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

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

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]}

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:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

GR

Games record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Final

The final was held on August 9.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tami Bruce	United States	4:49.34
	Katie Welch	United States	4:51.32
	Karin Helmstaedt	Canada	4:57.04
4	Valentina Aracil	Argentina	5:03.55
5	Marlene Bruten	Mexico	5:08.30
6	Rachel Brinn	Jamaica	5:13.78
7	Cláudia Sprengel	Brazil	5:15.35
8	-	-	-

References

1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
2. Hickoksports
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
8. Swimming technical manual