Swimming at the 1987 Pan American Games – Women's 200 metre freestyle

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the X Pan American Games
Venue	Indiana University Natatorium
Dates	August 10 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Silvia Poll   Costa Rica   Whitney Hedgepeth   United States   Sara Linke   United States
«1983 1991»

The women's 200 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1987 Pan American Games took place on 10 August at the Indiana University Natatorium.^[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Cynthia Woodhead of US.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, all in 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 10.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Silvia Poll	Costa Rica	2:00.02	NR
	Whitney Hedgepeth	United States	2:02.06
	Sara Linke	United States	2:04.00
4	Denise Gereghty	Canada	2:05.64
5	Patrícia Amorim	Brazil	2:05.70
6	Karen Dieffenthaller	Trinidad and Tobago	2:07.15
7	Sally Gilbert	Canada	2:08.66
8	Miriam Artur	Brazil	2:10.02

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" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.