European Athletics Championships 1990 / Men's discus throw

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	22 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 31 (qualifying) September 1 (final)
Medalist Jürgen Schult ( GDR )   Erik de Bruin ( NED )   Wolfgang Schmidt ( FRG )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The men's discus throw at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held on August 31 and September 1, 1990 in the Poljud Stadium in Split .

The European champion was the GDR thrower Jürgen Schult , who had dominated the discus throwing scene for the past three years with his World Cup title in 1987 , his Olympic victory in 1988 and his world record . Second place went to Erik de Bruin from the Netherlands . Bronze went to Wolfgang Schmidt , who moved from the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany after many reprisals and was now entitled to start for the Federal Republic of Germany. Wolfgang Schmidt won the Olympic silver in 1976 and became European champion in 1978 .

Existing records

World record	74.08 m	Jürgen Schult	Neubrandenburg GDR (now Germany )	June 6, 1986
European record
EM record	67.08 m	Romas Ubartas	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 31, 1986

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

qualification

August 31, 1990

22 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.00 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). In the end, 60.40 m had to be achieved for participation in the finals.

Group A

Svein Inge Valvik missed the final with his 60.34 m by just six centimeters

Lars Riedel - here at the beginning of a great career - retired in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Attila Horváth	Hungary	62.90
2	Rolf Danneberg	BR Germany	62.86
3	Romas Ubartas	Soviet Union	62.70
4th	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	61.68
5	Stefan Fernholm	Sweden	61.52
6th	Vésteinn Hafsteinsson	Iceland	60.40
7th	Svein Inge Valvik	Norway	60.34
8th	Lars Riedel	GDR	59.28
9	Marco Martino	Italy	59.02
10	Raimo Vento	Finland	57.32
11	Came Dimitrov	Bulgaria	56.56
NM	Dragan Mustapic	Yugoslavia	without space

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Wolfgang Schmidt	BR Germany	64.84
2	Alois Hannecker	BR Germany	64.14
3	Erik de Bruin	Netherlands	63.76
4th	Jürgen Schult	GDR	62.50
5	Géjza Valent	Czechoslovakia	61.52
6th	Wassil Kapzjuch	Soviet Union	61.04
7th	Luciano Zerbini	Italy	59.94
8th	Mika Muukka	Finland	58.40
9	Nikolai Kolew	Bulgaria	58.02
10	Abi Ekoku	Great Britain	53.80

final

The reigning world champion , Olympic champion 1988 and world record holder Jürgen Schult continued his winning streak here

September 1, 1990

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Jürgen Schult	GDR	64.58
2	Erik de Bruin	Netherlands	64.46
3	Wolfgang Schmidt	BR Germany	64.10
4th	Wassil Kapzjuch	Soviet Union	63.72
5	Romas Ubartas	Soviet Union	63.70
6th	Rolf Danneberg	BR Germany	63.08
7th	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	62.36
8th	Attila Horváth	Hungary	62.08
9	Géjza Valent	Czechoslovakia	60.30
10	Alois Hannecker	BR Germany	60.04
11	Stefan Fernholm	Sweden	58.18
12	Vésteinn Hafsteinsson	Iceland	57.36

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  Silver medalist Erik de Bruin - 1986 he was EM become -Sechster

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  Wolfgang Schmidt, after long years of suffering from reprisals in the GDR, won the bronze medal as the 1976 Olympic runner-up and 1978 European champion

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  The Olympic runner-up from 1988 and defending champion Romas Ubartas finished fifth - in 1992 he became Olympic champion

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  Imrich Bugár (here in 2013) , European champion from 1982 and world champion from 1983 , came seventh this time after his eighth place in 1986

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  Vésteinn Hafsteinsson finished twelfth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Championship 1990 Split, Men Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed September 14, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 14, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Discus Throw European Championship 1990 Split, p. 455 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 14, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 14, 2019

Video

• 1990 European Outdoor Championships Men's Discus Final , published June 14, 2012 on youtube.com (English), accessed September 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Men’s Discus Throw , accessed September 14, 2019