1990 World Athletics U20 Championships

Host City	Plovdiv
Country	BUL
Held	8 – 12 August 1990
Competitors	144
Countries	31

Known as World Junior Championships in Athletics.

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	8	4	3	15
2	United States	USA	4	2	3	9
3	Kenya	KEN	4	2	2	8
4	China	CHN	3	3	0	6
5	Ethiopia	ETH	3	2	2	7
6	East Germany	GDR	3	1	6	10
7	Australia	AUS	2	2	2	6
=	Nigeria	NGR	2	2	2	6
9	Finland	FIN	2	2	1	5
10	Jamaica	JAM	2	2	0	4
11	Bulgaria	BUL	2	0	2	4
12	Great Britain	GBR	1	4	4	9
13	Romania	ROU	1	2	1	4
14	Yugoslavia	YUG	1	1	1	3
15	Portugal	POR	1	0	2	3
16	France	FRA	1	0	0	1
=	Germany	GER	1	0	0	1
18	Cuba	CUB	0	3	2	5
19	Japan	JPN	0	2	1	3
20	Sweden	SWE	0	1	1	2
=	Tanzania	TAN	0	1	1	2
22	Greece	GRE	0	1	0	1
=	Hungary	HUN	0	1	0	1
=	Mexico	MEX	0	1	0	1
=	Poland	POL	0	1	0	1
=	Spain	ESP	0	1	0	1
27	Belgium	BEL	0	0	1	1
=	Cayman Islands	CAY	0	0	1	1
=	Ecuador	ECU	0	0	1	1
=	Italy	ITA	0	0	1	1
=	New Zealand	NZL	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
100 m, Men	Davidson Ezinwa	NGR	Jason Livingston	GBR	Rodney Bridges	USA
200 m, Men	Aleksandr Goremykin	URS	Davidson Ezinwa	NGR	James Stallworth	USA
400 m, Men	Chris Nelloms	USA	Rico Lieder	GDR	Mark Richardson	GBR
800 m, Men	Desta Asgedom	ETH	Jonah Birir	KEN	Norberto Téllez	CUB
1,500 m, Men	Moses Kiptanui	KEN	Alemayehu Roba	ETH	Desta Asgedom	ETH
5,000 m, Men	Fita Bayissa	ETH	Abraham Assefa	ETH	Francesco Bennici	ITA
10,000 m, Men	Richard Chelimo	KEN	Ismael Kirui	KEN	Juma Ninga	TAN
20 km, Men	Cosmas Ndeti	KEN	Juma Ninga	TAN	Dagne Dabela	ETH
110 m Hurdles, Men	Antti Haapakoski	FIN	Alexis Sánchez	CUB	Kyle Vander-Kuyp	AUS
400 m Hurdles, Men	Rohan Robinson	AUS	Yoshihiko Saito	JPN	Aleksandr Belikhov	URS
3,000 m Steeplechase, Men	Matthew Birir	KEN	Francisco Munuera	ESP	Simon Rono	KEN
4 x 100 m Relay, Men	United States	USA	Soviet Union	URS	Nigeria	NGR
4 x 400 m Relay, Men	United States	USA	Great Britain	GBR	Australia	AUS
10 km Walk, Men	Ilya Markov	URS	Alberto Cruz	MEX	Jefferson Pérez	ECU
High Jump, Men	Dragutin Topić	YUG	Tim Forsyth	AUS	Stevan Zorić	YUG
Pole Vault, Men	Jean Galfione	FRA	Dmitry Kurkulin	URS	Miroslav Dukov	BUL
Long Jump, Men	James Stallworth	USA	Dion Bentley	USA	Kareem Streete-Thompson	CAY
Triple Jump, Men	Sergey Bykov	URS	Yoelbi Quesada	CUB	Nikolay Raev	BUL
Shot Put, Men	Viktor Bulat	URS	Xie Shengying	CHN	Yury Ivanov	URS
Discus Throw, Men	Ilian Iliev	BUL	Frank Bicet	CUB	Jan Engelmann	GDR
Hammer Throw, Men	Andrey Debely	URS	Savvas Saritzoglou	GRE	Andrey Budykin	URS
Javelin Throw, Men	Tommi Viskari	FIN	Dariusz Trafas	POL	Jarkko Heimonen	FIN
Decathlon, Men	Eric Kaiser	GER	Jarkko Finni	FIN	David Bigham	GBR
100 m, Women	Andrea Philipp	GDR	Nikole Mitchell	JAM	Lucrécia Jardim	POR
200 m, Women	Diane Smith	GBR	Zundra Feagin	USA	Lucrécia Jardim	POR
400 m, Women	Fatimat Yusuf-Olukoju	NGR	Charity Opara	NGR	Manuela Derr	GDR
800 m, Women	Liu Li	CHN	Maria Nedelcu	ROU	Aurica Rautu	ROU
1,500 m, Women	Qu Yunxia	CHN	Claudia-Mirela Bortoi	ROU	Malin Ewerlöf	SWE
3,000 m, Women	Simona Staicu	ROU	Liu Shixiang	CHN	Hatsumi Matsumoto	JPN
10,000 m, Women	Derartu Tulu	ETH	Rika Ota	JPN	Lydia Cheromei	KEN
100 m Hurdles, Women	Gillian Russell	JAM	Keri Maddox	GBR	Ilka Rönisch	GDR
400 m Hurdles, Women	Nelli Voronkova	URS	Marjana Luzar	YUG	Lade Akinremi	NGR
4 x 100 m Relay, Women	Jamaica	JAM	Great Britain	GBR	United States	USA
4 x 400 m Relay, Women	Australia	AUS	Jamaica	JAM	Cuba	CUB
5,000 m Walk, Women	Susana Feitor	POR	Tatyana Shchastnaya	URS	Simone Thust	GDR
High Jump, Women	Svetlana Lavrova	URS	Katja Kilpi	FIN	Lea Haggett	GBR
Long Jump, Women	Iva Prandzheva	BUL	Erica Johansson	SWE	Sandrine Hennart	BEL
Shot Put, Women	Qiu Qiaoping	CHN	Li Xiaoyun	CHN	Heike Hopfer	GDR
Discus Throw, Women	Nataliya Sadova	URS	Lisa-Marie Vizaniari	AUS	Anja Gündler	GDR
Javelin Throw, Women	Tanja Damaske	GDR	Oksana Ovchinnikova	URS	Mandy Liverton	GBR
Heptathlon, Women	Beatrice Mau	GDR	Rita Ináncsi	HUN	Joanne Henry	NZL