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Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

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International sporting event
Men's 100 metre backstroke at the I959 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesSeptember 1 (preliminaries), September 3 (finals)
Medalists
Gold medal Frank McKinney  United States
Silver medal Charles Bittick  United States
Bronze medal Louis Schaeffer  United States
«1955 1963»

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 1 September (preliminaires) and 3 September (finals). The last Pan American Games champion was Frank McKinney of US.

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

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

The first round was held on September 1.

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Frank McKinney  United States 1:03.2 Q, GR
2 1 Louis Schaeffer  United States 1:03.2 Q
3 2 Charles Bittick  United States 1:03.7 Q
4 1 Robert Wheaton  Canada 1:05.3 Q
5 1 Enrique Rabell  Mexico 1:07.2 Q
6 2 Athos de Oliveira  Brazil 1:07.8 Q
7 3 Álvaro Gaxiola  Mexico 1:07.9 Q
8 2 Pedro Diaz  Argentina 1:09.0 Q
- 3 João de Almeida  Brazil 1:09.7

Final

The final was held on September 3.

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Frank McKinney  United States 1:03.6
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Charles Bittick  United States 1:04.2
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Louis Schaeffer  United States 1:05.3
4 Robert Wheaton  Canada 1:05.5
5 Álvaro Gaxiola  Mexico 1:07.5
6 Enrique Rabell  Mexico 1:07.9
7 Athos de Oliveira  Brazil 1:08.4
8 Pedro Diaz  Argentina -

References

  1. ^ "O GLOBO News Archive - September 2, 1959, Morning, General, page 16". O GLOBO. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. ^ "O GLOBO News Archive - September 4, 1959, Morning, General, page 14". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 8 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  4. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  5. Resultados
  6. All Pan medalists - Male
  7. "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  8. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  9. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
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