The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 1 September (preliminaires)O GLOBO News Archive and 3 September (finals). The last Pan American Games champion was Frank McKinney 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, all in backstroke.
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on September 1.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Frank McKinney 1:03.2 Q, GR 2 1 Louis Schaeffer 1:03.2 Q 3 2 Charles Bittick 1:03.7 Q 4 1 Robert Wheaton 1:05.3 Q 5 1 Enrique Rabell 1:07.2 Q 6 2 Athos de Oliveira 1:07.8 Q 7 3 Álvaro Gaxiola 1:07.9 Q 8 2 Pedro Diaz 1:09.0 Q - 3 João de Almeida 1:09.7
Final The final was held on September 3. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Frank McKinney 1:03.6 Charles Bittick 1:04.2 Louis Schaeffer 1:05.3 4 Robert Wheaton 1:05.5 5 Álvaro Gaxiola 1:07.5 6 Enrique Rabell 1:07.9 7 Athos de Oliveira 1:08.4 8 Pedro Diaz -
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