Swimming at the 1987 Pan American Games – Women's 400 metre individual medley

The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 1987 Pan American Games took place on 9 August at the Indiana University Natatorium.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Tracy Caulkins of US.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Women's 400 metre individual medley at the X Pan American Games
VenueIndiana University Natatorium
DatesAugust 9 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors- from - nations
Medalists
 Tami Bruce  United States
 Katie Welch  United States
 Karin Helmstaedt  Canada
«1983
1991»

This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke, the third pair of lengths in breaststroke, and the final two were freestyle.[8]

Results

All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified GRGames record NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Final

The final was held on August 9.[1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Tami Bruce United States4:49.34
Katie Welch United States4:51.32
Karin Helmstaedt Canada4:57.04
4Valentina Aracil Argentina5:03.55
5Marlene Bruten Mexico5:08.30
6Rachel Brinn Jamaica5:13.78
7Cláudia Sprengel Brazil5:15.35
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References
  1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  2. Hickoksports Archived 2012-12-05 at Archive.today
  3. Hickosports Results
  4. All Pan medalists - Male
  5. All Pan medalists - Female
  6. Pan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.
  7. ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2010-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Swimming technical manual Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
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