Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the II Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates March 23 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
   United States
   Argentina
   United States
«1951
1959»

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 23 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Allen Stack of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Final

The final was held on March 23.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)Frank McKinney United States1:07.1= GR
2nd, silver medalist(s)Pedro Galvão Argentina1:07.8
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Leonide Baarcke United States1:07.9
4João Gonçalves Filho Brazil1:08.3
5Ted Simpson Canada1:08.9
6Clemente Mejía Mexico1:10.3
7Peter Witteried United States1:10.3
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References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 24, 1955, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.is
  4. Resultados
  5. All Pan medalists - Male
  6. All Pan medalists - Female
  7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine.
  9. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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