Swimming at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke


The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1955 Pan American Games took place on 23 March. The last Pan American Games champion was Allen Stack of US.
This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final

The final was held on March 23.
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Frank McKinney1:07.1= GR
Pedro Galvão1:07.8
Leonide Baarcke1:07.9
4João Gonçalves Filho1:08.3
5Ted Simpson1:08.9
6Clemente Mejía1:10.3
7Peter Witteried1:10.3
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