Swimming at the 1951 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre freestyle
Games:	1951
Venue:	-
Dates:	March 2 (preliminaries and finals)
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Maureen O'Brien
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Sheila Donahue
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Magda Bruggeman
Bronzenoc:	MEX
Prev:	-
Next:	1955

The women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1951 Pan American Games took place on 2 March.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.^[9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Final

The final was held on March 2.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			1:18.5
			1:20.5
			1:21.4
4	-	-	-
5	-	-	-
6			1:22.4
7			1:22.8
8	-	-	-

Notes and References

1. Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - March 3, 1951, Morning, General, page 12. https://archive.today/20130914210609/http://duyt0k3aayxim.cloudfront.net/PDFs_XMLs_paginas/o_globo/1951/03/03/01-primeira_secao/ge030351012PRM1-1234_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.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
9. Web site: Swimming Technical Manual. Guadalajara 2011. 23 October 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110728175822/http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf. 28 July 2011.