European Athletics Championships 1990/800 m men

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	19 athletes from 12 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 27th (preliminary) August 28th (semi-finals) August 29th (final)
Medalist Tom McKean ( GBR )   David Sharpe ( GBR )   Piotr Piekarski ( POL )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The men's 800-meter run at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held from August 27 to 29, 1990 in the Poljud Stadium in Split .

The British runners recorded a double victory in this competition. It won the Vice European Champion from 1986 Tom McKean . Second place went to David Sharpe . Bronze went to Piotr Piekarski from Poland .

Existing records

World record	1: 41.73 min	Sebastian Coe	Florence , Italy	June 20, 1981
European record
Championship record	1: 43.84 min	Olaf Beyer	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 31, 1978

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

Preliminary round

August 27, 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 semifinals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Andrei Sudnik	Soviet Union	1: 49.71
2	Tom McKean	Great Britain	1: 49.87
3	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1: 49.91
4th	Frédéric Selle	France	1: 49.94
5	Ryszard Ostrowski	Poland	1: 50.05
6th	Ari Suhonen	Finland	1: 50.25
7th	Markus Trinkler	Switzerland	1: 50.35

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tonino Viali	Italy	1: 46.94
2	Slobodan Miolović	Yugoslavia	1: 47.14
3	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	1: 47.43
4th	Atle Douglas	Norway	1: 47.52
5	Tomás De Teresa	Spain	1: 47.83
6th	Miroslaw Chochkow	Bulgaria	1: 50.68

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Piotr Piekarski	Poland	1: 48.08
2	David Sharpe	Great Britain	1: 48.30
3	Robin van Helden	Netherlands	1: 48.40
4th	Luis Javier González	Spain	1: 48.42
5	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1: 48.43
6th	Alberto Barsotti	Italy	1: 49.22

Semifinals

August 28, 1990

In each of the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

As seventh of his semi-final run, Ryszard Ostrowski (here in 2007) did not reach the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tonino Viali	Italy	1: 45.64
2	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1: 45.79
3	David Sharpe	Great Britain	1: 45.82
4th	Andrei Sudnik	Soviet Union	1: 45.89
5	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	1: 46.61
6th	Atle Douglas	Norway	1: 47.04
7th	Ryszard Ostrowski	Poland	1: 48.22
8th	Luis Javier González	Spain	1: 50.79

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Piotr Piekarski	Poland	1: 47.45
2	Tom McKean	Great Britain	1: 47.49
3	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1: 47.77
4th	Slobodan Miolović	Yugoslavia	1: 47.94
5	Alberto Barsotti	Italy	1: 48.13
6th	Robin van Helden	Netherlands	1: 48.26
7th	Tomás De Teresa	Spain	1: 48.73
8th	Frédéric Selle	France	1: 49.98

final

August 29, 1990

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tom McKean	Great Britain	1: 44.76
2	David Sharpe	Great Britain	1: 45.59
3	Piotr Piekarski	Poland	1: 45.76
4th	Andrei Sudnik	Soviet Union	1: 45.81
5	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1: 45.90
6th	Tonino Viali	Italy	1: 46.04
7th	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1: 47.29
8th	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	1: 48.42

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• Men 800m 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 800m 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, 800 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 Distance Events European Athletics Championships Split 09-1990 , published on February 19, 2018 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 10, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m men , accessed September 10, 2019