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

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 31 August (preliminaires)[1][2] and 2 September (finals).[3] The last Pan American Games champion was Clarke Scholes of US.[4][5][6][7][8]

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the III Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 31 (preliminaries), September 2 (finals)
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   United States
«1955
1963»

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 August 31.[1]

RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
12Jeffrey Farrell United States56.5Q, GR
23Elton Follett United States56.6Q
34Cameron Grout Canada57.2Q
41Bill Woolsey United States57.4Q
52Thomas Verth Canada57.7Q
64Manuel dos Santos Brazil58.1Q
71Francisco Carioba Brazil59.1Q
84Jorge Escalante Mexico59.2Q

Final

The final was held on September 2.[3]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Jeffrey Farrell United States56.3GR
Elton Follett United States57.2
Bill Woolsey United States57.6
4Manuel dos Santos Brazil58.2
5Cameron Grout Canada-
6Thomas Verth Canada-
7Francisco Carioba Brazil59.6
8Jorge Escalante Mexico-

References

  1. "O GLOBO News Archive - September 1, 1959, Morning, General, page 16". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. "O GLOBO News Archive - September 3, 1959, Morning, General, page 16". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  4. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.today
  5. Resultados
  6. All Pan medalists - Male
  7. All Pan medalists - Female
  8. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  9. Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
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