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

The women's 3000 metres event at the 1987 Pan American Games was held in Indianapolis, United States on 16 August.^[1][2][3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mary Knisely	United States	9:06.75
	Angela Chalmers	Canada	9:14.48
	Leslie Seymour	United States	9:19.26
4	Susan Lee	Canada	9:21.91
5	Carmem de Oliveira	Brazil	9:22.62
6	Michelle Bush	Cayman Islands	9:35.52	NR
7	Mónica Regonesi	Chile	9:50.08
8	Isabel Juárez	Mexico	9:55.58
9	Kriscia García	El Salvador	10:09.03
10	Yolanda Quimbita	Ecuador	10:39.74
11	Natividad Fernández	Paraguay	11:13.38
	Olga Caccaviello	Argentina	DNS
	Maria-Luisa Servin	Mexico	DNS
	Teresa Paucar	Ecuador	DNS