1990 European Athletics Championships

15th European Athletics Championships
The logo of the 1990 European Athletics Championships
Dates	26 August - 2 September
Host city	Split, Yugoslavia
Venue	Stadion Poljud
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	43
Participation	952 athletes from 33 nations
← 1986 Stuttgart 1994 Helsinki →

The 15th European Athletics Championships were held from 26 August to 2 September 1990 in Split, Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia. The host stadium was Stadion Poljud.

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 details	Linford Christie   Great Britain	10.00	Daniel Sangouma   France	10.04	John Regis   Great Britain	10.07
200 m details	John Regis   Great Britain	20.11	Jean-Charles Trouabal   France	20.31	Linford Christie   Great Britain	20.33
400 m details	Roger Black   Great Britain	45.08	Thomas Schönlebe   East Germany	45.13	Jens Carlowitz   East Germany	45.27
800 m details	Tom McKean   Great Britain	1:44.76	David Sharpe   Great Britain	1:45.59	Piotr Piekarski   Poland	1:45.76
1500 m details	Jens-Peter Herold   East Germany	3:38.25	Gennaro Di Napoli   Italy	3:38.60	Mário Silva   Portugal	3:38.73
5000 m details	Salvatore Antibo   Italy	13:22.00	Gary Staines   Great Britain	13:22.45	Sławomir Majusiak   Poland	13:22.92
10,000 m details	Salvatore Antibo   Italy	27:41.27	Are Nakkim   Norway	28:04.04	Stefano Mei   Italy	28:04.46
Marathon details	Gelindo Bordin   Italy	2:14:02	Gianni Poli   Italy	2:14:55	Dominique Chauvelier   France	2:15:20
110 metres hurdles details	Colin Jackson   Great Britain	13.18	Tony Jarrett   Great Britain	13.21	Dietmar Koszewski   West Germany	13.50
400 metres hurdles details	Kriss Akabusi   Great Britain	47.92	Sven Nylander   Sweden	48.43	Niklas Wallenlind   Sweden	48.52
3000 metres steeplechase details	Francesco Panetta   Italy	8:12.66	Mark Rowland   Great Britain	8:13.27	Alessandro Lambruschini   Italy	8:15.82
20 kilometres walk details	Pavol Blažek   Czechoslovakia	1:22:05	Daniel Plaza   Spain	1:22:22	Thierry Toutain   France	1:23:22
50 kilometres walk details	Andrey Perlov   Soviet Union	3:54:36	Bernd Gummelt   East Germany	3:56:33	Hartwig Gauder   East Germany	4:00:48
4x100 metres relay details	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 details	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 details	Dragutin Topić   Yugoslavia	2.34	Aleksey Yemelin   Soviet Union	2.34	Georgi Dakov   Bulgaria	2.34
Long jump details	Dietmar Haaf   West Germany	8.25	Ángel Hernández   Spain	8.15	Borut Bilač †   Yugoslavia	8.09
Pole vault details	Radion Gataullin   Soviet Union	5.85	Grigoriy Yegorov   Soviet Union	5.75	Hermann Fehringer   Austria	5.75
Triple jump details	Leonid Voloshin   Soviet Union	17.74	Khristo Markov   Bulgaria	17.43	Igor Lapshin   Soviet Union	17.34
Shot put‡ details	Ulf Timmermann   East Germany	21.32	Oliver-Sven Buder   East Germany	21.01	Georg Andersen   Norway	20.71
Discus throw details	Jürgen Schult   East Germany	64.58	Erik de Bruin   Netherlands	64.46	Wolfgang Schmidt   West Germany	64.10
Javelin throw details	Steve Backley   Great Britain	87.30	Viktor Zaytsev   Soviet Union	83.30	Patrik Bodén   Sweden	82.66
Hammer throw details	Igor Astapkovich   Soviet Union	84.14	Tibor Gécsek   Hungary	80.14	Igor Nikulin   Soviet Union	80.02
Decathlon details	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 details	Katrin Krabbe   East Germany	10.89 CR	Silke Möller   East Germany	11.10	Kerstin Behrendt   East Germany	11.17
200 metres details	Katrin Krabbe   East Germany	21.95	Heike Drechsler   East Germany	22.19	Galina Malchugina   Soviet Union	22.23
400 metres details	Grit Breuer   East Germany	49.50	Petra Schersing   East Germany	50.51	Marie-José Pérec   France	50.84
800 metres details	Sigrun Wodars   East Germany	1:55.87	Christine Wachtel   East Germany	1:56.11	Liliya Nurutdinova   Soviet Union	1:57.39
1500 metres details	Snežana Pajkić   Yugoslavia	4:08.12	Ellen Kiessling   East Germany	4:08.67	Sandra Gasser    Switzerland	4:08.89
3000 metres details	Yvonne Murray   Great Britain	8:43.06	Yelena Romanova   Soviet Union	8:43.68	Roberta Brunet   Italy	8:46.19
10,000 metres details	Yelena Romanova   Soviet Union	31:46.83	Kathrin Ullrich   East Germany	31:47.70	Annette Sergent   France	31:51.68
Marathon details	Rosa Mota   Portugal	2: 31:27	Valentina Yegorova   Soviet Union	2: 31:32	Maria Rebelo   France	2: 35:51
100 metres hurdles details	Monique Ewanje-Epée   France	12.79	Gloria Siebert   East Germany	12.91	Lidiya Yurkova   Soviet Union	12.92
400 metres hurdles details	Tatyana Ledovskaya   Soviet Union	53.62	Anita Protti    Switzerland	54.36	Monica Westén   Sweden	54.75
10 kilometres walk details	Annarita Sidoti   Italy	44:00	Olga Kardopoltseva   Soviet Union	44:06	Ileana Salvador   Italy	44:38
4x100 metres relay details	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 details	Manuela Derr Annett Hesselbarth Petra Schersing 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 details	Heike Henkel   West Germany	1.99	Biljana Petrović   Yugoslavia	1.96	Yelena Yelesina   Soviet Union	1.96
Long jump details	Heike Drechsler   East Germany	7.30	Marieta Ilcu   Romania	7.02	Helga Radtke   East Germany	6.94
Shot put details	Astrid Kumbernuss   East Germany	20.38	Natalya Lisovskaya   Soviet Union	20.06	Kathrin Neimke   East Germany	19.96
Discus throw details	Ilke Wyludda   East Germany	68.46	Olga Burova   Soviet Union	66.72	Martina Hellmann   East Germany	66.66
Javelin throw details	Päivi Alafrantti   Finland	67.68	Karen Forkel   East Germany	67.56	Petra Felke   East Germany	66.56
Heptathlon details	Sabine Braun   West Germany	6688	Heike Tischler   East Germany	6572	Peggy Beer   East Germany	6531

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Yugoslavia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany  (GDR)	12	12	10	34
2	Great Britain  (GBR)	9	5	4	18
3	Soviet Union  (URS)	6	9	6	21
4	Italy  (ITA)	5	2	5	12
5	France  (FRA)	3	2	5	10
6	West Germany  (FRG)	3	2	2	7
7	Yugoslavia  (YUG)*	2	1	1	4
8	Portugal  (POR)	1	0	1	2
9	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	1	0	0	1
	Finland  (FIN)	1	0	0	1
11	Hungary  (HUN)	0	2	0	2
	Spain  (ESP)	0	2	0	2
13	Sweden  (SWE)	0	1	3	4
14	Bulgaria  (BUL)	0	1	1	2
	Norway  (NOR)	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	1	1	2
17	Netherlands  (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Romania  (ROU)	0	1	0	1
19	Poland  (POL)	0	0	2	2
20	Austria  (AUT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		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]

•   Albania (2)
•   Austria (11)
•   Belgium (19)
•   Bulgaria (20)
•   Cyprus (4)
•   Czechoslovakia (17)
•   Denmark (7)
•   East Germany (67)
•   Finland (45)
•   France (67)
•   Great Britain (95)
• Greece (11)
•   Hungary (32)
•   Iceland (6)
•   Ireland (14)
•   Israel (3)
•   Italy (61)
•   Liechtenstein (2)
•   Luxembourg (1)
•   Malta (1)
•   Netherlands (17)
•   Norway (18)
•   Poland (18)
•   Portugal (32)
•   Romania (21)
•   San Marino (1)
•   Soviet Union (97)
• Spain (61)
•   Sweden (25)
•    Switzerland (18)
•   Turkey (8)
•   West Germany (68)
•   Yugoslavia (45)

See also

• 1990 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 451–460, retrieved 13 August 2014
2. Verspringer Maas neemt EK-brons van Bilac over - Verspringer Frans Maas ontvangt alsnog de bronzen medaille van het Europese kampioenschap. De Nederlandse atleet, die eind augustus in Split negen centimeter van de derde plaats bleef verwijderd, neemt het brons over van Borut Bilac, die in Joegoslavie verboden stimulerende middelen heeft gebruikt. (in Dutch), NRC Handelsblad, October 5, 1990, retrieved September 21, 2014
3. Doping bei EM (in German), Neues Deutschland, October 6, 1990, retrieved September 21, 2014
4. Medaille Bilac - De Joegoslavische verspringer Borut Bilac is door de Europese atletiekfederatie (EAA) gerehabiliteerd. (in Dutch), NRC Handelsblad, May 13, 1991, retrieved September 21, 2014
5. Weitspringer rehabilitiert (in German), Neues Deutschland, May 13, 1991, retrieved September 21, 2014
6. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014

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