Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre butterfly

The women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 25 March.[1][2] It was the first appearance of this event in the Pan American Games.[3][4][5][6][7]

Women's 100 metre butterfly at the 1955 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 25 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal   Canada
Silver medal   United States
Bronze medal   United States
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This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in butterfly.[8]

Results

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All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Heats

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Final

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The final was held on March 25.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Beth Whittall Canada1:16.2GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Betty Brey United States1:16.5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Shelley Mann United States1:17.7
4Mary Jane Sears United States1:18.2
5Maria Amicha Mexico1:22.7
6Linda Shler Canada1:30.2
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References

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  1. 1 2 "O GLOBO News Archive - March 26, 1955, Morning, General, page 2". O GLOBO. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. Hickoksports Deprecated link archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  4. Resultados
  5. All Pan medalists - Male
  6. All Pan medalists - Female
  7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.