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

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

Results

Heats

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

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

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

1. Results at Tilastopaja