Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 23 March.O GLOBO News Archive The last Pan American Games champion was Allen Stack of US.Hickoksports ResultadosAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history

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 March 23. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Frank McKinney 1:07.1 = GR Pedro Galvão 1:07.8 Leonide Baarcke 1:07.9 4 João Gonçalves Filho 1:08.3 5 Ted Simpson 1:08.9 6 Clemente Mejía 1:10.3 7 Peter Witteried 1:10.3 8 - - -

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