This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 1990 in both the men's and the women's race walking distances: 10 km, 20 km and 50 km (outdoor).

Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds WR world recordAR area recordCR event recordNR national recordPB personal best

Men's 20 km

Records Standing records prior to the 1990 season in track and field World record 1:18:54 February 19, 1989 Sochi, Soviet UnionBroken records during the 1990 season in track and field World record 1:18:20 May 26, 1990 Moscow, Soviet Union World record 1:18:13 September 16, 1990 Hildesheim, West Germany

1990 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 1 1:18:13 Hildesheim, West Germany 16 September 1990 WR 2 1:18:20 Moscow, Soviet Union 16 September 1990 NR 3 1:18:37 Moscow, Soviet Union 26 May 1990 4 1:18:51 Moscow, Soviet Union 26 May 1990 5 1:18:56 6 1:19:07 7 1:19:21 8 1:19:32 NR 9 1:19:33 Melbourne, Australia 15 December 1990 10 1:19:39 Moscow, Soviet Union 26 May 1990 11 1:19:50 12 1:19:58 13 1:20:07 14 1:20:15 15 1:20:21 16 1:20:28 17 1:20:37 18 1:20:43 19 1:20:45 20 1:20:50

Men's 50 km

Records Standing records prior to the 1990 season in track and field World record 3:37:41 August 5, 1989 Leningrad, Soviet Union

1990 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 1 3:40:02 2 3:40:07 3 3:42:00 4 3:44:45 5 3:44:50 6 3:46:43 7 3:46:51 8 3:47:08 9 3:47:12 10 3:48:27 11 3:50:05 12 3:50:10 13 3:50:26 NR 14 3:51:04 15 3:51:06 NR 16 3:51:30 17 3:51:37 NR 18 3:51:44 19 3:51:47 20 3:51:48

Women's 5 km

Records Standing records prior to the 1990 season in track and field World record 20:34 September 24, 1987 Hildesheim, West Germany

1990 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 1 21:22 2 21:25 NR 3 21:37 NR 4 21:38 NR 5 21:40 6 21:49 7 21:50 NR 8 21:50 9 21:53 NR 10 21:56 11 21:57 12 21:59 13 22:15 14 22:17 NR

Women's 10 km

Records Standing records prior to the 1990 season in track and field World record 41:30 August 27, 1988 Canberra, Australia

1990 World Year Ranking RankTimeAthleteVenueDateNote 1 41:58 2 42:30 3 42:46 4 43:08 5 43:11 6 43:13 7 43:40 8 43:47 NR 9 43:52 10 44:00 11 44:02 12 44:04 13 44:13 14 44:16 NR 15 44:34 16 44:37 17 44:38 18 44:38 19 44:39 20 44:47

References maik-richter alltime-athletics gbrathletics (men) gbrathletics (women)