Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre breaststroke explained

Event:	Women's 100 metre breaststroke
Games:	1979
Venue:	Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron
Dates:	July 3 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors:	-
Nations:	-
Win Label:	Winning score
Gold:	Tami Paumier
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Tracy Caulkins
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Anne Gagnon
Bronzenoc:	CAN
Prev:	1975
Next:	1983

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

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in breaststroke.^[8]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on July 3.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1			1:14.47	Q
2			1:14.93	Q
3			1:15.34	Q
4			1:16.24	Q
5			1:16.47	Q
6			1:17.52	Q
7			1:17.74	Q, NR
8			1:18.42	Q
9			1:18.48
10			1:20.26
11			1:23.82	NR

Final

The final was held on July 3.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			1:12.20	NR, GR
			1:12.52
			1:14.38
4			1:15.45
5			1:15.45	NR
6			1:17.76
7			1:17.85
8			1:18.12	NR

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results. USA SWIMMING. 10 October 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 . 2013-10-10 . 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. http://www.guadalajara2011.org.mx/documentos/manuales/eng/technical/tm_swimming.pdf Swimming technical manual