European Athletics Championships 1990 / women's javelin

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (qualification) August 30th (final)
Medalists Päivi Alafrantti ( FIN )   Karen Forkel ( GDR )   Petra Felke ( GDR )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The women's javelin at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held on August 29 and 30, 1990 at the Poljud Stadium in Split .

In this competition, the javelin throwers from the GDR won two medals, silver and bronze. The European champion was Päivi Alafrantti from Finland . She won ahead of Karen Forkel . Bronze went to the Olympic champion from 1988 , EM. Second from 1986 , vice world champion from 1987 and world record holder Petra Felke .

Existing records

World record	80.00 m	Petra Felke	Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	September 9, 1988
European record
EM record	77.44 m	Fatima Whitbread	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 29, 1986

The widths at these European Championships were almost ten meters and more behind the existing EM record.

doping

There was a doping case in this discipline. The Romanian javelin thrower Felicia Țilea , initially in ninth place, had violated the doping regulations. Her placement has been canceled and she has been banned for a period of two years.

qualification

August 29, 1990

Nineteen participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The process and the circumstances of this competition are difficult to understand due to the incomplete sources. It is clear that initially twelve female throwers qualified for the final, including Felicia Țilea, who was later disqualified for doping abuse. Where the qualification range for direct entry into the final was, cannot be determined here and cannot be determined. In addition, the Finnish Päivi Alafrantti, who became European champion the following day, was admitted to the final due to a protest by the Finnish team leadership. Alafrantti actually produced three invalid throws in qualifying. But in one of her attempts, the length of which would have been enough for the final, the classification as invalid was very controversial, so that the thrower was allowed to be in the final.

It is also unclear how the Finn Heli Rantanen, later Olympic champion , was able to reach the final. According to the sources used here, she ranked behind three eliminated throwers in qualification, but then reappears in two sources in twelfth place in the final - European Athletics Championships / Statistics Handbook . In a third source, however, Rantanen is missing from the list of the final result - todor66 , which initially seems more consistent . However, it becomes clear in a video that Heli Rantanen was actually in the final. The table with the final result therefore takes up the representation with the Finn in the final.

Because the group classification is also not clear due to different or missing representations in the sources, the following overview shows the summarized overall result from both groups. The group assignment is also given, if known.

Since it is not possible to differentiate between athletes who reached the final by directly fulfilling the qualification value and throwers who possibly obtained the right to participate in the final via their further placement, all finalists are highlighted in light blue below.

space	Surname	nation	group	Width (m)
1	Brigitte Graune	BR Germany	A.	64.18
2	Silke Renk	GDR	A.	63.36
3	Petra Felke	GDR	A.	63.22
4th	Tiina Lillak	Finland	B.	62.62
5	Tessa Sanderson	Great Britain	B.	62.62
6th	Katalin Hartai	Hungary	A.	61.60
7th	Ingrid Thyssen	BR Germany	A.	60.02
8th	Natalia Schikolenko	Soviet Union	B.	59.92
9	Anna Verouli	Greece	A.	59.36
10	Karen Forkel	Bulgaria	A.	59.28
11	Antoaneta Selenska	Bulgaria	B.	58.72
12	Karen Forkel	GDR	A.	58.48
13	Zsuzsa Malovecz	Hungary	B.	57.46
14th	Nadine Auzeil	France	B.	56.88
15th	Sharon Gibson	Great Britain	B.	55.98
16	Amanda Liverton	Great Britain	A.	55.44
17th	Heli Rantanen	Finland	A.	54.02 admitted to the final, reasons unclear
NM	Päivi Alafrantti	Finland	?	admitted to the final after protest
DOP	Felicia Țilea	Romania	?	admitted to the finals

final

The 1988 Olympic champion , EC second in 1986 , vice world champion in 1987 and world record holder Petra Felke won the bronze medal

August 30, 1990

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Päivi Alafrantti	Finland	67.68
2	Karen Forkel	GDR	67.56
3	Petra Felke	GDR	66.36
4th	Silke Renk	GDR	64.76
5	Katalin Hartai	Hungary	63.52
6th	Ingrid Thyssen	BR Germany	61.84
7th	Antoaneta Selenska	Bulgaria	61.24
8th	Anna Verouli	Greece	59.32
9	Tiina Lillak	Finland	58.80
10	Brigitte Graune	BR Germany	58.54
11	Tessa Sanderson	Great Britain	57.56
12	Heli Rantanen	Finland	53.98
NM	Natalia Schikolenko	Soviet Union
DOP	Felicia Țilea	Romania

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  The world champion from 1983 and Olympic runner-up from 1984 Tiina Lillak reached ninth place

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  The Olympic champion in 1984 and second in the European Championship in 1978 Tessa Sanderson came in eleventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Championship 1990 Split, Women Javelin Throw on todor66.com, accessed September 20, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 20, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Javelin Throw European Championship 1990 Split, p. 459 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, javelin women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 20, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 20, 2019

Videos

• 3027 European Track & Field 1990 Split Javelin Women Petra Felke , published on January 3, 2016 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 20, 2019
• 3007 European Track & Field 1990 Split Javelin Women Tessa Sanderson , published on December 27, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on September 20, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women , accessed September 20, 2019
2. ↑ Doping and sports on medicosport.eu (English), accessed on September 20, 2019
3. ↑ Doping at EM , October 6, 1990, on neue-deutschland.de, accessed on September 20, 2019
4. ↑ European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
5. ↑ European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Javelin Throw European Championship 1990 Split, p. 459 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 20, 2019
6. ^ European Championship 1990 Split, Women Javelin Throw on todor66.com, accessed September 20, 2019
7. ↑ 015 European Track & Field 1990 Split Javelin Women Summary , published on December 29, 2015 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 21, 2019