Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the VI Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates August 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors - from - nations
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   Canada
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The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 6 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Don Schollander 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 August 6.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)Mel Nash United States59.8
2nd, silver medalist(s)John Murphy United States1:00.8
3rd, bronze medalist(s)Bill Kennedy Canada1:01.4
4José Santibáñez Mexico1:02.4
5César Lourenço Brazil1:03.1
6Erik Fish Canada1:03.7
7Rafael Rocha Mexico1:03:8
8Carlos Yanguas Colombia1:05.0

References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - August 7, 1971, Morning, General, page 17". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 30 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 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. Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
  9. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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