The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 31 August (preliminaires)O GLOBO News Archive and 2 September (finals). The last Pan American Games champion was Clarke Scholes of US.Hickoksports ResultadosAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.Swimming technical manual
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on August 31.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Jeffrey Farrell 56.5 Q, GR 2 3 Elton Follett 56.6 Q 3 4 Cameron Grout 57.2 Q 4 1 Bill Woolsey 57.4 Q 5 2 Thomas Verth 57.7 Q 6 4 Manuel dos Santos 58.1 Q 7 1 Francisco Carioba 59.1 Q 8 4 Jorge Escalante 59.2 Q
Final The final was held on September 2. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jeffrey Farrell 56.3 GR Elton Follett 57.2 Bill Woolsey 57.6 4 Manuel dos Santos 58.2 5 Cameron Grout - 6 Thomas Verth - 7 Francisco Carioba 59.6 8 Jorge Escalante -
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