Swimming at the 1987 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the X Pan American Games
Venue Indiana University Natatorium
Dates August 14 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors - from - nations
Medalists
   United States
   United States
   Peru
«1983
1991»

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1987 Pan American Games took place on 14 August at the Indiana University Natatorium.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Rick Carey of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.[8]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

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

Final

The final was held on August 14.[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Andrew Gill  United States 56.56
2nd, silver medalist(s) David Berkoff  United States 57.35
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Alejandro Alvizuri  Peru 58.65
4 Ray Brown  Canada 58.66
5 Gary Vandermeulen  Canada 58.91
6 Manuel Guzmán  Puerto Rico 59.24
7 Ernesto Vela  Mexico 59.83
8 Rene Saez  Cuba 1:00.68

References

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