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

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Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 23 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal Frank McKinney  United States
Silver medal Pedro Galvão  Argentina
Bronze medal Leonide Baarcke  United States
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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]

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[9]

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 23.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Frank McKinney  United States 1:07.1 = GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pedro Galvão  Argentina 1:07.8
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Leonide Baarcke  United States 1:07.9
4 João Gonçalves Filho  Brazil 1:08.3
5 Ted Simpson  Canada 1:08.9
6 Clemente Mejía  Mexico 1:10.3
7 Peter Witteried  United States 1:10.3
8 - - -

References

  1. ^ a b "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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  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. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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