1990 European Athletics Championships / men's marathon

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's marathon
city	Split
place	Circuit through Split
Attendees	37 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	September 1, 1990
Medalist
gold	Gelindo Bordin ( ITA )
silver	Pier-Giovanni Poli ( ITA )
bronze	Dominique Chauvelier ( FRA )

The men's marathon at the 1990 European Athletics Championships took place on September 1, 1990 in Split , Yugoslavia .

There was an Italian one-two. Gelindo Bordin won the race in 2:14:02 h. Pier-Giovanni Poli was runner-up in Europe ahead of Dominique Chauvelier from France .

Existing records / best performances

World record	Belayneh Dinsamo	2:06:50 h	Rotterdam marathon 1988	April 17, 1988
European best	Carlos Lopes	2:07:12 h	Rotterdam Marathon 1985	April 20, 1985
Championship record	Gelindo Bordin	2:10:54 h	EM in Stuttgart	August 30, 1986

Panoramic view of Split

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 Gelindo Bordin

Marti den Kate - place fourteen

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Gelindo Bordin	Italy	2:14:02
	Pier-Giovanni Poli	Italy	2:14:55
	Dominique Chauvelier	France	2:15:20
04th	Salvatore Bettiol	Italy	2:17:45
05	José Esteban Montiel	Spain	2:17:51
06th	Geoff Wightman	Great Britain	2:18:01
07th	Karel David	Czechoslovakia	2:18:05
08th	Manuel Matias	Portugal	2:18:52
09	Konrad Dobler	BR Germany	2:19:36
10	Juan Francisco Romera	Spain	2:19:58
11	Csaba Szűcs	Hungary	2:20:48
12	Mirko Vindiš	Yugoslavia	2:21:05
13	Rustam Shagiev	Soviet Union	2:21:49
14th	Marti ten Kate	Netherlands	2:21:55
15th	Roy Dooney	Ireland	2:22:58
16	William Vanhuylenbroek	Belgium	2:24:23
17th	Savo Alempić	Yugoslavia	2:25:50
18th	Rainer Wachenbrunner	GDR	2:26:10
19th	John Fitzgerald	Ireland	2:28:11
20th	Rawil Kashapov	Soviet Union	2:28:49
21st	Helmut jewelry	Austria	2:30:28
22nd	Eddy Hellebuyck	Belgium	2:32:23
23	Dick Hooper	Ireland	2:32:36
DNF	Jakow Tolstikov	Soviet Union
	Spirídon Andriópoulos	Greece
	Jan Huruk	Poland
	Justin Gloden	Luxembourg
	Joaquim Pinheiro	Portugal
	Hristos Papahristos	Greece
	Vicente Antón	Spain
	Pascal Zilliox	France
	Roland Wille	Liechtenstein
	Gerard Nijboer	Netherlands
	Tibor Baier	Hungary
	Peter Dall	Denmark
	Juvenal Ribeiro	Portugal
	John Vermeule	Netherlands

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  Rainer Wachenbrunner (right) - eighteenth place

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  Roland Wille (here in second place in a cross-country run) - 28th place

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  Gerard Nijboer - Race not finished

Web links and sources

• Men 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

• Men's Distance Events European Athletics Championships Split 09-1990 on youtube.com, published February 19, 2018, accessed February 17, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF records. Men's marathon , accessed February 16, 2019
2. ↑ Eternal European marathon leaderboard on herbertsteffny.de, accessed on February 16, 2019