Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke

Women's 100 metre backstroke at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	March 24 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Leonore Fischer    Canada   Coralie O'Connor    United States   Cynthia Gill    United States
«1951 1959»

The women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 24 March. ^{[1] [2]} The last Pan American Games champion was Maureen O'Brien of US. ^{[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:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Final

The final was held on March 24. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Leonore Fischer	Canada	1:16.7	GR
	Coralie O'Connor	United States	1:17.8
	Cynthia Gill	United States	1:17.9
4	Shelley Mann	United States	1:18.2
5	Sara Barber	Canada	1:18.8
6	Isa Teixeira	Brazil	1:20.4
7	Vanna Rocco	Argentina	1:20.6
8	Liliana Gonzalias	Argentina	-

References

1. "O GLOBO News Archive - March 25, 1955, Morning, General, page 10". O GLOBO. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
2. O GLOBO News Archive
3. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
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.