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

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 24 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal Clarke Scholes  United States
Silver medal George Park  Canada
Bronze medal Carl Woolley  United States
«1951
1959»

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 24 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Dick Cleveland of US.[3][4][5][6][7]

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

Final

The final was held on March 24.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Clarke Scholes  United States 57.7 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) George Park  Canada 58.7
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Carl Woolley  United States 59.3
4 Pedro Galvão  Argentina 59.7
5 Milward Martin  United States 1:00.1
6 Otilio Holguin  Mexico 1:00.4
7 Federico Zwanck  Argentina 1:00.7
8 Antonio Galvez  Cuba 1:02.8

References

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 25, 1955, Morning, General, page 10". O GLOBO. 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. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine