1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres

Events at the
1990 World Junior
Championships in Athletics
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
5000 m walk women
10,000 m walk men
Road events
20 km road run 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

The women's 400 metres event at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Deveti Septemvri Stadium on 8, 9 and 10 August.[1][2]

Medalists

Gold Fatima Yusuf
 Nigeria
Silver Charity Opara
 Nigeria
Bronze Manuela Derr
 East Germany

Results

Final

10 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Fatima Yusuf  Nigeria 50.62
2nd, silver medalist(s) Charity Opara  Nigeria 51.28
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Manuela Derr  East Germany 51.95
4 Sue Andrews  Australia 52.23
5 Julia Merino  Spain 53.48
6 Nancy McLeón  Cuba 53.58
7 Marína Vasarmídou  Greece 53.58
8 Anja Rücker  East Germany 54.16

Semifinals

9 August

Semifinal 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Charity Opara  Nigeria 51.69 Q
2 Manuela Derr  East Germany 52.91 Q
3 Nancy McLeón  Cuba 53.32 Q
4 Julia Merino  Spain 53.34 Q
5 Catherine Scott  Jamaica 53.46
6 Natalya Sniga  Soviet Union 54.17
7 Ester Goossens  Netherlands 54.70
8 Nicole Hylaire  France 55.69

Semifinal 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Fatima Yusuf  Nigeria 52.15 Q
2 Sue Andrews  Australia 53.40 Q
3 Marína Vasarmídou  Greece 53.83 Q
4 Anja Rücker  East Germany 54.04 Q
5 Claudine Williams  Jamaica 54.28
6 Yana Burtasenkova  Soviet Union 54.35
7 Steffanie Smith  United States 54.44
8 Yojani Casanova  Cuba 56.23

Heats

8 August

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Fatima Yusuf  Nigeria 52.97 Q
2 Yana Burtasenkova  Soviet Union 54.66 Q
3 Nicole Hylaire  France 54.85 Q
4 Catherine Scott  Jamaica 54.94 q
5 Cheryl Allen  Canada 55.16
6 Rosa Magaly Segovia  Colombia 57.14

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Charity Opara  Nigeria 52.77 Q
2 Manuela Derr  East Germany 53.90 Q
3 Claudine Williams  Jamaica 54.02 Q
4 Steffanie Smith  United States 54.72 q
5 Stefka Mineva  Bulgaria 56.33
6 Mireille Bara-Ang  Central African Republic 64.80
7 Camille Noel  Canada DNF

Heat 3

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Sue Andrews  Australia 53.53 Q
2 Anja Rücker  East Germany 54.01 Q
3 Julia Merino  Spain 54.18 Q
4 Natalya Sniga  Soviet Union 54.27 q
5 Yojani Casanova  Cuba 55.00 q
6 Melrose Mansaray  Sierra Leone 56.44

Heat 4

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Nancy McLeón  Cuba 53.70 Q
2 Ester Goossens  Netherlands 54.27 Q
3 Marína Vasarmídou  Greece 54.60 Q
4 Renée Poetschka  Australia 55.18
5 Mirjana Šola  Yugoslavia 55.52
6 Shanelle Porter  United States 56.63

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

References

  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, retrieved 13 June 2015
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