1990 European Athletics Championships – Men's decathlon

The men's decathlon competition at the 1990 European Athletics Championships in Split, Yugoslavia, was held at Stadion Poljud on 28 August and 29 August 1990.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Christian Plaziat France (FRA)
Silver	Dezső Szabó Hungary (HUN)
Bronze	Christian Schenk East Germany (GDR)

Schedule

28 August
1. 100 m
2. Long jump
3. Shot put
4. High jump
5. 400 m

29 August
2. 110 m hurdles
3. Discus throw
4. Pole vault
5. Javelin throw
6. 1,500 m

Records

World record	Daley Thompson (GBR)	8847^[2]	9 August 1984	Los Angeles, United States
Event record	Daley Thompson (GBR)	8811	28 August 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany

Results

The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow

Rank	Name	100m	LJ	SP	HJ	400m	110m H	DT	PV	JT	1500m	Points
	Christian Plaziat (FRA)	10.72	7.77	14.19	2.10	47.10	13.98	44.36	5.00	54.72	4:27.83	8574
	Dezső Szabó (HUN)	11.06	7.49	13.65	1.98	47.17	14.67	40.78	5.30	61.94	4:11.07	8436
	Christian Schenk (GDR)	11.26	7.55	15.59	2.22	49.03	15.24	47.34	4.40	61.62	4:13.77	8433
4	Robert Změlík (TCH)	10.86	7.90	12.60	2.01	48.25	14.12	39.00	4.90	59.28	4:27.76	8249
5	Alain Blondel (FRA)	11.06	7.39	13.05	1.95	48.04	14.27	43.86	4.90	56.24	4:09.90	8216
6	Antonio Peñalver (ESP)	11.24	7.55	16.01	2.01	50.27	14.63	47.84	4.70	57.48	4:28.86	8214
7	Beat Gähwiler (SUI)	11.29	7.42	13.41	1.98	49.21	14.65	44.30	4.70	62.94	4:12.88	8146
8	Andrei Nazarov (EST)	11.04	7.43	13.07	2.13	48.09	14.56	41.82	4.60	56.56	4:33.88	8072
9	Henrik Dagård (SWE)	10.93	7.44	12.39	1.98	46.95	14.63	39.72	4.70	63.54	4:34.46	8052
10	Frank Müller (GDR)	11.00	7.32	13.92	1.98	47.98	14.64	41.46	4.40	59.78	4:29.29	7973
11	Michael Kohnle (FRG)	10.89	7.24	14.41	1.98	49.63	14.80	42.18	4.70	61.74	5:04.05	7829
12	Siegfried Wentz (FRG)	11.28	7.09	14.89	1.98	48.78	14.48	43.20	4.40	56.20	4:39.81	7810
13	Saša Karan (YUG)	11.29	7.07	13.53	1.92	49.13	14.90	44.70	4.40	56.10	4:17.60	7774
14	Gernot Kellermayr (AUT)	10.99	7.32	12.96	1.86	48.92	14.87	40.64	4.40	58.86	4:35.61	7666
15	Goran Kabić (YUG)	11.56	6.94	13.85	1.89	51.86	14.87	43.66	4.30	65.12	4:26.38	7584
16	Eugene Gilkes (GBR)	11.19	6.80	13.84	1.83	48.91	15.31	46.30	4.20	53.20	4:19.42	7555
17	Michael Arnold (AUT)	11.20	7.23	13.39	1.98	49.63	14.81	37.74	4.00	59.46	4:39.77	7515
18	Álvaro Burrell (ESP)	11.09	6.68	13.36	1.95	48.06	14.93	42.36	4.10	47.08	4:29.55	7443
19	Kaj Ekman (FIN)	11.20	6.52	12.35	1.95	49.10	14.86	40.84	4.00	56.80	4:22.36	7415
20	Alex Kruger (GBR)	11.49	6.85	13.48	2.07	50.35	15.39	40.30	4.30	52.74	4:43.77	7359
	Mikhail Medved (URS)	11.14 (w: 0.0m/s)	7.39 (w: 1.2m/s)	15.61	2.01	49.42	14.42 (w: 0.7m/s)	48.58	NM			DNF
	Sándór Munkácsi (HUN)	11.17 (w: 0.0m/s)	6.83 (w: 1.4m/s)	12.13	1.95	49.40	14.69 (w: 0.7m/s)	39.34	NM			DNF
	Alper Kasapoğlu (TUR)	11.38 (w: 0.2m/s)	7.08 (w: 0.4m/s)	12.31	1.89	49.81	15.09 (w: 0.0m/s)	38.90	NM			DNF
	Sten Ekberg (SWE)	11.29 (w: 0.2m/s)	6.85 (w: 0.6m/s)	13.40	1.86							DNF
	René Schmidheiny (SUI)	11.88 (w: 0.2m/s)	6.75 (w: 0.7m/s)	14.84	1.83							DNF
	Robert de Wit (NED)	11.14 (w: 0.0m/s)	7.17 (w: 1.0m/s)	13.42	NH							DNF
	Aleksey Lyakh (URS)	11.57 (w: -0.2m/s)	NM	15.12								DNF
	Thomas Halamoda (GDR)	11.12 (w: -0.2m/s)	NM									DNF
	Petri Keskitalo (FIN)	11.27 (w: -0.6m/s)										DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

Spain (2)
Sweden (2)
Switzerland (2)
Turkey (1)

References

^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 451–460, retrieved 13 August 2014
^ Score according to the 1985 tables. Thompson's mark was not a world record in 1984, but when the 1985 tables came into use, his mark became the record. They were both given credit to the world record.

[eaa_01-1] European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 451–460, retrieved 13 August 2014

[2] Score according to the 1985 tables. Thompson's mark was not a world record in 1984, but when the 1985 tables came into use, his mark became the record. They were both given credit to the world record.

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1990 European Athletics Championships

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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