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. The last Pan American Games champion was Tracy Caulkins of US.Hickoksports Hickosports ResultsAll Pan medalists - MalePan American Games - Swimming and Diving page, from gbrathletics.com; retrieved 2012-04-15.ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history

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.Swimming technical manual

Results All times are in minutes and seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedGRGames recordNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Heats

Final The final was held on August 9. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Tami Bruce 4:49.34 Katie Welch 4:51.32 Karin Helmstaedt 4:57.04 4 Valentina Aracil 5:03.55 5 Marlene Bruten 5:08.30 6 Rachel Brinn 5:13.78 7 Cláudia Sprengel 5:15.35 8 - - -

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