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

Event:	Men's 100 metre freestyle
Games:	1971
Venue:	-
Dates:	August 11 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	-
Nations:	-
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Frank Heckl
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	José Aranha
Silvernoc:	BRA
Bronze:	Robert Kasting
Bronzenoc:	CAN
Prev:	1967
Next:	1975

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 11 August.^{[1] [2]} The last Pan American Games champion was Don Havens of US.^{[3] [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.

Final

The final was held on August 11.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			52.8
			53.7
			53.8
4			53.8
5			55.4
6			55.5
7			55.6
8			56.2

Notes and References

1. Web site: O GLOBO News Archive - August 12, 1971, Morning, General, page 24. https://archive.today/20130829222738/http://duyt0k3aayxim.cloudfront.net/PDFs_XMLs_paginas/o_globo/1971/08/12/01-primeira_secao/ge120871024PRM1-1234_g.jpg. dead. 29 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. http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual