Swimming at the 1951 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle explained

Event:Men's 100 metre freestyle
Games:1951
Venue:-
Dates:March 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Win Label:Winning score
Gold:Dick Cleveland
Goldnoc:USA
Silver:Ronald Gora
Silvernoc:USA
Bronze:Nicasio Silverio
Bronzenoc:CUB
Prev:-
Next:1955

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1951 Pan American Games took place on 6 March.[1] [2] [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.

Final

The final was held on March 6.

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
58.8
59.5
1:00.1
4 - - -
5 - - -
6 - - -
7 1:03.3
8 - - -

Notes and References

  1. Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - March 7, 1951, Morning, General, page 8. https://archive.today/20130914214149/http://duyt0k3aayxim.cloudfront.net/PDFs_XMLs_paginas/o_globo/1951/03/07/01-primeira_secao/ge070351008PRM1-1234_g.jpg. dead. 14 September 2013. O GLOBO. 14 September 2013.
  2. http://acervo.oglobo.globo.com/ O GLOBO News Archive
  3. http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panammswim.shtml Hickoksports
  4. http://sports123.com/swi/index.html Results
  5. http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14117 All Pan medalists - Male
  6. Web site: All Pan medalists - Female . 2013-09-18 . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130925142026/http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14118 . dead .
  7. http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimpag.htm Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving
  8. http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual