Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 1951 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 5 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   Argentina
Bronze medal   United States
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The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1951 Pan American Games took place on the 5th March.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

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

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

Final

The final was held on March 5.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Allen Stack United States1:08.0
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Pedro Galvão Argentina1:08.3
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Burwell Jones United States1:09.8
4Clementi Mejas Chile-
5Ilo da Fonseca Brazil-
6Fernando Pavan Brazil-
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References

  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 6, 1951, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  4. Results
  5. All Pan medalists - Male
  6. "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  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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