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Women's 100 metre backstroke at the I959 Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	September 5 (preliminaries), September 6 (finals)
Medalists
Carin Cone   United States   Sara Barber   Canada   Christine Kluter   United States
«1955 1963»

The women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 5 September (preliminaries) and 6 September (final). The last Pan American Games champion was Leonore Fisher of Canada.

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

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on September 5.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	-	Sara Barber	Canada	1:12.7	Q, GR
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Final

The final was held on September 6.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Carin Cone	United States	1:12.2	GR
	Sara Barber	Canada	1:12.3
	Christine Kluter	United States	1:12.4
4	Lynn Burke	United States	1:13.8
5	Lynn Scott	Canada	1:17.1
6	Dulce Okayama	Brazil	1:22.9
6	-	-	-
8	-	-	-

References

1. ^ "O GLOBO News Archive - September 7, 1959, Morning, Sports, page 6". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 8 September 2013. Retrieved 7 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. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.

• Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games
• 1959 in women's swimming