Swimming at the 1999 Pan American Games – Men's 50 metre freestyle

Men's 50 metre freestyle at the 1999 Pan American Games
Venue	Pan Am Pool
Dates	August 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Fernando Scherer    Brazil   José Meolans    Argentina   Marcos Hernández    Cuba
«1995 2003»

The men's 50 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1999 Pan American Games took place on 6 August at the Pan Am Pool. ^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Fernando Scherer of Brazil. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

This race consisted of one length of the pool in freestyle. ^[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 August 6. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Fernando Scherer	Brazil	22.22	Q, GR
2	-	-	-	Q
3	-	-	-	Q
4	-	-	-	Q
5	-	-	-	Q
6	-	-	-	Q
7	-	-	-	Q
8	Jerrod Kappler	United States	23.24	Q
9	Yannick Lupien	Canada	23.24
13	Matthew Busbee	United States	23.50

B Final

The B final was held on August 6. ^[9]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	Ricardo Busquets	Puerto Rico	22.76
10	Pablo Abal	Argentina	23.29
11	Francisco Sánchez	Venezuela	23.30
12	Yannick Lupien	Canada	23.41
13	Craig Hutchison	Canada	23.57
13	Matthew Busbee	United States	23.57
15	Francisco Páez	Venezuela	23.87
16	Tim Moffet	Panama	24.52

A Final

The A final was held on August 6. ^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Fernando Scherer	Brazil	22.24
	José Meolans	Argentina	22.46
	Marcos Hernández	Cuba	22.79
4	Gustavo Borges	Brazil	23.06
5	Jerrod Kappler	United States	23.17
6	Christopher Murray	Bahamas	23.22
7	Allan Murray	Bahamas	23.30
8	Felipe Delgado	Ecuador	23.37

References

1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 7 November 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 2013-11-07.
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" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
9. 1999 Full results by Swimnews