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

The women's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1959 Pan American Games took place on 2 September (preliminaries)O GLOBO News Archive and 4 September (finals). The last Pan American Games champion was Beth Whittall of Canada.Hickoksports ResultadosAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.

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

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats The first round was held on September 2.

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

Final The final was held on September 4. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Becky Collins 1:09.5 Nancy Ramey 1:10.4 Molly Botkin 1:12.3 4 Margareth Iwasaki 1:14.8 5 Eulália Martinez 1:21.2 6 Elal Jacques 1:22.2 7 - - - 8 - - -

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