Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre breaststroke

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 6 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was José Fiolo of Brazil.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Men's 100 metre breaststroke at the 1971 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal   United States
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   Brazil
«1967
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This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in breaststroke.[9]

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 August 6.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Mark Chatfield   United States 1:06.8 GR
  Brian Job   United States 1:07.9
  José Fiolo   Brazil 1:07.9
4 Bill Mahony   Canada 1:08.4
5 Felipe Muñoz   Mexico 1:08.7
6 Mike Whitaker   Canada 1:09.8
7 Gustavo Salcedo   Mexico 1:10.2
8 Osvaldo Barreto   Argentina 1:11.2

References edit

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - August 7, 1971, Morning, General, page 17". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 30 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 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". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  7. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. ^ Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
  9. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine