European Athletics Championships 1990/110 m hurdles for men

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 30th (preliminary / semi-finals / finals)
Medalist Colin Jackson ( GBR )   Tony Jarrett ( GBR )   Dietmar Koszewski ( FRG )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held on August 30, 1990 in the Poljud stadium in Split .

The British hurdlers achieved a double victory in this competition. The European champion was the Olympic runner-up in 1988 , the World Cup third in 1987 and European record holder Colin Jackson . Tony Jarrett took second place . Bronze went to the German runner Dietmar Koszewski .

Records

Existing records

World record	12.92 s	Roger Kingdom	Zurich , Switzerland	August 16, 1989
European record	13.08 s	Colin Jackson	Auckland , New Zealand	January 28, 1990
Championship record	13.20 s	Stéphane Caristan	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 30, 1986

Record improvements

European champion Colin Jackson improved the existing EM record in the final on August 29th by two hundredths of a second to 13.18 s.  

Preliminary round

August 29, 1990, 5:35 pm

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

Forward 1

Gheorghe Boroi was fifth in his semi-final run and was eliminated

Wind: -0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.63
2	Antti Haapakoski	Finland	13.77
3	Sjarhej Ussau	Soviet Union	13.90
4th	Herwig Röttl	Austria	14.23
5	Gheorghe Boroi	Romania	14.39
6th	Fabien Niederhauser	Switzerland	14.60
DNF	Stéphane Caristan	France

Forward 2

Wind: -0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.53
2	Dietmar Koszewski	BR Germany	13.73
3	Carles Sala	Spain	13.78
4th	Vladimir Shishkin	Soviet Union	13.83
5	Kai Kyllönen	Finland	14.09
6th	Paulo Barrinaga	Portugal	14.10
DSQ	Gianni Tozzi	Italy

Forward 3

Wind: -1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Philippe Tourret	France	13.70
2	Nigel Walker	Great Britain	13.82
3	Igors Kazanovs	Soviet Union	13.83
4th	Marco Todeschini	Italy	13.98
5	Stefan Mattern	BR Germany	14.03
6th	György Bakos	Hungary	14.12
7th	Nedeljko Višnjić	Yugoslavia	14.24

Forward 4

Wind: -1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tomász Nagórka	Poland	13.87
2	Sébastien Thibault	France	13.90
3	Florian Schwarthoff	BR Germany	13.94
4th	Thomas James Kearns	Ireland	13.97
5	Laurent Ottoz	Italy	14.01
DSQ	Ruhan Isim	Turkey

Semifinals

August 30, 1990

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

Run 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.45
2	Dietmar Koszewski	BR Germany	13.51
3	Igors Kazanovs	Soviet Union	13.58
4th	Vladimir Shishkin	Soviet Union	13.66
5	Antti Haapakoski	Finland	13.78
6th	Laurent Ottoz	Italy	13.97
7th	Thomas James Kearns	Ireland	14.14
8th	Sébastien Thibault	France	14.19

Run 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Philippe Tourret	France	13.38
2	Tomász Nagórka	Poland	13.46
3	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.52
4th	Sjarhej Ussau	Soviet Union	13.58
5	Florian Schwarthoff	BR Germany	13.59
6th	Carles Sala	Spain	13.61
7th	Nigel Walker	Great Britain	13.84
8th	Marco Todeschini	Italy	13.87

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  European champion Colin Jackson (here in 2012) , Olympic runner-up in 1988 , World Cup third in 1987 and European record holder - he won the European Championship title twice and was u. a. also twice world champion

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  Tomász Nagórka (here in 2014) reached fourth place

final

August 30, 1990

Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.18 CR
2	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.21
3	Dietmar Koszewski	BR Germany	13.50
4th	Tomász Nagórka	Poland	13.55
5	Vladimir Shishkin	Soviet Union	13.55
6th	Philippe Tourret	France	13.61
7th	Sjarhej Ussau	Soviet Union	13.65
DNF	Igors Kazanovs	Soviet Union

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• Men 110m Hurdles European Championship 1990 Split on todor66.com, accessed September 11, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 11, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 110m Hurdles European Championship 1990 Split, p. 453 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 11, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, 110 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 11, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 11, 2019

Video

• 2973 European Track & Field 1990 Split 110m Hurdles , published on December 14, 2015 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 11, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Men's 110-meter hurdles , accessed September 11, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 110 m Hurdles Men , p. 16 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on September 11, 2019