Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke

The women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 19 August.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Linda Jezek of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Women's 100 metre backstroke at the IX Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 19 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Susan Walsh   United States   Joan Pennington   United States   Barbara McBain   Canada
«1979 1987»

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

Final

The final was held on August 19.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Susan Walsh	United States	1:02.48	NR, GR
	Joan Pennington	United States	1:03.63
	Barbara McBain	Canada	1:05.38
4	Michelle MacPherson	Canada	1:06.09
5	Karen Brands	Peru	1:07.69	NR
6	Sandra Barbato	Uruguay	1:08.50
7	Shelley Cramer	U.S. Virgin Islands	1:08.59
8	Fernanda Santos	Brazil	1:10.66

References

1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 15 October 2013.
2. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.today
3. Hickosports Results
4. All Pan medalists - Male
5. All Pan medalists - Female
6. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
7. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
8. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.