1990 London Marathon

10th London Marathon
10th London Marathon
Venue	London, United Kingdom
Date	22 April 1990
Champions
Men	Allister Hutton (2:10:10)
Women	Wanda Panfil (2:26:31)
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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.

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

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Allister Hutton	United Kingdom	2:10:10
	Salvatore Bettiol	Italy	2:10:40
	Juan Francisco Romera	Spain	2:10:48
4	José Esteban Montiel	Spain	2:11:04
5	Michael O'Reilly	United Kingdom	2:11:05
6	Yakov Tolstikov	Soviet Union	2:11:07
7	Ed Eyestone	United States	2:12:00
8	Rainer Wachenbrunner	East Germany	2:12:02
9	Tomoyuki Taniguchi	Japan	2:12:22
10	Don Janicki	United States	2:12:25
11	Honorato Hernández	Spain	2:12:47
12	Paul Pilkington	United States	2:12:52
13	Walter Bassi	Italy	2:13:08
14	Pascal Zilliox	France	2:13:10
15	Joaquim Pinheiro	Portugal	2:13:17
16	Andy Ronan	Ireland	2:13:30
17	Diego García	Spain	2:13:48
18	Dereje Nedi	Ethiopia	2:13:52
19	Viktor Mosgovoy	Soviet Union	2:14:00
20	Nikolay Tabak	Soviet Union	2:14:20
21	Toshinobu Sato	Japan	2:14:27
22	Werner Grommisch	West Germany	2:14:31
23	Peter Dall	Denmark	2:14:37
24	Rustam Shagiev	Soviet Union	2:14:37
25	Andrzej Witczak	Poland	2:14:41
—	Belayneh Dinsamo	Ethiopia	DNF
—	Kevin Forster	United Kingdom	DNF
—	Hugh Jones	United Kingdom	DNF
—	Mike Gratton	United Kingdom	DNF

Women

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Wanda Panfil	Poland	2:26:31
	Francie Larrieu Smith	United States	2:28:01
	Lisa Rainsberger	United States	2:28:15
4	Zhao Youfeng	China	2:29:35
5	Yekaterina Khramenkova	Soviet Union	2:29:45
6	Xie Lihua	China	2:30:18
7	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark	2:30:34
8	Irina Bogacheva	Soviet Union	2:30:38
9	Françoise Bonnet	France	2:31:20
10	Antonella Bizioli	Italy	2:31:34
11	Tatyana Zuyeva	Soviet Union	2:31:47
12	Sylviane Levesque	France	2:31:49
13	Lyubov Klochko	Soviet Union	2:32:08
14	Maria Rebelo	France	2:32:36
15	Nicola Morris	United Kingdom	2:33:07
16	Li Yemei	China	2:33:39
17	Annette Fincke	East Germany	2:33:44
18	Sally Eastall	United Kingdom	2:34:31
19	Akemi Masuda	Japan	2:34:42
20	Sissel Grottenberg	Norway	2:34:57
21	Valentina Yegorova	Soviet Union	2:35:25
22	Martine Van De Gehuchte	Belgium	2:35:27
23	Sheila Catford	United Kingdom	2:36:42
24	Sally Ellis	United Kingdom	2:36:52
25	Wendy Breed	New Zealand	2:37:02
—	Aurora Cunha	Portugal	DNF
—	Susan Wightman	United Kingdom	DNF

Wheelchair men

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Håkan Ericsson	Sweden	1:57:12
	Wolfgang Peterson	Germany	1:57:13
	Jean-Francois Poitevin	France	1:58:24
4	Farid Amarouche	France	1:58:35
5	Lex de Turck	Netherlands	2:03:21
6	Chris Hallam	United Kingdom	2:10:05
7	Ian Thompson	United Kingdom	2:15:58
8	David Todd	United Kingdom	2:17:07
9	Ivan Newman	United Kingdom	2:18:03
10	Jens Anderson	Denmark	2:22:02