1990 European Athletics Championships

The 15th European Athletics Championships were held from 26 August to 2 September 1990 in Split, SFR Yugoslavia. The host stadium was Stadion Poljud. The yugoslav flag bearer was the top model Martina Relota from Split.

It was the last participation of East Germany (which was already scheduled to be merged with the Federal Republic), the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and SFR Yugoslavia.

Men's results

Complete results were published.^[1]

Track

1982 |1986 |1990 |1994 |1998 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Linford Christie  Great Britain	10.00	Daniel Sangouma  France	10.04	John Regis  Great Britain	10.07
200 m	John Regis  Great Britain	20.11	Jean-Charles Trouabal  France	20.31	Linford Christie  Great Britain	20.33
400 m	Roger Black  Great Britain	45.08	Thomas Schönlebe  East Germany	45.13	Jens Carlowitz  East Germany	45.27
800 m	Tom McKean  Great Britain	1:44.76	David Sharpe  Great Britain	1:45.59	Piotr Piekarski  Poland	1:45.76
1500 m	Jens-Peter Herold  East Germany	3:38.25	Gennaro Di Napoli  Italy	3:38.60	Mário Silva  Portugal	3:38.73
5000 m	Salvatore Antibo  Italy	13:22.00	Gary Staines  Great Britain	13:22.45	Sławomir Majusiak  Poland	13:22.92
10,000 m	Salvatore Antibo  Italy	27:41.27	Are Nakkim  Norway	28:04.04	Stefano Mei  Italy	28:04.46
Marathon	Gelindo Bordin  Italy	2:14:02	Gianni Poli  Italy	2:14:55	Dominique Chauvelier  France	2:15:20
110 metres hurdles	Colin Jackson  Great Britain	13.18	Tony Jarrett  Great Britain	13.21	Dietmar Koszewski  West Germany	13.50
400 metres hurdles	Kriss Akabusi  Great Britain	47.92	Sven Nylander  Sweden	48.43	Niklas Wallenlind  Sweden	48.52
3000 metres steeplechase	Francesco Panetta  Italy	8:12.66	Mark Rowland  Great Britain	8:13.27	Alessandro Lambruschini  Italy	8:15.82
20 kilometres walk	Pavol Blažek  Czechoslovakia	1:22:05	Daniel Plaza  Spain	1:22:22	Thierry Toutain  France	1:23:22
50 kilometres walk	Andrey Perlov  Soviet Union	3:54:36	Bernd Gummelt  East Germany	3:56:33	Hartwig Gauder  East Germany	4:00:48
4x100 metres relay	Max Morinière Daniel Sangouma Jean-Charles Trouabal Bruno Marie-Rose  France (FRA)	37.79 (WR)	Darren Braithwaite John Regis Marcus Adam Linford Christie  Great Britain (GBR)	37.98	Mario Longo Ezio Madonia Sandro Floris Stefano Tilli  Italy (ITA)	38.39
4x400 metres relay	Paul Sanders Kriss Akabusi John Regis Roger Black  Great Britain (GBR)	2:58.22	Klaus Just Edgar Itt Carsten Köhrbrück Norbert Dobeleit  West Germany (FRG)	3:00.64	Rico Lieder Karsten Just Thomas Schönlebe Jens Carlowitz  East Germany (GDR)	3:01.51

Field

1982 |1986 |1990 |1994 |1998 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Dragutin Topić  Yugoslavia	2.34	Aleksey Yemelin  Soviet Union	2.34	Georgi Dakov  Bulgaria	2.34
Long jump	Dietmar Haaf  West Germany	8.25	Ángel Hernández  Spain	8.15	Borut Bilač†  Yugoslavia	8.09
Pole vault	Radion Gataullin  Soviet Union	5.85	Grigoriy Yegorov  Soviet Union	5.75	Hermann Fehringer  Austria	5.75
Triple jump	Leonid Voloshin  Soviet Union	17.74	Khristo Markov  Bulgaria	17.43	Igor Lapshin  Soviet Union	17.34
Shot put‡	Ulf Timmermann  East Germany	21.32	Oliver-Sven Buder  East Germany	21.01	Georg Andersen  Norway	20.71
Discus throw	Jürgen Schult  East Germany	64.58	Erik de Bruin  Netherlands	64.46	Wolfgang Schmidt  West Germany	64.10
Javelin throw	Steve Backley  Great Britain	87.30	Viktor Zaytsev  Soviet Union	83.30	Patrik Bodén  Sweden	82.66
Hammer throw	Igor Astapkovich  Soviet Union	84.14	Tibor Gécsek  Hungary	80.14	Igor Nikulin  Soviet Union	80.02
Decathlon	Christian Plaziat  France	8.574	Dezső Szabó  Hungary	8.436	Christian Schenk  East Germany	8.433

^†: In long jump, bronze medalist Borut Bilač from Yugoslavia was initially disqualified for a suspected infringement of IAAF doping rules,^[2][3] but was later cleared of the charges and reinstated.^[4][5]
‡: In shot put, Vyacheslav Lykho from the Soviet Union ranked initially 3rd (20.81m), but was disqualified for infringement of IAAF doping rules.^[2][3]

Women's results

Track

1982 |1986 |1990 |1994 |1998 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Katrin Krabbe  East Germany	10.89 CR	Silke Gladisch-Moller  East Germany	11.10	Kerstin Behrendt  East Germany	11.17
200 metres	Katrin Krabbe  East Germany	21.95	Heike Daute-Drechsler  East Germany	22.19	Galina Malchugina  Soviet Union	22.23
400 metres	Grit Breuer  East Germany	49.50	Petra Müller  East Germany	50.51	Marie-José Pérec  France	50.84
800 metres	Sigrun Ludvigs-Wodars  East Germany	1:55.87	Christine Wachtel  East Germany	1:56.11	Liliya Nurutdinova  Soviet Union	1:57.39
1500 metres	Snežana Pajkić  Yugoslavia	4:08.12	Ellen Kiessling  East Germany	4:08.67	Sandra Gasser   Switzerland	4:08.89
3000 metres	Yvonne Murray  Great Britain	8:43.06	Yelena Romanova  Soviet Union	8:43.68	Roberta Brunet  Italy	8:46.19
10,000 metres	Yelena Romanova  Soviet Union	31:46.83	Kathrin Ullrich  East Germany	31:47.70	Annette Sergent  France	31:51.68
Marathon	Rosa Mota  Portugal	2: 31:27	Valentina Yegorova  Soviet Union	2: 31:32	Maria Rebelo  France	2: 35:51
100 metres hurdles	Monique Ewanje-Epée  France	12.79	Gloria Kovarik-Siebert  East Germany	12.91	Lidiya Yurkova  Soviet Union	12.92
400 metres hurdles	Tatyana Ledovskaya  Soviet Union	53.62	Anita Protti   Switzerland	54.36	Monica Westén  Sweden	54.75
10 kilometres walk	Annarita Sidoti  Italy	44:00	Olga Kardopoltseva  Soviet Union	44:06	Ileana Salvador  Italy	44:38
4x100 metres relay	Silke Möller Katrin Krabbe Kerstin Behrendt Sabine Günther  East Germany	41.68	Gabi Lippe Ulrike Sarvari Andrea Thomas Silke Knoll  West Germany	43.02	Stephanie Douglas Beverly Kinch Simone Jacobs Paula Thomas  Great Britain	43.32
4x400 metres relay	Manuela Derr Annett Hesselbarth Petra Müller Grit Breuer  East Germany	3:21.02	Yelena Vinogradova Lyudmila Dzhigalova Tatyana Ledovskaya Yelena Ruzina  Soviet Union	3:23.34	Sally Gunnell Jennifer Stoute Patricia Beckford Linda Keough  Great Britain	3:24.78

Field

1982 |1986 |1990 |1994 |1998 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Heike Henkel  West Germany	1.99	Biljana Petrović  Yugoslavia	1.96	Yelena Yelesina  Soviet Union	1.96
Long jump	Heike Drechsler  East Germany	7.30	Marieta Ilcu  Romania	7.02	Helga Radtke  East Germany	6.94
Shot put	Astrid Kumbernuss  East Germany	20.38	Natalya Lisovskaya  Soviet Union	20.06	Kathrin Neimke  East Germany	19.96
Discus throw	Ilke Wyludda  East Germany	68.46	Olga Burova  Soviet Union	66.72	Martina Hellmann  East Germany	66.66
Javelin throw	Päivi Alafrantti  Finland	67.68	Karen Forkel  East Germany	67.56	Petra Felke  East Germany	66.56
Heptathlon	Sabine Braun  West Germany	6688	Heike Tischler  East Germany	6572	Peggy Beer  East Germany	6531

Medals table

  Host nation (Yugoslavia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	12	12	10	34
2	Great Britain	9	5	4	18
3	Soviet Union	6	9	6	21
4	Italy	5	2	5	12
5	France	3	2	5	10
6	West Germany	3	2	2	7
7	Yugoslavia	2	1	1	4
8	Portugal	1	0	1	2
9	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
9	Finland	1	0	0	1
11	Hungary	0	2	0	2
11	Spain	0	2	0	2
13	Sweden	0	1	3	4
14	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
14	Norway	0	1	1	2
14	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
17	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
17	Romania	0	1	0	1
19	Poland	0	0	2	2
20	Austria	0	0	1	1
20	Total	43	43	43	129

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 914 athletes from 33 countries participated in the event, 39 athletes less than the official number of 952 as published.^[6]

See also

• 1990 in athletics (track and field)

References

• European Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2012-06-26.
• European Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2012-06-26.