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

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Women's 100 metre freestyle at the II Pan American Games
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Venue-
DatesMarch 23 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal Helen Stewart  Canada
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal Virginia Grant  Canada
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The women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 23 March.[1][2] The Pan American Games champion was Sharon Geary of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.[9]

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 23.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Helen Stewart  Canada 1:07.7
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  United States 1:07.7
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Virginia Grant  Canada 1:08.3
4 Liliana Gonzalias  Argentina 1:08.4
5  United States 1:08.9
6 Shelley Mann  United States 1:09.3
7 Eileen Holt  Argentina 1:09.3
8  Argentina 1:10.7

References[]

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 24, 1955, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. 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". 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
  9. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
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