# 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.
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.
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.

## 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 |

### Wheelchair women

| Position | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Connie Hansen | Denmark | 2:10:25 |
| | Ingrid Lauridsen | Denmark | 2:26:15 |
| | Rose Hill | United Kingdom | 2:49:46 |
| 4 | Tanni Grey | United Kingdom | 2:49:54 |