Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke
at the VI Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   Canada
«19671975»

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 6 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Don Schollander 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: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Final

The final was held on August 6.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Mel Nash  United States 59.8
2nd John Murphy  United States 1:00.8
3rd Bill Kennedy  Canada 1:01.4
4 José Santibáñez  Mexico 1:02.4
5 César Lourenço  Brazil 1:03.1
6 Erik Fish  Canada 1:03.7
7 Rafael Rocha  Mexico 1:03:8
8 Carlos Yanguas  Colombia 1:05.0

References

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