Swimming at the 1959 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre butterfly

Women's 100 metre butterfly at the III Pan American Games
Venue -
Dates September 2 (preliminaries), September 4 (finals)
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   United States
«1955
1963»

The women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 2 September (preliminaries)[1][2] and 4 September (finals).[3] The last Pan American Games champion was Beth Whittall of Canada.[4][5][6][7][8]

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in butterfly.[9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

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

Heats

The first round was held on September 2.[1]

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 2 Nancy Ramey  United States 1:09.1 Q, WR
2 1 Becky Collins  United States 1:09.6 Q
3 2 Molly Botkin  United States 1:11.9 Q
4 1 Margareth Iwasaki  Canada 1:15.2 Q
5 1 Eulália Martinez  Mexico 1:18.9 Q
6 2 Elal Jacques  Canada 1:20.0 Q
7 2 Mary Stewart  Canada 1:22.4 Q
8 2 Miriam Andreu  El Salvador 1:22.6 Q
- 2 Marion Meyer  Brazil 1:24.6

Final

The final was held on September 4.[3]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Becky Collins  United States 1:09.5
2nd, silver medalist(s) Nancy Ramey  United States 1:10.4
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Molly Botkin  United States 1:12.3
4 Margareth Iwasaki  Canada 1:14.8
5 Eulália Martinez  Mexico 1:21.2
6 Elal Jacques  Canada 1:22.2
7 - - -
8 - - -

References

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