1990 European Athletics Championships / Women's marathon

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's marathon
city	Split
place	Circuit through Split
Participants	27 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	August 27, 1990
Medalist
gold	Rosa Mota ( POR )
silver	Valentina Yegorova ( URS )
bronze	Maria Rebelo ( FRA )

Panoramic view of Split

The women's marathon at the 1990 European Athletics Championships took place on August 27, 1990 in Split , Yugoslavia .

The Portuguese Rosa Mota won the race in 2:31:27 h. In second place came Valentina Egorova from the Soviet Union. The French Maria Rebelo won the bronze medal.

Existing records / best performances

World record	Ingrid Kristiansen	2:21:06 h	1985 London Marathon	April 21, 1985
European best
Championship record	Pink Mota	2:28:38 h	EM in Stuttgart	August 26, 1986

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

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

Result

European champion Rosa Mota, who has won all three marathons that have so far been held at European championships

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
	Pink Mota	Portugal	2:31:27
	Valentina Egorova	Soviet Union	2:31:32
	Maria Rebelo	France	2:35:51
04th	Emma Scaunich	Italy	2:37:19
05	Judit Földing	Hungary	2:37:46
06th	Françoise Bonnet	France	2:37:55
07th	Sissel Grotto Mountain	Norway	2:39:04
08th	Sylvianne Geffray	France	2:39:21
09	Ritva Lemettines	Finland	2:39:42
10	Maria Manuela Machado	Portugal	2:39:49
11	Sally Eastall	Great Britain	2:41:37
12	Christine Kennedy	Ireland	2:41:38
13	Dimitra Papaspyrou	Greece	2:41:47
14th	Johanna Homminga	Netherlands	2:43:04
15th	Nicola McCracken	Great Britain	2:46:36
16	Marina Prat	Spain	2:47:41
17th	Nelly Aerts	Belgium	2:49:10
18th	Elizabeth Bulls	Ireland	2:53:45
19th	Suzana Ćirić	Yugoslavia	2:54:05
20th	Susan Tooby	Great Britain	2:55:22
21st	Rumjana Panowska	Bulgaria	2:56:46
DNF	Tijana Kršek	Yugoslavia
	Conceição Ferreira	Portugal
	Jelena Jovičić	Yugoslavia
	Alena Peterková	Czechoslovakia
	Yekaterina Khramenkova	Soviet Union
	Lyubov Klotschko	Soviet Union

Web links and sources

• Women Marathon European Championships 1990 Split on todor66.com, accessed February 17, 2019
• European Marathon Championships on marathonspiegel.de, accessed on February 17, 2019
• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed February 17, 2019

Video

• European athletics championships split 1990-womens marathon on youtube.com, published on May 28, 2015, accessed on February 17, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF records. Women's marathon , accessed February 16, 2019