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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
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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
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Combined events
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These are the official results of the Women's 400 metres event at the 1990 European Championships in Split, Yugoslavia, held at Stadion Poljud on 27, 28, and 29 August 1990.

Medalists

Gold	Grit Breuer  East Germany
Silver	Petra Schersing  East Germany
Bronze	Marie-José Pérec  France

Results

Final

29 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Grit Breuer	East Germany	49.50
	Petra Schersing	East Germany	50.51
	Marie-José Pérec	France	50.84
4	Annette Hesselbarth	East Germany	51.14
5	Linda Keough	United Kingdom	51.22
6	Lyudmila Dzhigalova	Soviet Union	51.31
7	Marina Shmonina	Soviet Union	51.67
8	Viviane Dorsile	France	52.11

Semi-finals

28 August

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grit Breuer	East Germany	50.89	Q
2	Petra Schersing	East Germany	51.05	Q
3	Linda Keough	United Kingdom	51.20	Q
4	Viviane Dorsile	France	52.06	Q
5	Helga Arendt	West Germany	52.16
6	Judit Forgács	Hungary	52.77
7	Martha Grossenbacher	Switzerland	53.57
	Yelena Ruzina	Soviet Union	DNF

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Annette Hesselbarth	East Germany	51.43	Q
2	Marina Shmonina	Soviet Union	51.45	Q
3	Lyudmila Dzhigalova	Soviet Union	51.56	Q
4	Marie-José Pérec	France	51.63	Q
5	Karin Janke	West Germany	51.65
6	Evelyne Elien	France	53.05
7	Lisbeth Andersen	Norway	53.26
8	Angela Piggford	United Kingdom	53.53

Heats

27 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grit Breuer	East Germany	52.50	Q
2	Marie-José Pérec	France	52.56	Q
3	Linda Keough	United Kingdom	52.60	Q
4	Lisbeth Andersen	Norway	53.01	q
5	Judit Forgács	Hungary	53.06	q
6	Linda Kisabaka	West Germany	53.09
7	Julia Merino	Spain	53.74

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lyudmila Dzhigalova	Soviet Union	52.42	Q
2	Annette Hesselbarth	East Germany	52.72	Q
3	Helga Arendt	West Germany	53.01	Q
4	Lorraine Hanson	United Kingdom	53.57
5	Erzsébet Szabó	Hungary	54.08
6	Gordana Čotrić	Yugoslavia	54.46
7	Regula Scalabrin	Switzerland	54.88

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marina Shmonina	Soviet Union	52.18	Q
2	Petra Schersing	East Germany	52.44	Q
3	Martha Grossenbacher	Switzerland	52.76	Q
4	Viviane Dorsile	France	52.91	q
5	Angela Piggford	United Kingdom	53.00	q
6	Gretha Tromp	Netherlands	55.64

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yelena Ruzina	Soviet Union	51.64	Q
2	Karin Janke	West Germany	52.83	Q
3	Evelyne Elien	France	52.95	Q
4	Sonja Finell	Finland	53.47
5	Ágnes Kozáry	Hungary	54.13
6	Blanca Lacambra	Spain	54.61

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

•  East Germany (3)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (3)
•  Hungary (3)
•  Netherlands (1)
•  Norway (1)
•  Soviet Union (3)
•  Spain (2)
•   Switzerland (2)
•  United Kingdom (3)
•  West Germany (3)
•  Yugoslavia (1)

See also

• 1988 Women's Olympic 400 metres (Seoul)
• 1991 Women's World Championships 400 metres (Tokyo)
• 1992 Women's Olympic 400 metres (Barcelona)

References

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

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• Events at the 1990 European Athletics Championships
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