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

Men's 100 metre freestyle at the XIII Pan American Games
Venue	Pan Am Pool
Dates	August 4 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Fernando Scherer   Brazil   José Meolans   Argentina   Gustavo Borges   Brazil
«1995	2003»

The men's 100 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1999 Pan American Games took place on 4 August at the Pan Am Pool.^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Gustavo Borges of Brazil.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, both lengths being in freestyle.^[8]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

Heats

The first round was held on August 4.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Fernando Scherer	Brazil	49.45	Q
2	Scott Tucker	United States	50.10	Q
3	-	-	-	Q
4	-	-	-	Q
5	Dan Phillips	United States	50.56	Q
6	-	-	-	Q
7	-	-	-	Q
8	-	-	-	Q

B Final

The B final was held on August 4.^[9]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
9	Francisco Sánchez	Venezuela	50.83
10	Craig Hutchison	Canada	51.33
11	Luis Rojas	Venezuela	51.72
12	Felipe Delgado	Ecuador	51.75
13	Chris Murray	Bahamas	51.97
14	Howard Hinds	Netherlands Antilles	52.58
15	Luiz López	Peru	52.82
16	Fernando Jácome	Colombia	53.19

A Final

The A final was held on August 4.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Fernando Scherer	Brazil	49.19	GR
02 !	José Meolans	Argentina	49.94
03 !	Gustavo Borges	Brazil	50.10
4	Scott Tucker	United States	50.15
5	Ricardo Busquets	Puerto Rico	50.40
6	Marcos Hernández	Cuba	50.52
7	Dan Phillips	United States	50.71
8	Yannick Lupien	Canada	50.73

References