Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle

Women's 100 metre freestyle
at the III Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesSeptember 1 (preliminaries), September 4 (finals)
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   United States
«19551963»

The women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 1 September (preliminaries)[1][2] and 4 September (finals).[3] The last Pan American Games champion was Helen Stewart of Canada.[4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.[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 2 Chris von Saltza  United States 1:04.2 Q, GR
2 2 Joan Spillane  United States 1:05.3 Q
3 1 Molly Botkin  United States 1:06.2 Q
4 2 Margareth Iwasaki  Canada 1:06.3 Q
5 1 Blanca Barrón  Mexico 1:07.6 Q
6 1 Maria Luísa Sousa  Mexico 1:08.2 Q
7 1 Helen Hunt  Canada 1:08.5 Q
8 2 Sandra Scott  Canada 1:09.4 Q
- - Maria Teixeira  Brazil 1:11.6
- - Glória Funaro  Brazil 1:11.9
- - Lílian Moreira  Brazil 1:12.8

Final

The final was held on September 4.[3]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Chris von Saltza  United States 1:03.8 GR
2nd Molly Botkin  United States 1:05.7
3rd Joan Spillane  United States 1:05.8
4 Margareth Iwasaki  Canada 1:06.0
5 Blanca Barrón  Mexico 1:08.5
6 Maria Luísa Sousa  Mexico 1:08.8
6 Sandra Scott  Canada 1:08.8
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References

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