European Athletics Championships 1990 / men's long jump

15th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	22 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Split
Competition location	Poljud Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (qualification) August 30th (final)
Medalist Dietmar Haaf ( FRG )   Ángel Hernández ( ESP )   Borut Bilač ( YUG )

The Poljud stadium in Split in 2010

The men's long jump at the 1990 European Athletics Championships was held on August 29 and 30, 1990 in the Poljud Stadium in Split .

The German long jumper Dietmar Haaf became European champion . He won before the Spaniard Ángel Hernández . Bronze went to the Yugoslav Borut Bilač .

Existing records

World record	8.90 m	Bob Beamon	OS Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1968
European record	8.86 m	Robert Emmijan	Zaghkadzor , Soviet Union (now Armenia )	May 22, 1987
Championship record	8.41 m		EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 29, 1986

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

doping

There was a bad mistake here. Borut Bilač was temporarily disqualified after an incorrect doping analysis, but received his bronze medal back in 1991.

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the best jumps are named. The permitted limit is two meters per second. With stronger wind support, the distance will be counted for the competition, but will not be included in the lists of records and the best.

qualification

August 29, 1990

22 participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 7.90 m. Twelve long jumpers reached or exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). These athletes contested the final together on the following day.

Group A

The defending champion, vice world champion from 1987 and European record holder Robert Emmijan was indisposed here and retired without a valid attempt

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Siniša Ergotić	Yugoslavia	7.99	+2.4
2	Mark Forsythe	Great Britain	7.91	+1.4
3	Christian Thomas	BR Germany	7.90	+1.5
4th	Konstadínos Koukodímos	Greece	7.90	+2.2
5	André Müller	GDR	7.85	+1.4
6th	Juha Kivi	Finland	7.70	-1.8
7th	Jean-Louis Rapnouil	France	7.68	+1.7
8th	Fausto Frigerio	Italy	7.62	+1.3
9	Milko Campus	Italy	7.57	+1.8
NM	Robert Emmijan	Soviet Union	without space
	Nenad Stekic	Yugoslavia

Group B

7.48 m was not enough for Stewart Faulkner to take part in the final

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Jarmo Kärnä	Finland	8.13	+1.6
2	Frans Maas	Netherlands	8.04	+1.3
3	Dietmar Haaf	BR Germany	8.04	+0.6
4th	Borut Bilač	Yugoslavia	8.02	+1.1
5	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	8.02	+1.8
6th	Ángel Hernández	Spain	8.00	+1.5
7th	Vladimir Ratuschkov	Soviet Union	7.93	+1.1
8th	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	7.91	+0.9
9	Stewart Faulkner	Great Britain	7.48	+2.4
10	Daniel Ivanov	Bulgaria	7.41	+1.5
11	Carlos Castelbranco	Portugal	6.96	-0.3

final

Frans Maas took fourth place

August 30, 1990

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Dietmar Haaf	BR Germany	8.25
2	Ángel Hernández	Spain	8.15
3	Borut Bilač	Yugoslavia	8.09
4th	Frans Maas	Netherlands	8.00
5	Vladimir Ratuschkov	Soviet Union	7.99
6th	Jarmo Kärnä	Finland	7.95
7th	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	7.93
8th	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	7.86
9	Siniša Ergotić	Yugoslavia	7.83
10	Konstadínos Koukodímos	Greece	7.79
11	Mark Forsythe	Great Britain	7.79
12	Christian Thomas	BR Germany	7.74

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Split 1990 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Championship 1990 Split, Men Long Jump on todor66.com, accessed September 13, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1990 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 13, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Long Jump European Championship 1990 Split, p. 454 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 13, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1990, long jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 13, 2019
• 15th European Athletics Championships 1990 in Split, Yugoslavia from ifosta.de, accessed on September 13, 2019

Video

• 1990, Borut Bilac, Long Jump, European Championships, Split , published June 19, 2013 on youtube.com (English), accessed September 13, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump , accessed September 13, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Long Jump Men , p. 25, Spanish / English (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on September 13, 2019
3. ↑ Long jumper rehabilitated on neue-deutschland.de, September 13, 1991, accessed on September 13, 2019