Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke

The women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 5 September (preliminaries) and 6 September (final).O GLOBO News Archive The last Pan American Games champion was Leonore Fisher of Canada.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 5.

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 - Sara Barber 1:12.7 Q, GR - - - - - Q - - - - - Q - - - - - Q - - - - - Q - - - - - Q - - - - - Q - - - - - Q

Final The final was held on September 6. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Carin Cone 1:12.2 GR Sara Barber 1:12.3 Christine Kluter 1:12.4 4 Lynn Burke 1:13.8 5 Lynn Scott 1:17.1 6 Dulce Okayama 1:22.9 6 - - - 8 - - -

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