European Athletics Championships 1990/1500 m men

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	20 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 30th (preliminary) September 1st (final)
Medalist Jens-Peter Herold ( GDR )   Gennaro Di Napoli ( ITA )   Mário Silva ( POR )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The men'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 .

Jens-Peter Herold from the GDR won the European championship in 1988 . He won ahead of the Italian Gennaro Di Napoli . Third place went to the Portuguese Mário Silva .

Existing records

World record	3: 29.46 min	Said Aouita	Berlin , FR Germany	23rd August 1985
European record	3: 29.67 min	Steve Cram	Nice , France	July 16, 1985
Championship record	3: 35.59 min	Steve Ovett	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	3rd September 1978

The since 1978 existing EM -record has not been set even at these European Championships and not improved.

Preliminary round

August 30, 1990

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. In addition, Peter Elliott, who was unable to finish the race due to a handicap from Hauke ​​Fuhlbrügge, was admitted to the final. Hauke ​​Fuhlbrügge was disqualified. The basis for these measures were rules 163.2a and 163.2b of the International Competition Rules (IWR) for athletics.

Forward 1

Hauke Fuhlbrügge was disqualified for obstructing an opponent - in the following year, he won World Cup -Bronze

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	José Luis González	Spain	3: 38.75
2	Markus Hacksteiner	Switzerland	3: 39.94
3	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 39.22
4th	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	3: 39.25
5	Steve Cram	Great Britain	3: 39.93
6th	Robin van Helden	Netherlands	3: 40.61
7th	Mogens Guldberg	Denmark	3: 40.71
8th	Jari Venäläinen	Finland	3: 41.23
9	Vladimir Kolpakov	Soviet Union	3: 41.64
10	Christophe Impens	Belgium	3: 41.64
11	Eric Dubus	France	3: 44.47
DNF	Peter Elliott	Great Britain	admitted to the final, IWR rule 163.2a
DSQ	Hauke ​​Fuhlbrügge	GDR	disqualified due to handicap, IWR rule 163.2b

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jens-Peter Herold	GDR	3: 39.63
2	Mario Silva	Portugal	3: 39.91
3	Neil Horsfield	Great Britain	3: 39.97
4th	Han Kulker	Netherlands	3: 40.02
5	Marc Corstjens	Belgium	3: 40.30
6th	Hervé Phélippeau	France	3: 40.72
7th	Branko Zorko	Yugoslavia	3: 40.86
8th	Teófilo Benito	Spain	3: 40.99
9	Lars Bøgh	Denmark	3: 41.12
10	Davide Tirelli	Italy	3: 43.76
11	Philippe Collard	France	3: 46.39
12	Eckhardt Rüter	BR Germany	3: 48.51
DNF	Miroslaw Chochkow	Bulgaria
	Alex Geissbühler	Switzerland

final

European champion Jens-Peter Herold (center) , in 1988 he was an Olympic knight

September 1, 1990

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jens-Peter Herold	GDR	3: 38.35
2	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	3: 38.60
3	Mario Silva	Portugal	3: 38.73
4th	Peter Elliott	Great Britain	3: 39.07
5	Steve Cram	Great Britain	3: 39.08
6th	José Luis González	Spain	3: 39.15
7th	Han Kulker	Netherlands	3: 39.85
8th	Markus Hacksteiner	Switzerland	3: 40.44
9	Neil Horsfield	Great Britain	3: 40.59
10	Marc Corstjens	Belgium	3: 41.31
11	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 42.21
12	Mogens Guldberg	Denmark	3: 42.76
13	Robin van Helden	Netherlands	3: 46.13

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  The two-time European champion ( 1982 / 1986 ) and World Champion 1983 Steve Cram reached number five

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  Han Kulker came in seventh place

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  Fermín Cacho finished eleventh in his first major international final - in the following years he won numerous Olympic, World Cup and European Championship medals, the climax of which was his Olympic victory in 1992

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• Men 1500m European Championship 1990 Split on todor66.com, accessed September 10, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 10, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 1500m European Championship 1990 Split, p. 452 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 10, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 10, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 10, 2019

Video

• Men's 1500m Final European Champs in Split 1990 , published on September 9, 2015 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 10, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m men , accessed September 10, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 12 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on September 10, 2019
3. ↑ ^{a b c} International Competition Rules , p. 88 (PDF, 4364 kB), from Leichtathletik.de, accessed on September 10, 2019