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.

Final

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

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Tami Bruce	United States	4:49.34
02 !	Katie Welch	United States	4:51.32
03 !	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	-	-	-

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