Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre butterfly explained

Event:	Men's 100 metre butterfly
Games:	1979
Venue:	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates:	July 7 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	-
Nations:	-
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Robert Placak
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Dan Thompson
Silvernoc:	CAN
Bronze:	Clay Evans
Bronzenoc:	CAN
Prev:	1975
Next:	1983

The men's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 7 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron.^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Mike Curington of US.^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in butterfly.^[8]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on July 7.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1			55.88	Q
2			55.94	Q
3			56.34	Q
4			57.51	Q
5			57.93	Q
6			58.12	Q
7			58.34	Q
8			58.57	Q
9			59.12
10			59.17	NR
11			59.23	NR
12			1:00.12
13			1:00.22	NR
14			1:00.66
15			1:02.40
16			1:03.71
17			1:03.79
18			1:04.06
19			1:04.36

Final

The final was held on July 7.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			55.54	NR, GR
			55.56
			56.63
4			56.90
5			57.79
6			57.85
7			58.25	NR
8			58.42

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results. USA SWIMMING. 29 September 2013.
2. http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panammswim.shtml Hickoksports
3. http://sports123.com/swi/index.html Hickosports Results
4. http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14117 All Pan medalists - Male
5. Web site: All Pan medalists - Female . 2013-10-01 . 2013-09-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130925142026/http://www.bestswimming.com.br/conteudo.php?i=14118 . dead .
6. http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimpag.htm Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving
7. http://www.ishof.org/library/pdf/medalists.pdf ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
8. 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.