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1990 in the sport of athletics

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Field	Value
Title	1990 in athletics
Major world competitions	World Championships
World Indoor Championships
Previous	1989
Next	1991

World Indoor Championships |No. of world records =

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

International Events

African Championships
Asian Games
Balkan Games
Central American and Caribbean Championships
Commonwealth Games
European Championships
European Indoor Championships
Goodwill Games
World Cross Country Championships
World Junior Championships

World records

Men

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

Women

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

Men's Best Year Performers

[[100 metres]]

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

[[200 metres]]

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

[[400 metres]]

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

[[800 metres]]

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

[[1500 metres|1,500 metres]]

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

[[Mile run world record progression|Mile]]

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

[[3000 metres|3,000 metres]]

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

[[5000 metres|5,000 metres]]

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

[[10,000 metres]]

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

[[Half marathon]]

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

[[Marathon]]

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

[[Hurdling|110m hurdles]]

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

[[Hurdling|400m hurdles]]

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

[[Steeplechase (athletics)|3,000m steeplechase]]

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

[[High jump]]

RANK	1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Sorin Matei	2.40
2.	Hollis Conway	2.38
3.	Dragutin Topić	2.37
Sergey Dymchenko
4.	Clarence Saunders	2.36
Javier Sotomayor
Doug Nordquist
Georgi Dakov

[[Long jump]]

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

[[Triple jump]]

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

[[Discus throw|Discus]]

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

[[Shot put]]

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

[[Hammer throw|Hammer]]

Main article: 1990 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

RANK	1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Igor Nikulin	84.48
2.	Igor Astapkovich	84.14
3.	Andrey Abduvaliyev	83.46
4.	Yuriy Sedykh	82.80
5.	Sergey Litvinov	81.74

[[Javelin throw|Javelin (new design)]]

RANK	1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Steve Backley	89.58
2.	Patrik Bodén	89.10
3.	Seppo Räty	86.92
4.	Jan Železný	86.52
5.	Tom Petranoff	86.46

[[Pole vault]]

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

[[Decathlon]]

Main article: 1990 Decathlon Year Ranking

RANK	1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Christian Plaziat	8574
2.	Michael Smith	8525
3.	Christian Schenk	8481
4.	Dezső Szabó	8436
5.	Dave Johnson	8403

Women's Best Year Performers

[[60 metres]]

RANK	1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Merlene Ottey	7.08
2.	Ulrike Sarvari	7.10
3.	Irina Sergeyeva	7.13
Laurence Bily
5.	Nelli Cooman	7.14

[[100 metres]]

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

[[200 metres]]

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

[[400 metres]]

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

[[800 metres]]

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

[[1500 metres|1,500 metres]]

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

[[Mile run world record progression|Mile]]

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

[[3000 metres|3,000 metres]]

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

[[5000 metres|5,000 metres]]

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

[[10,000 metres]]

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

[[Half marathon]]

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

[[Marathon]]

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

[[Hurdling|60m hurdles]]

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

[[Hurdling|100m hurdles]]

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

[[Hurdling|400m hurdles]]

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

[[High jump|High Jump]]

RANK	1990 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Yelena Yelesina	2.02 m
2.	Yolanda Henry	2.00 m
Biljana Petrović
Heike Henkel
5.	Alina Astafei	1.98 m

[[Long jump|Long Jump]]

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

[[Triple jump|Triple Jump]]

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

[[Shot put]]

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

[[Javelin throw|Javelin (old design)]]

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

[[Heptathlon]]

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

Births

February 1 — Feyisa Lilesa, Ethiopian long-distance runner
August 29 — Marin Premeru, Croatian discus thrower and shot putter
October 24 — Vicky Parnov, Australian pole vaulter
November 23 — Stanislav Emelyanov, Russian race walker

Deaths

March 27 — Percy Beard (82), American hurdler (b. 1908)
April 10 — Fortune Gordien (67), American athlete (b. 1922)
August 29 — Luigi Beccali (82), Italian athlete (b. 1907)
December 31 — Robina Higgins (75), Canadian athlete (b.1915)

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