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

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Men's 100 metre backstroke at the II Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
Venue-
DatesMarch 23 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
Bronze medal icon.svg   US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
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The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 23 March. [1] [2] The last Pan American Games champion was Allen Stack of US. [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 23. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Frank McKinney Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:07.1= GR
Silver medal icon.svg Pedro Galvão Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 1:07.8
Bronze medal icon.svg Leonide Baarcke Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:07.9
4 João Gonçalves Filho Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1:08.3
5 Ted Simpson Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:08.9
6 Clemente Mejía Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 1:10.3
7 Peter Witteried Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:10.3
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References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 24, 1955, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. 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". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  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.