Swimming at the 1951 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre freestyle

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1951 Pan American Games
Venue-
DatesMarch 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Medalists
Gold medal Dick Cleveland  United States
Silver medal Ronald Gora  United States
Bronze medal Nicasio Silverio  Cuba
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The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1951 Pan American Games took place on 6 March.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.[8]

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

Final

The final was held on March 6.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dick Cleveland  United States 58.8
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ronald Gora  United States 59.5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Nicasio Silverio  Cuba 1:00.1
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7 Paulo Catunda  Brazil 1:03.3
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References

  1. ^ a b "O GLOBO News Archive - March 7, 1951, Morning, General, page 8". O GLOBO. Archived from the original on 14 September 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  2. ^ O GLOBO News Archive
  3. ^ Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
  4. ^ Results
  5. ^ All Pan medalists - Male
  6. ^ "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-18.
  7. ^ Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  8. ^ Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
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