Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke

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Women's 100 metre backstroke at the II Pan American Games
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Venue-
DatesMarch 24 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal   Canada
Silver medal Coralie O'Connor  United States
Bronze medal   United States
«1951
1959»

The women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 24 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was of US.[3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[8]

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[]

Final[]

The final was held on March 24.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Canada 1:16.7 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Coralie O'Connor  United States 1:17.8
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  United States 1:17.9
4 Shelley Mann  United States 1:18.2
5 Sara Barber  Canada 1:18.8
6  Brazil 1:20.4
7  Argentina 1:20.6
8 Liliana Gonzalias  Argentina -

References[]

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 25, 1955, Morning, General, page 10". O GLOBO. 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
  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.
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