Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke
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| Women's 100 metre backstroke at the VIII Pan American Games | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron | |||||||||
| Dates | July 3 (preliminaries and finals) | |||||||||
| Competitors | - from - nations | |||||||||
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The women's 100 metre backstroke 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 Lynn Chénard of Canada.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[8]
Contents
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
The first round was held on July 3.[1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| 1 | Linda Jezek |  United States |
1:04.53 | Q |
| 2 | Kim Carlisle | United States |
1:05.06 | Q |
| 3 | Cheryl Gibson |  Canada |
1:06.23 | Q |
| 4 | Teresa Rivera |  Mexico |
1:08.22 | Q |
| 5 | Melinda Copp | Canada |
1:08.88 | Q |
| 6 | Maria Paris |  Costa Rica |
1:09.64 | Q |
| 7 | Rosamaria Prado |  Brazil |
1:09.73 | Q |
| 8 | Hilda Huerta | Mexico |
1:10.43 | Q |
| 9 | Laura Laguna |  Argentina |
1:12.00 | |
| 10 | Penny Blakeman |  Puerto Rico |
1:13.20 | |
| 11 | Sandra Revette |  Venezuela |
1:13.40 | NR |
| 12 | Rita Neves | Brazil |
1:13.42 | |
| 13 | Silvana Barbato |  Uruguay |
1:15.97 | |
| 14 | Alba Izcoa | Puerto Rico |
1:16.00 |
Final
The final was held on July 3.[1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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Linda Jezek | United States |
1:03.33 | NR, GR |
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Cheryl Gibson | Canada |
1:05.17 | |
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Teresa Rivera | Mexico |
1:06.86 | NR |
| 4 | Melinda Copp | Canada |
1:07.81 | |
| 5 | Linda Huerta | Mexico |
1:09.45 | |
| 6 | Rosamaria Prado | Brazil |
1:09.57 | |
| 7 | Maria Paris | Costa Rica |
1:09.99 | |
| 8 | Kim Carlisle | United States |
DQ |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Hickoksports
- ↑ Hickosports Results
- ↑ All Pan medalists - Male
- ↑ All Pan medalists - Female
- ↑ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
- ↑ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
