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

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Women's 100 metre butterfly at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 25 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal   Canada
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   United States
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1959»

The women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 25 March.[1][2] It was the first appearance of this event in the Pan American Games.[3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in butterfly.[8]

Results

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All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: q Fastest non-qualifiers Q Qualified GR Games record NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best

Heats

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Final

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The final was held on March 25.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Beth Whittall  Canada 1:16.2 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Betty Brey  United States 1:16.5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Shelley Mann  United States 1:17.7
4 Mary Jane Sears  United States 1:18.2
5 Maria Amicha  Mexico 1:22.7
6 Linda Shler  Canada 1:30.2
7 - - -
8 - - -

References

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  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 26, 1955, Morning, General, page 2". O GLOBO. 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. ^ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.