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

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 24 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Dick Cleveland of US.[3][4][5][6][7]

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 24 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   Canada
Bronze medal   United States
«1951
1959»

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.[8]

Results edit

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: q Fastest non-qualifiers Q Qualified GR Games record NR National record PB Personal best SB Seasonal best

Heats edit

Final edit

The final was held on March 24.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Clarke Scholes   United States 57.7 GR
  George Park   Canada 58.7
  Carl Woolley   United States 59.3
4 Pedro Galvão   Argentina 59.7
5 Milward Martin   United States 1:00.1
6 Otilio Holguin   Mexico 1:00.4
7 Federico Zwanck   Argentina 1:00.7
8 Antonio Galvez   Cuba 1:02.8

References edit

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 25, 1955, Morning, General, page 10". O GLOBO. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  2. ^ O GLOBO News Archive
  3. ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  4. ^ Resultados
  5. ^ All Pan medalists - Male
  6. ^ All Pan medalists - Female
  7. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine