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
| 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 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} 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 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} 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.png.webp){kind=small} Ghana | 1:56.2 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Mladen Zabev | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} 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 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} 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 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} 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 |
References
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