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

Women's 100 metre backstroke at the II Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates March 24 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
 Leonore Fischer  Canada
 Coralie O'Connor  United States
 Cynthia Gill  United States
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The women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 24 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Maureen O'Brien of US.[3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[8]

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 24.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)Leonore Fischer Canada1:16.7GR
2nd, silver medalist(s)Coralie O'Connor United States1:17.8
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Cynthia Gill United States1:17.9
4Shelley Mann United States1:18.2
5Sara Barber Canada1:18.8
6Isa Teixeira Brazil1:20.4
7Vanna Rocco Argentina1:20.6
8Liliana Gonzalias Argentina-

References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 25, 1955, Morning, General, page 10". O GLOBO. 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. ↑ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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