Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games – Women's 800 metre freestyle

Women's 800 metre freestyle at the 1983 Pan American Games
Venue	-
Dates	August 21 (preliminaries and finals)
Competitors	- from - nations
Medalists
Tiffany Cohen   United States   Marybeth Linzmeier   United States   Julie Daigneault   Canada
«1979 1987»

The women's 800 metre freestyle competition of the swimming events at the 1983 Pan American Games took place on 21 August.[1] The last Pan American Games champion was Kim Linehan of the United States.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

This race consisted of sixteen 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 21.[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tiffany Cohen	United States	8:35.42	GR
	Marybeth Linzmeier	United States	8:41.26
	Julie Daigneault	Canada	8:59.82
4	Sandra Honour	Canada	9:08.14
5	Irma Huerta	Mexico	9:10.86
6	Isabel Miranda	Brazil	9:13.83	NR
7	Amalia Llorca	Venezuela	9:20.20	NR
8	Maria Cuesta	Cuba	9:22.50	NR

References

1. "Results" (PDF). USA SWIMMING. Retrieved 15 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 2013-10-15.
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 2014-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
8. "Swimming Technical Manual" (PDF). Guadalajara 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011.