Swimming at the 1951 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke

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Women's 100 metre freestyle at the 1951 Pan American Games
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Venue-
DatesMarch 2 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg   US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Mexico (1934-1968).svg  Mexico
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The women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1951 Pan American Games took place on 2 March. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Contents

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke. [9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final

The final was held on March 2. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Maureen O'Brien Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:18.5
Silver medal icon.svg Sheila Donahue Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:20.5
Bronze medal icon.svg Magda Bruggeman Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 1:21.4
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6 Ana de Santa Rita Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1:22.4
7 Idamys Busin Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1:22.8
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References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 3, 1951, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  4. Results
  5. All Pan medalists - Male
  6. "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
  9. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.