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

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the III Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesSeptember 1 (preliminaries), September 3 (finals)
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   United States
«19551963»

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 1 September (preliminaires)[1][2] and 3 September (finals).[3] The last Pan American Games champion was Frank McKinney of US.[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: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

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

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Frank McKinney  United States 1:03.2 Q, GR
2 1 Louis Schaeffer  United States 1:03.2 Q
3 2 Charles Bittick  United States 1:03.7 Q
4 1 Robert Wheaton  Canada 1:05.3 Q
5 1 Enrique Rabell  Mexico 1:07.2 Q
6 2 Athos de Oliveira  Brazil 1:07.8 Q
7 3 Álvaro Gaxiola  Mexico 1:07.9 Q
8 2 Pedro Diaz  Argentina 1:09.0 Q
- 3 João de Almeida  Brazil 1:09.7

Final

The final was held on September 3.[3]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Frank McKinney  United States 1:03.6
2nd Charles Bittick  United States 1:04.2
3rd Louis Schaeffer  United States 1:05.3
4 Robert Wheaton  Canada 1:05.5
5 Álvaro Gaxiola  Mexico 1:07.5
6 Enrique Rabell  Mexico 1:07.9
7 Athos de Oliveira  Brazil 1:08.4
8 Pedro Diaz  Argentina -

References

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