Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

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]

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the II Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 23 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
   United States
   Argentina
   United States
«1951
1959»

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 March 23.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Frank McKinney United States1:07.1= GR
Pedro Galvão Argentina1:07.8
Leonide Baarcke United States1:07.9
4João Gonçalves Filho Brazil1:08.3
5Ted Simpson Canada1:08.9
6Clemente Mejía Mexico1:10.3
7Peter Witteried United States1:10.3
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References

  1. "O GLOBO News Archive - March 24, 1955, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.today
  4. Resultados
  5. All Pan medalists - Male
  6. All Pan medalists - Female
  7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
  9. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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