European Athletics Championships 1990/400 m hurdles for women

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	31 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (preliminary) August 30th (semi-finals) August 31st (final)
Medalists Tatiana Ledovskaya ( URS )   Anita Protti ( SUI )   Monica Westén ( SWE )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The women's 400-meter hurdles at the 1990 European Athletics Championships took place from August 29 to 31, 1990 in the Poljud stadium in Split .

The European champion was the 1988 Olympic runner-up Tatjana Ledowskaja from the USSR. She won ahead of the Swiss Anita Protti . Bronze went to Monica Westén from Sweden .

Existing records

World record	52.92 s	Marina Stepanova	Tashkent , Soviet Union (now Uzbekistan )	17th September 1986
European record
EM record	53.32 s		EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 30, 1986

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

Preliminary round

August 29, 1990

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three 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

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Monica Westén	Sweden	55.61
2	Gudrun Abbot	BR Germany	55.74
3	Cristina Perez	Spain	55.82
4th	Irmgard Trojer	Italy	56.02
5	Anna Suurnäkki	Finland	56.76
6th	Zuzana Machotková	Czechoslovakia	57.33
7th	Maria José Valamatos	Portugal	58.67
8th	Aleksandra Rus	Yugoslavia	59.05

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anita Protti	Switzerland	55.37
2	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	55.89
3	Nelli Voronkova	Soviet Union	56.40
4th	Gretha Tromp	Netherlands	56.65
5	Monika Klebe	Sweden	57.08
6th	Miriam Alonso	Spain	58.35
7th	Puha Neiger	Israel	59.49
DSQ	Ann Maenhout	Belgium

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Margarita Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	55.99
2	Petra Krug	GDR	56.76
3	Nicoleta Carutasu	Romania	56.77
4th	Jacqui Parker	Great Britain	56.84
5	Ewa Johansson	Sweden	57.38
6th	Marjana Luzar	Yugoslavia	59.19
7th	Marta Moreira	Portugal	61.78
DSQ	Yolanda Tello	Spain

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tatiana Ledovskaya	Soviet Union	55.02
2	Tuija Helander	Finland	56.80
3	Silvia Rieger	BR Germany	56.95
4th	Gowry Retchakan	Great Britain	57.03
5	Marina Filipovic	Yugoslavia	57.57 NO
6th	Marie-Christine Cazier-Ballo	France	57.85
7th	Mari Bjone	Norway	59.65

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

As in 1986 Nicoleta Carutasu reached the semi-finals and then retired

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tatiana Ledovskaya	Soviet Union	54.73
2	Gudrun Abbot	BR Germany	55.70
3	Cristina Perez	Spain	55.87
4th	Petra Krug	GDR	55.93
5	Tuija Helander	Finland	56.04
6th	Nelli Voronkova	Soviet Union	56.59
7th	Jacqui Parker	Great Britain	57.06
8th	Irmgard Trojer	Italy	57.40

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anita Protti	Switzerland	55.05
2	Margarita Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	55.30
3	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	55.35
4th	Monica Westén	Sweden	55.45
5	Silvia Rieger	BR Germany	56.11
6th	Nicoleta Carutasu	Romania	56.75
7th	Anna Suurnäkki	Finland	57.66
8th	Gretha Tromp	Netherlands	59.08

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  Sally Gunnell took sixth place - later she became Olympic champion in 1992 and world champion in  1993, among other things

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  Petra Krug (on the photo in third position) did not reach the goal

final

August 31, 1990

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tatiana Ledovskaya	Soviet Union	53.62
2	Anita Protti	Switzerland	54.36
3	Monica Westén	Sweden	54.75
4th	Gudrun Abbot	BR Germany	54.97
5	Margarita Ponomaryova	Soviet Union	55.22
6th	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	55.45
7th	Cristina Perez	Spain	56.09
DNF	Petra Krug	GDR

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• Women 400m Hurdles European Championship 1990 Split on todor66.com, accessed on September 18, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 18, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 400m Hurdles European Championship 1990 Split, p. 458 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 18, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, 400 m hurdles women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 18, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 18, 2019

Video

• 2990 European Track & Field 1990 Split 400m Hurdles Women , published December 20, 2016 on youtube.com (English), accessed September 18, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles women , accessed on September 18, 2019