Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke
| Men's 100 metre backstroke at the II Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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| Venue | - | |||||||||
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| Dates | March 23 (preliminaries and finals) | |||||||||
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| «1951 | 1959» | |||||||||
The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 23 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Allen Stack of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[9]
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 |
Final
The final was held on March 23.[1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Frank McKinney |  United States | 1:07.1 | = GR |
 | Pedro Galvão |  Argentina | 1:07.8 | |
 | Leonide Baarcke | United States | 1:07.9 | |
| 4 | João Gonçalves Filho |  Brazil | 1:08.3 | |
| 5 | Ted Simpson |  Canada | 1:08.9 | |
| 6 | Clemente Mejía |  Mexico | 1:10.3 | |
| 7 | Peter Witteried | United States | 1:10.3 | |
| 8 | - | - | - |
References
- 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 24, 1955, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ↑ O GLOBO News Archive
- ↑ Hickoksports
- ↑ Resultados
- ↑ All Pan medalists - Male
- ↑ All Pan medalists - Female
- ↑ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
- ↑ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
- ↑ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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