# 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres

The women's 100 metres event at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Deveti Septemvri Stadium on 8 and 9 August.

## Medalists

| Gold | Andrea Philipp East Germany |
| Silver | Nikole Mitchell Jamaica |
| Bronze | Lucrécia Jardim Portugal |

## Results
### Final

9 August Wind: +0.9 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Andrea Philipp | East Germany | 11.36 |
| | Nikole Mitchell | Jamaica | 11.47 |
| | Lucrécia Jardim | Portugal | 11.52 |
| 4 | Zundra Feagin | United States | 11.55 |
| 5 | Merlene Frazer | Jamaica | 11.64 |
| 6 | Diane Smith | United Kingdom | 11.70 |
| 6 | Katja Seidel | West Germany | 11.70 |
| 8 | Katharine Merry | United Kingdom | 11.71 |

### Semifinals

9 August

#### Semifinal 1

Wind: -1.3 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Zundra Feagin | United States | 11.69 | Q |
| 2 | Katharine Merry | United Kingdom | 11.81 | Q |
| 3 | Cathy Freeman | Australia | 11.87 | |
| 4 | Sanna Hernesniemi | Finland | 11.96 | |
| 5 | Briar Toop | New Zealand | 11.97 | |
| 6 | Victoria Ljungberg | Sweden | 12.04 | |
| 7 | Yelena Dubtsova | Soviet Union | 12.10 | |
| | Bernice Ferreira | Brazil | DNS | |

#### Semifinal 2

Wind: +1.1 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Lucrécia Jardim | Portugal | 11.59 | Q |
| 2 | Merlene Frazer | Jamaica | 11.73 | Q |
| 3 | Monique Bogaards | Netherlands | 11.78 | |
| 4 | Tisha Prather | United States | 11.79 | |
| 5 | Annie Claude Lafontaine | France | 11.81 | |
| 6 | Nadine Halliday | Canada | 11.92 | |
| 7 | Melinda Gainsford | Australia | 11.93 | |
| 8 | Petya Pendareva | Bulgaria | 12.04 | |

#### Semifinal 3

Wind: +1.0 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Andrea Philipp | East Germany | 11.36 | Q |
| 2 | Nikole Mitchell | Jamaica | 11.37 | Q |
| 3 | Katja Seidel | West Germany | 11.56 | q |
| 4 | Diane Smith | United Kingdom | 11.61 | q |
| 5 | Chandra Sturrup | Bahamas | 11.62 | |
| 6 | Carla Popa | Romania | 11.80 | |
| 7 | Yelena Fyodorovich | Soviet Union | 11.81 | |
| 8 | Gabriella Szabó | Hungary | 11.88 | |

### Heats

8 August

#### Heat 1

Wind: -0.1 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Zundra Feagin | United States | 11.59 | Q |
| 2 | Nikole Mitchell | Jamaica | 11.61 | Q |
| 3 | Katharine Merry | United Kingdom | 11.71 | Q |
| 4 | Annie Claude Lafontaine | France | 11.85 | q |
| 5 | Melinda Gainsford | Australia | 11.87 | q |
| 6 | Georgia Paspalli | Cyprus | 12.22 | |
| 7 | Deirdre Caruana | Malta | 13.08 | |

#### Heat 2

Wind: -0.5 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Tisha Prather | United States | 11.76 | Q |
| 2 | Monique Bogaards | Netherlands | 11.80 | Q |
| 3 | Cathy Freeman | Australia | 11.81 | Q |
| 4 | Gabriella Szabó | Hungary | 11.96 | q |
| 5 | Petya Pendareva | Bulgaria | 12.02 | q |
| 6 | Sandrine Hennart | Belgium | 12.18 | |
| 7 | Stalo Konstantinou | Cyprus | 12.29 | |
| 8 | Nadine Benoit | Mauritius | 12.40 | |

#### Heat 3

Wind: -0.4 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Merlene Frazer | Jamaica | 11.66 | Q |
| 2 | Sanna Hernesniemi | Finland | 11.77 | Q |
| 3 | Carla Popa | Romania | 11.89 | Q |
| 4 | Yelena Fyodorovich | Soviet Union | 11.91 | q |
| 5 | Denisse Sharpe | Argentina | 12.27 | |
| 6 | Ute Dallner | Austria | 12.28 | |
| 7 | Rosanna Browne | Anguilla | 12.46 | |

#### Heat 4

Wind: -1.3 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Lucrécia Jardim | Portugal | 11.60 | Q |
| 2 | Andrea Philipp | East Germany | 11.61 | Q |
| 3 | Katja Seidel | West Germany | 11.77 | Q |
| 4 | Chandra Sturrup | Bahamas | 11.79 | q |
| 5 | Katarzyna Zakrzewska | Poland | 12.33 | |
| 6 | Begoña Yúdice | Spain | 12.33 | |
| 7 | Dagmar Hölbl | Austria | 12.58 | |

#### Heat 5

Wind: -0.2 m/s
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Diane Smith | United Kingdom | 11.80 | Q |
| 2 | Briar Toop | New Zealand | 11.84 | Q |
| 3 | Nadine Halliday | Canada | 11.88 | Q |
| 4 | Yelena Dubtsova | Soviet Union | 11.90 | q |
| 5 | Victoria Ljungberg | Sweden | 11.91 | q |
| 6 | Bernice Ferreira | Brazil | 12.04 | q |
| 7 | Gaby Baumann | West Germany | 12.12 | |
| 8 | Alicia Valentin | Spain | 12.28 | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 37 athletes from 28 countries participated in the event.
* Anguilla (1)
* Argentina (1)
* Australia (2)
* Austria (2)
* Bahamas (1)
* Belgium (1)
* Brazil (1)
* Bulgaria (1)
* Canada (1)
* Cyprus (2)
* East Germany (1)
* Finland (1)
* France (1)
* Hungary (1)
* Jamaica (2)
* Malta (1)
* Mauritius (1)
* Netherlands (1)
* New Zealand (1)
* Poland (1)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (1)
* Soviet Union (2)
* Spain (2)
* Sweden (1)
* United Kingdom (2)
* United States (2)
* West Germany (2)