1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was the 1990 edition of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria on 8–12 August.

1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The host stadium in Plovdiv
Host city	Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Nations	87
Athletes	987
Events	41
Dates	8–12 August
Main venue	9th September Stadium
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Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Davidson Ezinwa   Nigeria	10.17 =CR	Jason Livingston   Great Britain	10.25	Rodney Bridges   United States	10.37
200 metres details	Aleksandr Goremykin   Soviet Union	20.47 CR	Davidson Ezinwa   Nigeria	20.75	James Stallworth   United States	20.81
400 metres details	Chris Nelloms   United States	45.43 CR	Rico Lieder   East Germany	46.28	Mark Richardson   Great Britain	46.33
800 metres details	Desta Asgedom   Ethiopia	1:46.35 CR	Jonah Birir   Kenya	1:46.61	Norberto Téllez   Cuba	1:47.33
1500 metres details	Moses Kiptanui   Kenya	3:38.32 CR	Alemayehu Roba   Ethiopia	3:41.71	Desta Asgedom   Ethiopia	3:43.38
5000 metres details	Fita Bayissa   Ethiopia	13:42.59 CR	Abreham Assefa   Ethiopia	13:44.63	Francesco Bennici   Italy	13:47.10
10,000 metres details	Richard Chelimo   Kenya	28:18.57 CR	Ismael Kirui   Kenya	28:40.77	Juma Ninga   Tanzania	28:41.90
20 kilometres road run details	Cosmas Ndeti   Kenya	59:42	Juma Ninga   Tanzania	1:00:30	Dagane Dabela   Ethiopia	1:01:02
110 metres hurdles details	Antti Haapakoski   Finland	13.74	Alexis Sánchez   Cuba	13.75	Kyle Vander-Kuyp   Australia	13.85
400 metres hurdles details	Rohan Robinson   Australia	49.73	Yoshihiko Saito   Japan	49.99	Aleksandr Belikov   Soviet Union	50.22
3000 metres steeplechase details	Matthew Birir   Kenya	8:31.02 CR	Francisco Munuera   Spain	8:41.03	Simeon Rono   Kenya	8:42:05
10,000 metres walk details	Ilya Markov   Soviet Union	39:55.52	Alberto Cruz   Mexico	39:56.49	Jefferson Pérez   Ecuador	40:08.23
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States Chris Nelloms Rodney Bridges Reggie Harris James Stallworth	39.13 CR	Soviet Union Sergejs Insakovs Konstantin Gromadskiy Vitaliy Semyonov Aleksandr Goremykin	39.58	Nigeria Innocent Asonze Davidson Ezinwa Nnamdi Anusim Osmond Ezinwa	39.68
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States Derek Mills Marvin Samuels Reggie Harris Chris Nelloms	3:02.26	Great Britain David Grindley Adrian Patrick Craig Winrow Mark Richardson	3:03.80	Australia Matthew Burmeister Rohan Robinson Simon Hollingsworth Paul Greene	3:05.51
High jump details	Dragutin Topić   Yugoslavia	2.37 WJR	Tim Forsyth   Australia	2.29	Stevan Zorić   Yugoslavia	2.26
Pole vault details	Jean Galfione   France	5.45	Dmitriy Kurkulin   Soviet Union	5.40	Miroslav Dukov   Bulgaria	5.40
Long jump details	James Stallworth   United States	8.12 CR	Dion Bentley   United States	8.05	Kareem Streete-Thompson   Cayman Islands	7.94
Triple jump details	Sergey Bykov   Soviet Union	16.98 CR	Yoelbi Quesada   Cuba	16.62	Nikolai Raev   Bulgaria	16.22
Shot put details	Viktor Bulat   Soviet Union	19.21 CR	Xie Shengying   China	18.57	Yuriy Ivanov   Soviet Union	18.13
Discus throw details	Ilian Iliev   Bulgaria	58.28	Frank Bicet   Cuba	57.10	Jan Engelmann   East Germany	56.82
Javelin throw details	Tommi Viskari   Finland	73.88	Dariusz Trafas   Poland	72.76	Jarkko Heimonen   Finland	72.30
Hammer throw details	Andrey Debeliy   Soviet Union	70.60	Savvas Saritzoglou   Greece	70.32	Andrey Budykin   Soviet Union	69.36
Decathlon details	Eric Kaiser   West Germany	7762	Jarkko Finni   Finland	7698	David Bigham   Great Britain	7488
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Andrea Philipp   East Germany	11.36	Nikole Mitchell   Jamaica	11.47	Lucrécia Jardim   Portugal	11.52
200 metres details	Diane Smith   Great Britain	23.10 CR	Zundra Feagin   United States	23.13	Lucrécia Jardim   Portugal	23.26
400 metres details	Fatima Yusuf   Nigeria	50.62 CR	Charity Opara   Nigeria	51.28	Manuela Derr   East Germany	51.95
800 metres details	Liu Li   China	2:03.65	Magdalena Nedelcu   Romania	2:04.52	Aurica Rautu   Romania	2:04.78
1500 metres details	Qu Yunxia   China	4:13.67	Claudia Mirela Bortoi   Romania	4:14.19	Malin Ewerlöf   Sweden	4:14.61
3000 metres details	Simona Staicu   Romania	9:09.57	Liu Shixiang   China	9:10.54	Hatsumi Matsumoto   Japan	9:11.92
10,000 metres details	Derartu Tulu   Ethiopia	32:56.26	Rika Ota   Japan	33:06.85	Lydia Cheromei   Kenya	33:20.83
100 metres hurdles details	Gillian Russell   Jamaica	13.31	Keri Maddox   Great Britain	13.38	Ilka Rönisch   East Germany	13.41
400 metres hurdles details	Nelli Voronkova   Soviet Union	55.84	Marjana Lužar   Yugoslavia	56.74	Omolade Akinremi   Nigeria	56.97
5000 metres walk details	Susana Feitor   Portugal	21:44.30 CR	Tatyana Shchastnaya   Soviet Union	22:28.74	Simone Thust   East Germany	22:44.65
4 × 100 metres relay details	Jamaica Gillian Russell Revolie Campbell Merlene Frazer Nikole Mitchell	43.82	Great Britain Annabel Soper Diane Smith Donna Fraser Katharine Merry	44.16	United States Monifa Taylor Tisha Prather Angela Burnham Zundra Feagin	44.50
4 × 400 metres relay details	Australia Sophie Scamps Renée Poetschka Kylie Hanigan Sue Andrews	3:30.38	Jamaica Claudine Williams Winsome Cole Inez Turner Catherine Scott	3:31.09	Cuba Yojani Casanova Julia Duporty Odalmis Limonta Nancy McLeón	3:31.81
High jump details	Svetlana Lavrova   Soviet Union	1.91	Katja Kilpi   Finland	1.88	Lea Haggett   Great Britain	1.88
Long jump details	Iva Prandzheva   Bulgaria	6.53	Erica Johansson   Sweden	6.50	Sandrine Hennart   Belgium	6.49
Shot put details	Qiu Qiaoping   China	18.20	Li Xiaoyun   China	17.74	Heike Hopfer   East Germany	17.27
Discus throw details	Natalya Koptyukh   Soviet Union	61.44	Lisa-Marie Vizaniari   Australia	60.44	Anja Gündler   East Germany	59.30
Javelin throw details	Tanja Damaske   East Germany	61.06	Oksana Ovchinnikova   Soviet Union	57.26	Mandy Liverton   Great Britain	56.98
Heptathlon details	Beatrice Mau   East Germany	6166	Rita Ináncsi   Hungary	5940	Joanne Henry   New Zealand	5728
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Bulgaria)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	8	4	3	15
2	United States	4	2	3	9
3	Kenya	4	2	2	8
4	China	3	3	0	6
5	Ethiopia	3	2	2	7
6	East Germany	3	1	6	10
7	Australia	2	2	2	6
	Nigeria	2	2	2	6
9	Finland	2	2	1	5
10	Jamaica	2	2	0	4
11	Bulgaria*	2	0	2	4
12	Great Britain	1	4	4	9
13	Romania	1	2	1	4
14	Yugoslavia	1	1	1	3
15	Portugal	1	0	2	3
16	France	1	0	0	1
	West Germany	1	0	0	1
18	Cuba	0	3	2	5
19	Japan	0	2	1	3
20	Sweden	0	1	1	2
	Tanzania	0	1	1	2
22	Greece	0	1	0	1
	Hungary	0	1	0	1
	Mexico	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
27	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Cayman Islands	0	0	1	1
	Ecuador	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	New Zealand	0	0	1	1
Totals (31 entries)		41	41	41	123

Participation

According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list,^[1] 987 athletes from 86 countries participated in the event. The number of athletes is in agreement, but there is one country less than the official number of 87 as published.^[2]

•   Albania (3)
•   Algeria (7)
•   Andorra (1)
•   Anguilla (1)
•   Antigua and Barbuda (1)
•   Argentina (3)
•   Australia (48)
•   Austria (7)
•   Bahamas (3)
•   Barbados (4)
•   Belgium (13)
•   Bermuda (1)
•   Bolivia (1)
•   Brazil (15)
•   Bulgaria (47)
•   Burkina Faso (1)
•   Canada (25)
•   Cayman Islands (1)
•   Central African Republic (1)
•   Chile (2)
•   China (12)
•   Chinese Taipei (5)
•   Colombia (1)
•   Côte d'Ivoire (2)
•   Cuba (25)
•   Cyprus (6)
•   Czechoslovakia (18)
•   Denmark (3)
•   East Germany (42)
•   Ecuador (6)
•   Egypt (2)
•   Ethiopia (14)
•   Finland (19)
•   France (33)
•   Great Britain (41)
•   Greece (18)
•   Hungary (17)
•   Iceland (1)
•   India (3)
•   Iran (1)
•   Ireland (14)
•   Israel (1)
•   Italy (31)
•   Jamaica (19)
•   Japan (29)
•   Kenya (20)
•   Lesotho (1)
•   Liechtenstein (1)
•   Luxembourg (1)
•   Malawi (1)
•   Malta (2)
•   Mauritius (4)
•   Mexico (7)
•   Morocco (9)
•   Namibia (4)
•   Netherlands (8)
•   New Zealand (15)
•   Nigeria (10)
•   North Yemen (4)
•   Norway (10)
•   Paraguay (2)
•   Peru (3)
•   Poland (16)
•   Portugal (20)
•   Qatar (3)
•   Romania (22)
•   Saint Kitts and Nevis (2)
•   Senegal (1)
•   Sierra Leone (2)
•   Singapore (1)
•   Somalia (2)
•   South Korea (2)
•   Soviet Union (69)
•   Spain (37)
•   Sudan (2)
•   Sweden (15)
•    Switzerland (6)
•   Tanzania (5)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (2)
•   Turkey (2)
•   United States (55)
•   Venezuela (5)
•   West Germany (50)
•   Yugoslavia (14)
•   Zambia (3)
•   Zimbabwe (1)

See also

• 1990 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas. . WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"). Archived from the original on 31 August 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, p. 5, retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

• Medalists at GBRathletics.com
• Official results