European Athletics Championships 1990 / men's high jump

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (qualification) August 31st (final)
Medalist Dragutin Topić ( YUG )   Alexei Jemelin ( URS )   Georgi Dakow ( BUL )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The men's high jump at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held on August 29 and 31, 1990 in the Poljud Stadium in Split .

The European champion was the Yugoslav Dragutin Topić . He won ahead of Alexei Jemelin from the USSR. Bronze went to the Bulgarian Georgi Dakow .

Records

Existing records

World record	2.44 m	Javier Sotomayor	San Juan , Puerto Rico	July 29, 1989
European record	2.42 m	Patrik Sjöberg	Stockholm , Sweden	June 30, 1987
EM record	2.34 m	Igor Paklin	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 31, 1986

Record setting

The three medal winners of these European championships equalized the championship record of 2.34 m in the final on August 31:

•  Dragutin Topić
• Alexei Jemelin
• Georgi Dakov

Legend

In the following tables, the test procedures of the individual athletes are shown as far as known. Often it is no longer possible to determine in which of the three available jumps the last attempt was mastered. This is taken into account in the following legend:

-	left out
O	skipped
x	cracked
??O	Height skipped, but not understandable in which attempt
k. A.	no information

qualification

August 29, 1990

24 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.28 m. Ten athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the two next-placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 2.24 m had to be raised to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	2.00 m	2.05 m	2.10 m	2.15 m	2.20 m	2.24 m	2.28 m	Result (noun)
1	Alexei Jemelin	Soviet Union	k. A.						O	2.28
	Arturo Ortíz	Spain	k. A.						O	2.28
	Georgi Dakov	Bulgaria	k. A.						O	2.28
4th	Dragutin Topić	Yugoslavia	-	O	O	O	xxo	O	O	2.28
5	Dietmar Mögenburg	BR Germany	k. A.						??O	2.28
6th	Luca Toso	Italy	k. A.					??O		2.24
7th	Matti Viitala	Finland	k. A.					??O		2.24
8th	Geoff Parsons	Great Britain	k. A.				??O			2.20
	Stevan Zorić	Yugoslavia	k. A.				??O			2.20
	Carlo Thränhardt	BR Germany	k. A.				??O			2.20
11	Lambros papakostas	Greece	k. A.			??O				2.15
12	Itai Margalit	Israel	k. A.		??O					2.10

Group B

space	Surname	nation	2.00 m	2.05 m	2.10 m	2.15 m	2.20 m	2.24 m	2.28 m	Result (noun)
1	Sergei Dimchenko	Soviet Union	k. A.						O	2.28
	Ralf Sonn	BR Germany	k. A.						O	2.28
	Daniele Pagani	Italy	k. A.						O	2.28
4th	Dalton Grant	Great Britain	-	-	-	-	O	??O	xxo	2.28
5	Artur Partyka	Poland	k. A.						xxo	2.28
6th	Juha Isolehto	Finland	k. A.					??O		2.24
7th	Jean-Charles Gicquel	France	k. A.					??O		2.24
	Sašo Apostolovski	Yugoslavia	k. A.					??O		2.24
9	Michael Mikkelsen	Denmark	k. A.				??O			2.20
	Thomas Eriksson	Sweden	k. A.				??O			2.20
	Brendan Reilly	Great Britain	k. A.				??O			2.20
12	Håkon Särnblom	Norway	k. A.			??O				2.15

final

August 31, 1990

space

Surname

nation

2.10 m

2.15 m

2.20 m

2.24 m

2.28 m

2.31 m

2.34 m

2.36 m

2.38 m

Result (noun)

1

Dragutin Topić

Yugoslavia

-

O

O

O

xo

O

O

xx–

x

2.34 CRe

2

Alexei Jemelin

Soviet Union

-

-

O

xo

xo

xxo

xo

xxx

2.34 CRe

3

Georgi Dakov

Bulgaria

-

-

xo

O

O

O

xxo

xxx

2.34 CRe

4th

Sergei Dimchenko

Soviet Union

k. A.

O

xxx

2.31

Dalton Grant

Great Britain

-

-

-

O

-

O

x–

xx

2.31

Dietmar Mögenburg

BR Germany

-

-

-

-

O

O

xxx

2.31

7th

Ralf Sonn

BR Germany

k. A.

??O

2.28

8th

Arturo Ortíz

Spain

k. A.

??O

2.28

Luca Toso

Italy

k. A.

??O

2.28

10

Juha Isolehto

Finland

k. A.

??O

2.24

11

Artur Partyka

Poland

k. A.

??O

2.24

12

Daniele Pagani

Italy

k. A.

??O

2.24

• 

  Artur Partyka (here in 2009) took eleventh place - in the years to come he won numerous medals at major international championships

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Championship 1990 Split, Men High Jump on todor66.com, accessed September 13, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 13, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men High Jump European Championship 1990 Split, p. 454 (PDF; 13363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 13, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, high jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 13, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 13, 2019

Video

• High Jump Dragutin Topic 2.34 Split 1990 , published on April 23, 2010 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 13, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed September 11, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, High Jump Men , p. 21 (PDF; 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on September 11, 2019