European Athletics Championships 1990/100 m men

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 27th (preliminary) August 28th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist Linford Christie ( GBR )   Daniel Sangouma ( FRA )   John Regis ( GRR )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

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

In this competition, the British sprinters won two medals, gold and bronze. European champion was the defending champion and third in the 1987 World Cup, Linford Christie , who had received Olympic silver in 1988 despite a positive pseudoephedrine result. He won ahead of the Frenchman Daniel Sangouma . Bronze went to the third place in the World Championship in 1987 over 200 meters John Regis .

Records

Existing records

World record	9.92 s	Carl Lewis	Olympic Games Seoul , South Korea	September 24, 1988
European record	9.97 s	Linford Christie
Championship record	10.15 s		EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 27, 1986

Record improvement

European champion Linford Christie improved his own EM record in the first semi-final on August 28th by six hundredths of a second to 10.09 s. His winning time of 10.00 s achieved in the final was not ready for the best in the list due to a tail wind that was 0.2 m / s too strong.  

Preliminary round

August 27, 1990

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

Forward 1

Wind: -1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Daniel Sangouma	France	10.21
2	John Regis	Great Britain	10.39
3	Enrique Talavera	Spain	10.48
4th	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	10.48
5	Ezio Madonia	Italy	10.52
6th	Stefan Burkart	Switzerland	10.53
7th	Luís Barroso	Portugal	10.61

Forward 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Max Morinière	France	10.19
2	Vladimir Krylov	Soviet Union	10.27
3	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.29
4th	Steffen Görmer	GDR	10.45
5	Florencio Gascón	Spain	10.56
6th	Peter Klein	BR Germany	10.57
7th	Cengiz Kavaklıoğlu	Turkey	10.63
8th	Pedro Curvelo	Portugal	10.67

Forward 3

Wind: -0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	10.17
2	Pavel Galkin	Soviet Union	10.46
3	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	10.57
4th	Geir Moen	Norway	10.64
5	Pedro Agostinho	Portugal	10.65
6th	Pál Rezák	Hungary	10.74
7th	Csaba Zajovics	Hungary	10.74
8th	Dominique Canti	San Marino	11.20

Forward 4

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Darren Braithwaite	Great Britain	10.32
2	Stefano Tilli	Italy	10.39
3	Attila Kovács	Hungary	10.46
4th	Luis Rodríguez	Spain	10.49
5	Innokenti Sharov	Soviet Union	10.52
6th	Aham Okeke	Norway	10.61
7th	Yiannios Zisimides	Cyprus	10.62
8th	Turo Meriläinen	Finland	10.73

Semifinals

August 28, 1990

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

Run 1

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.09 CR
2	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	10.19
3	Max Morinière	France	10.20
4th	John Regis	Great Britain	10.20
5	Enrique Talavera	Spain	10.42
6th	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	10.53
7th	Ezio Madonia	Italy	10.60
DNS	Pavel Galkin	Soviet Union

Run 2

Wind: -0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Daniel Sangouma	France	10.21
2	Darren Braithwaite	Great Britain	10.30
3	Vladimir Krylov	Soviet Union	10.31
4th	Steffen Görmer	GDR	10.40
5	Stefano Tilli	Italy	10.40
6th	Innokenti Sharov	Soviet Union	10.53
7th	Attila Kovács	Hungary	10.54
8th	Luis Rodríguez	Spain	10.56

final

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  The World Cup third in 1987 and Olympic runner-up in 1988 Linford Christie successfully defended his European title - in 1992 he became Olympic champion and 1993 world champion

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  The world championship third from 1987 over 200 meters John Regis won the bronze medal

August 28, 1990

Wind: +2.2 m / s

Because of the strong tail wind of 0.2 m / s, the times achieved in the final weren't ready for the best.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Linford Christie	Great Britain	10.00
2	Daniel Sangouma	France	10.04
3	John Regis	Great Britain	10.07
4th	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	10.10
5	Max Morinière	France	10.15
6th	Darren Braithwaite	Great Britain	10.27
7th	Vladimir Krylov	Soviet Union	10.30
8th	Steffen Görmer	GDR	10.42

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• Men 100m European Championship 1990 Split on todor66.com, accessed September 9, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 9, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 100m European Championship 1990 Split, p. 451f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 9, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 9, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 9, 2019

Video

• Men's 100m Final European Champs in Split 1990 , published on September 9, 2015 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 9, 2019

References and comments

1. ^ The Dirtiest Race , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 24, 2013, accessed on September 9, 2019
2. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m men , accessed September 9, 2019
3. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 7 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on September 9, 2019