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Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

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Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 1971 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Canada
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The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 6 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Don Schollander of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

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

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 August 6.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Mel Nash  United States 59.8
2nd place, silver medalist(s) John Murphy  United States 1:00.8
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bill Kennedy  Canada 1:01.4
4 José Santibáñez  Mexico 1:02.4
5 César Lourenço  Brazil 1:03.1
6 Erik Fish  Canada 1:03.7
7 Rafael Rocha  Mexico 1:03:8
8 Carlos Yanguas  Colombia 1:05.0

References

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  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - August 7, 1971, Morning, General, page 17". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 30 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 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". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  7. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. ^ Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
  9. ^ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.