The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 8 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron. The last Pan American Games champion was Richard Abbott of US.Hickoksports Hickosports ResultsAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history
This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.Swimming technical manual
Results All times are in minutes and seconds.
KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best
Heats The first round was held on July 8.
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 David McCagg 51.43 Q 2 Fernando Cañales 52.07 Q 3 John Newton 52.36 Q 4 Bill Sawchuk 53.15 Q 5 Jorge Fernandes 53.32 Q 6 Richard Sasser 53.80 Q, NR 7 Ernesto Domenack 53.82 Q 8 Peter Szmidt 54.21 Q 9 Alberto Mestre 54.54 NR 10 Scott Newkirk 54.63 NR 11 Oscar González 54.73 12 Alejandro Blanco 54.81 13 Marcus Mattioli 55.08 14 Jean François 55.24 15 Jorge Martinez 55.25 16 Andrew Phillips 55.49 17 Conrado Porta 55.87 18 Alfredo Mackliff 56.13 19 Gabriel Fierro 57.04 20 Juan Tavarez 57.20 21 Donaldo Clough 57.20 22 Ruben Martinez 58.21 NR 23 Bobby Peterson 58.58 24 Miguel Oqueli 1:00.03
Final The final was held on July 8. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes David McCagg 50.77 Fernando Cañales 51.25 John Newton 51.45 4 Bill Sawchuk 52.93 5 Ernesto Domenack 53.26 NR 6 Jorge Fernandes 53.28 7 Peter Szmidt 53.37 8 Richard Sasser 54.15
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