Athletics at the 1971 Pan American Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 800 metres event at the 1971 Pan American Games was held in Cali on 1, 2 and 3 August.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ken Swenson  United States	Art Sandison  United States	Byron Dyce  Jamaica

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Byron Dyce	Jamaica	1:50.54	Q
2	1	Art Sandison	United States	1:50.67	Q
3	1	Donaldo Arza	Panama	1:50.81	Q
4	1	Carlos Rodolfo Martínez	Mexico	1:50.92	Q
5	1	Fabio Zúñiga	Colombia	1:52.24
6	3	Bill Smart	Canada	1:52.90	Q
7	2	Lennox Stewart	Trinidad and Tobago	1:53.02	Q
8	2	Gildardo López	Mexico	1:53.06	Q
9	3	Hugo Burgos	Colombia	1:53.07	Q
10	3	Daniel Gajate	Argentina	1:53.19	Q
11	3	Rómulo Carreño	Venezuela	1:53.38	Q
12	2	Leandro Civil	Cuba	1:53.46	Q
13	2	Ken Swenson	United States	1:53.48	Q
14	2	Carlos Heuchert	Argentina	1:53.52
15	3	Roberto Salmona	Chile	1:53.61
16	4	Darcy Pereira	Brazil	1:54.58	Q
17	2	Jorge Alemán	Peru	1:54.72
18	4	Sergio Llanusa	Cuba	1:55.60	Q
19	4	Benedict Cayenne	Trinidad and Tobago	1:55.62	Q
20	4	Víctor Ríos	Chile	1:55.67	Q
21	4	Modesto Comprés	Dominican Republic	1:55.71
22	2	Sixto Lora	Dominican Republic	1:56.63
23	4	Joseph Anilus	Haiti	2:00.12
24	4	José Siguas	Peru	2:03.73
25	1	Maurice Charlotin	Haiti	2:10.72

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Lennox Stewart	Trinidad and Tobago	1:52.05	Q
2	1	Byron Dyce	Jamaica	1:52.08	Q
3	2	Art Sandison	United States	1:52.11	Q
4	1	Ken Swenson	United States	1:52.24	Q
5	2	Carlos Rodolfo Martínez	Mexico	1:52.27	Q
6	1	Benedict Cayenne	Trinidad and Tobago	1:52.28	Q
7	1	Bill Smart	Canada	1:52.32	Q
8	2	Leandro Civil	Cuba	1:52.34	Q
9	1	Donaldo Arza	Panama	1:52.51
10	2	Rómulo Carreño	Venezuela	1:52.80
11	2	Hugo Burgos	Colombia	1:53.15
12	2	Víctor Ríos	Chile	1:53.34
13	1	Sergio Llanusa	Cuba	1:53.85
14	1	Darcy Pereira	Brazil	1:54.33
15	2	Daniel Gajate	Argentina	1:54.77
16	1	Gildardo López	Mexico	1:57.25

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ken Swenson	United States	1:48.08	GR
	Art Sandison	United States	1:48.42
	Byron Dyce	Jamaica	1:48.42
4	Lennox Stewart	Trinidad and Tobago	1:48.80
5	Leandro Civil	Cuba	1:50.03
6	Bill Smart	Canada	1:50.28
7	Benedict Cayenne	Trinidad and Tobago	1:51.95
8	Carlos Rodolfo Martínez	Mexico	1:52.07