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

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]

Women's 100 metre freestyle at the II Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	March 23 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Helen Stewart   Canada   Wanda Werner   United States   Virginia Grant   Canada
«1951 1959»

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

Final

The final was held on March 23.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Helen Stewart	Canada	1:07.7
	Wanda Werner	United States	1:07.7
	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. "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
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