The Athletics Competition at the 1951 Pan American Games was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Rafael Fortún  Cuba	10.6	Art Bragg  United States	10.6	Herb McKenley  Jamaica	11.0
200 metres	Rafael Fortún  Cuba	21.3	Art Bragg  United States	21.4	Herb McKenley  Jamaica	21.5
400 metres	Mal Whitfield  United States	47.8	Hugo Maiocco  United States	48	Herb McKenley  Jamaica	48.2
800 metres	Mal Whitfield  United States	1:53.2	Bill Brown  United States	1:53.3	Hugo Maiocco  United States	1:53.6
1500 metres	H. Browning Ross  United States	4:00.4	Guillermo Solá  Chile	4:00.5	John Twomey  United States	4:02.0
5000 metres	Ricardo Bralo  Argentina	14:57.2	John Twomey  United States	14:57.5	Gustavo Rojas  Chile	15:06.4
10000 metres	Curt Stone  United States	31:08.6	Ricardo Bralo  Argentina	31:09.4	Ezequiel Bustamente  Argentina	32:31.8
Marathon	Delfo Cabrera  Argentina	2:35:01	Reinaldo Gorno  Argentina	2:45:00	Luis Valázquez  Guatemala	2:46:03
3000 metre steeplechase	H. Browning Ross  United States	9:32.0	Curt Stone  United States	9:32.0	Pedro Caffa  Argentina	9:44.6
110 metres hurdles	Dick Attlesey  United States	14.0	Estanislao Kocourek  Argentina	14.2	Samuel Anderson  Cuba	14.2
400 metres hurdles	Jaime Aparicio  Colombia	53.4	Wilson Carneiro  Brazil	53.7	Don Halderman  United States	54.5
High jump	Virgil Severns  United States	1.95	Cal Clark  United States	1.90	Adilton de Almeida  Brazil	1.90
Pole vault	Bob Richards  United States	4.50	Jaime Piqueras  Peru	3.90	Sinibaldo Gerbasi  Brazil	3.90
Long jump	Gay Bryan  United States	7.14	Albino Geist  Argentina	7.09	Jim Holland  United States	6.95
Triple jump	Adhemar da Silva  Brazil	15.19	Hélio da Silva  Brazil	15.17	Bruno Witthaus  Argentina	14.34
Shot put	Jim Fuchs  United States	17.25	Juan Kahnert  Argentina	14.27	Nadim Marreis  Brazil	14.07
Discus throw	Jim Fuchs  United States	48.91	Dick Doyle  United States	47.28	Elvio Porta  Argentina	44.93
Hammer throw	Emilio Ortiz  Argentina	48.04	Manuel Etchepare  Argentina	46.12	Arturo Melcher  Chile	45.70
Javelin throw	Ricardo Heber  Argentina	68.08	Steve Seymour  United States	67.08	Horst Walter  Argentina	66.33
Decathlon	Hernán Figueroa  Chile	6610	Hernán Alzamora  Peru	6063	Enrique Salazar  Guatemala	4380
10000 metre track walk	Henry Laskau  United States	50:26.8	Luis Turza  Argentina	52:27.5	Martín Casas  Argentina	52:59.6
50 kilometre road walk	Sixto Ibáñez  Mexico	5:06:07	James Jackson  United States	5:21:13	Amando González  Argentina	5:27:01
4 x 100 metres relay	United States Donald Campbell Art Bragg Richard 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 x 400 metres relay	United States Bill Brown Mal Whitfield John Voight Hugo Maiocco	3:09.9	Chile Jaime Itlmann Martín Gustavo Ehlers Jörn Gevert	3:17.7	Argentina Guido Veronese Máximo Guerra Julio Ferreyra Eduardo Balducci	3:18.4

[edit] Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Julia Sánchez  Peru	12.2	Jean Patton  United States	12.3	Lilián Heinz  Argentina	12.7
200 metres	Jean Patton  United States	25.3	Nell Jackson  United States	25.7	Adriana Millard  Chile	26.1
80 metres hurdles	Eliana Gaete  Chile	11.9	Marion Huber  Chile	12.0	Nancy Phillips  United States	12.1
High jump	Jacinta Sandiford  Ecuador	1.46	Lucy López  Chile	1.46	Elizabeth Müller  Brazil	1.46
Long jump	Beatriz Kretschmer  Chile	5.42	Lisa Peters  Chile	5.20	Wanda dos Santos  Brazil	5.18
Shot put	Ingeborg Mello  Argentina	12.45	Vera Trezoitko  Brazil	11.59	Ingeborg Pfüller  Argentina	11.58
Discus throw	Ingeborg Mello  Argentina	38.55	Ingeborg Pfüller  Argentina	37.19	Frances Kaszubski  United States	35.84
Javelin throw	Hortensia García  Mexico	39.45	Amelia Bert  United States	38.08	Berta Chiú  Mexico	37.78
4 x 100 metres relay	United States Nell Jackson Jean Patton Dolores Dwyer Janet Moreau	48.7	Chile Adriana Millard Kreft Betty Kretschmer Eliana Gaete	49.3	Argentina Olga Bianchi Teresa Carvajal Lilián Heinz Ana María Fontán	49.8

[edit] Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	16	13	6	35
2	Argentina	6	8	12	26
3	Chile	3	6	3	12
4	Cuba	2	1	1	4
5	Mexico	2	0	1	3
6	Brazil	1	3	5	9
7	Peru	1	2	0	3
8	Colombia	1	0	0	1
	Ecuador	1	0	0	1
10	Jamaica	0	0	3	3
11	Guatemala	0	0	2	2

[edit] References

• GBR Athletics

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