# 1990 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

These are the official results of the Men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1990 European Championships in Split, Yugoslavia, held at Stadion Poljud on 27, 28, and 29 August 1990.

## Medalists

| Gold | Kriss Akabusi United Kingdom |
| Silver | Sven Nylander Sweden |
| Bronze | Niklas Wallenlind Sweden |

## Results
### Final

29 August
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Kriss Akabusi | United Kingdom | 47.92 | NR |
| | Sven Nylander | Sweden | 48.43 | |
| | Niklas Wallenlind | Sweden | 48.52 | |
| 4 | Vadim Zadoinov | Soviet Union | 48.61 | NR |
| 5 | Stéphane Diagana | France | 48.92 | |
| 6 | Carsten Köhrbrück | West Germany | 48.95 | |
| 7 | José Alonso | Spain | 49.77 | |
| 8 | Edgar Itt | West Germany | 49.83 | |

### Semi-finals

28 August

#### Semi-final 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Kriss Akabusi | United Kingdom | 48.84 | Q |
| 2 | Stéphane Diagana | France | 49.26 | Q |
| 3 | Vadim Zadoinov | Soviet Union | 49.34 | Q |
| 4 | José Alonso | Spain | 49.92 | Q |
| 5 | Jozef Kucej | Czechoslovakia | 50.52 | |
| 6 | Olaf Hense | West Germany | 50.53 | |
| 7 | Paweł Woźniak | Poland | 50.94 | |
| 8 | Thomas Nyberg | Sweden | 51.02 | |

#### Semi-final 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Niklas Wallenlind | Sweden | 48.80 | Q |
| 2 | Sven Nylander | Sweden | 48.82 | Q |
| 3 | Carsten Köhrbrück | West Germany | 49.04 | Q |
| 4 | Edgar Itt | West Germany | 49.24 | Q |
| 5 | Max Robertson | United Kingdom | 49.25 | |
| 6 | Aleksey Bazarov | Soviet Union | 49.37 | |
| 7 | Koen Verlinde | Belgium | 49.90 | |
| 8 | Krasimir Demirev | Bulgaria | 50.39 | |

### Heats

27 August

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Kriss Akabusi | United Kingdom | 50.08 | Q |
| 2 | Vadim Zadoinov | Soviet Union | 50.34 | Q |
| 3 | Koen Verlinde | Belgium | 50.50 | Q |
| 4 | Olaf Hense | West Germany | 50.74 | q |
| 5 | Paweł Woźniak | Poland | 51.09 | q |
| 6 | Vesa-Pekka Pihlavisto | Finland | 51.59 | |
| 7 | Santiago Fraga | Spain | 52.00 | |
| | Rok Kopitar | Yugoslavia | DNF | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Max Robertson | United Kingdom | 50.27 | Q |
| 2 | Carsten Köhrbrück | West Germany | 50.39 | Q |
| 3 | Stéphane Diagana | France | 50.49 | Q |
| 4 | Krasimir Demirev | Bulgaria | 50.59 | q |
| 5 | Mugur Mateescu | Romania | 51.63 | |
| 6 | Branislav Karaulić | Yugoslavia | 53.26 | |
| | Ilan Goldwasser | Israel | DNS | |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Edgar Itt | West Germany | 50.93 | Q |
| 2 | Jozef Kucej | Czechoslovakia | 51.01 | Q |
| 3 | Niklas Wallenlind | Sweden | 51.06 | Q |
| 4 | Daniel Ritter | Switzerland | 51.24 | |
| 5 | Mauro Maurizi | Italy | 51.27 | |
| 6 | Aleksandr Belikov | Soviet Union | 51.31 | |
| 7 | Marc Dollendorf | Belgium | 51.60 | |

#### Heat 4

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Sven Nylander | Sweden | 50.28 | Q |
| 2 | José Alonso | Spain | 50.36 | Q |
| 3 | Thomas Nyberg | Sweden | 50.83 | Q |
| 4 | Aleksey Bazarov | Soviet Union | 50.84 | q |
| 5 | Athanassios Kalogiannis | Greece | 51.37 | |
| 6 | Miro Kocuvan | Yugoslavia | 51.37 | |
| 7 | Pedro Rodrigues | Portugal | 52.03 | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.
* Belgium (2)
* Bulgaria (1)
* Czechoslovakia (1)
* Finland (1)
* France (1)
* Greece (1)
* Italy (1)
* Poland (1)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (1)
* Soviet Union (3)
* Spain (2)
* Sweden (3)
* Switzerland (1)
* United Kingdom (2)
* West Germany (3)
* Yugoslavia (3)