The 1990

IAAF Grand Prix Final The IAAF Grand Prix Final was an athletics competition featuring track and field events staged by the International Association of Athletics Federations. It was first held in 1985 and replaced in 2003 by the IAAF World Athletics Final. For the ...

was the sixth edition of the season-ending competition for the

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circuit, organised by the

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. It was held on 7 September at the

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, Greece.

Leroy Burrell Leroy Russel Burrell (born February 21, 1967) is an American former track and field athlete, who twice set the world record for the 100 m sprint. Early life Burrell grew up in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, and attended Penn Wood High School ...

(

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) and

Merlene Ottey Merlene Joyce Ottey (born 10 May 1960) is a Jamaican-Slovenian former track and field sprint (running), sprinter. She began her career representing Jamaica in 1978 and continued to do so for 24 years before representing Slovenia from 2002 to 20 ...

(

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) were the overall points winners of the tournament. This was Ottey's second series win (having previously won in 1987) and made her the second woman to win the honour twice, after

Paula Ivan Paula Ivan (born 20 July 1963 as Ionescu, later known as Ilie) is a retired Romanian middle-distance runner. Born in Herăști, Giurgiu County, she graduated from the Gheorghe Șincai High School in Bucharest in 1982. In 1987, Ivan won gold me ...

. The number of

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in the programme reached eighteen for the first time, with ten for men and eight for women.

Medal summary

Men

Women

Points leaders

Men

Women

References

IAAF Grand Prix Final
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-01-17.

External links

from IAAF {{World Athletics Tour

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Sports competitions in Athens 1990s in Athens IAAF Grand Prix Final International athletics competitions hosted by Greece