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Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 1979 Pan American Games
Venue	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates	July 2 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Bob Jackson   United States   Rômulo Arantes   Brazil   Steve Pickell   Canada
«1975 1983»

Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games
Freestyle
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men
Backstroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Breaststroke
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Butterfly
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
Individual medley
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m	men	women
4×200 m	men
Medley relay
4×100 m	men	women
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The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 2 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron. The last Pan American Games champion was Peter Rocca of US.

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 July 2.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rômulo Arantes	Brazil	57.69	Q
2	Carlos Berrocal	Puerto Rico	58.05	Q
3	Bob Jackson	United States	58.32	Q
4	Steve Pickell	Canada	58.72	Q
5	Conrado Porta	Argentina	59.50	Q
6	Wade Flemons	Canada	59.52	Q
7	Clay Britt	United States	1:00.24	Q
8	José Urueta	Mexico	1:00.39	Q
9	Sílvio Monteiro	Brazil	1:00.52
10	Victor Vasallo	Puerto Rico	1:01.74
11	Jose Luis Yepes	Ecuador	1:01.84
12	Jorge Varela	Mexico	1:02.42
13	David Lindquist	U.S. Virgin Islands	1:03.53	NR
14	Alvaro Roda	Uruguay	1:03.82
15	Erik Rosskopf	U.S. Virgin Islands	1:05.77
16	Donaldo Clough	Dominican Republic	1:07.11
17	Miguel Oqueli	El Salvador	1:10.40

Final

The final was held on July 2.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bob Jackson	United States	56.66	NR, GR
	Rômulo Arantes	Brazil	57.20	SA
	Steve Pickell	Canada	57.89
4	Clay Britt	United States	57.98
5	Carlos Berrocal	Puerto Rico	57.99
6	Wade Flemons	Canada	59.52
7	Conrado Porta	Argentina	59.86
8	José Urueta	Mexico	1:00.37

References

1. ^ "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
2. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
3. Hickosports Results
4. All Pan medalists - Male
5. "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-30.
6. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
7. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
8. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.

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