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

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Women's 100 metre backstroke at the 1955 Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
Venue-
DatesMarch 24 (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 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]

Contents

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke. [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 24. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Leonore Fischer Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:16.7 GR
Silver medal icon.svg Coralie O'Connor Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:17.8
Bronze medal icon.svg Cynthia Gill Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:17.9
4 Shelley Mann Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:18.2
5 Sara Barber Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:18.8
6 Isa Teixeira Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1:20.4
7 Vanna Rocco Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 1:20.6
8 Liliana Gonzalias Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina -

References

  1. 1 2 "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.