1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics

International athletics competition

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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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.

## Results

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### Men

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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 AU20R NU20R  |  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

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* Host nation (Bulgaria)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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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

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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

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* 1990 in athletics (track and field)

## References

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1. ^ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas. "WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1990 Plovdiv BUL Aug 8-12". 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

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