European Athletics Championships 1990/1500 m for women

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	15 athletes from 9 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 30th (preliminary) September 1st (final)
Medalists Snezana Pajkić ( YUG )   Ellen Kießling ( GDR )   Sandra Gasser ( SUI )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The women's 1,500-meter run at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held on August 30 and September 1, 1990 in the Poljud stadium in Split .

The European champion was the Yugoslav Snezana Pajkić . She won ahead of Ellen Kießling from the GDR. Bronze went to Sandra Gasser from Switzerland .

Existing records

World record	3: 52.47 min	Tatiana Kasankina	Zurich , Switzerland	August 13, 1980
European record
EM record	3: 57.80 min	Olga Dwirna	EM Athens , Greece	September 11, 1982

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 30, 1990

The preliminary round was held in two 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 final. The first run was the much faster of these two races. All eight participants from this first heat qualified for the final, while from the second only the top four athletes reached the final.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sandra Gasser	Switzerland	4: 08.24
2	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Soviet Union	4: 08.30
3	Yvonne May	GDR	4: 08.50
4th	Ellen Kiessling	GDR	4: 08.70
5	Doina Melinte	Romania	4: 08.80
6th	Jana Kučeríková	Czechoslovakia	4: 09.52
7th	Snežana Pajkić	Yugoslavia	4: 09.53
8th	Teena Colebrook	Great Britain	4: 10.93

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Christina Cahill	Great Britain	4: 12.00
2	Natalia Artyomova	Soviet Union	4: 12.06
3	Elena Fidatov	Romania	4: 12.35
4th	Violeta Beclea	Romania	4: 13.50
5	Irene Theodoridou	Greece	4: 14.10
6th	Montserrat Pujol	Spain	4: 15.72
7th	Beverley Nicholson	Great Britain	4: 23.80

final

Vice European Champion Ellen Kießling - this was her greatest international success

September 1, 1990

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Snežana Pajkić	Yugoslavia	4: 08.12 NU23R
2	Ellen Kiessling	GDR	4: 08.67
3	Sandra Gasser	Switzerland	4: 08.89
4th	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Soviet Union	4: 10.06
5	Elena Fidatov	Romania	4: 10.87
6th	Doina Melinte	Romania	4: 10.91
7th	Yvonne May	GDR	4: 10.99
8th	Jana Kučeríková	Czechoslovakia	4: 11.67
9	Natalia Artyomova	Soviet Union	4: 12.16
10	Christina Cahill	Great Britain	4: 14.48
11	Teena Colebrook	Great Britain	4: 15.22
12	Violeta Beclea	Romania	4: 16.45

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  The European Championship third in 1986 , Olympic runner-up in 1984 and 800 meter Olympic champion in 1984 Doina Melinte reached sixth place

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  Yvonne Mai came in seventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 17, 2019
• Women 1500m European Championship 1990 Split on todor66.com, accessed September 17, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 17, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 1500m European Championship 1990 Split, p. 457 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 17, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, 800 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 17, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 17, 2019

Video

• 1990, Snezana Pajkic, 1500m Final, European Athletic Championships, Split , published on June 19, 2013 on youtube.com (English), accessed on

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m women , accessed September 17, 2019