The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1951 Pan American Games took place on the 5th March.O GLOBO News ArchiveHickoksports ResultsAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.

The race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final The final was held on March 5. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Allen Stack 1:08.0 Pedro Galvão 1:08.3 Burwell Jones 1:09.8 4 Clementi Mejas - 5 Ilo da Fonseca - 6 Fernando Pavan - 7 - - - 8 - - -

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