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

Women's 50 metre freestyle at the XIII Pan American Games
Venue	Pan Am Pool
Dates	August 7 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
	«1995 2003»

Last updated October 29, 2019

The women's 50 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1999 Pan American Games took place on 7 August at the Pan Am Pool.^[1]

Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water. Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley. In addition to these individual events, four swimmers can take part in either a freestyle or medley relay. A medley relay consists of four swimmers who will each swim a different stroke, ordered as backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. Swimming each stroke requires a set of specific techniques; in competition, there are distinct regulations concerning the acceptable form for each individual stroke. There are also regulations on what types of swimsuits, caps, jewelry and injury tape that are allowed at competitions. Although it is possible for competitive swimmers to incur several injuries from the sport, such as tendinitis in the shoulders or knees, there are also multiple health benefits associated with the sport.

The 1999 Pan American Games, officially the XIII Pan American Games or the 13th Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event that was held from July 23 to August 8, 1999, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Approximately 5,000 athletes from 42 nations participated at the games. The competition was marred by a total of 7 positive drug tests.

The Pan Am Pool is an indoor swimming facility in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada built for the 1967 Pan American Games. It is located in southwest Winnipeg and consists of three pools, two of them used for competitive swimming, and one is a children's "kiddie pool".

Freestyle is a category of swimming competition, defined by the rules of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), in which competitors are subject to few limited restrictions on their swimming stroke. Freestyle races are the most common of all swimming competitions, with distances beginning with 50 meters and reaching 1500 meters, also known as the mile. The term 'freestyle stroke' is sometimes used as a synonym for 'front crawl', as front crawl is the fastest swimming stroke. It is now the most common stroke used in freestyle competitions.

The gold medalist was Tammie Spatz of the United States of America. The runner-up, Eileen Coparropa of Panama, won the first ever silver medal for her country in swimming at the Pan American Games.

Eileen Coparropa Panamanian female swimmer

Eileen Mary Coparropa Alemán is a female freestyle swimmer from Panama, who won a silver and a bronze medal in the women's 50m freestyle event at the Pan American Games. Nicknamed "La Sirena de Oro" she represented her native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996.

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 7.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tammie Spatz	United States	25.67	Q
2	-	-	-	Q
3	-	-	-	Q
4	Shannon Hosack	United States	26.22	Q
5	-	-	-	Q
6	-	-	-	Q
7	-	-	-	Q
8	-	-	-	Q

B Final

The B final was held on August 7.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
9	Janet Cook	Canada	26.97
10	Talía Barrios	Peru	27.22
11	Florencia Szigeti	Argentina	27.45
12	S.Mojica	Puerto Rico	27.69
13	Angela Chuck	Jamaica	28.13
14	Valeria Silva	Peru	29.06
15	Aydee Pereyra	Bolivia	29.54
16	Janelle Atkinson	Jamaica	30.01

A Final

The A final was held on August 7.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Tammie Spatz	United States	25.50
	Eileen Coparropa	Panama	25.78
	Laura Nicholls	Canada	26.10
4	Shannon Hosack	United States	26.27
4	Flávia Delaroli	Brazil	26.27
6	Tatiana Lemos	Brazil	26.66
7	Siobhan Cropper	Trinidad and Tobago	26.84
8	Leah Martindale	Barbados	26.91

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References

1 2 3 "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
↑ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
↑ 1999 Full results by Swimnews

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[fin-1] 1 2 3 "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 14 November 2013.

[manual-2] "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.

[3] 1999 Full results by Swimnews