Athletics at the 1951 Pan American Games

Athletics at the 1951 Pan American Games
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

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

Women's events

Peruvian athlete Julia Sánchez

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Julia Sánchez   Peru	12.2	Jean Patton  United States	12.3	Lilián Heinz   Argentina	12.7
200 metres details	Jean Patton  United States	25.3	Nell Jackson  United States	25.7	Adriana Millard   Chile	26.1
80 metres hurdles details	Eliana Gaete   Chile	11.9	Marion Huber   Chile	12.0	Nancy Phillips  United States	12.1
4 × 100 metres relay details	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 details	Jacinta Sandiford   Ecuador	1.46	Lucy López   Chile	1.46	Elizabeth Müller   Brazil	1.46
Long jump details	Beatriz Kretschmer   Chile	5.42	Lisa Peters   Chile	5.20	Wanda dos Santos   Brazil	5.18
Shot put details	Ingeborg Mello   Argentina	12.45	Vera Trezoitko   Brazil	11.59	Ingeborg Pfüller   Argentina	11.58
Discus throw details	Ingeborg Mello   Argentina	38.55	Ingeborg Pfüller   Argentina	37.19	Frances Kaszubski  United States	35.84
Javelin throw details [nb]	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

  *   Host nation (Argentina)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	17	11	6	34
2	Argentina*	7	8	12	27
3	Chile	3	6	3	12
4	Cuba	2	1	1	4
5	Brazil	1	3	5	9
6	Peru	1	2	0	3
7	Colombia	1	0	0	1
	Ecuador	1	0	0	1
9	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	0	1
11	Jamaica	0	0	3	3
12	Guatemala	0	0	2	2
13	Panama	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		33	33	33	99

Participating nations

•   Argentina (70)
•   Brazil (20)
•   Chile (36)
•   Colombia (12)
•   Cuba (9)
•   Ecuador (7)
•   Guatemala (7)
•   Jamaica (1)
•   Mexico (13)
•   Panama (2)
•   Paraguay (11)
•   Peru (12)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (6)
•   United States (31)
•   Venezuela (6)

References

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.

• 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)