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
edit| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
Ron Delany Ireland
|
Rudolf Klaban Austria
|
Wolfgang Schöll West Germany
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Results
editHeats
edit| 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 | .svg){kind=small} 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
edit| 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
edit| 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 |