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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   United States
Silver medal   Argentina
Bronze medal   United States
«1951
1959»

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

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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 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
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References

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  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.
  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. ^ 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.