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1987 Indianapolis Pan American Games
1987 Pan American Games (poster)
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City

Indianapolis, USA

Team Gold Medalist

USA

All-Around Gold Medalist

Sabrina Mar (USA)

Vault Gold Medalist

Laura Rodriguez (CUB)

Uneven Bars Gold Medalist

Melissa Marlowe (USA)

Balance Beam Gold Medalist

Kelly Garrison-Steves (USA)

Floor Exercise Gold Medalist

Kristie Phillips (USA)

Preceded by

1983 Caracas Pan American Games

Succeeded by

1991 Havana Pan American Games

The 1987 Pan American Games were held in Indianapolis, Indiana from 7 August to 23 August 1987. Over 4,300 athletes from 38 countries in the Americas competed in 30 sports earning 1,015 medals. Events were held at 23 venues in and around Indianapolis. The official mascot for the games was Amigo, a green parrot. The gymnastics competition was held in the Hoosier Dome, which would serve as the venue for the 1991 World Championships.

Format of Competition[]

The format was very similar to that of the Olympic Games. It was carried out in three stages:

  • Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which all gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. The top five scores per team on each exercise determined the final score of the team. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The eight highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
  • Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast during Competition I and all of the points earned by her in Competition II.
  • Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which he or she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast on that particular apparatus during Competition I and all of the points earned by her on that particular apparatus in Competition III.

Results[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Team 800px-Flag of the United States (Pantone) USA

Rhonda Faehn
Kelly Garrison-Steves
Sabrina Mar
Melissa Marlowe
Kristie Phillips
Hope Spivey

800px-Flag of Cuba Cuba

Laura Rodríguez
Luisa Prieto
Tania Guia
Elsa Chivas
Ibis Naredo
Lufea Prieto

800px-Flag of Canada Canada

Andrea Conway
Yanic Giguère
Ildiko Hattayer
Theresa Mackenzie
Amélie Major
Daphné Vallieres

All-Around 800px-Flag of the United States (Pantone) Sabrina Mar
United States of America (USA)
800px-Flag of the United States (Pantone) Kristie Phillips
United States of America (USA)
800px-Flag of the United States (Pantone) Kelly Garrison-Steves
United States of America (USA)
Vault 800px-Flag of Cuba Laura Rodriguez
Cuba (CUB)
800px-Flag of Cuba Luisa Prieto
Cuba (CUB)
800px-Flag of the United States (Pantone) Kristie Phillips
United States of America (USA)
Uneven Bars 800px-Flag of the United States (Pantone) Melissa Marlowe
United States of America (USA)
800px-Flag of the United States (Pantone) Sabrina Mar
United States of America (USA)
720px-Flag of Brazil Luisa Ribeiro
Brazil (BRA)
Balance Beam 800px-Flag of the United States (Pantone) Kelly Garrison-Steves
United States of America (USA)
800px-Flag of Cuba Tania Guia
Cuba (CUB)
800px-Flag of Cuba Elsa Chivas
Cuba (CUB)

800px-Flag of the United States (Pantone) Sabrina Mar
United States of America (USA)

Floor Exercise 800px-Flag of the United States (Pantone) Kristie Phillips
United States of America (USA)
800px-Flag of the United States (Pantone) Sabrina Mar
United States of America (USA)
800px-Flag of Cuba Laura Rodriguez
Cuba (CUB)

Medal Count[]

Rank Country Gold-medal Silver-medal Bronze-medal Total
1 800px-Flag of the United States (Pantone) USA 5 3 3 11
2 800px-Flag of Cuba Cuba 1 3 2 6
3 800px-Flag of Canada Canada 0 0 1 1
4 720px-Flag of Brazil Brazil 0 0 1 1
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