1990 London Marathon

The 1990 London Marathon was the 10th running of the annual marathon race in London, United Kingdom, which took place on Sunday, 22 April. The elite men's race was won by home athlete Allister Hutton in a time of 2:10:10 hours and the women's race was won by Poland's Wanda Panfil in 2:26:31.

10th London Marathon
VenueLondon, United Kingdom
Date22 April 1990
Champions
MenAllister Hutton (2:10:10)
WomenWanda Panfil (2:26:31)
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In the wheelchair races, Sweden's Håkan Ericsson (1:57:12) and Denmark's Connie Hansen (2:10:25) set course records in the men's and women's divisions, respectively. This was the first time that the winning time in the women's wheelchair race surpassed that of the women's able-bodied race.[1]

Around 73,000 people applied to enter the race, of which 34,882 had their applications accepted and around 26,500 started the race. A total of 25,013 runners finished the race.[2]

Results

Men

PositionAthleteNationalityTime
Allister Hutton  United Kingdom2:10:10
Salvatore Bettiol  Italy2:10:40
Juan Francisco Romera  Spain2:10:48
4José Esteban Montiel  Spain2:11:04
5Michael O'Reilly  United Kingdom2:11:05
6Yakov Tolstikov  Soviet Union2:11:07
7Ed Eyestone  United States2:12:00
8Rainer Wachenbrunner  East Germany2:12:02
9Tomoyuki Taniguchi  Japan2:12:22
10Don Janicki  United States2:12:25
11Honorato Hernández  Spain2:12:47
12Paul Pilkington  United States2:12:52
13Walter Bassi  Italy2:13:08
14Pascal Zilliox  France2:13:10
15Joaquim Pinheiro  Portugal2:13:17
16Andy Ronan  Ireland2:13:30
17Diego García  Spain2:13:48
18Dereje Nedi  Ethiopia2:13:52
19Viktor Mosgovoy  Soviet Union2:14:00
20Nikolay Tabak  Soviet Union2:14:20
21Toshinobu Sato  Japan2:14:27
22Werner Grommisch  West Germany2:14:31
23Peter Dall  Denmark2:14:37
24Rustam Shagiev  Soviet Union2:14:37
25Andrzej Witczak  Poland2:14:41
Belayneh Dinsamo  EthiopiaDNF
Kevin Forster  United KingdomDNF
Hugh Jones  United KingdomDNF
Mike Gratton  United KingdomDNF

Women

PositionAthleteNationalityTime
Wanda Panfil  Poland2:26:31
Francie Larrieu Smith  United States2:28:01
Lisa Rainsberger  United States2:28:15
4Zhao Youfeng  China2:29:35
5Yekaterina Khramenkova  Soviet Union2:29:45
6Xie Lihua  China2:30:18
7Dorthe Rasmussen  Denmark2:30:34
8Irina Bogacheva  Soviet Union2:30:38
9Françoise Bonnet  France2:31:20
10Antonella Bizioli  Italy2:31:34
11Tatyana Zuyeva  Soviet Union2:31:47
12Sylviane Levesque  France2:31:49
13Lyubov Klochko  Soviet Union2:32:08
14Maria Rebelo  France2:32:36
15Nicola Morris  United Kingdom2:33:07
16Li Yemei  China2:33:39
17Annette Fincke  East Germany2:33:44
18Sally Eastall  United Kingdom2:34:31
19Akemi Masuda  Japan2:34:42
20Sissel Grottenberg  Norway2:34:57
21Valentina Yegorova  Soviet Union2:35:25
22Martine Van De Gehuchte  Belgium2:35:27
23Sheila Catford  United Kingdom2:36:42
24Sally Ellis  United Kingdom2:36:52
25Wendy Breed  New Zealand2:37:02
Aurora Cunha  PortugalDNF
Susan Wightman  United KingdomDNF

Wheelchair men

PositionAthleteNationalityTime
Håkan Ericsson  Sweden1:57:12
Wolfgang Peterson  Germany1:57:13
Jean-Francois Poitevin  France1:58:24
4Farid Amarouche  France1:58:35
5Lex de Turck  Netherlands2:03:21
6Chris Hallam  United Kingdom2:10:05
7Ian Thompson  United Kingdom2:15:58
8David Todd  United Kingdom2:17:07
9Ivan Newman  United Kingdom2:18:03
10Jens Anderson  Denmark2:22:02

Wheelchair women

PositionAthleteNationalityTime
Connie Hansen  Denmark2:10:25
Ingrid Lauridsen  Denmark2:26:15
Rose Hill  United Kingdom2:49:46
4Tanni Grey  United Kingdom2:49:54

References

Results