# Swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games – Women's 100 metre backstroke

The women's 100 metre backstroke competition of the swimming events at the 2019 Pan American Games are scheduled to be held August 8th, 2019 at the Villa Deportiva Nacional Videna cluster.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:
| World record | Regan Smith (USA) | 57.57 | Gwangju, South Korea | July 28, 2019 |
| Pan American Games record | Natalie Coughlin (USA) | 59.05 | Toronto, Canada | July 18, 2015 |

## Results

| 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 8.
| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | 4 | Phoebe Bacon | United States | 59.66 | QA |
| 2 | 4 | 5 | Danielle Hanus | Canada | 1:00.75 | QA |
| 3 | 3 | 4 | Alexandra DeLoof | United States | 1:01.12 | QA |
| 4 | 4 | 6 | Fernanda de Goeij | Brazil | 1:01.63 | QA |
| 5 | 3 | 6 | Carmen Marquez Orellana | El Salvador | 1:01.92 | QA, NR |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | Andrea Berrino | Argentina | 1:02.34 | WD |
| 7 | 2 | 4 | Etiene Medeiros | Brazil | 1:02.85 | QA |
| 8 | 3 | 5 | Madison Broad | Canada | 1:02.99 | QA |
| 9 | 4 | 3 | Krystal Lara Garzon | Dominican Republic | 1:03.58 | QA |
| 10 | 2 | 5 | Isabella Arcila | Colombia | 1:03.59 | QB |
| 11 | 2 | 6 | Athena Kovacs | Mexico | 1:04.74 | QB |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | Gabriela Donahue | Trinidad and Tobago | 1:04.74 | QB, NR |
| 13 | 2 | 3 | Celismar Guzman | Puerto Rico | 1:04.75 | QB |
| 14 | 3 | 1 | Alexia Sotomayor | Peru | 1:04.96 | QB |
| 15 | 2 | 7 | Andrea Becali Martí | Cuba | 1:04.98 | QB |
| 16 | 3 | 7 | Danielle Titus | Barbados | 1:05.40 | QB |
| 17 | 2 | 1 | Domenica Solano Ocampo | Ecuador | 1:05.45 | QB |
| 18 | 4 | 2 | Carla Gonzalez | Venezuela | 1:05.62 | |
| 19 | 4 | 8 | Nimia Murua | Panama | 1:05.63 | |
| 20 | 2 | 2 | Trinidad Ardiles Quiroz | Chile | 1:06.66 | |
| 21 | 1 | 4 | Nicole Frank Rodriguez | Uruguay | 1:06.89 | |
| 22 | 4 | 7 | Maria Jose Arrua | Paraguay | 1:07.25 | |
| 23 | 1 | 5 | Kimberly Ince | Grenada | 1:10.48 | |
| 24 | 1 | 3 | María Hernández | Nicaragua | 1:11.75 | |
| | 3 | 2 | Andrea Hurtado | Peru | DNS | |

### Final B

The B final was also held on August 8.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 9 | 4 | Isabella Arcila | Colombia | 1:03.55 | |
| 10 | 5 | Athena Kovacs | Mexico | 1:04.20 | |
| 11 | 3 | Gabriela Donahue | Trinidad and Tobago | 1:04.62 | NR |
| 12 | 8 | Domenica Solano Ocampo | Ecuador | 1:04.72 | NR |
| 13 | 6 | Celismar Guzman | Puerto Rico | 1:04.93 | |
| 14 | 1 | Danielle Titus | Barbados | 1:04.95 | |
| 15 | 2 | Alexia Sotomayor | Peru | 1:05.21 | |
| 16 | 7 | Andrea Becali Martí | Cuba | 1:05.23 | |

### Final A

The A final was also held on August 8.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 4 | Phoebe Bacon | United States | 59.47 |
| | 5 | Danielle Hanus | Canada | 1:00.34 |
| | 7 | Etiene Medeiros | Brazil | 1:00.67 |
| 4 | 3 | Alexandra DeLoof | United States | 1:01.17 |
| 5 | 6 | Fernanda de Goeij | Brazil | 1:01.59 |
| 6 | 1 | Madison Broad | Canada | 1:02.44 |
| 7 | 2 | Carmen Marquez Orellana | El Salvador | 1:03.07 |
| 8 | 8 | Krystal Lara Garzon | Dominican Republic | 1:03.18 |