Athletics at the 1995 Pan American Games – Women's 5000 metres

Athletics at the 1995 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
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	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 5000 metres event at the 1995 Pan American Games was held at the Estadio Atletico "Justo Roman" on 24 March.^[1][2] This was the first time that this distance was contested by women at the Pan American Games replacing the 3000 metres.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Adriana Fernández	Mexico	15:46.32
	María del Carmen Díaz	Mexico	15:46.43
	Carol Montgomery	Canada	15:46.80
4	Sarah Howell	Canada	16:02.59
5	Misti Demko	United States	16:04.50
6	Silvana Pereira	Brazil	16:07.16
7	Érika Olivera	Chile	16:13.76
8	Yesenia Centeno	Cuba	16:29.06
9	Elisa Cobañea	Argentina	16:31.24	[3]
10	Ceci St. Geme	United States	16:43.15
11	Marilu Salazar	Peru	17:04.69
12	Roxana Coronatti	Argentina	17:46.64	[3]
	Carmem de Oliveira	Brazil	DNS
	Bigna Samuel	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	DNS