1990 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres

29 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Grit Breuer	East Germany	49.50
	Petra Schersing	East Germany	50.51
	Marie-José Pérec	France	50.84
4	Annette Hesselbarth	East Germany	51.14
5	Linda Keough	United Kingdom	51.22
6	Lyudmila Dzhigalova	Soviet Union	51.31
7	Marina Shmonina	Soviet Union	51.67
8	Viviane Dorsile	France	52.11

28 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grit Breuer	East Germany	50.89	Q
2	Petra Schersing	East Germany	51.05	Q
3	Linda Keough	United Kingdom	51.20	Q
4	Viviane Dorsile	France	52.06	Q
5	Helga Arendt	West Germany	52.16
6	Judit Forgács	Hungary	52.77
7	Martha Grossenbacher	Switzerland	53.57
	Yelena Ruzina	Soviet Union	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Annette Hesselbarth	East Germany	51.43	Q
2	Marina Shmonina	Soviet Union	51.45	Q
3	Lyudmila Dzhigalova	Soviet Union	51.56	Q
4	Marie-José Pérec	France	51.63	Q
5	Karin Janke	West Germany	51.65
6	Evelyne Elien	France	53.05
7	Lisbeth Andersen	Norway	53.26
8	Angela Piggford	United Kingdom	53.53

27 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grit Breuer	East Germany	52.50	Q
2	Marie-José Pérec	France	52.56	Q
3	Linda Keough	United Kingdom	52.60	Q
4	Lisbeth Andersen	Norway	53.01	q
5	Judit Forgács	Hungary	53.06	q
6	Linda Kisabaka	West Germany	53.09
7	Julia Merino	Spain	53.74

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lyudmila Dzhigalova	Soviet Union	52.42	Q
2	Annette Hesselbarth	East Germany	52.72	Q
3	Helga Arendt	West Germany	53.01	Q
4	Lorraine Hanson	United Kingdom	53.57
5	Erzsébet Szabó	Hungary	54.08
6	Gordana Čotrić	Yugoslavia	54.46
7	Regula Scalabrin	Switzerland	54.88

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marina Shmonina	Soviet Union	52.18	Q
2	Petra Schersing	East Germany	52.44	Q
3	Martha Grossenbacher	Switzerland	52.76	Q
4	Viviane Dorsile	France	52.91	q
5	Angela Piggford	United Kingdom	53.00	q
6	Gretha Tromp	Netherlands	55.64

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yelena Ruzina	Soviet Union	51.64	Q
2	Karin Janke	West Germany	52.83	Q
3	Evelyne Elien	France	52.95	Q
4	Sonja Finell	Finland	53.47
5	Ágnes Kozáry	Hungary	54.13
6	Blanca Lacambra	Spain	54.61

According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

• 1988 Women's Olympic 400 metres (Seoul)
• 1991 Women's World Championships 400 metres (Tokyo)
• 1992 Women's Olympic 400 metres (Barcelona)

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