Swimming at the 1999 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the XIII Pan American Games
Venue	Pan Am Pool
Dates	August 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Rodolfo Falcón   Cuba   Alexandre Massura   Brazil   Matt Allen   United States
«1995 2003»

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1999 Pan American Games took place on 6 August at the Pan Am Pool. The last Pan American Games champion was Jeff Rouse of US.

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

It was the first time a non-American won this event at the Pan American Games.

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

The first round was held on August 6.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rodolfo Falcón	Cuba	55.06	Q
2	-	-	-	Q
3	Matt Allen	United States	56.17	Q
4	-	-	-	Q
5	-	-	-	Q
6	Justin Ewers	United States	56.38	Q
7	-	-	-	Q
8	-	-	-	Q

B Final

The B final was held on August 6.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	Leonardo Costa	Brazil	56.28
10	Nick Neckles	Barbados	58.42
11	Diego Gallo	Uruguay	59.00
12	Mike Fung-A-Wing	Suriname	59.50
13	Nicholas Rees	Bahamas	1:00.22
14	E.A. Gil	El Salvador	1:01.00
15	Carlos Prudencio	Bolivia	1:01.97
16	O.E. Rivas	Paraguay	1:02.69

A Final

The A final was held on August 6.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rodolfo Falcón	Cuba	54.93
	Alexandre Massura	Brazil	55.17	SA
	Matt Allen	United States	55.86
4	Neisser Bent	Cuba	56.00
5	Mark Versfeld	Canada	56.11
6	Dustin Hersee	Canada	56.23
7	Justin Ewers	United States	56.38
8	Ricardo Busquets	Puerto Rico	56.68