Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre backstroke
Games:	1971
Venue:	-
Dates:	August 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	-
Nations:	-
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Mel Nash
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	John Murphy
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Bill Kennedy
Bronzenoc:	CAN
Prev:	1967
Next:	1975

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 6 August.^{[1] [2]} The last Pan American Games champion was Don Schollander of US.^{[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 August 6.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			59.8
			1:00.8
			1:01.4
4			1:02.4
5			1:03.1
6			1:03.7
7			1:03:8
8			1:05.0

Notes and References

1. Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - August 7, 1971, Morning, General, page 17. https://archive.today/20130830003704/http://duyt0k3aayxim.cloudfront.net/PDFs_XMLs_paginas/o_globo/1971/08/07/01-primeira_secao/ge070871017PRM1-1234_g.jpg. dead. 30 August 2013. O GLOBO. 29 August 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 Resultados
5. http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14117 All Pan medalists - Male
6. 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 .
7. http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimpag.htm Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving
8. http://pan.uol.com.br/pan/2007/historia/1971/nopodio.jhtm Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
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.