Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 6 August.O GLOBO News Archive The last Pan American Games champion was Don Schollander of US.Hickoksports ResultadosAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.Brazil medals at 1971 Pan

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

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final The final was held on August 6. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Mel Nash 59.8 John Murphy 1:00.8 Bill Kennedy 1:01.4 4 José Santibáñez 1:02.4 5 César Lourenço 1:03.1 6 Erik Fish 1:03.7 7 Rafael Rocha 1:03:8 8 Carlos Yanguas 1:05.0

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