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 | ||||||||||
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| Venue | - | |||||||||
| Dates | March 24 (preliminaries and finals) | |||||||||
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«1951 1959» | ||||||||||
This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.[8]
Results
editAll 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
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Final
editThe final was held on March 24.[1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Clarke Scholes |  United States |
57.7 | GR |
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George Park |  Canada |
58.7 | |
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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- ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 25, 1955, Morning, General, page 10". O GLOBO. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ^ O GLOBO News Archive
- ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
- ^ Resultados
- ^ All Pan medalists - Male
- ^ All Pan medalists - Female
- ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
- ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
