Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the III Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates September 1 (preliminaries), September 3 (finals)
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   United States
«1955
1963»

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 1 September (preliminaires)[1][2] and 3 September (finals).[3] The last Pan American Games champion was Frank McKinney of US.[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

Heats

The first round was held on September 1.[1]

RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
13Frank McKinney United States1:03.2Q, GR
21Louis Schaeffer United States1:03.2Q
32Charles Bittick United States1:03.7Q
41Robert Wheaton Canada1:05.3Q
51Enrique Rabell Mexico1:07.2Q
62Athos de Oliveira Brazil1:07.8Q
73Álvaro Gaxiola Mexico1:07.9Q
82Pedro Diaz Argentina1:09.0Q
-3João de Almeida Brazil1:09.7

Final

The final was held on September 3.[3]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)Frank McKinney United States1:03.6
2nd, silver medalist(s)Charles Bittick United States1:04.2
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Louis Schaeffer United States1:05.3
4Robert Wheaton Canada1:05.5
5Álvaro Gaxiola Mexico1:07.5
6Enrique Rabell Mexico1:07.9
7Athos de Oliveira Brazil1:08.4
8Pedro Diaz Argentina-

References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - September 2, 1959, Morning, General, page 16". O GLOBO. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - September 4, 1959, Morning, General, page 14". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 8 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  4. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.is
  5. Resultados
  6. All Pan medalists - Male
  7. All Pan medalists - Female
  8. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  9. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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