European Athletics Championships 1990 / Women's discus throw

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 27th (qualification) August 28th (final)
Medalists Ilke Wyludda ( GDR )   Olga Burowa ( URS )   Martina Hellmann ( GDR )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The women's discus throw at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held on August 27 and 28, 1990 in the Poljud Stadium in Split .

With gold and bronze, the throwers from the GDR won two medals in this competition. European champion was Ilke Wyludda . She won ahead of Olga Burowa from the Soviet Union. Bronze went to the reigning world champion , Olympic champion from 1988 and European Championship third from 1986 Martina Hellmann , former Martina Opitz, who had also become world champion in 1983 .

Existing records

World record	76.80 m	Gabriele Reinsch	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	July 9, 1988
European record
EM record	71.36 m	Diana Sachse	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 28, 1986

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

qualification

August 28, 1990

Sixteen participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 60.00 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 54.06 m was enough for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Olga Burowa	Soviet Union	64.56
2	Martina Hellmann	GDR	63.62
3	Elina Swerava	Soviet Union	60.24
4th	Ursula Kreutel	BR Germany	59.88
5	Mette Bergmann	Norway	55.58
6th	Manuela Tîrneci	Romania	52.68
7th	Ursula Weber	Austria	50.26
8th	Jacqueline McKernan	Great Britain	48.12

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ilke Wyludda	GDR	65.00
2	Iryna Yatchanka	Soviet Union	63.34
3	Gabriele Reinsch	GDR	62.98
4th	Tsvetanka Christova	Bulgaria	60.26
5	Dagmar Galler	BR Germany	59.40
6th	Agnese Maffeis	Italy	56.46
7th	Marie-Paule Geldhof	Belgium	54.06
8th	Teresa Machado	Portugal	51.78

final

Ilke Wyludda, at the beginning of a successful career, prevailed against strong opposition, especially from her own country, and became European champion

August 29, 1990

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ilke Wyludda	GDR	68.46
2	Olga Burowa	Soviet Union	66.72
3	Martina Hellmann	GDR	66.66
4th	Gabriele Reinsch	GDR	66.08
5	Iryna Yatchanka	Soviet Union	65.16
6th	Elina Swerava	Soviet Union	63.88
7th	Ursula Kreutel	BR Germany	63.28
8th	Dagmar Galler	BR Germany	62.08
9	Agnese Maffeis	Italy	58.36
10	Tsvetanka Christova	Bulgaria	56.30
11	Marie-Paule Geldhof	Belgium	54.90
NM	Mette Bergmann	Norway

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  Bronze for the strongest in recent years, discus thrower Martina Hellmann, World Champion 1983 / 1987 , Olympic champion in 1988 and European Championship -Third 1986

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  The world record holder Gabriele Reinsch (right, in conversation with Ilke Wyludda) was fourth without a medal

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  Iryna Jatchanka finished fifth - later she had great success, but was also burdened by doping problems

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  Mette Bergmann remained without a valid attempt in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Championship 1990 Split, Women Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed September 20, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 20, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Discus Throw European Championship 1990 Split, p. 459 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 20, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 20, 2019

Videos

• 2907 European Track & Field 1990 Split Discus Ilke Wyludda , published on November 21, 2015 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 20, 2019
• 2894 European Track & Field 1990 Split Discus Martina Hellmann , published on November 17, 2015 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 20, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed September 20, 2019
2. ↑ IOC disqualifies four medallists from Athens 2004 following further analysis of stored samples on olympic.org, accessed on September 20, 2019