European Athletics Championships 1990/200 m women

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	22 athletes from 12 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (preliminary) August 30th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists Katrin Krabbe ( GDR )   Heike Drechsler ( GDR )   Galina Maltschugina ( URS )

The women's 200-meter run at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held on August 29 and 30, 1990 in the Poljud Stadium in Split .

In this competition there was a double victory for the sprinters of the GDR. Katrin Krabbe , who had already won the 100-meter run , also won the title here. After winning her sprint relay the following day, she became a three-time European champion. Second place went to the defending champion and long jump specialist Heike Drechsler , who was vice world champion in 1987 and third in the Olympic Games over 200 meters in 1988 . Bronze went to the Soviet runner Galina Maltschugina .

Existing records

World record	21.34 s	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Olympic Games Seoul , South Korea	September 29, 1988
European record	21.71 s	Marita Koch	Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany )	June 10, 1979
			Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	July 21, 1984
		Heike Drechsler	Jena , GDR (now Germany )	June 29, 1986
			EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 9, 1986
EM record	21.71 s	Heike Drechsler	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 9, 1986

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

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

Preliminary round

August 29, 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: -0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Katrin Krabbe	GDR	22.81
2	Andrea Thomas	BR Germany	23.21
3	Sisko Hanhijoki	Finland	23.46
4th	Marisa Masullo	Italy	23.47
5	Louise Stuart	Great Britain	23.54
6th	Maguy Nestoret	France	23.77
7th	Edit Molnár	Hungary	24.11

Forward 2

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heike Drechsler	GDR	24.84
2	Elena Bykova	Soviet Union	23.38
3	Sandra Myers	Spain	23.50
4th	Odile Singa	France	23.58
5	Sallyanne Short	Great Britain	23.83
6th	Andrea Hagen	BR Germany	24.01
7th	Joanna Smolarek	Poland	24.54

Forward 3

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Galina Malschugina	Soviet Union	22.56
2	Sabine Günther	GDR	22.68
3	Silke-Beate Knoll	BR Germany	22.80
4th	Jennifer Stoute	Great Britain	23.24
5	Fabienne Ficher	France	23.38
6th	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	23.65
7th	Rossella Tarolo	Italy	23.70
8th	Ágnes Kozáry	Hungary	24.18

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: -0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Katrin Krabbe	GDR	22.46
2	Silke-Beate Knoll	BR Germany	22.60
3	Galina Malschugina	Soviet Union	22.62
4th	Sandra Myers	Spain	22.69
5	Fabienne Ficher	France	23.39
6th	Sisko Hanhijoki	Finland	23.42
7th	Louise Stuart	Great Britain	23.54
8th	Marisa Masullo	Italy	23.62

Run 2

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heike Drechsler	GDR	22.57
2	Elena Bykova	Soviet Union	22.67
3	Sabine Günther	GDR	22.75
4th	Andrea Thomas	BR Germany	23.05
5	Odile Singa	France	23.23
6th	Jennifer Stoute	Great Britain	23.23
7th	Rossella Tarolo	Italy	23.56
8th	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	23.58

final

After her victory over 100 meters , Katrin Krabbe (right) also won the title over 200 meters - on the left Joanna Smolarek, who was eliminated in the preliminary round

August 31, 1990

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Katrin Krabbe	GDR	21.95
2	Heike Drechsler	GDR	22.19
3	Galina Malschugina	Soviet Union	22.23
4th	Sandra Myers	Spain	22.38 NO
5	Silke-Beate Knoll	BR Germany	22.40
6th	Elena Bykova	Soviet Union	22.49
7th	Sabine Günther	GDR	22.51
8th	Andrea Thomas	BR Germany	23.01

• 

  The defending champion, vice world champion from 1987 and Olympic third from 1988 Heike Drechsler (right) , also particularly successful in the long jump , won the silver medal

• 

  The bronze medalist from 1982 , then as Sabine Rieger, and EC seventh from 1986 Sabine Günther (front right) came in seventh again

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• Women 200m 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 200m European Championship 1990 Split, p. 457 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 16, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, 200 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

• 2991 European Track & Field 1990 Split 200m Women , published December 21, 2015 on youtube.com (English), accessed September 16, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed December 29, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 200 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 50 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on December 29, 2019