Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke
| Women's 100 metre backstroke at the 1955 Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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| Dates | March 24 (preliminaries and finals) | |||||||||
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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 Maureen O'Brien of US.[3][4][5][6][7]
This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[8]
Results
[edit]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
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Final
[edit]The final was held on March 24.[1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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 | Leonore Fischer |  Canada | 1:16.7 | GR |
 | Coralie O'Connor |  United States | 1:17.8 | |
 | Cynthia Gill | United States | 1:17.9 | |
| 4 | Shelley Mann | United States | 1:18.2 | |
| 5 | Sara Barber | Canada | 1:18.8 | |
| 6 | Isa Teixeira |  Brazil | 1:20.4 | |
| 7 | Vanna Rocco |  Argentina | 1:20.6 | |
| 8 | Liliana Gonzalias | Argentina | - |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 25, 1955, Morning, General, page 10". O GLOBO. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ^ O GLOBO News Archive
- ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
- ^ Resultados
- ^ All Pan medalists - Male
- ^ All Pan medalists - Female
- ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
- ^ "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
