European Athletics Championships 1990/200 m men

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	21 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (preliminary) August 30th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist John Regis ( GBR )   Jean-Charles Trouabal ( FRA )   Linford Christie ( GBR )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The men'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, two medals went to the British sprinters, gold and bronze. European champion was the third in 1987 World Cup John Regis . The Frenchman Jean-Charles Trouabal won the silver medal. Bronze went to the 100-meter - WM -third 1987 Linford Christie , who two days before his second EM had won -Titel over 100 meters and 1988 despite a positive pseudoephedrine -Befundes Olympic silver in the 100-meter dash had received.

Records

Existing records

World record	19.72 s	Pietro Mennea	Mexico City , Mexico	September 12, 1979
European record
Championship record	20.16 s		EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	September 1, 1978

Record setting and improvement

European champion John Regis equalized or improved the existing EM record in the semi-finals and finals:  

• 20.16 s - 1st semi-final on August 30th, equalization of the EM record
• 20.11 s - Final on August 30, improvement of the EM record by five hundredths of a second

Preliminary round

August 29, 1990, 5:35 pm

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 semifinals.

Forward 1

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	John Regis	Great Britain	20.67
2	Gilles Quenéhervé	France	20.87
3	Stefano Tilli	Italy	20.92
4th	Lars Pedersen	Denmark	21.02
5	Enrique Talavera	Spain	21.15
6th	Pedro Agostinho	Portugal	21.16
7th	Barış Özatman	Turkey	21.47

Forward 2

Wind: +3.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.45
2	Oleg Fatun	Soviet Union	20.56
3	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	20.64
4th	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.76
5	Marcus Adam	Great Britain	20.79
6th	Luís Barroso	Portugal	20.89
7th	Aham Okeke	Norway	21.14

Forward 3

Wind: +2.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sandro Floris	Italy	20.47
2	Alain Reimann	Switzerland	20.81
3	Linford Christie	Great Britain	20.85
4th	Peter Klein	BR Germany	20.87
5	Anninos Marcoullides	Cyprus	21.41
6th	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	21.46

Semifinals

August 30, 1990, 5:35 p.m.

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

Run 1

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	John Regis	Great Britain	20.16 CRe
2	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.54
3	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	20.67
4th	Stefano Tilli	Italy	20.75
5	Marcus Adam	Great Britain	20.83
6th	Alain Reimann	Switzerland	21.07
7th	Lars Pedersen	Denmark	21.21
8th	Enrique Talavera	Spain	21.31

Run 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Linford Christie	Great Britain	20.56
2	Sandro Floris	Italy	20.52
3	Oleg Fatun	Soviet Union	20.86
4th	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.95
5	Gilles Quenéhervé	France	21.00
6th	Peter Klein	BR Germany	21.01
7th	Luís Barroso	Portugal	21.25
8th	Aham Okeke	Norway	21.37

final

August 30, 1990

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	John Regis	Great Britain	20.11 CR
2	Jean-Charles Trouabal	France	20.31
3	Linford Christie	Great Britain	20.33
4th	Stefano Tilli	Italy	20.66
5	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	20.68
6th	Oleg Fatun	Soviet Union	20.77
7th	Patrick Stevens	Belgium	20.80
8th	Sandro Floris	Italy	20.84

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  European champion John Regis, third in  1987 World Cup

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  The bronze medalist Linford Christie, two days earlier for the second time winner over 100 meters had when WM -Dritter of 1987 and Olympic silver medalist from 1988 its bigger successes than 100-meter runner - in 1992 , he came in the 100 meters Olympic champion and 1993 world champion

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• Men 200m 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 200m 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, 200 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 200m Final European Championship in Split 1990 , published on September 9, 2015 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 10, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m men , accessed September 10, 2019