European Athletics Championships 1990 / men's hammer throw

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	20 athletes from 11 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 30th (qualification) August 31st (final)
Medalist Ihar Astapkovich ( URS )   Tibor Gécsek ( HUN )   Igor Nikulin ( URS )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The men's hammer throw at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held on August 30 and 31, 1990 in the Poljud Stadium in Split .

In this competition there were two medals for hammer throwers of the USSR, gold and bronze. European champion was Ihar Astapkowitsch . He won ahead of the Hungarian Tibor Gécsek . Bronze went to the European Championships -second of 1982 and EM -third of 1986 Igor Nikulin .

Existing records

World record	86.74 m	Yuri Sedych	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 30, 1986
European record
EM record

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

qualification

August 30, 1990

Twenty participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 77.00 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 73.12 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Igor Nikulin	Soviet Union	79.06
2	Enrico Sgruletti	Italy	76.68
3	Ivan Tanev	Bulgaria	74.48
4th	Johann Lindner	Austria	74.00
5	Heinz Weis	BR Germany	73.44
6th	Tore Gustafsson	Sweden	72.86
7th	Raphael Piolanti	France	72.50
8th	József Vida	Hungary	72.46
9	Norbert Radefeld	BR Germany	72.42
10	Esa Jantunen	Finland	71.60
11	Viktor Apostolov	Bulgaria	68.92

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Plamen Minew	Bulgaria	77.80
2	Ihar Astapkovich	Soviet Union	77.60
3	Gunther Rodehau	GDR	75.36
4th	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	74.68
5	Juha Tiainen	Finland	74.30
6th	Paul Head	Great Britain	74.02
7th	Claus Dethloff	BR Germany	73.12
8th	Frédérick Kuhn	France	71.30
9	Giuliano Zanello	Italy	68.64

final

In fourth place, Gunther Rodehau achieved the same placement as four years earlier

August 31, 1990

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ihar Astapkovich	Soviet Union	84.14
2	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	80.14
3	Igor Nikulin	Soviet Union	80.02
4th	Gunther Rodehau	GDR	77.90
5	Plamen Minew	Bulgaria	77.12
6th	Ivan Tanev	Bulgaria	76.28
7th	Enrico Sgruletti	Italy	75.82
8th	Heinz Weis	BR Germany	75.48
9	Juha Tiainen	Finland	73.70
10	Johann Lindner	Austria	73.68
11	Paul Head	Great Britain	72.68
12	Claus Dethloff	BR Germany	72.36

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Championship 1990 Split, Men Hammer 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 Hammer 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, hammer 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

• Hammer Throw European Athletics Champs 1990 Split , published November 13, 2010 on youtube.com (English), accessed September 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed September 14, 2019