Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke

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Women's 100 metre backstroke at the III Pan American Games
Swimming pictogram.svg
Venue-
DatesSeptember 5 (preliminaries), September 6 (finals)
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   US flag 48 stars.svg  United States
Silver medal icon.svg   Canadian Red Ensign (1957-1965).svg  Canada
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 1959 Pan American Games took place on 5 September (preliminaries) and 6 September (final). [1] [2] The last Pan American Games champion was Leonore Fisher of Canada. [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

The first round was held on September 5. [1]

RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
1- Sara Barber Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:12.7Q, GR
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Final

The final was held on September 6. [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Carin Cone Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:12.2 GR
Silver medal icon.svg Sara Barber Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:12.3
Bronze medal icon.svg Christine Kluter Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:12.4
4 Lynn Burke Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1:13.8
5 Lynn Scott Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:17.1
6 Dulce Okayama Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 1:22.9
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References

  1. 1 2 3 "O GLOBO News Archive - September 7, 1959, Morning, Sports, page 6". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 8 September 2013. Retrieved 7 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. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.