Competitors243 from 15 nations
1955»

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

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Men's events

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Mal Whitfield won the 400 m
Cuban Rafael Fortún won the 200 m
US athletes Bill Brown, Hugo Maiocco, and Mal Whitfield
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Rafael Fortún
 Cuba
10.6 Art Bragg
 United States
10.6 Herb McKenley
 Jamaica
11.0
200 metres
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Rafael Fortún
 Cuba
21.3 Art Bragg
 United States
21.4 Herb McKenley
 Jamaica
21.5
400 metres
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Mal Whitfield
 United States
47.8 Hugo Maiocco
 United States
48 Herb McKenley
 Jamaica
48.2
800 metres
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Mal Whitfield
 United States
1:53.2 Bill Brown
 United States
1:53.3 Hugo Maiocco
 United States
1:53.6
1500 metres
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Browning Ross
 United States
4:00.4 Guillermo Solá
 Chile
4:00.5 John Twomey
 United States
4:02.0
5000 metres
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Ricardo Bralo
 Argentina
14:57.2 John Twomey
 United States
14:57.5 Gustavo Rojas
 Chile
15:06.4
10,000 metres
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Curt Stone
 United States
31:08.6 Ricardo Bralo
 Argentina
31:09.4 Ezequiel Bustamente
 Argentina
32:31.8
Marathon
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Delfo Cabrera
 Argentina
2:35:01 Reinaldo Gorno
 Argentina
2:45:00 Luis Velásquez
 Guatemala
2:46:03
110 metres hurdles
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Dick Attlesey
 United States
14.0 Estanislao Kocourek
 Argentina
14.2 Samuel Anderson
 Cuba
14.2
400 metres hurdles
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Jaime Aparicio
 Colombia
53.4 Wilson Carneiro
 Brazil
53.7 Don Halderman
 United States
54.5
3000 metres steeplechase
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Curt Stone
 United States
9:32.0 Browning Ross
 United States
9:32.0 Pedro Caffa
 Argentina
9:44.6
4 × 100 metres relay
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 United States
Donald Campbell
Art Bragg
Dick Attlesey
John Voight
41.0  Cuba
Raúl Mazorra
Angel García
Jesús Farrés
Rafael Fortún
41.2  Argentina
Gerardo Bönnhoff
Adelio Márquez
Fernando Lapuente
Mariano Acosta
41.8
4 × 400 metres relay
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 United States
Bill Brown
Mal Whitfield
John Voight
Hugo Maiocco
3:09.9  Chile
Jaime Hitelman
Reinaldo Martín Muller
Gustavo Ehlers
Jörn Gevert
3:17.7  Argentina
Guido Veronese
Máximo Guerra
Julio Ferreyra
Eduardo Balducci
3:18.4
10,000 metres walk
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Henry Laskau
 United States
50:26.8 Luis Turza
 Argentina
52:27.5 Martín Casas
 Argentina
52:59.6
50 kilometres walk
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Sixto Ibáñez
 Argentina
5:06:07 James Jackson
 Trinidad and Tobago
5:21:13 Amando González
 Argentina
5:27:01
High jump
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Virgil Severns
 United States
1.95 Cal Clark
 United States
1.90 Adilton de Almeida
 Brazil
1.90
Pole vault
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Bob Richards
 United States
4.50 Jaime Piqueras
 Peru
3.90 Sinibaldo Gerbasi
 Brazil
3.90
Long jump
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Gay Bryan
 United States
7.14 Albino Geist
 Argentina
7.09 Jim Holland
 United States
6.95
Triple jump
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Adhemar da Silva
 Brazil
15.19 Hélio da Silva
 Brazil
15.17 Bruno Witthaus
 Argentina
14.34
Shot put
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Jim Fuchs
 United States
17.25 Juan Kahnert
 Argentina
14.27 Nadim Marreis
 Brazil
14.07
Discus throw
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Jim Fuchs
 United States
48.91 Dick Doyle
 United States
47.28 Elvio Porta
 Argentina
44.93
Hammer throw
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Emilio Ortíz
 Argentina
48.04 Manuel Etchepare
 Argentina
46.12 Arturo Melcher
 Chile
45.70
Javelin throw
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Ricardo Héber
 Argentina
68.08 Steve Seymour
 United States
67.08 Horst Walter
 Argentina
66.33
Decathlon
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Hernán Figueroa
 Chile
6610 Hernán Alzamora
 Peru
6063 Enrique Salazar
 Guatemala
4380

Women's events

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Peruvian athlete Julia Sánchez
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Julia Sánchez
 Peru
12.2 Jean Patton
 United States
12.3 Lilián Heinz
 Argentina
12.7
200 metres
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Jean Patton
 United States
25.3 Nell Jackson
 United States
25.7 Adriana Millard
 Chile
26.1
80 metres hurdles
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Eliana Gaete
 Chile
11.9 Marion Huber
 Chile
12.0 Nancy Phillips
 United States
12.1
4 × 100 metres relay
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 United States
Nell Jackson
Jean Patton
Dolores Dwyer
Janet Moreau
48.7  Chile
Adriana Millard
Hildegard Kreft
Betty Kretschmer
Eliana Gaete
49.3  Argentina
Olga Bianchi
Teresa Carvajal
Lilián Heinz
Ana María Fontán
49.8
High jump
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Jacinta Sandiford
 Ecuador
1.46 Lucy López
 Chile
1.46 Elizabeth Müller
 Brazil
1.46
Long jump
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Beatriz Kretschmer
 Chile
5.42 Lisa Peters
 Chile
5.20 Wanda dos Santos
 Brazil
5.18
Shot put
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Ingeborg Mello
 Argentina
12.45 Vera Trezoitko
 Brazil
11.59 Ingeborg Pfüller
 Argentina
11.58
Discus throw
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Ingeborg Mello
 Argentina
38.55 Ingeborg Pfüller
 Argentina
37.19 Frances Kaszubski
 United States
35.84
Javelin throw
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Hortensia López García
 Mexico
39.45 Amelia Bert
 United States
38.08 Berta Chiú
 Mexico
37.97
  • 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

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  *   Host nation (Argentina)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 United States1711634
2 Argentina*781227
3 Chile36312
4 Cuba2114
5 Brazil1359
6 Peru1203
7 Colombia1001
 Ecuador1001
9 Mexico0101
 Trinidad and Tobago0101
11 Jamaica0033
12 Guatemala0022
13 Panama0011
Totals (13 entries)33333399

Participating nations

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References

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  1. ^ Óscar I. Guevara (14 October 2011). "Ad Hominem Deportivus". Televisa Sports (in Spanish).
  2. ^ I Pan American Game, Buenos Aires 1951 Women, Field. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2018-01-13.