Swimming at the 1971 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metre backstroke

Men's 100 metre backstroke at the 1971 Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 6 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Mel Nash   United States   John Murphy   United States   Bill Kennedy   Canada
«1967 1975»

The men's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 1971 Pan American Games took place on 6 August.^[1][2] The last Pan American Games champion was Don Schollander of US.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

This race consisted of two lengths of the pool, all in backstroke.^[9]

All times are in minutes and seconds.

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The final was held on August 6.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mel Nash	United States	59.8
	John Murphy	United States	1:00.8
	Bill Kennedy	Canada	1:01.4
4	José Santibáñez	Mexico	1:02.4
5	César Lourenço	Brazil	1:03.1
6	Erik Fish	Canada	1:03.7
7	Rafael Rocha	Mexico	1:03:8
8	Carlos Yanguas	Colombia	1:05.0