Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle explained
Event: | Men's 100 metre freestyle |
Games: | 1959 |
Venue: | - |
Dates: | August 31 (preliminaries), September 2 (finals) |
Win Label: | Winning score |
Gold: | Jeffrey Farrell |
Goldnoc: | USA |
Silver: | Elton Follett |
Silvernoc: | USA |
Bronze: | Bill Woolsey |
Bronzenoc: | USA |
Prev: | 1955 |
Next: | 1963 |
The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 31 August (preliminaires)[1] [2] and 2 September (finals).[3] The last Pan American Games champion was Clarke Scholes of US.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.[9]
Results
All times are in minutes and seconds.
Heats
The first round was held on August 31.
Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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1 | 2 | | | 56.5 | Q, GR |
2 | 3 | | | 56.6 | Q |
3 | 4 | | | 57.2 | Q |
4 | 1 | | | 57.4 | Q |
5 | 2 | | | 57.7 | Q |
6 | 4 | | | 58.1 | Q |
7 | 1 | | | 59.1 | Q |
8 | 4 | | | 59.2 | Q | |
Final
The final was held on September 2.
Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| | | 56.3 | GR |
| | | 57.2 | |
| | | 57.6 | |
4 | | | 58.2 | |
5 | | | - | |
6 | | | - | |
7 | | | 59.6 | |
8 | | | - | | |
Notes and References
- Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - September 1, 1959, Morning, General, page 16. https://archive.today/20130907111946/http://duyt0k3aayxim.cloudfront.net/PDFs_XMLs_paginas/o_globo/1959/09/01/01-primeira_secao/ge010959016PRM1-1234_g.jpg. dead. 7 September 2013. O GLOBO. 7 September 2013.
- http://acervo.oglobo.globo.com/ O GLOBO News Archive
- Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - September 3, 1959, Morning, General, page 16. https://archive.today/20130907214344/http://duyt0k3aayxim.cloudfront.net/PDFs_XMLs_paginas/o_globo/1959/09/03/01-primeira_secao/ge030959016PRM1-1234_g.jpg. dead. 7 September 2013. O GLOBO. 7 September 2013.
- http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panammswim.shtml Hickoksports
- http://sports123.com/swi/index.html Resultados
- http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14117 All Pan medalists - Male
- Web site: All Pan medalists - Female . 2013-09-15 . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130925142026/http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14118 . dead .
- http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimpag.htm Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving
- http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual