1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics
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The 3rd World Junior Championships in Athletics was the 1990 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Plovdiv
Plovdiv
Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...

, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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Men

100 m
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

Davidson Ezinwa
Davidson Ezinwa
Davidson Ezinwa is a former sprinter from Nigeria.He won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as a silver medal at the 1997 World Championships, both in 4 x 100 metres relay...


 Nigeria
10.17 =CR Jason Livingston
Jason Livingston
Jason Livingston is a former sprinter from the United Kingdom.Livingston won the 60 metres sprint gold medal at the 1992 European Indoor Championships in Genoa, in a time of 6.53 seconds...


 United Kingdom
10.25 Rodney Bridges
 United States
10.37
200 m
200 metres
A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

Aleksandr Goremykin
Aleksandr Goremykin
Aleksandr Goremykin is a Russian sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres. He is one of the current national record holders in 4 x 100 m relay with 38,46 seconds, achieved at the 1990 European Championships in Split, Croatia....


 Soviet Union
20.47 CR Davidson Ezinwa
Davidson Ezinwa
Davidson Ezinwa is a former sprinter from Nigeria.He won a silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as a silver medal at the 1997 World Championships, both in 4 x 100 metres relay...


 Nigeria
20.75 James Stallworth
James Stallworth (athlete)
James Stallworth is an American track and field athlete, primarily known for the long jump. He currently holds the NFHS High School Record for the long jump, with a jump of 26' 4.75," 8.04 metres set while winning the CIF California State High School Championships in Norwalk, California on June...


 United States
20.81
400 m
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...

Chris Nelloms
 United States
45.43 CR Rico Lieder
Rico Lieder
Rico Lieder is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He competed for the clubs SC Karl-Marx-Stadt, LG Chemnitz and LAC Chemnitz during his active career.-Achievements:-References:...


 German Democratic Republic
46.83 Mark Richardson
Mark Richardson (athlete)
Mark Ashton Richardson is a British former athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for Great Britain in the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, United States in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Iwan Thomas, Jamie Baulch and Roger Black...


 United Kingdom
46.33
800 m
800 metres
The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...

Desta Asgedom
 Ethiopia
1:46.35 CR Jonah Birir
Jonah Birir
Jonah Birir is a former Kenyan middle distance runner.In 1988 he won the World Junior Championships over 800 metres, and at the 1990 World Junior Championships he won a silver medal in a personal best time of 1:46.61. He then concentrated on the 1500 metres distance, finishing fifth in the 1992...


 Kenya
1:46.61 Norberto Téllez
Norberto Téllez
Norberto Téllez is a retired Cuban runner.Originally a 400 metres runner who also enjoyed success in 4 x 400 metres relay, winning the silver medal at the 1992 Olympics, Téllez later converted to the 800 metres distance. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he ran in 1:42.85 and thereby improved the...


 Cuba
1:47.33
1500 m
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...

Moses Kiptanui
Moses Kiptanui
Moses Kiptanui is a middle and long distance athlete mostly famous for 3,000 m steeplechase in which he was the number one ranked athlete from 1991 to 1995 and three time IAAF World Champion...


 Kenya
3:38.32 CR Alemayehu Roba
Alemayehu Roba
Alemayehu Roba is a retired Ethiopian middle distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres.He won a silver medal at the 1990 World Junior Championships and a bronze medal at the 1991 All-Africa Games. He competed at the 1991 World Championships, but did not progress from the qualification...


 Ethiopia
3:41.71 Desta Asgedom
 Ethiopia
3:43.38
5000 m
5000 metres
The 5000 metres is a popular running distance also known as 5 km or 5K in American English. It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics. "5000 metres" refers to racing on a track and "5K" usually refers to a roadrace or cross country event...

Fita Bayissa
 Ethiopia
13:42.59 CR Abreham Assefa
 Ethiopia
13:44.63 Francesco Bennici
 Italy
13:47.10
10 000 m Richard Chelimo
Richard Chelimo
Richard Chelimo was a Kenyan athlete, and a former world and world junior record holder over 10,000 m...


 Kenya
28:18.57 CR Ismael Kirui
Ismael Kirui
Ismael Kirui is a former Kenyan long distance runner who won gold medals over 5000 metres at the 1993 and 1995 World Championships in Athletics....


 Kenya
28:40.77 Juma Ninga
 Tanzania
28:41.90
20 km road race Cosmas Ndeti
Cosmas Ndeti
Cosmas Ndeti is a three time winner of the Boston Marathon. He was the winner of the 1993, 1994, and 1995 races. He set the course record in 1994 with a time of 2:07:15, which was also the best marathon performance in 1994...


 Kenya
59:42 Juma Ninga
 Tanzania
1:00:30 Dagane Dabela
 Ethiopia
1:01:02
110 m H
110 metres hurdles
The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...

Antti Haapakoski
Antti Haapakoski
Antti Ensio Haapakoski is a retired Finnish hurdler.He won the gold medal at the 1990 World Junior Championships, finished fifth at the 1992 European Indoor Championships, sixth at the European Championships and sixth at the 1995 World Indoor Championships.He also competed at the 1990 European...


 Finland
13.74 Alexis Sánchez
 Cuba
13.75 Kyle Vander-Kuyp
 Australia
13.85
400 m H
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

Rohan Robinson
Rohan Robinson
Rohan Stuart Robinson is a retired Australian hurdler.His personal best time was 48.28 seconds, achieved in the 1996 Olympic final in Atlanta. This is the current Oceanian record.-Achievements:-References:...


 Australia
49.73 Yoshihiko Saito
Yoshihiko Saito
is a Japanese athlete who specialized in the 400 metres hurdles.With a personal best time of 48.64 seconds, achieved in October 1998 in Kumamoto, he is a former Asian record holder. The Asian record currently belongs to Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily with 47.53 seconds, and the Japanese record to Dai...


 Japan
49.99 Aleksandr Belikov
 Soviet Union
50.22
3000 m St. Matthew Birir
Matthew Birir
Matthew Kiprotich Birir is a former athlete from Kenya, winner of 3000 m steeplechase at the 1992 Summer Olympics.Born in Eldama Ravine, Matthew Birir started running, when he attended at the famous St. Patrick's High School in Iten, where many great Kenyan runners are rosen.At the Barcelona...


 Kenya
8:31.02 CR Francisco Munuera
 Spain
8:41.03 Simeon Rono
 Kenya
8:42:05
10000 m track walk Ilya Markov
Ilya Markov
Ilya Vladislavovich Markov is a Russian race walker.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Soviet Union
39:55.52 Alberto Cruz
 Mexico
39:56.49 Jefferson Pérez
Jefferson Pérez
Jefferson Leonardo Pérez Quezada is a retired Ecuadorian race walker. He specializes in the 20 km event, in which he has won the only two medals his country has ever achieved in the Olympic Games....


 Ecuador
40:08.23
4 x 100 m
Relay race
During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...

 United States 39.13 CR  Soviet Union 39.58  Nigeria 39.68
4 x 400 m
Relay race
During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...

 United States 3:02.26  United Kingdom 3:03.80  Australia 3:05.51
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Dragutin Topić
Dragutin Topic
-Career:He is a World junior record holder with 2.37 when he won World Junior Championships 1990, three weeks before his win at European Championships. In the same year Topić received the golden badge award for best athlete of Yugoslavia. Topic has set five national records, and claimed four...


 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
2.37 CR Tim Forsyth
Tim Forsyth
Tim Forsyth is a retired Australian three-time Olympic high jumper.His first success on the international scene came in 1990 with a silver medal at the World Junior Championships. In 1992 the 19-year-old Forsyth won an Olympic bronze medal, equalling his current personal best height of 2.34m...


 Australia
2.29 Stevan Zorić
 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
2.26
Pole vault
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

Jean Galfione
Jean Galfione
Jean Galfione is a French athlete. In 1995 he won the bronze medal in the pole vault at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. In 1996 he won the gold medal in the pole vault at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...


 Early Modern France
5.45 Dmitriy Kurkulin
 Soviet Union
5.40 Miroslav Dukov
 Kingdom of Bulgaria
5.40
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

James Stallworth
James Stallworth (athlete)
James Stallworth is an American track and field athlete, primarily known for the long jump. He currently holds the NFHS High School Record for the long jump, with a jump of 26' 4.75," 8.04 metres set while winning the CIF California State High School Championships in Norwalk, California on June...


 United States
8.12 CR Dion Bentley
 United States
8.05 Kareem Streete-Thompson
Kareem Streete-Thompson
Kareem Streete-Thompson is an athlete specializing in the long jump and the 100 metres. He was born in Ithaca, New York.Although born in the USA, he lived his first 18 years in the Cayman Islands...


 Cayman Islands
7.94
Triple jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

Sergey Bykov
 Soviet Union
16.98 CR Yoelbi Quesada
Yoelbi Quesada
Yoelbi Luis Quesada Fernández is a Cuban athlete competing mostly in triple jump. He has an Olympic bronze medal, and became world champion in 1997 with a personal best jump of 17.85m.- Major achievements :...


 Cuba
16.62 Nikolai Raev
 Kingdom of Bulgaria
16.22
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

Viktor Bulat
 Soviet Union
19.21 CR Xie Shengying
 People's Republic of China
18.57 Yuriy Ivanov
 Soviet Union
18.13
Discus
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

Ilian Iliev
 Kingdom of Bulgaria
58.28 Frank Bicet
 Cuba
57.10 Jan Engelmann
 German Democratic Republic
56.82
Javelin
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

Tommi Viskari
 Finland
73.88 Dariusz Trafas
Dariusz Trafas
Dariusz Trafas is a Polish javelin thrower.He won the silver medal at the 1990 World Junior Championships, finished tenth at the 2000 Summer Olympics and seventh at the 2002 European Championships...


 Poland
72.76 Jarkko Heimonen
 Finland
72.30
Hammer
Hammer throw
The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...

Andrey Debeliy
 Soviet Union
70.60 Savvas Saritzoglou
Savvas Saritzoglou
Savvas Saritzoglou is a Greek male hammer thrower. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, placing 13th in the qualifying round. Saritzoglou had a personal best throw of in 1994.-Achievements:-References:...


 Greece
70.32 Andrey Budykin
 Soviet Union
69.36
Decathlon
Decathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...

Eric Kaiser
 West Germany
7762 Jarkko Finni
 Finland
7698 David Bigham
 United Kingdom
7488

Women

100 m
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

Andrea Philipp
Andrea Philipp
Andrea Philipp is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.Her personal best time in the 200 metres is 22.25 seconds, achieved during the heats at the 1999 World Championships in Seville...


 German Democratic Republic
11.36 Nikole Mitchell
 Jamaica
11.47 Lucrécia Jardim
Lucrécia Jardim
Maria Lucrécia Jardim is a retired Portuguese sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...


 Portugal
11.52
200 m
200 metres
A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

Diane Smith
 United Kingdom
23.10 CR Zundra Feagin
 United States
23.13 Lucrécia Jardim
Lucrécia Jardim
Maria Lucrécia Jardim is a retired Portuguese sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...


 Portugal
23.26
400 m
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...

Fatima Yusuf
Fatima Yusuf
Fatima Yusuf-Olukoju is a retired Nigerian athlete, who competed mainly in the 400 metres during her career. She won 400 metres race in the 1991 All-Africa Games and was second in the 200 metres race. She is married to Adewale Olukoju.She later competed in the 200 meters at the World Championship...


 Nigeria
50.62 CR Charity Opara
Charity Opara
Charity Opara is a former Nigerian athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. She was in particular a successful relay runner, winning the silver medal at the 1996 Olympics....


 Nigeria
51.28 Manuela Derr
Manuela Derr
Manuela Derr, married Rödel is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres....


 German Democratic Republic
51.95
800 m
800 metres
The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...

Liu Li
Liu Li
Liu Li is a retired Chinese middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 and 1500 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...


 People's Republic of China
2:03.65 Magdalena Nedelcu
 Kingdom of Romania
2:04.52 Aurica Rautu
 Kingdom of Romania
2:04.78
1500 m
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...

Qu Yunxia
Qu Yunxia
Qu Yunxia is a Chinese Olympic athlete who specialized in the 1500 metres.At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona she won a bronze medal on 1500 m. In 1993 she achieved the still standing world record in the 1500 metres at 3:50.46 minutes while running in the National Games of the People's...


 People's Republic of China
4:13.67 Claudia Mirela Bortoi
 Kingdom of Romania
4:14.19 Malin Ewerlöf
 Sweden
4:14.61
3000 m
3000 metres
The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...

Simona Staicu
 Kingdom of Romania
9:09.57 Liu Shixiang
Liu Shixiang
Liu Shixiang is a retired Chinese long-distance runner who specialized in the 5000 metres.Her personal best time was 14:32.33 minutes, achieved in October 1997 in Shanghai. She also had 8:55.89 minutes in the 3000 metres and 30:55.83 minutes in the 10,000 metres.-Achievements:-References:...


 People's Republic of China
9:10.54 Hatsumi Matsumoto
 Japan
9:11.92
10 000 m Derartu Tulu
Derartu Tulu
Derartu Tulu is an Ethiopian long distance track, road and marathon athlete.Derartu , a member of the Oromo ethnic group, grew up tending cattle in the village of Bekoji in the highlands of Arsi Province...


 Ethiopia
32:56.26 Rika Ota
 Japan
33:06.85 Lydia Cheromei
Lydia Cheromei
Lydia Cheromei is a Kenyan athlete. She specializes in long distance running. She rose to fame at the age of thirteen with a win in the junior race at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships...


 Kenya
33:20.83
100 m H
100 metres hurdles
The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...

Gillian Russell
Gillian Russell
Gillian Russell is a Jamaican athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles. In her early career she won four gold medals at the World Junior Championships, which is a record.-Achievements:...


 Jamaica
13.31 Keri Maddox
 United Kingdom
13.38 Ilka Rönisch
 German Democratic Republic
13.41
400 m H
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

Nelli Voronkova
 Soviet Union
55.84 Marjana Lužar
 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
56.74 Omolade Akinremi
Omolade Akinremi
Omolade Akinremi is a retired Nigerian hurdler.-Achievements:-External links:...


 Nigeria
56.97
5000 m track walk Susana Feitor
Susana Feitor
Susana Paula de Jesus Feitor, DamIH is a Portuguese racewalker. She was born in Alcobertas, Médio Tejo.-Achievements:-References:...


 Portugal
21:44.30 CR Tatyana Shchastnaya
 Soviet Union
22:28.74 Simone Thust
Simone Thust
Simone Thust is a retired female race walker from Germany.-Achievements:-References:...


 German Democratic Republic
22:44.65
4 X 100 m
Relay race
During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...

 Jamaica 43.82  United Kingdom 44.16  United States 44.50
4 X 400 m
Relay race
During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or ice skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. Relay races take the form of professional races and amateur games...

 Australia 3:30.38  Jamaica 3:31.09  Cuba 3:31.81
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Svetlana Lavrova
 Soviet Union
1.91 Katja Kilpi
 Finland
1.88 Lea Haggett
 United Kingdom
1.88
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

Iva Prandzheva
Iva Prandzheva
Iva Prandzheva is a former Bulgarian athlete who was successful in both long jump and triple jump.Her best performance came at the 1995 World Championships where she won a silver medal with 15.18 metres, a personal best...


 Kingdom of Bulgaria
6.53 Erica Johansson
Erica Johansson
Erica Johansson is a former Swedish athlete who specialized in long jump.She was very promising as a junior long jumper. At the age of 15 she equalled the Swedish record with 6.50 meters. One year later she won the silver medal in the 1990 World Junior Championships, jumping 6.50 again. She won...


 Sweden
6.50 Sandrine Hennart
 Belgium
6.49
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

Qiu Qiaoping
 People's Republic of China
18.20 Li Xiaoyun
 People's Republic of China
17.74 Heike Hopfer
 German Democratic Republic
17.27
Discus
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

Natalya Kaptyukh
 Soviet Union
61.44 Lisa-Marie Vizaniari
Lisa-Marie Vizaniari
Lisa-Marie Vizaniari is a retired Australian discus thrower.Her personal best throw was 65.86 metres, achieved in March 1997 in Melbourne. The Australian, and Oceanian, record currently belongs to Daniela Costian with 68.72 metres.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Australia
60.44 Anja Gündler
 German Democratic Republic
59.30
Javelin
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

Tanja Damaske
Tanja Damaske
Tanja Damaske is a former female javelin thrower from Germany, best known for winning the gold medal at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. A year earlier she gained the bronze medal at the World Championships. A five-time German champion in the women's javelin throw, she retired...


 German Democratic Republic
61.06 Oksana Ovchinnikova
 Soviet Union
57.26 Mandy Liverton
 United Kingdom
56.98
Heptathlon
Heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon . A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.-Women's Heptathlon:...

Beatrice Mau
 German Democratic Republic
6166 Rita Ináncsi
Rita Ináncsi
Rita Ináncsi is a retired Hungarian heptathlete.-Achievements:-External links:...


 Hungary
5940 Joanne Henry
Joanne Henry
Joanne Henry is a former New Zealand heptathlete. She won a bronze medal in the women's heptathlon at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.-References:...


 New Zealand
5728

Medals table

Medal count
# Country 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 | People's Republic of China 3 3 0 6
5 | Ethiopia 3 2 2 7
6 | German Democratic Republic 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 | United Kingdom 1 4 4 9
13 | Romania 1 2 1 4
14 | Socialist Federal Republic of 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

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