Swimming at the 1987 Pan American Games

The swimming competition at the 1987 Pan American Games took place from August to August 15 at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The highlights were the great performances from Anthony Nesty (a gold and bronze) and Silvia Poll (three golds, three silvers and two bronzes), originating in countries with little tradition in swimming (Suriname and Costa Rica, respectively), who obtained great results in this edition of the Games. Also featured for Hilton Woods, from the small Netherlands Antilles, who won the first medal in the history of his country in swimming at Pan American Games, a bronze in the men's 50m free. Mark Andrews, from Trinidad and Tobago, did the same for his country.

Results[]

Men’s events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	(USA)	22.55	(USA)	22.84	(CAN) Hilton Woods (AHO)	23.39
100 m freestyle details	(USA)	50.24	(USA)	50.81	Mark Andrews (TRI)	51.24
200 m freestyle details	John Witchel (USA)	1:50.90	Carlos Scanavino (URU)	1:51.21	(USA)	1:52.11
400 m freestyle details	(USA)	3:54.44	Cristiano Michelena (BRA)	3:55.37	(USA)	3:55.64
1500 m freestyle details	(USA)	15:20.90	Lars Jorgensen (USA)	15:24.09	Chris Chalmers (CAN)	15:30.51

100 m backstroke details	(USA)	56.56	David Berkoff (USA)	57.35	Alejandro Alvizuri (PER)	58.65
200 m backstroke details	Mike O'Brien (USA)	2:02.29	Ricardo Prado (BRA)	2:03.75	Ray Brown (CAN)	2:04.28

100 m breaststroke details	(USA)	1:03.85	(USA)	1:04.11	(CAN)	1:04.55
200 m breaststroke details	(USA)	2:17.62	Mike Barrowman (USA)	2:19.29	(CAN)	2:22.01

100 m butterfly details	Anthony Nesty (SUR)	53.89	(USA)	54.33	(USA)	54.45
200 m butterfly details	Bill Stapleton (USA)	2:00.70	(USA)	2:00.73	Anthony Nesty (SUR)	2:01.09

200 m individual medley details	Bill Stapleton (USA)	2:03.58	Paul Wallace (USA)	2:04.92	Ricardo Prado (BRA)	2:04.94
400 m individual medley details	(USA)	4:23.92	(USA)	4:26.31	Mike Meldrum (CAN)	4:29.63

4×100 m freestyle relay details	UNITED STATES	3:19.97	CANADA Darren Ward Gary Vandermeulen	3:26.09	BRAZIL Jorge Fernandes Cristiano Michelena Cyro Delgado Júlio César Rebolal	3:27.11
4×200 m freestyle relay details	UNITED STATES Mike O'Brien John Witchel	7:23.29	CANADA Darren Ward Chris Chalmers Gary Vandermeulen Mike Meldrum	7:29.84	BRAZIL Jorge Fernandes Cristiano Michelena Cyro Delgado Júlio César Rebolal	7:29.92
4×100 m medley relay details	UNITED STATES	3:43.65	CANADA Ray Brown Darren Ward	3:49.77	BRAZIL Jorge Fernandes Cícero Tortelli Ricardo Prado	3:50.29

Women’s events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m freestyle details	Jenny Thompson (USA)	26.09	Silvia Poll (CRC)	26.32	(USA)	26.34
100 m freestyle details	Silvia Poll (CRC)	56.39	(USA)	57.30	Jenny Thompson (USA)	57.46
200 m freestyle details	Silvia Poll (CRC)	2:00.02	Whitney Hedgepeth (USA)	2:02.06	(USA)	2:04.00
400 m freestyle details	(USA)	4:11.87	(USA)	4:13.25	(CAN)	4:20.78
800 m freestyle details	Tami Bruce (USA)	8:34.72	Deborah Babashoff (USA)	8:42.77	(CAN)	8:52.60

100 m backstroke details	Silvia Poll (CRC)	1:02.18	(USA)	1:03.15	(USA)	1:03.30
200 m backstroke details	(USA)	2:13.65	Silvia Poll (CRC)	2:14.18	(USA)	2:14.75

100 m breaststroke details	Keltie Duggan (CAN)	1:12.46	(USA)	1:12.52	(USA)	1:12.99
200 m breaststroke details	(USA)	2:36.87	Alicia María Boscatto (ARG)	2:37.09	(USA)	2:37.57

100 m butterfly details	Janel Jorgensen (USA)	1:01.28	(USA)	1:01.54	(CAN)	1:03.67
200 m butterfly details	(USA)	2:12.54	Michelle Griglione (USA)	2:15.03	(CAN)	2:17.78

200 m individual medley details	(USA)	2:18.22	(USA)	2:20.06	Karin Helmstaedt (CAN)	2:21.59
400 m individual medley details	Tami Bruce (USA)	4:49.34	(USA)	4:51.32	Karin Helmstaedt (CAN)	4:57.04

4×100 m freestyle relay details	UNITED STATES Jenny Thompson Carrie Steinseifer	3:48.68	CANADA Cheryl McArton Manon Simard	3:52.25	COSTA RICA Natasha Aguilar Marcela Cuesta Carolina Mauri Silvia Poll	3:55.43
4×200 m freestyle relay details	UNITED STATES Whitney Hedgepeth	8:13.34	COSTA RICA Natasha Aguilar Marcela Cuesta Carolina Mauri Silvia Poll	8:24.25	CANADA Cheryl McArton	8:25.69
4×100 m medley relay details	UNITED STATES Janel Jorgensen	4:12.92	CANADA Manon Simard Keltie Duggan Cheryl McArton	4:17.78	COSTA RICA Silvia Poll Montserrat Hidalgo Marcela Cuesta Carolina Mauri	4:23.11

Medal table[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	27	20	10	57
2	Costa Rica	3	3	2	8
3	Canada	1	5	13	19
4	Suriname	1	0	1	2
5	Brazil	0	2	4	6
6	Argentina	0	1	0	1
6	Uruguay	0	1	0	1
8	Netherlands Antilles	0	0	1	1
	Peru	0	0	1	1
	Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		32	32	33	97

References[]

^ ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Brazil medals at 1987 Pan". UOL (in Portuguese). 2007. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
^ Odir Cunha (2007). Heróis da América - História Completa dos Jogos Pan-Americanos. . ISBN 8576652803.

[1] ISHOF list with all medalists in Pan Am Games history Archived 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "Brazil medals at 1987 Pan". UOL (in Portuguese). 2007. Retrieved October 15, 2013.

[3] Odir Cunha (2007). Heróis da América - História Completa dos Jogos Pan-Americanos. . ISBN 8576652803.

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