Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle

The women's 100 metre freestyle 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 Sharon Geary of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Women's 100 metre freestyle at the II Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 23 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
 Helen Stewart  Canada
 Wanda Werner  United States
 Virginia Grant  Canada
«1951
1959»

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

Final

The final was held on March 23.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Helen Stewart Canada1:07.7
Wanda Werner United States1:07.7
Virginia Grant Canada1:08.3
4Liliana Gonzalias Argentina1:08.4
5Gretchen Kluter United States1:08.9
6Shelley Mann United States1:09.3
7Eileen Holt Argentina1:09.3
8Cristina Kujath Argentina1:10.7

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 Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
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