Athletics at the 1955 Pan American Games – Men's 100 metres

The men's 100 metres event at the 1955 Pan American Games was held at the Estadio Universitario in Mexico City on 13 and 14 March.[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Rod Richard  United States	Mike Agostini  Trinidad and Tobago	Willie Williams  United States

Results

Heats

Held on 13 March

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Dean Smith	United States	10.84	Q
2	1	Ciro Brazeiro	Uruguay	11.27	Q
3	1	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	11.32	Q
4	1	Alexis Bloem	Netherlands Antilles	11.44
1	2	Harry Nelson	Canada	10.88	Q
2	2	Rafael Fortún	Cuba	10.91	Q
3	2	Domingo García	Dominican Republic	11.20	Q
4	2	Javier Souza	Mexico	11.28
5	2	Antonio Vanegas	Colombia	11.63
1	3	Willie Williams	United States	10.80	Q
2	3	René Ahumada	Mexico	10.91	Q
3	3	Apolinar Solórzano	Venezuela	11.07	Q
4	3	Franz Lara	Costa Rica	11.30
	3	Eligio Rivas	Dominican Republic	DQ
1	4	Mike Agostini	Trinidad and Tobago	10.67	Q
2	4	Bruce Springbett	Canada	11.04	Q
3	4	Raúl Zabala	Argentina	11.21	Q
4	4	Carlos Vera	Chile	11.32
5	4	José García	Venezuela	11.56
1	5	Rod Richard	United States	10.73	Q
2	5	Clive Bonas	Venezuela	10.86	Q
3	5	Keith Gardner	Jamaica	10.89	Q
4	5	Carlos Sierra	Colombia	11.61
	5	Leonard Dames	Bahamas	DNS
1	6	José da Conceição	Brazil	11.06	Q
2	6	Luis Soriano	Dominican Republic	11.22	Q
3	6	Eduardo Basilio Ríos	Argentina	11.31	Q
4	6	Antonio Rodríguez	Mexico	11.53
	6	Gilberto Fonseca	Netherlands Antilles	DQ

Semifinals

Held on 14 March

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Dean Smith	United States	10.65	Q, GR
2	1	Rafael Fortún	Cuba	10.69	Q
3	1	Harry Nelson	Canada	10.87
4	1	Domingo García	Dominican Republic	11.05
5	1	Tom Robinson	Bahamas	11.26
	1	Ciro Brazeiro	Uruguay	DNS
1	2	Willie Williams	United States	10.53	Q, GR
2	2	Mike Agostini	Trinidad and Tobago	10.54	Q
3	2	Apolinar Solórzano	Venezuela	11.02
4	2	Bruce Springbett	Canada	11.10
5	2	René Ahumada	Mexico	11.12
6	2	Raúl Zabala	Argentina	11.53
1	3	Rod Richard	United States	10.44	Q, GR
2	3	Keith Gardner	Jamaica	10.63	Q
3	3	Clive Bonas	Venezuela	10.75
4	3	José da Conceição	Brazil	10.76
5	3	Eduardo Basilio Ríos	Argentina	11.05
6	3	Luis Soriano	Dominican Republic	11.17

Final

Held on 14 March

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rod Richard	United States	10.3	=GR
	Mike Agostini	Trinidad and Tobago	10.4
	Willie Williams	United States	10.4
4	Keith Gardner	Jamaica	10.5
5	Rafael Fortún	Cuba	10.6
	Dean Smith	United States	DNF

References

1. Full results
2. "Track and Field Statistics". trackfield.brinkster.net. Retrieved 16 October 2020.