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

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]}

Women's 200 metre freestyle at the 1987 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»

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

Heats

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 Dieffenthaler	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 Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today
3. Hickosports Results
4. All Pan medalists - Male
5. "All Pan medalists - Female". Archived from the original on 2013-09-25. Retrieved 2013-10-20.
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" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.