Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke

The women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 5 September (preliminaries) and 6 September (final).[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Leonore Fisher of Canada.[3][4][5][6][7]

Women's 100 metre backstroke at the III Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	September 5 (preliminaries), September 6 (finals)
Medalists
Carin Cone   United States   Sara Barber   Canada   Christine Kluter   United States
«1955 1963»

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[8]

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

The first round was held on September 5.[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	-	Sara Barber	Canada	1:12.7	Q, GR
-	-	-	-	-	Q
-	-	-	-	-	Q
-	-	-	-	-	Q
-	-	-	-	-	Q
-	-	-	-	-	Q
-	-	-	-	-	Q
-	-	-	-	-	Q

Final

The final was held on September 6.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Carin Cone	United States	1:12.2	GR
	Sara Barber	Canada	1:12.3
	Christine Kluter	United States	1:12.4
4	Lynn Burke	United States	1:13.8
5	Lynn Scott	Canada	1:17.1
6	Dulce Okayama	Brazil	1:22.9
6	-	-	-
8	-	-	-

References

1. "O GLOBO News Archive - September 7, 1959, Morning, Sports, page 6". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 8 September 2013. Retrieved 7 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" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.