European Athletics Championships 1990/3000 m for women

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	23 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 27th (preliminary) August 29th (final)
Medalists Yvonne Murray ( GBR )   Jelena Romanowa ( URS )   Roberta Brunet ( ITA )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The 3000-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 1990 was held on August 27 and 29, 1990 in the Poljud Stadium in Split .

European champion was the British European Championship third in 1986 and Olympic third in 1988 Yvonne Murray . Second place went to the Soviet runner Jelena Romanowa , who won the European Championship title over 10,000 meters two days later . Bronze went to the Italian Roberta Brunet .

Existing records

World record	8: 22.62 min	Tatiana Kasankina	Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), Soviet Union (today Russia )	August 26, 1984
European record
EM record	8: 30.28 min	Svetlana Ulmasowa	EM Athens , Greece	September 9, 1982

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 29, 1990

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the five fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

Here Fernanda Ribeiro, who was later extremely successful at major international events, failed in the run-up

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Elena Romanova	Soviet Union	8: 52.92
2	Lyubov Kremlyova	Soviet Union	8: 53.83
3	Roberta Brunet	Italy	8: 54.34
4th	Gitte Karlshøj	Denmark	8: 54.46
5	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	8: 55.12
6th	Sonia McGeorge	Great Britain	8: 55.88
7th	Martine Fays	France	8: 59.96
8th	Jana Kučeríková	Czechoslovakia	9: 04.40
9	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	9: 11.39
10	Alice Silva	Portugal	9: 16.75
11	Andri Avraam	Cyprus	9: 22.66
DNF	Snezana Pajkić	Yugoslavia

Forward 2

Eleventh place for Sonia O'Sullivan, who was at the beginning of a career with numerous medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8: 57.25
2	Margareta Keszeg	Romania	8: 57.44
3	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland	8: 57.82
4th	Alison Wyeth	Great Britain	8: 58.31
5	Zita Agoston	Hungary	8: 58.41
6th	Marie-Pierre Duros	France	8: 59.95
7th	Roisin Smyth	Ireland	9: 01.06
8th	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	9: 01.73
9	Estela Estévez	Spain	9: 05.25
10	Aurora Cunha	Portugal	9: 06.88
11	Valerie McGovern	Ireland	9: 14.39

final

Elly van Hulst (in the leading position in the photo) did not finish here

August 29, 1990

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8: 43.06
2	Elena Romanova	Soviet Union	8: 43.68
3	Roberta Brunet	Italy	8: 46.19
4th	Lyubov Kremlyova	Soviet Union	8: 46.96
5	Margareta Keszeg	Romania	8: 48.04
6th	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland	8: 50.26
7th	Zita Agoston	Hungary	8: 51.07
8th	Sonia McGeorge	Great Britain	8: 51.33
9	Gitte Karlshøj	Denmark	8: 51.44
10	Alison Wyeth	Great Britain	8: 52.26
11	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	8: 52.65 NU23R
12	Martine Fays	France	8: 56.36
13	Roisin Smyth	Ireland	9: 00.87
DNF	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands
	Marie-Pierre Duros	France

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 17, 2019
• Women 3000m European Championship 1990 Split on todor66.com, accessed September 17, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 17, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 3000m European Championship 1990 Split, p. 457 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 17, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, 3000 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 17, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 17, 2019

Video

• Women's 3000m European Champs in Split 1990 , published on September 9, 2015 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 17, 2019 #

References and comments

1. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 3000 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 75 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on September 17, 2019