1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics

1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The host stadium in Plovdiv
Host city	Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Nations participating	87
Athletes participating	987
Events	41
Dates	8–12 August
Main venue	9th September Stadium
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The 3rd World Junior Championships in Athletics was the 1990 edition of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on 8–12 August.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Davidson Ezinwa  Nigeria	10.17 =CR	Jason Livingston  Great Britain	10.25	Rodney Bridges  United States	10.37
200 metres	Aleksandr Goremykin  Soviet Union	20.47 CR	Davidson Ezinwa  Nigeria	20.75	James Stallworth  United States	20.81
400 metres	Chris Nelloms  United States	45.43 CR	Rico Lieder  East Germany	46.28	Mark Richardson  Great Britain	46.33
800 metres	Desta Asgedom  Ethiopia	1:46.35 CR	Jonah Birir  Kenya	1:46.61	Norberto Téllez  Cuba	1:47.33
1500 metres	Moses Kiptanui  Kenya	3:38.32 CR	Alemayehu Roba  Ethiopia	3:41.71	Desta Asgedom  Ethiopia	3:43.38
5000 metres	Fita Bayissa  Ethiopia	13:42.59 CR	Abreham Assefa  Ethiopia	13:44.63	Francesco Bennici  Italy	13:47.10
10,000 metres	Richard Chelimo  Kenya	28:18.57 CR	Ismael Kirui  Kenya	28:40.77	Juma Ninga  Tanzania	28:41.90
20 kilometres road run	Cosmas Ndeti  Kenya	59:42	Juma Ninga  Tanzania	1:00:30	Dagane Dabela  Ethiopia	1:01:02
110 metres hurdles	Antti Haapakoski  Finland	13.74	Alexis Sánchez  Cuba	13.75	Kyle Vander-Kuyp  Australia	13.85
400 metres hurdles	Rohan Robinson  Australia	49.73	Yoshihiko Saito  Japan	49.99	Aleksandr Belikov  Soviet Union	50.22
3000 metres steeplechase	Matthew Birir  Kenya	8:31.02 CR	Francisco Munuera  Spain	8:41.03	Simeon Rono  Kenya	8:42:05
10,000 metres walk	Ilya Markov  Soviet Union	39:55.52	Alberto Cruz  Mexico	39:56.49	Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador	40:08.23
4 × 100 metres relay	United States Chris Nelloms Rodney Bridges Reggie Harris James Stallworth	39.13 CR	Soviet Union Sergejs Insakovs Konstantin Gromadskiy Vitaliy Semyonov Aleksandr Goremykin	39.58	Nigeria Innocent Asonze Davidson Ezinwa Nnamdi Anusim Osmond Ezinwa	39.68
4 × 400 metres relay	United States Derek Mills Marvin Samuels Reggie Harris Chris Nelloms	3:02.26	Great Britain David Grindley Adrian Patrick Craig Winrow Mark Richardson	3:03.80	Australia Matthew Burmeister Rohan Robinson Simon Hollingsworth Paul Greene	3:05.51
High jump	Dragutin Topić  Yugoslavia	2.37 WJR	Tim Forsyth  Australia	2.29	Stevan Zorić  Yugoslavia	2.26
Pole vault	Jean Galfione  France	5.45	Dmitriy Kurkulin  Soviet Union	5.40	Miroslav Dukov  Bulgaria	5.40
Long jump	James Stallworth  United States	8.12 CR	Dion Bentley  United States	8.05	Kareem Streete-Thompson  Cayman Islands	7.94
Triple jump	Sergey Bykov  Soviet Union	16.98 CR	Yoelbi Quesada  Cuba	16.62	Nikolai Raev  Bulgaria	16.22
Shot put	Viktor Bulat  Soviet Union	19.21 CR	Xie Shengying  China	18.57	Yuriy Ivanov  Soviet Union	18.13
Discus throw	Ilian Iliev  Bulgaria	58.28	Frank Bicet  Cuba	57.10	Jan Engelmann  East Germany	56.82
Javelin throw	Tommi Viskari  Finland	73.88	Dariusz Trafas  Poland	72.76	Jarkko Heimonen  Finland	72.30
Hammer throw	Andrey Debeliy  Soviet Union	70.60	Savvas Saritzoglou  Greece	70.32	Andrey Budykin  Soviet Union	69.36
Decathlon	Eric Kaiser  West Germany	7762	Jarkko Finni  Finland	7698	David Bigham  Great Britain	7488
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Andrea Philipp  East Germany	11.36	Nikole Mitchell  Jamaica	11.47	Lucrécia Jardim  Portugal	11.52
200 metres	Diane Smith  Great Britain	23.10 CR	Zundra Feagin  United States	23.13	Lucrécia Jardim  Portugal	23.26
400 metres	Fatima Yusuf  Nigeria	50.62 CR	Charity Opara  Nigeria	51.28	Manuela Derr  East Germany	51.95
800 metres	Liu Li  China	2:03.65	Magdalena Nedelcu  Romania	2:04.52	Aurica Rautu  Romania	2:04.78
1500 metres	Qu Yunxia  China	4:13.67	Claudia Mirela Bortoi  Romania	4:14.19	Malin Ewerlöf  Sweden	4:14.61
3000 metres	Simona Staicu  Romania	9:09.57	Liu Shixiang  China	9:10.54	Hatsumi Matsumoto  Japan	9:11.92
10,000 metres	Derartu Tulu  Ethiopia	32:56.26	Rika Ota  Japan	33:06.85	Lydia Cheromei  Kenya	33:20.83
100 metres hurdles	Gillian Russell  Jamaica	13.31	Keri Maddox  Great Britain	13.38	Ilka Rönisch  East Germany	13.41
400 metres hurdles	Nelli Voronkova  Soviet Union	55.84	Marjana Lužar  Yugoslavia	56.74	Omolade Akinremi  Nigeria	56.97
5000 metres walk	Susana Feitor  Portugal	21:44.30 CR	Tatyana Shchastnaya  Soviet Union	22:28.74	Simone Thust  East Germany	22:44.65
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaica Gillian Russell Revolie Campbell Merlene Frazer Nikole Mitchell	43.82	Great Britain Annabel Soper Diane Smith Donna Fraser Katharine Merry	44.16	United States Monifa Taylor Tisha Prather Angela Burnham Zundra Feagin	44.50
4 × 400 metres relay	Australia Sophie Scamps Renée Poetschka Kylie Hanigan Sue Andrews	3:30.38	Jamaica Claudine Williams Winsome Cole Inez Turner Catherine Scott	3:31.09	Cuba Yojani Casanova Julia Duporty Odalmis Limonta Nancy McLeón	3:31.81
High jump	Svetlana Lavrova  Soviet Union	1.91	Katja Kilpi  Finland	1.88	Lea Haggett  Great Britain	1.88
Long jump	Iva Prandzheva  Bulgaria	6.53	Erica Johansson  Sweden	6.50	Sandrine Hennart  Belgium	6.49
Shot put	Qiu Qiaoping  China	18.20	Li Xiaoyun  China	17.74	Heike Hopfer  East Germany	17.27
Discus throw	Natalya Kaptyukh  Soviet Union	61.44	Lisa-Marie Vizaniari  Australia	60.44	Anja Gündler  East Germany	59.30
Javelin throw	Tanja Damaske  East Germany	61.06	Oksana Ovchinnikova  Soviet Union	57.26	Mandy Liverton  Great Britain	56.98
Heptathlon	Beatrice Mau  East Germany	6166	Rita Ináncsi  Hungary	5940	Joanne Henry  New Zealand	5728
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	8	4	3	15
2	United States	4	2	3	9
3	Kenya	4	2	2	8
4	China	3	3	0	6
5	Ethiopia	3	2	2	7
6	East Germany	3	1	6	10
7=	Australia	2	2	2	6
7=	Nigeria	2	2	2	6
9	Finland	2	2	1	5
10	Jamaica	2	2	0	4
11	Bulgaria	2	0	2	4
12	Great Britain	1	4	4	9
13	Romania	1	2	1	4
14	Yugoslavia	1	1	1	3
15	Portugal	1	0	2	3
16=	France	1	0	0	1
16=	West Germany	1	0	0	1
18	Cuba	0	3	2	5
19	Japan	0	2	1	3
20=	Sweden	0	1	1	2
20=	Tanzania	0	1	1	2
22=	Greece	0	1	0	1
22=	Hungary	0	1	0	1
22=	Mexico	0	1	0	1
22=	Poland	0	1	0	1
22=	Spain	0	1	0	1
27=	Belgium	0	0	1	1
27=	Cayman Islands	0	0	1	1
27=	Ecuador	0	0	1	1
27=	Italy	0	0	1	1
27=	New Zealand	0	0	1	1

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,^[1] 987 athletes from 86 countries participated in the event. The number of athletes is in agreement, but there is one ccountry less than the official number of 87 as published.^[2]

See also

• 1990 in athletics (track and field)

References

External links

• Medalists at GBRathletics.com
• Results
• Official results