Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

Women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 1979 Pan American Games
Venue	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates	July 3 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Tami Paumier    United States   Tracy Caulkins    United States   Anne Gagnon    Canada
«1975 1983»

The women's 100 metre breaststroke competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 3 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron. ^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Lauri Siering of US. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in breaststroke. ^[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

Heats

The first round was held on July 3. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tami Paumier	United States	1:14.47	Q
2	Tracy Caulkins	United States	1:14.93	Q
3	Anne Gagnon	Canada	1:15.34	Q
4	Robin Corsiglia	Canada	1:16.24	Q
5	Elke Holtz	Mexico	1:16.47	Q
6	Maria Matta	Brazil	1:17.52	Q
7	Alicia Boscatto	Argentina	1:17.74	Q, NR
8	Vilma Aguilera	Puerto Rico	1:18.42	Q
9	Yolanda Mendiola	Mexico	1:18.48
10	Agnes Nilsson	Brazil	1:20.26
11	Georgette Ednes	Bermuda	1:23.82	NR

Final

The final was held on July 3. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tami Paumier	United States	1:12.20	NR , GR
	Tracy Caulkins	United States	1:12.52
	Anne Gagnon	Canada	1:14.38
4	Robin Corsiglia	Canada	1:15.45
5	Elke Holtz	Mexico	1:15.45	NR
6	Maria Matta	Brazil	1:17.76
7	Alicia Boscatto	Argentina	1:17.85
8	Vilma Aguilera	Puerto Rico	1:18.12	NR

References

1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
2. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
3. Hickosports Results
4. All Pan medalists - Male
5. "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
6. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
7. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
8. Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine