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Swimming at the 1975 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

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Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 1975 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesOctober 19 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Brazil
«1971
1979»

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1975 Pan American Games took place on 19 October.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Mel Nash 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 October 19.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Peter Rocca  United States 58.31
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Bob Jackson  United States 58.90
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Rômulo Arantes  Brazil 59.16
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References

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  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - 20 October 1975, Morning, Sports, page 27". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 31 August 2013. Retrieved 1 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". 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 1975 Pan
  9. ^ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.