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1990 in the sport of athletics

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This article contains an overview of the year 1990 in athletics.

1990 in athletics
Major world eventsWorld Championships
World Indoor Championships
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International Events edit

World records edit

Men edit

EVENT ATHLETE MARK DATE VENUE
20,000 metres   Dionísio Castro (POR) 57:18.4 31 March La Flèche, France
4 × 100 m relay   France (FRA)
• Max Morinière
• Daniel Sangouma
• Jean-Charles Trouabal
• Bruno Marie-Rose 		37.79 1 September Split, Yugoslavia
Shot put   Randy Barnes (USA) 23.12m 20 May Westwood, United States
Javelin (new)   Patrik Bodén (SWE) 89.10m 24 March Austin, United States
  Steve Backley (GBR) 89.58m 2 July Stockholm, Sweden
Half marathon   Dionicio Cerón (MEX) 1:00:46 16 September Philadelphia, United States

Women edit

EVENT ATHLETE MARK DATE VENUE
1,000 metres   Christine Wachtel (GER) 2:30.67 17 August Berlin, Germany
Triple jump   Li Huirong (CHN) 14.54m 25 August Sapporo, Japan

Men's Best Year Performers edit

100 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Leroy Burrell (USA) 9.96
2.   Linford Christie (GBR) 10.02
3.   Calvin Smith (USA) 10.04
4.   Davidson Ezinwa (NGR) 10.05
  Mark Witherspoon (USA)
  Carl Lewis (USA)

200 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Michael Johnson (USA) 19.85
2.   Danny Everett (USA) 20.08
3.   John Regis (GBR) 20.11
4.   Leroy Burrell (USA) 20.14
5.   Robson da Silva (BRA) 20.23

400 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Danny Everett (USA) 44.06
2.   Roberto Hernández (CUB) 44.14
3.   Michael Johnson (USA) 44.21
4.   Andrew Valmon (USA) 44.35
5.   Darren Clark (AUS) 44.60

800 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Peter Elliott (GBR) 1:42.97
2.   William Tanui (KEN) 1:43.39
3.   Johnny Gray (USA) 1:43.72
4.   Paul Ereng (KEN) 1:43.78
5.   Robert Kibet (KEN) 1:44.29

1,500 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Noureddine Morceli (ALG) 3:32.60
2.   Peter Elliott (GBR) 3:32.69
3.   Gennaro Di Napoli (ITA) 3:32.78
4.   Wilfred Kirochi (KEN) 3:32.90
5.   Steve Cram (GBR) 3:33.03

Mile edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Joe Falcon (USA) 3:49.31
2.   Peter Elliott (GBR) 3:49.76
3.   Jens-Peter Herold (GDR) 3:50.59
4.   Tony Morrell (GBR) 3:51.31
5.   Abdi Bile (SOM) 3:52.01

3,000 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Khalid Skah (MAR) 7:37.09
2.   Cyrille Laventure (FRA) 7:37.74
3.   Yobes Ondieki (KEN) 7:38.15
4.   Mohamed Issangar (MAR) 7:39.40
5.   Brahim Boutayeb (MAR) 7:40.79

5,000 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Salvatore Antibo (ITA) 13:05.59
2.   Yobes Ondieki (KEN) 13:05.60
3.   Mohamed Issangar (MAR) 13:08.51
4.   Arturo Barrios (MEX) 13:08.52
5.   Khalid Skah (MAR) 13:09.55

10,000 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Arturo Barrios (MEX) 27:18.22
2.   John Ngugi (KEN) 27:19.15
3.   Salvatore Antibo (ITA) 27:25.16
4.   Hammou Boutayeb (MAR) 27:25.48
5.   Khalid Skah (MAR) 27:29.27

Half marathon edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Steve Moneghetti (AUS) 1:00:34

Marathon edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Steve Moneghetti (AUS) 2:08:16
2.   Gelindo Bordin (ITA) 2:08:19
3.   Gidamis Shahanga (TAN) 2:08:32
4.   Jörg Peter (GDR) 2:09:23
5.   Martín Pitayo (MEX) 2:09:41

110m hurdles edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Colin Jackson (GBR) 13.08
2.   Greg Foster (USA) 13.15
3.   Roger Kingdom (USA) 13.21
  Tony Jarrett (GBR)
5.   Renaldo Nehemiah (USA) 13.22

400m hurdles edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Danny Harris (USA) 47.49
2.   Samuel Matete (ZAM) 47.91
3.   Kriss Akabusi (GBR) 47.92
4.   Winthrop Graham (JAM) 48.03
5.   David Patrick (USA) 48.22

3,000m steeplechase edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Peter Koech (KEN) 8:10.95
2.   Francesco Panetta (ITA) 8:12.66
3.   William Mutwol (KEN) 8:12.75
4.   Mark Rowland (GBR) 8:13.27
5.   Julius Kariuki (KEN) 8:13.28

High jump edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS HEIGHT
1.   Sorin Matei (ROU) 2.40
2.   Hollis Conway (USA) 2.38
3.   Dragutin Topić (YUG) 2.37
  Sergey Dymchenko (URS)
4.   Clarence Saunders (BER) 2.36
  Javier Sotomayor (CUB)
  Doug Nordquist (USA)
  Georgi Dakov (BUL)

Long jump edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.   Mike Powell (USA) 8.66
2.   Jaime Jefferson (CUB) 8.53
3.   Carl Lewis (USA) 8.51
4.   Robert Emmiyan (URS) 8.32
5.   Sergey Podgainiy (URS) 8.25
  Dietmar Haaf (FRG)

Triple jump edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.   Kenny Harrison (USA) 17.93
2.   Volodymyr Inozemtsev (URS) 17.90
3.   Oleg Protsenko (URS) 17.75
4.   Leonid Voloshin (URS) 17.74
5.   Mike Conley (USA) 17.56

Discus edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.   Romas Ubartas (URS) 68.94
2.   Wolfgang Schmidt (GDR) 68.30
3.   Mike Buncic (USA) 67.72
4.   Juan Martínez Brito (CUB) 67.50
5.   Jürgen Schult (GDR) 67.08

Shot put edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.   Randy Barnes (USA) 23.12 WR
2.   Ulf Timmermann (GER) 21.64
3.   Pétur Guðmundsson (ISL) 21.26
4.   Jim Doehring (USA) 21.20
5.   Oliver-Sven Buder (GER) 21.06

Hammer edit

Main article: 1990 Hammer Throw Year Ranking
RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.   Igor Nikulin (URS) 84.48
2.   Igor Astapkovich (URS) 84.14
3.   Andrey Abduvaliyev (URS) 83.46
4.   Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 82.80
5.   Sergey Litvinov (URS) 81.74

Javelin (new design) edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.   Steve Backley (GBR) 89.58
2.   Patrik Bodén (SWE) 89.10
3.   Seppo Räty (FIN) 86.92
4.   Jan Železný (TCH) 86.52
5.   Tom Petranoff (USA) 86.46

Pole vault edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS HEIGHT
1.   Radion Gataullin (URS) 5.92
2.   Sergey Bubka (URS) 5.90
3.   Grigoriy Yegorov (URS) 5.87
4.   Maksim Tarasov (URS) 5.85
  Igor Potapovich (URS)

Decathlon edit

Main article: 1990 Decathlon Year Ranking
RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS POINTS
1.   Christian Plaziat (FRA) 8574
2.   Michael Smith (CAN) 8525
3.   Christian Schenk (GDR) 8481
4.   Dezső Szabó (HUN) 8436
5.   Dave Johnson (USA) 8403

Women's Best Year Performers edit

60 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Merlene Ottey (JAM) 7.08
2.   Ulrike Sarvari (FRG) 7.10
3.   Irina Sergeyeva (URS) 7.13
  Laurence Bily (FRA)
5.   Nelli Cooman (NLD) 7.14

100 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Merlene Ottey (JAM) 10.78
2.   Katrin Krabbe (GDR) 10.89
3.   Carlette Guidry (USA) 11.03
4.   Sheila Echols (USA) 11.05
  Michelle Finn (USA)

200 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Merlene Ottey (JAM) 21.66
2.   Katrin Krabbe (GDR) 21.95
3.   Heike Drechsler (GDR) 22.19
4.   Galina Malchugina (URS) 22.23
5.   Mary Onyali (NGR) 22.31

400 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Grit Breuer (GDR) 49.50
2.   Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) 50.03
3.   Paulien Davis (BAH) 50.05
4.   Petra Schersing (GDR) 50.31
5.   Lyudmila Dzhigalova (URS) 50.33

800 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Sigrun Wodars (GDR) 1:55.87
2.   Christine Wachtel (GDR) 1:56.11
3.   Nadezhda Loboyko (URS) 1:56.64
4.   Lyudmila Rogachova (URS) 1:57.1
5.   Liliya Nurutdinova (URS) 1:57.25

1,500 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Doina Melinte (ROU) 3:58.69
2.   Natalya Artyomova (URS) 4:02.53
3.   Yvonne Mai (GDR) 4:02.69
4.   Lyudmila Rogachova (URS) 4:03.07
5.   Violeta Beclea (ROM) 4:03.14

Mile edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Doina Melinte (ROU) 4:18.13
2.   Natalya Artyomova (URS) 4:22.20
3.   Yvonne Mai (GDR) 4:22.97
4.   Lynn Jennings (USA) 4:24.14
5.   Svetlana Kitova (URS) 4:24.63

3,000 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Angela Chalmers (CAN) 8:38.38
2.   Yvonne Murray (GBR) 8:39.46
3.   Liz McColgan (GBR) 8:43.14
4.   Yelena Romanova (URS) 8:43.68
5.   PattiSue Plumer (USA) 8:44.07

5,000 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Yelena Romanova (URS) 15:02.23
2.   Lynn Jennings (USA) 15:07.92
3.   PattiSue Plumer (USA) 15:07.97
4.   Viorica Ghican (ROU) 15:09.90
5.   Nadia Dandolo (ITA) 15:11.64

10,000 metres edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Viorica Ghican (ROU) 31:18.18
2.   Uta Pippig (GDR) 31:40.92
3.   Maria Conceição Ferreira (POR) 31:45.75
4.   Yelena Romanova (URS) 31:46.83
5.   Kathrin Ullrich (GDR) 31:47.70

Half marathon edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Rosa Mota (POR) 1:09:33

Marathon edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Rosa Mota (POR) 2:25:24
2.   Lisa Martin (AUS) 2:25:28
3.   Wanda Panfil (POL) 2:26:31
4.   Frith van der Merwe (RSA) 2:27:36
5.   Francie Larrieu Smith (USA) 2:28:01

60m hurdles edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Ludmila Narozhilenko (URS) 7.69
2.   Monique Éwanjé-Épée (FRA) 7.84
3.   Nataliya Grygoryeva (URS) 7.85
4.   Lidiya Yurkova (URS) 7.86
5.   Anne Piquereau (FRA) 7.88

100m hurdles edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Nataliya Grygoryeva (URS) 12.53
2.   Monique Éwanjé-Épée (FRA) 12.56
3.   Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL) 12.61
4.   Mihaela Pogacian (ROU) 12.62
5.   Ludmila Narozhilenko (URS) 12.64

400m hurdles edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.   Tatyana Ledovskaya (URS) 53.62
2.   Myrtle Bothma (RSA) 54.07
3.   Anita Protti (SUI) 54.36
4.   Sandra Farmer-Patrick (USA) 54.46
5.   Monica Westén (SWE) 54.69

High Jump edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS HEIGHT
1.   Yelena Yelesina (URS) 2.02 m
2.   Yolanda Henry (USA) 2.00 m
  Biljana Petrović (YUG)
  Heike Henkel (FRG)
5.   Alina Astafei (ROU) 1.98 m

Long Jump edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.   Galina Chistyakova (URS) 7.35 m
2.   Heike Drechsler (GDR) 7.30 m
3.   Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) 7.12 m
4.   Inessa Kravets (URS) 7.10 m
  Larisa Berezhnaya (URS)

Triple Jump edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.   Li Huirong (CHN) 14.54 m

Shot put edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.   Sui Xinmei (CHN) 21.66 m
2.   Huang Zhihong (CHN) 21.52 m
3.   Astrid Kumbernuss (GER) 20.77 m

Javelin (old design) edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.   Petra Felke (GDR) 73.08
2.   Zhang Li (CHN) 70.42
3.   Karen Forkel (GER) 69.38
4.   Xu Demei (CHN) 68.30
5.   Natalya Cherniyenko (URS) 67.88

Heptathlon edit

RANK 1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS POINTS
1.   Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) 6783
2.   Jane Flemming (AUS) 6695
3.   Sabine Braun (GER) 6688
4.   Heike Tischler (GER) 6572
5.   Peggy Beer (GER) 6531

Births edit

Deaths edit

References edit

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