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Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	March 23 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Frank McKinney   United States   Pedro Galvão   Argentina   Leonide Baarcke   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. The last Pan American Games champion was Allen Stack of US.

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

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

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Final

The final was held on March 23.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Frank McKinney	United States	1:07.1	= GR
	Pedro Galvão	Argentina	1:07.8
	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

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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
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• Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games