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

Women's 100 metre freestyle at the III Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	September 1 (preliminaries), September 4 (finals)
Medalists
Chris von Saltza   United States   Molly Botkin   United States   Joan Spillane   United States
«1955 1963»

The women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 1 September (preliminaries)^[1][2] and 4 September (finals).^[3] The last Pan American Games champion was Helen Stewart of Canada.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.^[9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Chris von Saltza	United States	1:04.2	Q, GR
2	2	Joan Spillane	United States	1:05.3	Q
3	1	Molly Botkin	United States	1:06.2	Q
4	2	Margareth Iwasaki	Canada	1:06.3	Q
5	1	Blanca Barrón	Mexico	1:07.6	Q
6	1	Maria Luísa Sousa	Mexico	1:08.2	Q
7	1	Helen Hunt	Canada	1:08.5	Q
8	2	Sandra Scott	Canada	1:09.4	Q
-	-	Maria Teixeira	Brazil	1:11.6
-	-	Glória Funaro	Brazil	1:11.9
-	-	Lílian Moreira	Brazil	1:12.8

Final

The final was held on September 4.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Chris von Saltza	United States	1:03.8	GR
	Molly Botkin	United States	1:05.7
	Joan Spillane	United States	1:05.8
4	Margareth Iwasaki	Canada	1:06.0
5	Blanca Barrón	Mexico	1:08.5
6	Maria Luísa Sousa	Mexico	1:08.8
6	Sandra Scott	Canada	1:08.8
8	-	-	-

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