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Swimming at the 1951 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

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Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 1951 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 5 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   Argentina
Bronze medal   United States
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1955»

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1951 Pan American Games took place on 5 March.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

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

Results

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

Final

The final was held on March 5.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Allen Stack  United States 1:08.0
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pedro Galvão  Argentina 1:08.3
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Burwell Jones  United States 1:09.8
4 Clementi Mejas  Chile -
5 Ilo da Fonseca  Brazil -
6 Fernando Pavan  Brazil -
7 - - -
8 - - -

References

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 6, 1951, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  2. ^ O GLOBO News Archive
  3. ^ Hickoksports
  4. ^ Results
  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. Retrieved 23 October 2011.