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.

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