Swimming at the 1979 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre butterfly

The men's 100 metre butterfly competition of the swimming events at the 1979 Pan American Games took place on 7 July at the Piscina Olimpica Del Escambron. The last Pan American Games champion was Mike Curington 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, 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 July 7.

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Robert Placak 55.88 Q 2 Dan Thompson 55.94 Q 3 Clay Evans 56.34 Q 4 Jorge Jaramillo 57.51 Q 5 David McCagg 57.93 Q 6 Caio Filardi 58.12 Q 7 Arnaldo Pérez 58.34 Q 8 Leonardo Gamez 58.57 Q 9 Filiberto Colon 59.12 10 Daniel Garimaldi 59.17 NR 11 Rafael Vidal 59.23 NR 12 Claudio Lutotovich 1:00.12 13 David Lindquist 1:00.22 NR 14 Roberto Ledesma 1:00.66 15 Miguel Oqueli 1:02.40 16 Ruben Martinez 1:03.71 17 Jordy Masalles 1:03.79 18 Bobby Peterson 1:04.06 19 Donaldo Clough 1:04.36

Final The final was held on July 7. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Robert Placak 55.54 NR, GR Dan Thompson 55.56 Clay Evans 56.63 4 David McCagg 56.90 5 Jorge Jaramillo 57.79 6 Caio Filardi 57.85 7 Leonardo Gamez 58.25 NR 8 Arnaldo Pérez 58.42

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