Athletics at the 1951 Pan American Games – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1951 Pan American Games was held at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires on 28 February and 1 March.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mal Whitfield  United States	Bill Brown  United States	Hugo Maiocco  United States

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Mal Whitfield	United States	1:57.7	Q
2	1	Julio Ferreyra	Argentina	1:57.8	Q
3	1	Frank Prince	Panama	1:58.1	Q
4	1	Argemiro Roque	Brazil	1:58.1	Q
5	1	Hugo Maiocco	United States	?:??.?	Q
6	1	Wilfred Tull	Trinidad and Tobago	?:??.?
7	1	Filemón Camacho	Venezuela	?:??.?
8	1	Rubén Figueredo	Paraguay	?:??.?
	1	Samuel Álvarez	Mexico	DNS
1	2	Eduardo Balducci	Argentina	1:57.2	Q
2	2	Evelio Planas	Cuba	1:58.2	Q
3	2	Bill Brown	United States	1:58.3	Q
4	2	Luis Modeste	Trinidad and Tobago	1:58.9	Q
5	2	Adolfo Augustin	Argentina	?:??.?	Q
6	2	Libardo Mora	Colombia	?:??.?
7	2	Luís Rodrigues	Brazil	?:??.?
8	2	Anastasio Zelaya	Paraguay	?:??.?
9	2	Rogelio Gómez	Peru	?:??.?

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mal Whitfield	United States	1:53.2
	Bill Brown	United States	1:53.3
	Hugo Maiocco	United States	1:53.6
4	Julio Ferreyra	Argentina	1:53.6
5	Argemiro Roque	Brazil	1:54.6e
6	Eduardo Balducci	Argentina	1:54.7e
7	Adolfo Augustin	Argentina	1:55.6e
8	Evelio Planas	Cuba	1:56.6e
9	Luis Modeste	Trinidad and Tobago	?:??.?
10	Frank Prince	Panama	?:??.?