European Athletics Championships 1990/100 m women

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	20 athletes from 10 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 27th (preliminary) August 28th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists Katrin Krabbe ( GDR )   Silke Möller ( GDR )   Kerstin Behrendt ( GDR )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The 100-meter run for women at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held on August 27 and 28, 1990 in the Poljud Stadium in Split .

In this competition all three medals went to the sprinters of the GDR. Katrin Krabbe became European champion . She won ahead of Silke Möller , who had become world champion in 1987 under her previous name Silke Gladisch . Kerstin Behrendt won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	10.49 s	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Indianapolis , USA	July 16, 1988
European record	10.81 s	Marlies Goehr	East Berlin (now Berlin ), GDR (now Germany )	June 8, 1983
EM record	10.91 s		EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 27, 1986

Record improvement

European champion Katrin Krabbe improved the existing championship record in the final on August 28th by two hundredths of a second to 10.89 s.  

Preliminary round

August 27, 1990

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Katrin Krabbe	GDR	11.07
2	Ulrike Sarvari	BR Germany	11.53
3	Beverly Kinch	Great Britain	11.53
4th	Natalia Kovtun	Soviet Union	11.56
5	Magalie Simioneck	France	11.60
6th	Cristina Castro	Spain	11.60
7th	Sanna Kyllönen	Finland	11.86

Forward 2

Wind: -1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Laurence Bily	France	11.31
2	Kerstin Behrendt	GDR	11.45
3	Nadezhda Roschtschupkina	Soviet Union	11.50
4th	Paraskevi Patoulidou	Greece	11.68
5	Paula Thomas	Great Britain	11.71
6th	Sabine Richter	BR Germany	11.84
7th	Joanna Smolarek	Poland	11.97

Forward 3

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Silke Möller	GDR	11.46
2	Sisko Hanhijoki	Finland	11.51
3	Irina Sergeyeva	Soviet Union	11.51
4th	Odiah Sidibé	France	11.58
5	Stephanie Douglas	Great Britain	11.63
6th	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	11.73

Semifinals

August 28, 1990

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Katrin Krabbe	GDR	11.11
2	Kerstin Behrendt	GDR	11.40
3	Nadezhda Roschtschupkina	Soviet Union	11.44
4th	Ulrike Sarvari	BR Germany	11.48
5	Paula Thomas	Great Britain	11.57
6th	Beverly Kinch	Great Britain	11.59
7th	Cristina Castro	Spain	11.61
8th	Magalie Simioneck	France	11.62

Run 2

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Silke Möller	GDR	11.39
2	Odiah Sidibé	France	11.50
3	Irina Sergeyeva	Soviet Union	11.54
4th	Stephanie Douglas	Great Britain	11.54
5	Sisko Hanhijoki	Finland	11.54
6th	Paraskevi Patoulidou	Greece	11.62
7th	Natalia Kovtun	Soviet Union	11.69
DNF	Laurence Bily	France

final

European champion Katrin Krabbe won two gold medals over 200 meters and the sprint relay in the next few days

August 28, 1990

Wind: +1.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Katrin Krabbe	GDR	10.89 CR
2	Silke Möller	GDR	11.10
3	Kerstin Behrendt	GDR	11.17
4th	Nadezhda Roschtschupkina	Soviet Union	11.26
5	Odiah Sidibé	France	11.40
6th	Irina Sergeyeva	Soviet Union	11.40
7th	Ulrike Sarvari	BR Germany	11.41
8th	Stephanie Douglas	Great Britain	11.46

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  Silver for Silke Möller, who as Silke Gladisch won both sprint courses at the last world championships

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  Bronze medalist Kerstin Behrendt

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• Women 100m European Championship 1990 Split on todor66.com, accessed September 16, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 16, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m European Championship 1990 Split, p. 456 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 16, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 16, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 16, 2019

Video

• 1990 European Athletics Championships Women's 100m final , published March 6, 2013 on youtube.com (English), accessed September 16, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed September 16, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 48 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on September 16, 2019