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

Women's 100 metre backstroke at the III Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates September 5 (preliminaries), September 6 (finals)
Medalists
 Carin Cone  United States
 Sara Barber  Canada
 Christine Kluter  United States
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The women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 5 September (preliminaries) and 6 September (final).[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Leonore Fisher of Canada.[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

Heats

The first round was held on September 5.[1]

RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
1-Sara Barber Canada1:12.7Q, GR
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Final

The final was held on September 6.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)Carin Cone United States1:12.2GR
2nd, silver medalist(s)Sara Barber Canada1:12.3
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Christine Kluter United States1:12.4
4Lynn Burke United States1:13.8
5Lynn Scott Canada1:17.1
6Dulce Okayama Brazil1:22.9
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References

  1. 1 2 3 "O GLOBO News Archive - September 7, 1959, Morning, Sports, page 6". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 8 September 2013. Retrieved 7 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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