Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 11 August.[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Don Havens of US.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1971 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesAugust 11 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
Gold medal Frank Heckl  United States
Silver medal José Aranha  Brazil
Bronze medal Robert Kasting  Canada
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This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.[9]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

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

Heats

Final

The final was held on August 11.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)Frank Heckl United States52.8
2nd place, silver medalist(s)José Aranha Brazil53.7
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Robert Kasting Canada53.8
4David Edgar United States53.8
5Gary Goodner Puerto Rico55.4
6Brian Phillips Canada55.5
7Ruy de Oliveira Brazil55.6
8Ricardo González Colombia56.2

References
  1. "O GLOBO News Archive - August 12, 1971, Morning, General, page 24". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  2. O GLOBO News Archive
  3. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  4. Resultados
  5. All Pan medalists - Male
  6. "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
  7. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. Brazil medals at 1971 Pan
  9. Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
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