Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke

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

Women's 100 metre backstroke at the VI Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 7 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Donna Gurr   Canada   Susie Atwood   United States   Jill Hlay   United States
«1967 1975»

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[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 August 7.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Donna Gurr	Canada	1:07.2	GR
	Susie Atwood	United States	1:07.5
	Jill Hlay	United States	1:08.5
4	Leslie Cliff	Canada	1:09.5
5	Maria Teresa Ramírez	Mexico	1:11.1	NR
6	Adriana Grehnikoff	Argentina	1:13.3
7	Liana Vicens	Puerto Rico	1:15.0
8	Lucila Martins	Brazil	1:15.1

References

1. "O GLOBO News Archive - August 9, 1971, Evening, General, page 42". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 29 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
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" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.