Athletics at the 1951 Pan American Games explained

Event:	Athletics
Year:	1951
Venue:	River Plate Stadium
Date:	27 February – 6 March
Competitors:	243
Nations:	15
Next:	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

Men's events

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

Women's events

	Julia Sánchez	12.2	Jean Patton	12.3	Lilián Heinz	12.7
	Jean Patton	25.3	Nell Jackson	25.7	Adriana Millard	26.1
	Eliana Gaete	11.9	Marion Huber	12.0	Nancy Phillips	12.1
	Nell Jackson Jean Patton Dolores Dwyer Janet Moreau	48.7	Adriana Millard Hildegard Kreft Betty Kretschmer Eliana Gaete	49.3	Olga Bianchi Teresa Carvajal Lilián Heinz Ana María Fontán	49.8
	Jacinta Sandiford	1.46	Lucy López	1.46	Elizabeth Müller	1.46
	Beatriz Kretschmer	5.42	Lisa Peters	5.20	Wanda dos Santos	5.18
	Ingeborg Mello	12.45	Vera Trezoitko	11.59	Ingeborg Pfüller	11.58
	Ingeborg Mello	38.55	Ingeborg Pfüller	37.19	Frances Kaszubski	35.84
	Hortensia López García	39.45	Amelia Bert	38.08	Berta Chiú	37.97

• 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]

References

• Book: Olderr, Steven . The Pan American Games: A Statistical History, 1951-1999, bilingual edition . 2009 . . 0786443367. .
• GBR Athletics: Pan American Games

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ad Hominem Deportivus. Televisa Sports. 14 October 2011. Óscar I. Guevara. es.
2. http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Tournaments.asp?TourCode=P&Year=1951&Gender=W&TF=F&P=R I Pan American Game, Buenos Aires 1951 Women, Field