Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre freestyle
International sporting event
| Women's 100 metre freestyle at the 1955 Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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| Dates | March 23 (preliminaries and finals) | |||||||||
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The women's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 23 March.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Sharon Geary 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.
| KEY: | q | Fastest non-qualifiers | Q | Qualified | GR | Games record | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |
Heats
Final
The final was held on March 23.[1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Helen Stewart |  Canada | 1:07.7 | |
 | Wanda Werner |  United States | 1:07.7 | |
 | Virginia Grant | Canada | 1:08.3 | |
| 4 | Liliana Gonzalias |  Argentina | 1:08.4 | |
| 5 | Gretchen Kluter | United States | 1:08.9 | |
| 6 | Shelley Mann | United States | 1:09.3 | |
| 7 | Eileen Holt | Argentina | 1:09.3 | |
| 8 | Cristina Kujath | Argentina | 1:10.7 |
References
- ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 24, 1955, Morning, General, page 12". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ^ O GLOBO News Archive
- ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
- ^ Resultados
- ^ All Pan medalists - Male
- ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
- ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
- ^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2013-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
