Athletics at the 1987 Pan American Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10,000 m walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 10,000 metres event at the 1987 Pan American Games was held in Indianapolis, United States on 13 August.^[1][2] It was the first time that this event was contested at the Games.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Marta Cooksey	United States	33:00.00	GR
	Nancy Tinari	Canada	33:02.51
	Patti Murray	United States	33:38.12
4	Mónica Regonesi	Chile	33:48.67	NR
5	Carmem de Oliveira	Brazil	34:24.63
6	Michelle Bush	Cayman Islands	34:41.67
7	Teresa Paucar	Ecuador	35:21.71	NR
8	María Luisa Servín	Mexico	36:19.56
9	Olga Caccaviello	Argentina	37:27.51	[3]
10	Yolanda Quimbita	Ecuador	37:33.23	[4]
11	Cornelia Melis	Aruba	39:50.39
12	Natividad Fernández	Paraguay	41:13.71
	Santa Velázquez	Mexico	DNF	[5]