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

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Women's 100 metre butterfly at the 1955 Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
Venue-
DatesMarch 25 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Canada (1921-1957).svg  Canada
Silver medal icon.svg   US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Bronze medal icon.svg   US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
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The women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 25 March. [1] [2] It was the first appearance of this event in the Pan American Games. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

Contents

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in butterfly. [8]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final

The final was held on March 25. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Beth Whittall Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:16.2 GR
Silver medal icon.svg Betty Brey Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:16.5
Bronze medal icon.svg Shelley Mann Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:17.7
4 Mary Jane Sears Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:18.2
5 Maria Amicha Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 1:22.7
6 Linda Shler Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:30.2
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References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 26, 1955, Morning, General, page 2". 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.