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

Women's 100 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 23 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal Helen Stewart  Canada
Silver medal Wanda Werner  United States
Bronze medal Virginia Grant  Canada
«1951
1959»

The women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 23 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Sharon Geary of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.[9]

Results

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

Final

The final was held on March 23.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Helen Stewart  Canada 1:07.7
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Wanda Werner  United States 1:07.7
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Virginia Grant  Canada 1:08.3
4 Liliana Gonzalias  Argentina 1:08.4
5 Gretchen Kluter  United States 1:08.9
6 Shelley Mann  United States 1:09.3
7 Eileen Holt  Argentina 1:09.3
8 Cristina Kujath  Argentina 1:10.7

References

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 24, 1955, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. 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". 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. ^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine