1990 Toledo Rockets football team, Game summaries, Arkansas State
In the final game of the season, Toledo defeated the Arkansas State Indians 43–28 at the Glass Bowl. The Indians scored first on a 24-yard Troy Mabone touchdown run followed by a one-yard Neil Trotter touchdown run for a 7–7 tie at the end of the first. In the second quarter Trotter scored on a two-yard run and Mabone on a one-yard run before a 38-yard Kevin Meger touchdown pass to Rickey Isaiah and 33-yard Rusty Hanna field goal gave the Rockets a 24–14 halftime lead.


1990 Toledo Rockets football team, Game summaries, Arkansas State
In the third, Aubrey Miller recovered a Toledo fumble in the endzone for a touchdown and cut the Rockets lead to 24–21. Each team then traded touchdowns with Toledo scoring on a 27-yard Pat Johnson run and Arkansas State on a one-yard Roy Johnson run to make the score 31–28 at the start of the fourth. In the fourth, Toledo scored 12 unanswered points for the win. Damon Nelson scored on a four-yard touchdown run and Hanna connected on field goals of 33 and 41 yards in the 43–28 win. The nine wins were the most won by a Toledo squad since the 1983 season.


1990 Toledo Rockets football team, Saban resignation
Nick Saban resigned as Toledo's head coach on February 13, 1991, after one season to become defensive coordinator of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns under Bill Belichick. As defensive coordinator for the New York Giants, Belichick had to postpone assembling his new coaching staff until after Super Bowl XXV. Therefore, Saban's resignation wasn't announced until well after the season had ended. Additionally, Saban wanted any potential move to occur after February 6, National Signing Day for recruits.


1990 Tongan general election
General elections were held in Tonga on 14 and 15 May 1990 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga. Nine nobles and nine people's representatives were elected. Seven of the latter favoured democratic reform. Voter turnout was 65.4%.


1990 Tongatapu Inter Club Championship
The 1990 season of the Tongatapu Inter Club Championship was the 17th season of top flight association football competition in Tonga. Ngeleʻia FC won the championship for the eighth time.


1990 Tooheys 1000
The 1990 Tooheys 1000 was a motor race held on 30 September 1990 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. The event was open to cars eligible under CAMS Group 3A regulations, commonly known as Group A Touring Cars, with three engine capacity classes. It was the 31st running of the "Bathurst 1000".


1990 Tooheys 1000
The race, which was Round 2 of both the 1990 Australian Endurance Championship and the 1990 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, resulted in an upset victory for British driver Win Percy and 1986 Bathurst 1000 winner Allan Grice in a Holden Racing Team entered Holden Commodore over the Dick Johnson Racing Ford Sierra of Jeff Allam and Paul Radisich and the Perkins Engineering Holden Commodore of Larry Perkins and Tomas Mezera.


1990 Tooheys 1000
The race marked the first Bathurst 1000 victory for the Holden Racing Team and the team's first race win since Larry Perkins won the Group A support race at the Australian Grand Prix in November 1988.


1990 Tooheys 1000, Class structure, Division 1: 3001cc and Over
Division 1 featured the turbocharged Ford Sierras, Nissan Skylines and Toyota Supras, the V8 Holden Commodores and a BMW 635CSi.


1990 Tooheys 1000, Class structure, Division 2: 1601 to 3000cc
Division 2 was composed of BMW M3s, a BMW 323i and a Mercedes-Benz 190E.


1990 Tooheys 1000, Class structure, Division 3: Up to 1600cc
Division 3 was composed exclusively of various models of Toyota Corolla.


1990 Tooheys 1000, Tooheys Top Ten
* After being fastest qualifier by almost half a second, and breaking George Fury's 1984 Hardies Heroes record time of 2:13.85 in the process (by just 0.01 seconds), and with his B&H Sierra the fastest car on Conrod Straight at over 290 km/h (180 mph), Tony Longhurst made a mistake in the shootout and lost over two seconds while teammate Alan Jones suffered gearbox problems on his shootout lap and did not record a time.


1990 Tooheys 1000, Tooheys Top Ten
* Klaus Niedzwiedz, who was only seven after official qualifying, improved his time by over a second to win his second Top Ten for Allan Moffat Racing after also winning the "for money only" shootout in 1988. * The Gibson Motorsport Nissan Skyline GT-R of Jim Richards and Mark Skaife, which was expected to take pole, failed to make the Top Ten, being only 0.04 behind the 10th placed Holden Racing Team Commodore of eventual race winners Win Percy and Allan Grice at the end of Friday's qualifying.


1990 Tooheys 1000, Tooheys Top Ten
During the final qualifying session, Richards reportedly matched Longhurst's top speed on Conrod. * 1990 was the fifth and last time that Allan Grice was the fastest of the Holden Commodore runners in the Top Ten. Previously he had led the Holden charge in 1982 (pole), 1985 (4th), 1986 (2nd) and 1987 (7th). * V8 Holdens were back in the runoff after missing out in 1989, with the Larry Perkins / Tomas Mezera car, and the Percy/Grice HRT car qualifying over 4 seconds faster than the Commodores had managed 12 months earlier.


1990 Toray Pan Pacific Open
The 1990 Toray Pan Pacific Open was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan that was part of the Tier II Series of the 1990 WTA Tour. It was the seventh edition of the Pan Pacific Open and took place from 29 January through 4 February 1990. First-seeded Steffi Graf won the singles title and earned $70,000 first-prize money as well as 300 ranking points.


1990 Toray Pan Pacific Open, Finals, Doubles
Gigi Fernández /  Elizabeth Smylie  defeated  Jo-Anne Faull /  Rachel McQuillan 6–2, 6–2


1990 Torneo Descentralizado
The 1990 Torneo Descentralizado, the top tier of Peruvian football was played by 44 teams in the format of Regional Tournament. The national champion was Universitario.


1990 Torneo Godó
The 1990 Torneo Godó was the 38th edition of the Torneo Godó annual men's tennis tournament played on clay courts in Barcelona, Spain and part of the Championship Series of the 1990 ATP Tour. It was the 38th edition of the tournament and took place from 9 April until 15 April 1990, and fourth-seeded Andrés Gómez won the singles title.


1990 Torneo Godó, Finals, Singles
Andrés Gómez defeated  Guillermo Pérez Roldán 6–0, 7–6, 3–6, 0–6, 6–2


1990 Torneo Godó, Finals, Doubles
Andrés Gómez /  Javier Sánchez defeated  Sergio Casal /  Emilio Sánchez 7–6, 7–5


1990 Torneo Internazionale
The 1990 Torneo Internazionale was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Country Time Club in Palermo, Italy that was part of the Tier V category of the 1990 WTA Tour. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from 9 July until 13 July 1990. Second-seeded Isabel Cueto won the singles title.


1990 Torneo Internazionale, Finals, Doubles
Laura Garrone /  Karin Kschwendt defeated  Florencia Labat /  Barbara Romanò 6–2, 6–4


1990 Torneo di Viareggio
The 1990 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.


1990 Torneo di Viareggio, Format
The 24 teams are seeded in 8 groups. Each team from a group meets the others in a single tie. The winner of each group progress to the final knockout stage. The final round matches include 30 minutes extra time and penalties to be played if the draw between teams still holds. The semifinals losing sides play consolation final. The winning teams play the final with extra time and repeat the match if the draw holds.


1990 Toronto Argonauts season
The 1990 Toronto Argonauts finished in second place in the East Division with a 10–8 record. They appeared in the Eastern Final. After being the CFL's passing leader (331-for-597 for 4,509 yards) in 1989 Matt Dunigan was in another blockbuster six-for-one player trade that sent him to the Argonauts. During Dunigan's first season with the Argonauts, he helped guide the second most prolific scoring offense in the history of the Canadian Football League to 689 points or 38.3 points per contest.


1990 Toronto Blue Jays season
The 1990 Toronto Blue Jays season was the franchise's 14th season of Major League Baseball. It resulted in the Blue Jays finishing second in the American League East with a record of 86 wins and 76 losses. It was their first full season in the SkyDome, where an MLB attendance record of 3,885,284 was set that year. The Blue Jays led the division by 1½ games over the Boston Red Sox with one week left in the season. However, they then proceeded to drop six of their last eight games, losing the division title to the Red Sox by a two-game margin.


1990 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season
The 1990 season belonged to third baseman Kelly Gruber. He had career highs in home runs and RBIs, with 31 and 118, respectively. Along with outfielder George Bell and pitcher Dave Stieb, Gruber was named an American League All-Star, stealing two bases in the All-Star Game on July 10 at Chicago's Wrigley Field. A finalist for the American League MVP Award, at season's end he was named the AL's Silver Slugger and Gold Glove Award winner at third base.


1990 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season
The Blue Jays were involved in two no-hitters during the 1990 season. On June 29, Dave Stewart of the Oakland Athletics no-hit them by a score of 5–0. On September 2, Jays ace Dave Stieb finally got the no-hitter that had eluded him, blanking the Cleveland Indians 3–0.


1990 Toronto Blue Jays season, Regular season, Notable transactions, Eric Lindros
The hype around Eric Lindros during his early career led to an exclusive deal with sports card manufacturer SCORE. Attempting to leverage this arrangement as much as possible, he was even featured on a baseball card showing him as a third baseman for the Toronto Blue Jays, although he never actually played baseball. He was only there taking batting practice one day.


1990 Toronto Blue Jays season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1990 Toronto International Film Festival
The 15th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Canada between September 6 and September 15, 1990. Gerald Pratley introduced Cinematheque Ontario now known as TIFF Cinematheque at the festival, when the festival assumed management of the Ontario Film Institute.


1990 Tour de France
The 1990 Tour de France was the 77th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 30 June and 22 July 1990. The 3,403.8 km (2,115.0 mi) race consisted of 21 stages and a prologue. American Greg LeMond (Z–Tomasso) repeated his 1989 victory in the general classification, ahead of Claudio Chiappucci (Carrera Jeans–Vagabond) and Erik Breukink (PDM–Concorde) in second and third place respectively.


1990 Tour de France
The Tour started with a prologue time trial at the Futuroscope theme park, won by Thierry Marie (Castorama). On the first stage, a four-rider group escaped and gained more than ten minutes on the rest of the field. Steve Bauer (7-Eleven) became the new leader of the race, but faltered in the Alps as Ronan Pensec (Z–Tomasso), also from the escape group, took over the race lead. Two days later, during a mountain time trial to Villard-de-Lans, the lead passed to Claudio Chiappucci, who had been in the same group as well. Chiappucci fought to hang on to his advantage over defending champion LeMond, but was overtaken in the final time trial on the penultimate stage. It was LeMond's third Tour victory, a feat he achieved without winning an individual stage.


1990 Tour de France
The points classification was won by Olaf Ludwig (Panasonic–Sportlife), while the mountains classification was won by Thierry Claveyrolat (RMO). Gilles Delion (Helvetia–La Suisse) was the best young rider, while Eduardo Chozas (ONCE) was awarded the super-combativity prize. Z–Tomasso, the team of race winner LeMond, won the team classification.


1990 Tour de France
The 1990 race was the first edition in which riders from Eastern Bloc nations participated. Ludwig became the first rider from East Germany and Dimitri Konyshev (Alfa Lum) was the first Soviet rider to win a stage at the Tour.


1990 Tour de France, Teams
The 1990 Tour had a starting field of 22 teams of 9 cyclists. Of those 22, 16 teams qualified based on the FICP team rankings, while six teams were given wildcards. Notable teams who failed to qualify and were not invited were BH–Amaya Seguros and Café de Colombia with Luis Herrera, a double former winner of the mountains classification.


1990 Tour de France, Teams
The largest numbers of riders from a nation came from France (35), with the next largest coming from Belgium (27), Spain (25), Italy (22), Netherlands (19), Colombia (14) and Switzerland (13). For the first time, riders from the Eastern Bloc competed in the Tour, ten in total, enabled by the changing political climate brought about by the revolutions in the Eastern Bloc countries. While several riders from Warsaw Pact nations had transferred to established Western teams, the Alfa Lum team was made up of exclusively Soviet cyclists. Three more teams included cyclists of a single nationality: Lotto–Superclub (Belgian), Postobón–Manzana–Ryalcao (Colombian), and Ariostea (Italian).


1990 Tour de France, Teams
Of the 198 cyclists starting the race, 58 were riding the Tour de France for the first time. The average age of riders in the race was 27.77 years, ranging from the 21-year-old Antonio Miguel Díaz (Kelme–Ibexpress) to the 35-year-old Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (Z–Tomasso). The Kelme–Ibexpress cyclists had the youngest average age while the riders on Panasonic–Sportlife had the oldest.


1990 Tour de France, Teams
The presentation of the teams – where the members of each team's roster are introduced in front of the media and local dignitaries – took place at the lakeside arena at Futuroscope theme park, 10 km (6.2 mi) north of the city of Poitiers, west-central France, which later hosted the prologue stage.


1990 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
In the lead up to the Tour, the main contenders for the general classification were Greg LeMond (Z–Tomasso), Laurent Fignon (Castorama), Pedro Delgado (Banesto), and Stephen Roche (Histor–Sigma). All four were former Tour winners. They were the preeminent stage race specialists, with each one focusing their season around the Tour.


1990 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
The leading favourite was two-time Tour winner LeMond, who returned to defend his title. After winning the Tour in 1989 and the World Championship road race, LeMond had not taken another victory. He had finished Paris–Nice more than eight minutes behind the winner and struggled at the Giro d'Italia, where he placed 105th. He was considered overweight due to lack of training and had been suffering from mononucleosis. Encouraging signs came during the Tour de Suisse, just weeks before the start of the Tour de France, where he finished tenth.


1990 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
LeMond did not consider himself a favourite for victory going into the race, but declared that he would be disappointed should he not finish on the podium. For the first time at a Tour, LeMond had the support of his whole team, including Robert Millar, who had won the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and placed second at the Tour de Suisse just prior to the start of the Tour.


1990 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
The sport newspaper L'Équipe was expecting a close battle between LeMond and Fignon, who had finished in second place in 1989, only eight seconds behind LeMond. Fignon had previously won the Tour in 1983 and 1984. A crash on stage 5 of the Giro had forced Fignon to abandon the race he had won in 1989. He returned to racing at the Route du Sud and later competed in the Tour de Luxembourg as preparation for the Tour de France and had apparently overcome his injuries.


1990 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Writing in his autobiography, Fignon later admitted that his crashes and poor results earlier in the season had left him "a tired man, physically and mentally" and that he entered the Tour with "few illusions about what was coming". Fignon's squad was not seen as the strongest, but they were dedicated to him and managed by Cyrille Guimard, who had led multiple riders to Tour victories.


1990 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Delgado, the winner of the 1988 Tour, was in good form after placing second at the Vuelta a España earlier in the year. He was part of the strong Banesto team, with Miguel Induráin to help him in the mountains. Roche, winner of the 1987 edition, was on the start line, but still troubled by recurring knee pain. His best result of the season had been a second place behind Induráin at Paris–Nice.


1990 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Erik Breukink was among several other riders named as favourites. Sean Kelly, was the record winner of the points classification and appeared in good form, having just won the Tour de Suisse, but was thought to be working for Breukink. Spanish newspaper El País considered Delgado to be the top favourite, but also named Fignon, LeMond, and Gianni Bugno (Chateau d'Ax–Salotti), who had won the Giro earlier that year, as potential winners. Mundo Deportivo also named Charly Mottet (RMO) among the favourites. His best result that season had been a second place behind Bugno at the Giro.


1990 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Also on the start line was Marco Giovannetti, winner of the Vuelta and third at the Giro. According to cycling journalist Geoffrey Nicholson, his ability to perform in another three-week Grand Tour was doubted from the start, and it was agreed that he only participated to ensure a wildcard entry for his team, Seur.


1990 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites
Gert-Jan Theunisse (Panasonic–Sportlife), fourth the previous year and winner of the mountains classification, did not start due to two positive doping tests earlier in the season.


1990 Tour de France, Route and stages
The 1990 Tour de France started on 30 June, and had two rest days. The race had its Grand Départ (opening stages) in and around the Futuroscope theme park, whose owners paid around $1 million for the right to host the beginning of the race. After two stages, both held on the same day, also at Futuroscope, the Tour took a clockwise route around France. The race traveled north towards the English Channel and then east to Rouen.


1990 Tour de France, Route and stages
A plane transfer on the first rest day brought the field to Sarrebourg on the border to Germany before the race turned south towards the Alps. On the second rest day, the Tour remained in Villard-de-Lans. The race then turned south-west to the Pyrenees before turning north again towards Paris, ending with the ceremonial Champs-Élysées stage.


1990 Tour de France, Route and stages
Stage 5 from Avranches to Rouen was the longest at 301 km (187 mi). As of 2020, this is the last time that a Tour de France stage exceeded 300 km (190 mi). The shortest road stage was the tenth, from Geneva to Saint-Gervais, at 118.5 km (73.6 mi). The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,115 m (6,939 ft) at the summit of the Col du Tourmalet mountain pass on stage 16. It was among five hors catégorie (beyond category) rated climbs in the race.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Grand Départ at Futuroscope
The prologue at Futuroscope was won by Thierry Marie (Castorama), a specialist in the discipline, who had also taken the first yellow jersey in 1986. He recorded a time of 7:49 minutes, four seconds faster than LeMond and Raúl Alcalá (PDM–Concorde) in second and third respectively. Fignon finished in 15th place, 19 seconds slower than Marie, with Delgado in 26th place losing a further five seconds.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Grand Départ at Futuroscope
The first and the second stage were run on the same day, the second stage in the team time trial format. After just 6 km (3.7 mi) of the first stage, Claudio Chiappucci (Carrera Jeans–Vagabond) broke away from the field. He had won the mountain classifications at both Paris–Nice and the Giro d'Italia that year and aimed at getting the jersey early on in the Tour as well. He was joined in his breakaway by Steve Bauer (7-Eleven), Ronan Pensec (Z–Tomasso), and Frans Maassen (Buckler–Colnago–Decca).


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Grand Départ at Futuroscope
With the team time trial looming in the afternoon, the field allowed the break to draw out an advantage. Additionally, a blockade by sheep farmers delayed the peloton, the main field, and caused several crashes, including one involving Delgado. Chiappucci took the points at the mountain sprints, ensuring that he would wear the polka-dot jersey for the next stage. 10 km (6.2 mi) from the finish, the lead was still at 13 minutes. As Maassen took the stage victory ahead of Pensec, the four-man group still retained an advantage of 10:35 minutes over the rest of the field.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Grand Départ at Futuroscope
Bauer took the lead in the general classification, having posted the fastest time in the prologue. Later in the day the team time trial was won by the Panasonic–Sportlife team. Seven seconds slower, PDM–Concorde finished in second place. Fignon's Castorama squad finished fifth, 33 seconds slower than Panasonic, but 20 seconds faster than LeMond's Z team, who were seventh. In between them were 7-Eleven with yellow-jersey wearer Bauer, who retained his overall lead.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, North-west
Stage 3 began with an early attack by Stephen Roche, who was followed by LeMond. This prompted the teams of Bauer and Delgado to give chase, and the field was back together after 10 km (6.2 mi). At 23 km (14 mi), Fignon punctured a tyre, but he was able to rejoin shortly after. After 92 km (57 mi) the race was interrupted by another protest from sheep farmers, who had four fallen trees ready to block the road.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, North-west
The organisers received news of the blockade early and used a local youth on a motorcycle to lead the field through backstreets around the protest. The stage distance therefore increased by 5 km (3.1 mi), with a total of 25 km (16 mi) of the race neutralised. With 35 km (22 mi) of the stage remaining, Roque de la Cruz (Seur) became the first rider to abandon the Tour, following a crash which also brought down Fignon, who again had to chase in order to regain contact with the main group.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, North-west
At this point, Moreno Argentin (Ariostea) had already attacked and was building an advantage on the rest of the field. He also crashed, but was able to remount and continued to win the stage by 2:29 minutes. In the peloton, Christophe Lavainne (Castorama) won the sprint and raised in arms in celebration, unaware that Argentin had already finished. Through obtaining bonuses at intermediate sprints, Olaf Ludwig (Panasonic–Sportlife) took the lead in the points classification.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, North-west
Stage 4 saw Gilles Delion (Helvetia–La Suisse) attack while Gerard Rué (Castorama) was greeting his family in his home town. Delion was caught by Edwig Van Hooydonck (Buckler–Colnago–Decca), but both were quickly brought back by the Panasonic team, who were working for Ludwig to win the stage. Next, Søren Lilholt (Histor–Sigma) attacked and was later joined by Kurt Steinmann (Weinmann–SMM–Uster) and William Pulido (Postobón–Manzana–Ryalcao). The escapees enjoyed a maximum advantage of 45 seconds, but were caught with 14 km (8.7 mi) to go.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, North-west
3 km (1.9 mi) later, the peloton passed through the narrow streets of Villechèrel, causing a crash and the field to split. Bugno, Delgado, and Fignon were caught out behind the incident. While Delgado and Bugno lost 21 seconds in the end, Fignon lost 44 seconds to his rivals in the general classification. At the finish, which for the first time was at Mont-Saint-Michel, Ludwig opened his sprint too early, allowing Johan Museeuw (Lotto–Superclub), who won the stage, and Guido Bontempi (Carrera Jeans–Vagabond) to pass him. Robert Millar was caught up in a crash, losing nine minutes, effectively ruling him out from competing in the general classification.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, North-west
Stage 5, by far the longest at 301 km (187 mi), was run in wet weather. As the peloton sped up to catch an early breakaway, Fignon drifted backwards and ultimately abandoned the Tour at the first feeding station. After the breakaway was caught, Gerrit Solleveld (Buckler–Colnago–Decca) attacked and stayed away, winning the stage 4:27 minutes ahead of Museeuw, who won the sprint of the field. Argentin, still bruised from his fall on stage 3 and another on stage 5, abandoned after the rest day.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, North-east and Jura
During stage 6, Chiappucci sustained two punctured tyres, both times at the start of the two ascents of the day. This meant that he was unable to defend his lead in the mountain classification, and the polka-dot jersey went to Dimitri Konyshev (Alfa Lum), who became the first Soviet rider to wear a leader's jersey at the Tour de France. Bugno attacked shortly behind the feed zone, leading to a number of reactions from the field, but after 173 km (107 mi), the peloton was back together. A small group, containing Museeuw and Viatcheslav Ekimov (Panasonic–Sportlife), among others, leapt away 3 km (1.9 mi) from the finish. Jelle Nijdam (Buckler–Colnago–Decca) accelerated from this group with 300 m (330 yd) to go and won the stage, ahead of Jesper Skibby (TVM) and Museeuw.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, North-east and Jura
Stage 7's individual time trial was run in changing conditions. While the early starters competed in the dry, the later riders rode on wet roads. Miguel Induráin set an early fast time and held the lead for most of the day. Greg LeMond started fast, but faded later on to eventually finish fifth. Alcalá, also a late starter, was the fastest rider, 1:24 ahead of Induráin's time. Bugno was third, ahead of Delgado. Of the riders from the stage-1 breakaway, Pensec was fastest, in seventh place.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, North-east and Jura
He remained second overall however, 17 seconds behind Bauer, who finished the time trial in 14th place, one place ahead of Chiappucci. Stephen Roche lost 3 minutes in the last 3 km (1.9 mi)  alone, suffering from hyperglycemia. Likewise, Charly Mottet lost significant time, finishing 3½ minutes behind Alcalá. Alcalá moved into fifth place overall, still more than seven minutes behind Bauer.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, North-east and Jura
Early during stage 8, a four-man breakaway went ahead, but was quickly caught. The speed of the peloton saw Álvaro Pino (Seur), winner of the 1986 Vuelta a España, abandon the race. Michel Vermote (RMO) then attacked after 33 km (21 mi) on a section of cobbled road. His maximum lead was over 11 minutes, but after about 120 km (75 mi) on his own, he was brought back by the main field. In the final 10 km (6.2 mi), a group of 13 riders escaped, including Ludwig and Museeuw. Ludwig judged his sprint well this time and beat Museeuw for the win. It was the first stage victory by a rider from East Germany and from the Eastern Bloc in the Tour de France.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, North-east and Jura
Stage 9 headed into Switzerland and was the last day that featured rain, before temperatures began to rise significantly. An escape group went clear after 74 km (46 mi), which included Frans Maassen, who was still in fourth place overall. This prompted Bauer's 7-Eleven team to chase, bringing the group back after 44 km (27 mi). At the Côte des Rousses, the first second-category climb of the Tour, Massimo Ghirotto (Carrera Jeans–Vagabond) and Eduardo Chozas (ONCE) were out in front alone. On the same climb, Jean-François Bernard (Toshiba), third in the 1987 Tour, fell behind and out of contention. The two escapees held on to their advantage into the finish town of Geneva, where Ghirotto edged out Chozas in the sprint.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps
Stage 10 was the first real test in the mountains, with a summit finish at the Saint Gervais-les-Baines ski resort on Mont Blanc. On the first climb of the day, the Col de la Colombière, Omar Hernández (Postobón–Manzana–Ryalcao) attacked, followed by Thierry Claveyrolat (RMO). As Hernández slowed, Claveyrolat overtook him and continued on alone, riding the rest of the stage on his own to take victory. He also took the lead in the mountains classification, which he would retain for the rest of the Tour.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps
Behind him, Delgado attacked on the final climb with 6 km (3.7 mi) remaining, putting Bauer into difficulty. Pensec, who celebrated his 27th birthday, stayed with the other favourites and took over the yellow jersey. He led Chiappucci by 50 seconds, while Bauer fell back to third, 1:21 minutes adrift. Among the pre-race favourites, LeMond lost 19 seconds to Delgado, but finished with Bugno, Induráin, Alcalá, and Breukink. Bugno received a 20-second penalty for accepting food late in the stage, when it was no longer allowed.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps
On stage 11, the course ended with the final ascent to L'Alpe d'Huez, considered one of the most iconic climbs in cycling. Two mountains had to be crossed beforehand: the Col de la Madeleine and the Col du Glandon. Claveyrolat attacked again, early on during the ascent of the Madeleine, and gathered the mountain points at the summit. Mottet started to drop behind the group of favourites on the Madeleine, while Bernard retired. On the descent, Induráin got away but was overtaken by Claveyrolat on the climb of the Glandon.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps
In between the climbs, at the feed zone, LeMond was involved in a crash, but able to carry on. On the Glandon, Delgado accelerated and only LeMond and Bugno were able to follow. Together they caught Induráin, who set the pace in the group through the ensuing valley and ensured that they reached Claveyrolat by the foot of the final climb. Shortly after the group began the ascent, Delgado attacked, with LeMond and Bugno following. As the pace slowed, Claveyrolat, Parra, and Breukink managed to catch back up.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps
3 km (1.9 mi) from the finish, Delgado lost contact with Bugno, who accelerated and took LeMond, Breukink, Claveyrolat, and Parra with him. It were Bugno and LeMond who were fastest along the finishing straight, with Bugno coming out on top to win the stage. Breukink finished third, one second behind LeMond in second place. Meanwhile, Millar paced Pensec up the climb, who finished 48 seconds behind Bugno and retained the race lead. Delgado lost forty seconds, while Induráin, exhausted by his work on the flat, lost 12 minutes on Alpe d'Huez, falling from contention. Chiappucci finished 1:48 minutes behind Bugno. This left Pensec first overall, 1:28 minutes ahead of Chiappucci, with LeMond up to third, but still 9:04 minutes behind his teammate. Alcalá had lost 5:41 minutes on Bugno, and therefore dropped to eighth place overall.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps
Pensec lost the yellow jersey the following day, at stage 12's mountain time trial to Villard-de-Lans. He finished almost three minutes slower than Chiappucci, who took the overall lead, now 1:17 minutes ahead of Pensec. The winner of the stage was Breukink, with Delgado in second place, thirty seconds slower. Delgado performed well despite problems with his rear wheel which forced him to change bikes within the last kilometre. Induráin produced another good performance, finishing third at 43 seconds. LeMond suffered during the second half of the climb and finished fifth, dropping to fourth in the general classification behind Breukink. Breukink was 6:55 minutes behind new leader Chiappucci, with LeMond a further 32 seconds adrift. In fifth place followed Delgado, now 9:02 minutes in arrears.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif Central transition
Stage 13 to Saint-Etienne took place on Bastille Day, the French national holiday. Phil Anderson (TVM) led down the descent from Villard-de-Lans, followed by Mottet, which prompted a reaction by the main field and both riders were brought back after 33 km (21 mi). Several attempts to form lasting breakaways followed, but it took until the climb of the Côte d'Ardoix at 33 km (21 mi) for a 30-rider group to get away, including Pensec and Claveyrolat.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif Central transition
Chiappucci, without the help of strong teammates, had to lead the chase himself, bringing back the breakaway 45 km (28 mi) from the finish. Just as the contact was made, a group of ten riders attacked, among them LeMond, Breukink, Induráin, and Andrew Hampsten (7-Eleven). At the foot of the last climb of the day, the Col de la Croix de Chaubouret, Delgado led a counter-attack with Bugno and Marino Lejarreta (ONCE). Although Induráin dropped back to aid Delgado's chase, the LeMond group maintained an advantage of thirty seconds until the finish.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif Central transition
Here, Chozas won the sprint from Breukink and Hampsten. A group containing Alcalá, Roche, and Parra lost 3:09 minutes. Chiappucci came in with the peloton, losing 4:53 minutes. Pensec dropped from second to fourth in the general classification, arriving 7:47 minutes after Chozas. Chiappucci now led the race by 2:02 minutes over Breukink, with LeMond third at 2:34.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif Central transition
During the early part of stage 14, Jean-Claude Colotti (RMO) was highly active. He joined an attack by teammate Claveyrolet at 8 km (5.0 mi), before setting off on his own after a further unsuccessful attempt to form a breakaway. After 91 km (57 mi), 17 more riders caught up to him. Jean-Claude Bagot (RMO) then attacked from the lead group with 20 km (12 mi) left to ride, but he was caught by the peloton on the final ascent to Causse Noir near Millau.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif Central transition
Lejarreta accelerated from the group of favourites with 3 km (1.9 mi) to go, and was followed by Induráin and Bugno. At the finish, Lejarreta took victory, but did not raise his arms in celebration, thinking someone had finished ahead of him. 24 seconds later followed Induráin and Bugno. LeMond and Breukink finished together, another ten seconds behind. Chiappucci could only finish 13th, losing 13 seconds to LeMond and Breukink, whom he now led by 1:49 minutes in the general classification. Lejarreta moved up to seventh place overall.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif Central transition
Stage 15 was a transition stage, the last before the Pyrenees, and featured only smaller climbs. Adri van der Poel (Weinmann–SMM–Uster) launched an attack that resulted in an eleven-rider strong breakaway. This group was almost caught after 50 km (31 mi) of racing, but while three riders dropped back into the peloton, eight remained in front and were later joined by several others, who bridged across, including Roche, Mottet, Claveyrolet, and Chozas. The now 19-rider strong group increased their advantage to up to eight minutes, which would have moved Chozas up to fourth place overall.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif Central transition
Therefore, the main field began to cut into their advantage, led by Z–Tomasso, Banesto, and PDM–Concorde. Eventually, Mottet attacked from the lead group and held on to the finish, winning the stage by 2:02 minutes ahead of Giuseppe Calcaterra (Chateau d'Ax–Salotti). When the peloton reached the finish, a split occurred in the field, which gained Chiappucci three seconds on his rivals in the general classification.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees
In very hot weather, stage 16 saw the last mountain-top finish of the Tour. In the second half of the stage, the summits of the Col d'Aspin, the Col du Tourmalet, and the final ascent to Luz Ardiden had to be climbed. On the early slopes of the Aspin, Chiappucci followed an attack by Jörg Müller (TVM) and found himself in a lead group, building an advantage on his rivals. At the summit, he led the group across 45 seconds ahead of the main field.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees
As Z–Tomasso began to chase for LeMond on the approach to the Tourmalet, the gap began to decrease. In the front group, Miguel Ángel Martínez Torres (ONCE) attacked and got away on his own. Behind, in the group of favourites, Breukink experienced a jour sans, a day without energy, and began to fall behind. At the top of the Tourmalet, Chiappucci's lead over LeMond and Delgado was still 1:07 minutes, but in the valley before the final climb, he was caught with 20 km (12 mi) to go.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees
On the ascent to Luz Ardiden, Chiappucci defiantly set the pace at the front of the group. However, with 6 km (3.7 mi) left to race, an attack by Parra was too much and while LeMond, Induráin, and Lejarreta followed, Chiappucci fell behind. LeMond moved to the front and set a high pace as Parra was quickly dropped. They then caught the lone leader Martínez Torres with 2.5 km (1.6 mi) to go. Lejarreta was dropped shortly thereafter.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees
For the duration of the climb LeMond worked at the front setting the pace to increase his time gains essentially winning the Tour on this attack. Induráin overtook him as they approached the summit and coming around the final turn he quickly turned his head around to verify LeMond was not going to challenge him for the stage win and began clapping his hands in celebration as he claimed the victory six seconds ahead of LeMond. Chiappucci eventually lost 2:19 minutes, which reduced his advantage over LeMond, who was now second overall, to just five seconds. Breukink lost 4:16 minutes, dropping to fourth behind Delgado, who finished 1:32 behind teammate Induráin.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees
I've never seen a descent that fast. [ ...] LeMond never braked once. He took each curve at top speed. He must have been hitting 80 kilometers an hour.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees
– Jean-François Pescheux, a Tour official following the race on a motorcycle, describing Greg LeMond's descent from the Col de Marie-Blanque


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees
The next day's route from Lourdes to Pau was considered easier than the day before, with the two major climbs, the hors categorie Col d'Aubisque and the first-category Col de Marie-Blanque both coming during the first half of the stage. Early on, a 19-man breakaway formed, including riders such as Bauer, Konyshev, Acácio da Silva (Carrera Jeans–Vagabond), Johan Bruyneel (Lotto–Superclub), as well as LeMond's teammates Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle and Atle Kvålsvoll. On the Aubisque, Óscar Vargas (Postobón–Manzana–Ryalcao) attacked and reached the summit ahead of the lead group.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees
On the Marie-Blanque, the situation had changed and Delgado's Banesto teammate Dominique Arnaud led solo over the top, 10:20 minutes ahead of the peloton. LeMond, already suffering with a saddle sore and swollen feet, got into even more trouble: isolated from his teammates, he punctured a tyre about 800 m (870 yd) from the summit. With the group of favourites, including yellow jersey Chiappucci, leaving him behind, LeMond had to wait 1:20 minutes for his team car to arrive.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees
The new wheel given to him was rubbing on the frame, which meant that LeMond had to dismount again and change bikes. By now, he crossed the top of the Marie-Blanque 1:27 minutes behind Chiappucci. Teammates Eric Boyer and Jérôme Simon joined him, but had problems keeping up with LeMond during the descent, which he took flat out and without braking in order to catch back up. Duclos-Lassalle and Kvålsvoll were ordered by the team to stop and drop back from the lead group to aid LeMond in reaching Chiappucci after 20 km (12 mi) of chasing.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees
Up ahead, Bruyneel attacked from the lead group and was followed by Konyshev, who got the better of the Belgian in the two-man sprint for the stage victory. It was the first time that a Soviet or Russian rider had won a stage of the Tour de France. LeMond accused Chiappucci of violating the unwritten rules of the sport, where traditionally a leader is not attacked if they have a crash or mechanical difficulties. Indeed, the Carrera Jeans–Vagabond team had even called back da Silva from the breakaway to assist Chiappucci in extending his advantage.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Final stages
Stage 18 led the Tour to Bordeaux, a finishing town traditionally favouring the sprinters. The field started the day slowly and a real attack did not materialise until Anderson broke away after 139 km (86 mi). He was soon joined by six other riders, but the break was caught 34 km (21 mi) later. With 20 km (12 mi) to go, a more serious move formed, with 19 riders, which included LeMond, Chiappucci, Breukink, Bugno, and Alcalá. At 10 km (6.2 mi) remaining, Breukink, Bugno, and the latter's teammate, Roberto Gusmeroli, attacked from the leading group.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Final stages
The other 16 riders fell behind and were soon caught by the main field. At the finish, Gusmeroli led out Bugno, who easily beat Breukink to become the first rider to win two stages at that year's Tour. Breukink meanwhile gained 18 seconds on Delgado and therefore moved into third place overall.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Final stages
The next day, the peloton equally made a slow start to the stage, with the first real attack coming more than halfway into the race, after 110 km (68 mi). Fifteen riders broke away from the field, including van der Poel, Pensec, Tony Rominger (Chateau d'Ax–Salotti), and Bontempi. After 153 km (95 mi), the group had swollen to 24 riders. Bontempi, formerly a very good sprinter, but now considered past his prime, attacked from the breakaway and went solo to the finish, where he won the stage, 1:28 minutes ahead of Dag Otto Lauritzen (7-Eleven). During the stage, the Tour circumvented another blockade by sheep farmers, which only managed to hold up the press caravan, but did not influence the race.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Final stages
The individual time trial on the penultimate day, stage 20, became decisive for the race's outcome. LeMond easily made up the five seconds needed to overcome Chiappucci at the top of the standings. He finished fifth on the day, 2:21 minutes ahead of Chiappucci, who was 17th. Erik Breukink claimed the stage victory, 28 seconds ahead of his teammate Alcalá, with Lejarreta in third, ahead of Induráin. Delgado was eighth fastest, 2:21 behind Breukink, which put him in fourth place overall and left him just short of making the final podium for the fourth year in a row. Through their strong performances, Alcalá and Induráin returned to the top-ten riders in the general classification.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Final stages
1990 was the most satisfying of my Tour wins. 1989 was exciting, 1986 was hard emotionally, but 1990 was the one I enjoyed the most.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Final stages
– Greg LeMond, speaking about the 1990 Tour de France


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Final stages
The final stage to Paris was by tradition a ceremonial one, apart for the final section on the Champs-Élysées, when the stage victory is decided. Stephen Hodge tried to break away in Paris, in an attempt to make up the 16 seconds his ONCE team trailed Z–Tomasso in the team classification, but he was not successful. The stage came down to a sprint, won by Museeuw, ahead of Adriano Baffi (Ariostea) and Olaf Ludwig. It was the only time during that year's Tour that a stage finished in a mass sprint.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Final stages
LeMond crossed the finish line safely in the middle of the field, his arms aloft in celebration at his third overall Tour victory. 156 riders out of 198 starters reached the finish in Paris. In last place, the lanterne rouge, was Rodolfo Massi (Ariostea). Four teams managed to reach Paris with all nine riders: Lotto–Superclub, Postobón–Manzana–Ryalcao, 7-Eleven, and Chateau d'Ax–Salotti.


1990 Tour de France, Race overview, Final stages
LeMond had won the Tour without taking a stage win. Since the end of World War II, only Roger Walkowiak (1956), Gastone Nencini (1960), and Lucien Aimar (1966) had done so. He countered criticism that he had not shown enough fighting spirit by not taking an individual stage win, saying: "If I had worried about individual stage victories, it's possible I would have lost the Tour de France." Particular praise was given after the Tour to Miguel Induráin, who some, such as his biographer Alasdair Fotheringham, speculated could have challenged for the overall victory had he not worked for Delgado, in particular on the stage to Alpe d'Huez, where he lost 12 minutes.


1990 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There were four main classifications in the 1990 Tour de France. The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour. Time bonuses were distributed to the first three finishers of each stage that was not a mountain stage or a time trial. The winner received a 20-second time bonus, with 12 seconds for second and eight seconds for third place respectively.


1990 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
These bonuses were reduced to 12, 8, and 4 seconds on stage 1, since two stages were held on the same day. In addition, time bonuses could be won at intermediate sprints during the first half of the race. The first three riders across the line were granted a bonus of 6, 4, and 2 seconds respectively.


1990 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The points classification was calculated in another way: the first cyclists to finish in a stage received points, based on their rank and the type of stage. Flat stages awarded the winner 35 points, down to one point for 25th place. On medium mountain stages, 25 points were given to the winner, down to one point for 20th place. On a mountainous stage, the first rider across the finish received 20 points, down to one point for 15th place. In time trials, 15 points were given to the winner, down to one point for tenth place.


1990 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
All stages, except time trials, also had one or more intermediate sprints, where some points could be won. All road stages included two intermediate sprints, except for stage 5 with eight sprints. The first three riders across the intermediate sprint line received 6, 4, and 2 points respectively. The cyclist with the most points led the classification, and was identified with a green jersey. Olaf Ludwig won the classification with 256 points, 35 points ahead of Museeuw. The intermediate sprints classification, held until the year before, was abandoned for 1990.


1990 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
Additionally, there was the mountains classification. The organisation ranked climbs by difficulty, with the hardest ascents rated hors catégorie and the easiest as fourth category. Points for this classification were won by the cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first. An hors catégorie climb gave the first rider across 40 points, down to one point for 15th place. First-category mountains awarded 30 points for the first rider, with second-, third-, and fourth-category giving out 20, 10, and 5 points respectively to the first across the summit. The cyclist with the most points led the classification, and wore a white jersey with red polka dots. Thierry Claveyrolat won the classification with 321 points, while Chiappucci placed second on 179 points.


1990 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
There was also the young rider classification. This was decided the same way as the general classification, but only riders born after 1 January 1966 were eligible. Until 1988, the leader of this classification had worn a white jersey, while in 1989, the leader was highlighted by wearing the logo of the European Union on his shoulder. Both were not used in the 1990 Tour. Gilles Delion won the classification, finishing in 15th place on the general classification.


1990 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The 1989 Tour had included the combination classification, which was also no longer run. Both the intermediate sprint as well as the combination classification were scrapped to allow for more prize money to be paid out to the other classifications, a move instigated by new race director Jean-Marie Leblanc, who had taken over the position in late 1988. The 1990 Tour was the first run completely under his control.


1990 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
For the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. The riders in the team that led this classification wore yellow caps. Z–Tomasso won the classification, just 16 seconds ahead of ONCE.


1990 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
In addition, there was a combativity award given after each mass-start stage to the cyclist considered the most combative. The decision was made by a jury composed of journalists who gave points. The cyclist with the most points from votes in all stages led the combativity classification. Eduardo Chozas won this classification, and was given overall the super-combativity award. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass the summit of the Col du Tourmalet on stage 16. This prize was won by Miguel Ángel Martínez Torres.


1990 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes
The Tour de France paid out F10,073,450 as prize money in total, two million of which went to the winner of the general classification (about $363,000 or £200,000 at the time). The prizes were mainly raised by the fees paid by departure and arrival cities along the course of the race. 550,000 francs had to be paid to host both the start and finish of a stage, with 300,000 francs asked for just one of the two. $75,000 each came from the entry fees paid by the teams to compete. Eventually, Z–Tomasso received the biggest share of prize money, £248,480, ahead of Carrera Jeans–Vagabond's £115,830. Last in the list was Seur, who gathered only £2,207. The overall budget of the Tour was around £10,000,000.


1990 Tour de France, Doping and penalties
No rider tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs during doping tests at the 1990 Tour. Eric Vanderaerden (Buckler–Colnago–Decca) was expelled from the race on stage 11 for repeatedly holding on to the doors of team cars during the ascent to Alpe d'Huez.


1990 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10
The 1990 Tour de France was the 77th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Futuroscope with a prologue individual time trial on 30 June and Stage 10 occurred on 10 July with a mountain stage to Saint-Gervais. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 22 July.


1990 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Prologue
30 June 1990 — Futuroscope, 6.3 km (3.9 mi) (individual time trial)


1990 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 1
1 July 1990 — Futuroscope to Futuroscope, 138.5 km (86.1 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 2
1 July 1990 — Futuroscope to Futuroscope, 44.5 km (27.7 mi) (team time trial)


1990 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 3
2 July 1990 — Poitiers to Nantes, 228.0 km (141.7 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 4
3 July 1990 — Nantes to Mont Saint-Michel, 203.0 km (126.1 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 5
4 July 1990 — Avranches to Rouen, 301.0 km (187.0 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 6
6 July 1990 — Sarrebourg to Vittel, 202.5 km (125.8 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 7
7 July 1990 — Vittel to Épinal, 61.5 km (38.2 mi) (individual time trial)


1990 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 8
8 July 1990 — Épinal to Besançon, 181.5 km (112.8 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 9
9 July 1990 — Besançon to Geneva, 196.0 km (121.8 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 10
10 July 1990 — Geneva to Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc, 118.5 km (73.6 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 21
The 1990 Tour de France was the 77th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Futuroscope with a prologue individual time trial on 30 June and Stage 10 occurred on 10 July with a mountain stage to Saint-Gervais. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 22 July.


1990 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 21, Stage 11
11 July 1990 — Saint-Gervais to Alpe d'Huez, 182.5 km (113.4 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 21, Stage 12
12 July 1990 — Fontaine to Villard-de-Lans, 33.5 km (20.8 mi) (individual time trial)


1990 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 21, Stage 13
14 July 1990 — Villard-de-Lans to Saint-Étienne, 149.0 km (92.6 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 21, Stage 14
15 July 1990 — Le Puy-en-Velay to Millau, 205.0 km (127.4 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 21, Stage 15
16 July 1990 — Millau to Revel, 170.0 km (105.6 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 21, Stage 16
17 July 1990 — Blagnac to Luz Ardiden, 215.0 km (133.6 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 21, Stage 17
18 July 1990 — Lourdes to Pau, 150.0 km (93.2 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 21, Stage 18
19 July 1990 — Pau to Bordeaux, 202.0 km (125.5 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 21, Stage 19
20 July 1990 — Castillon-la-Bataille to Limoges, 182.5 km (113.4 mi)


1990 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 21, Stage 20
21 July 1990 — Lac de Vassivière to Lac de Vassivière, 45.5 km (28.3 mi) (individual time trial)


1990 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 21, Stage 21
22 July 1990 — Brétigny-sur-Orge to Paris Champs-Élysées, 182.5 km (113.4 mi)


1990 Tour de Romandie
The 1990 Tour de Romandie was the 44th edition of the Tour de Romandie cycle race and was held from 8 May to 13 May 1990. The race started in Moutier and finished in Geneva. The race was won by Charly Mottet of the RMO team.


1990 Tour de Suisse
The 1990 Tour de Suisse was the 54th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 13 June to 22 June 1990. The race started in Winterthur and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Sean Kelly of the PDM team.


1990 Tour du Haut Var
The 1990 Tour du Haut Var was the 22nd edition of the Tour du Haut Var cycle race and was held on 24 February 1990. The race started in Sainte-Maxime and finished in Seillans. The race was won by Luc Leblanc.


1990 Tour of Britain
The 1990 Tour of Britain was the fourth edition of the Kellogg's Tour of Britain cycle race and was held from 31 July to 5 August 1990. The race started in Brighton and finished in Manchester. The race was won by Michel Dernies of the Weinmann team.


1990 Tour of Flanders
The 74th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling classic was held on Sunday, 1 April 1990. Italian Moreno Argentin won the race in a two-man sprint with Rudy Dhaenens. 102 of 194 riders finished the race.


1990 Tour of Flanders, Race report
The race was run in exceptionally warm and sunny April weather. Italian Fabio Roscioli was the last survivor of an early breakaway, but was caught by a seven-man group on the Eikenberg. 30 from the finish, Laurent Fignon and Per Pedersen broke away from the group, but were counterattacked and dropped by Moreno Argentin and Rudy Dhaenens. Argentin, a four-time winner of Liège–Bastogne–Liège easily won the two-man sprint.


1990 Tour of Flanders, Route
The race started in Sint-Niklaas and finished in Meerbeke (Ninove) – totaling 262 km. The course featured 13 categorized climbs:


1990 Tour of the Basque Country
The 1990 Tour of the Basque Country was the 30th edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 2 April to 6 April 1990. The race started in Zestoa and finished at Barrendiola. The race was won by Julián Gorospe of the Banesto team.


1990 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election
Elections to Tower Hamlets London Borough Council were held on 3 May 1990. The whole council was up for election. Turnout was 42.9%.


1990 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to Trafford Council were held on 4 May 1990. One-third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a four-year term of office, expiring in 1994. The Conservative party retained overall control of the council.


1990 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election
After the election, the composition of the council was as follows:


1990 Trampoline World Championships
The 16th Trampoline World Championships were held in Essen, Germany from October 11 to October 13, 1990, only a few days after reunification of Germany.


1990 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1990 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Centenary Park on the campus of Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport, Louisiana. This was the twelfth tournament championship held by the Trans America Athletic Conference, in its twelfth year of existence. Stetson won their third consecutive and overall tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 1990 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


1990 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The top two finishers from each division by conference winning percentage qualified for the tournament, with the top seed from one division playing the second seed from the opposite in the first round.


1990 Trans America Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Todd Greene was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Greene was an outfielder for Georgia Southern.


1990 Trans-Am Series
The 1990 Trans-Am Series was the 25th running of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am Series. Tommy Kendall won his first of four driver's championships, driving a Spice Engineering-run Chevrolet Beretta.


1990 Trofeo Ilva-Coppa Mantegazza
The 1990 Trofeo Ilva-Coppa Mantegazza was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Taranto, Italy that was part of the WTA Tier V category of the 1990 WTA Tour. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from 1 May until 6 May 1990. First-seeded Raffaella Reggi won the singles title.


1990 Trofeo Ilva-Coppa Mantegazza, Finals, Doubles
Elena Brioukhovets /  Eugenia Maniokova defeated  Silvia Farina /  Rita Grande 7–6(7–4), 6–1


1990 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team
The 1990 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their third year under head coach David Rader, the Golden Hurricane compiled a 3–8 record. The team's statistical leaders included quarterback Gus Frerotte with 1,066 passing yards, Chris Hughley with 700 rushing yards, and Frank Cassano with 464 receiving yards.


1990 Turkish census
The 1990 Turkish census was held in 1990  and recorded the population and demographic details of every settlement in Turkey. Use of the data from the 1990 census centres on the question (in that census) related directly to the participation of persons in emigration: How many household members are absent now; are they in the country or abroad?


1990 Turkmen Supreme Soviet election
Supreme Soviet elections were held in the Turkmen SSR on 7 January 1990. Although multi-party politics had been introduced, the Communist Party of Turkmenistan was the only registered party. It won around 90% of the 175 seats. Voter turnout was 93.6%.


1990 Turkmenistan presidential election
Presidential elections were held for the first time in the Turkmen SSR on 27 October 1990. The only candidate was Saparmurat Niyazov, who won 98.3% of the vote. Voter turnout was 96.7%.


1990 Tuscan regional election
The Tuscan regional election of 1990 took place on 6 and 7 May 1990.


1990 Tuscan regional election, Electoral law
Election was held under proportional representation with provincial constituencies where the largest remainder method with a Droop quota was used. To ensure more proportionality, remained votes and seats were transferred at regional level and calculated at-large.


1990 Tuscan regional election, Results
The Italian Communist Party was by far the largest party, but lost many votes from five years before. After the election Communist Marco Marcucci formed a government comprising the Italian Socialist Party and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. In 1992 Vannino Chiti took over from Marcucci and the centre-right Italian Liberal Party joined the government.


1990 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The 1990 U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place in Salt Lake City, Utah. Medals were awarded in four colors: gold (first), silver (second), bronze (third), and pewter (fourth) in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – across three levels: senior, junior, and novice.


1990 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The event determined the U.S. teams for the 1990 World Championships.


1990 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships
The 1990 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships was an Association of Tennis Professionals men's tennis tournament held in Kiawah Island, South Carolina in the United States. It was the 22nd edition of the tournament and was held from May 7 to May 14, 1990. Third-seeded David Wheaton won the singles title.


1990 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, Finals, Doubles
Scott Davis /  David Pate defeated  Jim Grabb /  Leonardo Lavalle 6–2, 6–3


1990 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Doubles
Top-seeded pair Scott Davis and David Pate won in the final against second-seeds Jim Grabb and Leonardo Lavalle.


1990 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1990 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Singles
Jay Berger was the defending champion, but did not participate this year.


1990 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Singles
David Wheaton won the title, defeating Mark Kaplan 6–4, 6–3 in the final.


1990 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1990 U.S. Open (golf)
The 1990 U.S. Open was the 90th U.S. Open, held June 14–18 at Course No. 3 of Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois, a suburb northwest of Chicago. Hale Irwin became the oldest U.S. Open champion by defeating Mike Donald at the 91st hole, the first in sudden-death, after the two tied in the 18-hole Monday playoff. It was Irwin's third U.S. Open title, with previous wins in 1974 and 1979. Implemented decades earlier, it was the first use of sudden-death in the U.S. Open;  the last tie in a playoff was in 1946. Sudden death was needed again in 1994 and 2008.


1990 U.S. Open (golf)
It was the third U.S. Open at Medinah, which previously hosted in 1949 and 1975. It later hosted the PGA Championship in 1999 and 2006, and the Ryder Cup in 2012.


1990 U.S. Open (golf)
Irwin was without a PGA Tour win in five years and 11 years removed from his last U.S. Open victory in 1979; he received a special exemption from the USGA to enter the tournament. Irwin began the final round in a tie for 20th place, four strokes back of leaders Billy Ray Brown and Donald. Playing well ahead of the leaders, Irwin fired a round of 67, which included a 45-foot (14 m) birdie putt at the 72nd hole.


1990 U.S. Open (golf)
After the putt dropped, he provided the championship with its enduring image as he took a "victory lap" around the green, high-fiving spectators. Irwin, however, had not won the championship yet as there were still golfers on the course with a chance to overtake him. Donald made par saves from 35 feet (11 m) on the 12th and from 15 feet (5 m) on the 14th before making bogey at the 16th. A two-putt par on the last tied him with Irwin, forcing an 18-hole Monday playoff. Brown and Nick Faldo finished a stroke out of the playoff in a tie for third place.


1990 U.S. Open (golf)
In the playoff, Donald took a two-shot lead to the 16th tee. Needing a birdie, Irwin responded with a brilliant 2-iron approach and sank the putt to get within one. After both players parred the 17th, Irwin made par at the last, giving Donald a chance to win the championship. His par putt, however, narrowly slid by, implementing sudden-death for the first time in U.S. Open history. (Previous playoff ties went on to play additional full rounds, the last of which was in 1946.) Irwin needed just one more hole, recording a birdie at the par-4 1st to win the championship.


1990 U.S. Open (golf)
At 45 years and 15 days, Irwin became the oldest winner of the U.S. Open, surpassing the record set in 1986 by Raymond Floyd by fifteen months. The oldest winner of a major is Phil Mickelson, 50 at the PGA Championship in 2021.


1990 U.S. Open (golf)
Curtis Strange attempted to win his third consecutive U.S. Open; he began the final round just two off the lead, but a final round 75 dropped him back to 21st place. Amateurs Phil Mickelson and David Duval made their major championship debuts, finishing in 29th and 56th place, respectively.


1990 U.S. Open (golf)
Scoring conditions were ideal throughout the week, with a record 39 under-par rounds in the first round and 47 in the second. A total of 28 players finished the tournament under-par, a new U.S. Open record.


1990 U.S. Open Cup
The 1990 United States Open Cup is the 77th edition of the tournament to crown the national champion of the United States.


1990 U.S. Open Cup
The A.A.C. Eagles (MSL) of Chicago won the cup 2–1 against the Brooklyn Italians (NESSL) at Kuntz Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.


1990 U.S. Women's Open
The 1990 U.S. Women's Open  was the 45th U.S. Women's Open, held July 12–15 at the Riverside Course of Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia, a suburb northeast of Atlanta.


1990 U.S. Women's Open
Defending champion Betsy King became the fifth of seven to win consecutive titles, one stroke ahead of runner-up Patty Sheehan, the leader after each of the first three rounds. Rains delayed the completion of each of the first two rounds until the following day; the final two rounds were played on Sunday.


1990 UC Davis Aggies football team
The 1990 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis in the 1990 NCAA Division II football season. UC Davis competed in the Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC).


1990 UC Davis Aggies football team
The Aggies were led by second-year head coach Bob Foster and played their home games at Toomey Field. UC Davis finished the season as champion of the NCAC for the 20th consecutive season. They stretched their conference winning streak to 51 games, dating back to the 1981 season. The Aggies record was seven wins and three losses (7–3, 5–0 NCAC). This was the 21st consecutive year UC Davis finished with a winning record. The team outscored their opponents 234–166 for the season.


1990 UC Davis Aggies football team, NFL Draft
The following UC Davis Aggies players were selected in the 1991 NFL Draft.


1990 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team
The 1990 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) during the 1990 NCAA Division III football season.


1990 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team
The Gauchos competed as an NCAA Division III independent in 1990. The team was led by first-year head coach Rick Candaele, and played home games at Campus Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of six wins and four losses (6–4) and were outscored by their opponents 248–271 for the season.


1990 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team, Team players in the NFL
No Santa Barbara Gaucho players were selected in the 1991 NFL Draft.


1990 UCF Knights football team
The 1990 UCF Knights football team was the twelfth season for the team, and UCF football's first season in Division I-AA (now commonly known as 'FCS'). In their first year in the division, Gene McDowell led the Knights to a 10–4 record, a program best, and a trip to the I-AA playoffs. UCF would make it to the semifinals, and became the first school in history to qualify for the I-AA playoffs in its first season of eligibility.


1990 UCF Knights football team
During the 1990s, UCF would compile an overall record of 67–46–0 (.593) during the decade.


1990 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships
The 1990 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships were held in Durango, Colorado, United States. These were the first World Championships in mountain biking to be organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The disciplines included were cross-country and downhill.


1990 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships
Mountain biking world championships had been held since 1986, but without the sanction of the UCI. There had in fact been multiple 'world championships' before 1990, with the United States and Europe holding rival events and each crowning a 'world champion' in each discipline. The UCI decided to host its inaugural world championships in the United States as it was the birthplace of mountain biking. On the recommendation of the United States Cycling Federation, the UCI chose Durango to host the event.


1990 UCI Road World Championships
The 1990 UCI Road World Championships took place in Utsunomiya, Japan, from September 1 to September 2, 1990.


1990 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
The men's road race at the 1990 UCI Road World Championships took place on Sunday September 2, 1990, in Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan over a distance of 261 kilometres (162 mi).


1990 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
145 riders started, 57 classified finishers,winner's average speed: 38.01 km/hr


1990 UCI Road World Championships – Women's team time trial
The women's team time trial of the 1990 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on 29 August 1990 in Utsunomiya, Japan. The course was 49 km long and went from Utsunomiya to Nikkō and back to Utsunomiya.


1990 UCI Road World Cup
The 1990 UCI Road World Cup was the second edition of the UCI Road World Cup. From the 1989 edition, an individual time trial finale event in Lunel, France, was added. The series was won by Italian rider Gianni Bugno of Chateau d'Ax–Salotti.


1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 1990 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Maebashi, Japan in August 1990. Fifteen events were contested, 12 for men (5 for professionals, 7 for amateurs) and 3 for women.


1990 UCLA Bruins football team
The 1990 UCLA Bruins football team represented University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the 1990 college football season. The team was coached by Terry Donahue and finished the season with a 5–6–0 record in 6th place in the conference.


1990 UCLA Bruins softball team
The 1990 UCLA Bruins softball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the 1990 NCAA Division I softball season. The Bruins were coached by Sharron Backus, who led her sixteenth season and Sue Enquist, in her second season, in an uncommonly used co-head coach system. The Bruins played their home games at Sunset Field and finished with a record of 62–7. They competed in the Pacific-10 Conference, where they finished first with a 16–2 record.


1990 UCLA Bruins softball team
The Bruins were invited to the 1990 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, where they swept the West Regional and then completed a run through the Women's College World Series to claim their fifth NCAA Women's College World Series Championship. The Bruins had earlier claimed an AIAW title in 1978 and NCAA titles in 1982, 1984, 1988, and 1989.


1990 UEFA Cup Final
The 1990 UEFA Cup Final was an association football tie played on 2 May 1990 and 16 May 1990 between Juventus and Fiorentina of Italy. Juventus won 3–1 on aggregate. This was the first final between two Italian sides in the UEFA competitions' history and the third between two clubs of the same country.


1990 UEFA Cup Final
The first game was the last official football game played at the Stadio Comunale until 2006, when Stadio delle Alpi was closed.


1990 UEFA Cup Final
The second game was played in Avellino because Fiorentina's substitute stadium in Perugia was closed after the incidents in the semifinal game against SV Werder Bremen.


1990 UEFA Cup Final
With this defeat, Fiorentina became the second club – after Hamburger SV – to have been runner-up in all three major European competitions (European Champion Clubs' Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, and the now-defunct Cup Winners' Cup).


1990 UEFA European Under-16 Championship
The 1990 UEFA European Under-16 Championship was the eighth edition of UEFA's European Under-16 Football Championship. East Germany hosted the championship, during 17–27 May 1990. 16 teams entered the competition, and Czechoslovakia won their first title.


1990 UEFA European Under-16 Championship qualifying
1. FRANCE 2 1 0 1 2- 1 2 2. Switzerland 2 1 0 1 1- 2 2


1990 UEFA European Under-16 Championship qualifying
1. BELGIUM 2 1 1 0 2 1 3 2. Rep.of Ireland 2 0 1 1 1 2 1


1990 UEFA European Under-18 Championship
The 1990 UEFA European Under-18 Championship final tournament was held in Hungary. It also served as the European qualification for the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship.


1990 UEFA European Under-18 Championship, Qualification to World Youth Championship
The six best performing teams qualified for the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship.


1990 UEFA European Under-18 Championship qualifying
This article features the 1990 UEFA European Under-18 Championship qualifying stage. Matches were played 1988 through 1990. Eight group winners qualified for the main tournament in Hungary.


1990 UEFA European Under-18 Championship squads, Hungary
1 Gyorgy Elbert2 Jozsef Szabados3 Peter Lipcsei4 Jozsef Csanyi5 Gabor Greczi6 Gabor Wendler7 Attila Jezsek8 Gabor Halmai9 Attila Szabo10 Zsolt Bencze11 Zsolt Kasic12 Ferenc Szilveszter13 Balazs Beko14 Tamas Szonyi15 Gusztav Vajda18 Janos Vamos


1990 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
The 1990 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, which spanned two years (1988–90), had 30 entrants. San Marino competed for the first time. USSR U-21s won the competition.


1990 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
The 30 national teams were divided into eight groups (six groups of 4 + two groups of 3). The group winners played off against each other on a two-legged home-and-away basis until the winner was decided. There was no finals tournament or 3rd-place playoff.


1990 UEFA European Under-21 Championship, Qualifying Stage, Draw
The allocation of teams into qualifying groups was based on that of 1990 FIFA World Cup qualification with several changes, reflecting the absence of some nations:


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
The 1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 64th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The greyhound betting levy bill was heard for a second time before parliament. The first had been read in 1989. Extracts from the reading were described by Alan Meale (MP for Mansfield) - "The purpose of the Bill is straightforward; it is to amend the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 to enable payment of a levy to the greyhound industry from moneys already deducted from punters for that purpose by the bookmakers in off-course betting establishments. There is a great need for this legislation. Greyhound racing is the second most supported spectator sport in Britain.


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
As census figures show, more than 5 million people support the sport by going along to tracks every week. They attend 83 tracks, 48 of which are independent and 35 of which are registered with the National Greyhound Racing Club. The membership of that club and of the independents now amounts to more than 15,000 greyhound owners. More than 20,000 greyhounds are registered and in training. At least 10,000 race meetings are held every year, accommodating over 120,000 greyhound races.


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
Unlike the horse racing industry, the greyhound industry receives no levy money whatever; although moneys are deducted at source in betting shops off-course, throughout Britain. That is a scandal of huge proportions because 10 per cent.—10p in every pound—is deducted from bets, under the legislation to which I have referred, with the purpose of 2% of that 10% coming back into the sport. Most punters are having that money deducted fraudulently because at present the only money that goes back into the greyhound industry returns via the Legislation is in place to ensure that a similar deduction benefits horse racing. Twenty-seven percent of all off-course betting is on greyhound racing, yet not one penny of that money goes back into the industry. Instead, it all goes into the pockets of bookmakers, who do nothing for that magnificent sport". It being half-past Two o'clock, the debate stood adjourned.


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
In addition to this, new laws now required all sporting stadia to make safety improvements following the problems related to football. The industry felt that it was being persecuted by the government.


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
In Ireland the racing industry received €3.5 million in the budget but the Bord na gCon was unhappy that they would only receive €500,000.


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
The National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) released the annual returns, with totalisator turnover at £104,779,742 and attendances recorded at 4,220,906 from 5803 meetings. Track tote deduction remained at 17.5%.


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary
Westmead Harry trained by Natalie Savva was voted Greyhound of the Year after winning the Scottish Greyhound Derby at Shawfield Stadium in a track record time, the Select Stakes, Blue Riband and Eclipse. Adraville Bridge was voted Irish Greyhound of the Year after winning the Laurels, National Produce and Dundalk International. John McGee won the Greyhound Trainer of the Year for the third successive year.


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks
Playbell Ltd (owners of Poole) removed the greyhound track to accommodate a larger football pitch but a new Perry Barr Stadium opened, promoted by Maurice Buckland at the former athletics stadium, this was six years after the closure of the old stadium at Walsall Road.


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks
At the end of 1988 businessmen and race horse owner Terry Robson and Harry Williams had got together and decided to take on the Sunderland stadium. Williams a respected former trainer at Brough Park helped design the new track and over £1 million was spent rebuilding the facilities. There was a new restaurant, private boxes and an application to the NGRC.


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News
Champion trainer John McGee joined Hackney in place of Doreen Boyce. Chris Page took over as Walthamstow Racing Manager from departing Tony Smith.


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
A brindle greyhound called Ravage Again dominated the sprint events, the greyhound trained by Willie Frew in Scotland by Tico out of Drominidy Rose had been bought for £5,500 by Frew, for owners David Fleming and Ian Rutherford. He won heat and final of a Clonmel sprint during the festival week and then after returning to Scotland, he continued to add to his winning sequence on the northern circuit. At 16 successive wins (in June) Ladbrokes offered 300-1 that he would better Ballyregan Bob's world record of 32 successive wins. Controversy over the wager surfaced when it was revealed that Ravage Again's two wins in Ireland would not been counted.


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
Willie Frew sent to the greyhound to be trained in the south by Terry Dartnall, partly because he wanted to prove that he could beat the southern opposition as well. after 22 wins Ravage Again went unbeaten through the Etherington Golden Sprint at Hove, breaking the 285 metre track record in the heats and final. A close call at Hall Green ended with a short head victory before another win at Swindon. He returned north to Frew and won race 28 at Shawfield on 22 December, ending the year on course for a new world record.


1990 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions
Dempseys Whisper scored a classic double, the fawn dog won both the Gold Collar at Catford Stadium and Grand Prix at Walthamstow Stadium. He completed a great year getting to the St Leger and Oaks final as well and was unlucky not to win the title of greyhound of the year.


1990 UK Athletics Championships
The 1990 UK Athletics Championships was the national championship in outdoor track and field for the United Kingdom held at Cardiff Athletics Stadium, Cardiff. It was the first time that the event was held in the Welsh capital. Strong winds affected several of the sprint races and jumps on the programme. A women's triple jump was contested for the first time.


1990 UK Athletics Championships
It was the fourteenth edition of the competition limited to British athletes only, launched as an alternative to the AAA Championships, which was open to foreign competitors. However, due to the fact that the calibre of national competition remained greater at the AAA event, the UK Championships this year were not considered the principal national championship event by some statisticians, such as the National Union of Track Statisticians (NUTS). Many of the athletes below also competed at the 1990 AAA Championships.


1990 UK Athletics Championships
Racewalker Ian McCombie and javelin thrower Steve Backley both won a third straight UK title at the event. Other men to defend titles that year were Colin Jackson (110 m hurdles), Paul Edwards (shot put) and Paul Head (hammer throw). Three women repeated their 1989 victories: Kay Morley (100 m hurdles), Jackie McKernan (discus) and Sharon Gibson (javelin).Myrtle Augee defeated Judy Oakes in the women's shot put to break her rival's winning streak dating back to 1984. No athletes won multiple titles in Cardiff, though champions Sallyanne Short, Phylis Smith, Alison Wyeth and Michelle Griffith all reached the podium in two events.


1990 UK Athletics Championships
The main international track and field competition for the United Kingdom that year was the 1990 European Athletics Championships. Britain's men had a highly successful performance there, with Linford Christie, Roger Black, Colin Jackson, Kriss Akabusi, and Steve Backley all going from UK champion to European champion. The 800 m UK champion David Sharpe was also a silver medallist behind his teammate Tom McKean. The four countries of the United Kingdom competed separately at the Commonwealth Games that year as well. UK champions Christie, Akabusi, Backley, Diane Edwards and Myrtle Augee all won gold for England, while Jackson and Morley made it a men's and women's sprint hurdles double for Wales.


1990 UK Championship
The 1990 UK Championship (also known as the 1990 StormSeal UK Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 16 November and 2 December 1990 at the Guild Hall in Preston, England. This was the second and last UK Championship to be sponsored by StormSeal. The televised stages were shown on the BBC from 24 November to the final.


1990 UK Championship
Hendry beat 19-year-old fellow Scot Alan McManus in the semi-final by a 9–5 scoreline. McManus, who was in his rookie season, had just beaten Dennis Taylor, Steve Newbury, Silvino Francisco and Jimmy White to make the semis. Nigel Bond, who was a finalist at the Grand Prix a month earlier, made it to the quarter-finals losing to Davis.


1990 UK Championship
Defending champion Stephen Hendry defeated Steve Davis 16–15 in the final. The highest break of the tournament was 140 made by John Parrott.


1990 UK Championship, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


1990 UMass Minutemen football team
The 1990 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1990 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Yankee Conference. The team was coached by Jim Reid and played its home games at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts. The Minutemen made their second playoff appearance in three years, but would lose in the first round to future conference foe William & Mary. It would be the last playoff appearance for UMass until the 1998 National Championship season. UMass finished the season with a record of 8–2–1 overall and 7–1 in conference play.


1990 UNLV Rebels football team
The 1990 UNLV Rebels football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the Big West Conference during the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their first year under head coach Jim Strong, the team compiled a 4–7 record.


1990 US Open (tennis)
The 1990 US Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City in the United States. It was the 110th edition of the US Open and was held from August 27 to September 9, 1990.


1990 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Men's Doubles
Pieter Aldrich /  Danie Visser defeated  Paul Annacone /  David Wheaton 6–2, 7–6 (7–3), 6–2


1990 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Women's Doubles
Gigi Fernández /  Martina Navratilova defeated  Jana Novotná /  Helena Suková 6–2, 6–4


1990 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Mixed Doubles
Elizabeth Smylie /  Todd Woodbridge defeated  Natasha Zvereva /  Jim Pugh 6–4, 6–2


1990 US Open (tennis), Juniors, Boys' Doubles
Sébastien Leblanc /  Greg Rusedski defeated  Marten Renström /  Mikael Tillström 6–7, 6–3, 6–4


1990 US Open (tennis), Juniors, Girls' Doubles
Kristin Godridge /  Kirrily Sharpe defeated  Erika deLone /  Lisa Raymond 4–6, 7–5, 6–2


1990 US Open (tennis), Other events, Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles
Tom Gullikson /  Dick Stockton defeated  Mark Edmondson /  Sherwood Stewart 6–7, 7–6, 6–4


1990 US Open (tennis), Other events, Ladies' Invitation Doubles
Rosemary Casals /  Billie Jean King defeated  Wendy Turnbull /  Virginia Wade 2–6, 6–4, 6–3


1990 US Open – Men's Doubles
The Men's Doubles tournament at the 1990 US Open was held from August 27 to September 9, 1990, on the outdoor hard courts of the USTA National Tennis Center in New York City, United States. Pieter Aldrich and Danie Visser won the title, defeating Paul Annacone and David Wheaton in the final.


1990 US Open – Men's Singles
Pete Sampras defeated Andre Agassi 6–4, 6–3, 6–2 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1990 US Open. It was the first of an eventual then-record fourteen Grand Slam titles for Sampras.


1990 US Open – Men's Singles
Boris Becker was the defending champion but lost to Agassi in the semifinals.


1990 US Open – Men's Singles
Sampras defeated Ivan Lendl in five sets in the quarterfinals, breaking Lendl's record streak of eight consecutive men's finals reached.


1990 US Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Pete Sampras is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1990 US Open – Mixed Doubles
Robin White and Shelby Cannon were the defending champions but lost in the second round to Zina Garrison and Rick Leach.


1990 US Open – Mixed Doubles
Elizabeth Smylie and Todd Woodbridge won in the final 6–4, 6–2 against Natasha Zvereva and Jim Pugh.


1990 US Open – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1990 US Open – Women's Doubles
Hana Mandlíková and Martina Navratilova were the defending champions but only Navratilova competed that year with Gigi Fernández.


1990 US Open – Women's Doubles
Fernández and Navratilova won in the final 6–2, 6–4 against Jana Novotná and Helena Suková. This was Navratilova's 31st and final grand slam title in women's doubles, an all-time record. With this loss, Novotná and Suková missed out on the calendar grand slam in women's doubles.


1990 US Open – Women's Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1990 US Open – Women's Singles
Gabriela Sabatini defeated the two-time defending champion Steffi Graf in the final, 6–2, 7–6(7–4), to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1990 U.S. Open. The final was a rematch of the 1988 US Open final and the 1989 US Open first semifinal. Sabatini became the first Argentine woman to win the title. It was also Sabatini's first (and only) victory over Graf at a major. This was Sabatini's only major singles title, despite reaching eighteen semifinals and three finals throughout her career.


1990 US Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Sabatini is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1990 US Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual US Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held over several days before the event.


1990 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 1990 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships took place between June 16–19 at Falcon Stadium on the campus of Cerritos College. The portion of the campus where the track lies is in the city of Norwalk, California. The meet was organized by The Athletics Congress.


1990 USAC FF2000 Championship
The 1990 USAC FF2000 Championship was the first season of the series. The series was sanctioned by the United States Auto Club and ran races in California and Arizona. Vince Puleo, Jr. won the inaugural championship in a Fast LG-1 entered by Fast Forward Racing.


1990 USC Trojans football team
The 1990 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fourth year under head coach Larry Smith, the Trojans compiled an 8–4–1 record (5–2–1 against conference opponents), finished in second place in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10), and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 348 to 274.


1990 USC Trojans football team
USC began the season by beating Syracuse in the eighth Kickoff Classic. They also won non-conference games against Penn State and Ohio State, the latter of which was suspended with 2:36 remaining because of severe thunderstorms. The Trojans would finish second in the Pac-10 and lost to Michigan State in their bowl game in an outcome reminiscent of their 1987 season.


1990 USC Trojans football team
Quarterback Todd Marinovich led the team in passing, completing 196 of 322 passes for 2,423 yards with 13 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. Mazio Royster led the team in rushing with 235 carries for 1,168 yards and eight touchdowns. Gary Wellman led the team in receiving with 66 catches for 1,015 yards and five touchdowns.


1990 USSR Chess Championship
The 1990 Soviet Chess Championship was the 57th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 18 October to 5 November 1990 in Leningrad. The title was won by Alexander Beliavsky. Semifinals took place at Gorky, Daugavpils and Kherson.


1990 USSR Chess Championship, Semifinals
The semifinals were played late in 1989. At Gorky, Vyzhmanavin (10/13), Dvoiris 9 and Dreev 8½ classified. At the Latvian venue of Daugavpils, Smirin, Rozentalis and Aseev made 10/14; while Alexey Shirov finished with only 8. Kherson in the Ukraine, Novikov and G.Kuzmin had 10½/15.


1990 USSR Federation Cup
The 1990 USSR Federation Cup was the fifth and the last edition of the USSR Federation Cup and was officially known as Cup of the USSR Football Union. It was brief and took place between 28 May through 6 July. Its final was played at the Black Sea Steamship Central Stadium in Odessa.


1990 UTEP Miners football team
The 1990 UTEP Miners football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas at El Paso in the Western Athletic Conference during the 1990 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second year under head coach David Lee, the team compiled a 3–8 record.


1990 Uganda Cup
1990 Uganda Cup was the 16th season of the main Ugandan football Cup.


1990 Uganda Cup, Overview
The competition has also been known as the Kakungulu Cup and was won by Kampala City Council FC who beat SC Villa 3-0 in the final. The results are not available for the earlier rounds


1990 Uganda Super League
The 1990 Ugandan Super League was the 23rd season of the official Ugandan football championship, the top-level football league of Uganda.


1990 Uganda Super League, Overview
The 1990 Uganda Super League was contested by 11 teams and was won by SC Villa, while BN United, Nile Breweries and Resistance were relegated.


1990 Uganda Super League, Leading goalscorer
The top goalscorer in the 1990 season was Majid Musisi of SC Villa with 28 goals.


1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election
The first relatively free election to the Supreme Soviet (Rada) held in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR) took place in several stages, from March 4 to March 18, 1990. The elections were held to elect deputies to the republic's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada. Simultaneously, elections of local provincial ("oblast'") councils also took place in their respective administrative divisions.


1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election
The election was the closest thing to a free election Ukraine had seen since the unfinished 1918 Constituent Assembly elections. Although the electoral campaign was far from being clear and transparent, representatives of the Democratic Bloc were the first to provide a legal challenge to the authority of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR in parliament. A total of 442 National Deputies were elected – short of the 450 seat total, due to low voter turnout.


1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election
The parliamentary convocation that convened after the 1990 election declared the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union on August 24, 1991. Later on, an amendment to the official number of parliamentary convocations recognized this 12th Convocation of the Parliament of the Ukrainian SSR as the first Parliament of Ukraine of the 1st Convocation.


1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election, Background
In the wake of Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika, the Law on Elections – adopted on October 27, 1989 – included provisions for direct elections of individuals (as opposed to group representation of civic organizations), the need for alternative (non-Communist) candidates, the elimination of a requirement for nomination meetings, and other relatively democratic provisions. However, the elections were far from being free – as the Communist Party retained control on the media, exerted political influence, and had a large financial resource base.


1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election, Background
During the election campaign, the self-titled "Democratic Bloc" was formed, which included the People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh), the Helsinki Watch Committee of Ukraine, the Green Party of Ukraine, and many other organizations.


1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election, Results
The elections took place according to the majoritarian electoral system in 450 electoral regions. The first round of elections took place on March 4, 1990. In electoral regions where none of candidates obtained at least 50% of the vote, a second round of elections took place on March 10–18. In two rounds of elections a total of 442 deputies were elected, not reaching the maximum 450 deputies due to low voter turnout.


1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election, Results
The Communists obtained 331 seats in the Rada. The Democratic Bloc obtained 111 seats out of 442. In the parliament, the democratic deputies formed the "Narodna Rada" (People's Council) group, which consisted of 90 to 125 members. Narodna Rada became the opposition bloc to the parliamentary majority and Ihor Yukhnovskyi was elected as the opposition group's leader.


1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election, Aftermath
The first meeting of the Parliament took place on May 15, 1990. The Communist deputies elected Volodymyr Ivashko to serve as the Parliament Chairman, but on July 19, 1991 he chose to move to Moscow for the position of Deputy General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Ukrainian Communists were rapidly losing popularity; by July 1990 ninety-two of the deputies elected as Communists declared themselves as "Independents". The remaining 239 communist deputies formed a new majority group they called "For a Soviet Sovereign Ukraine", informally known as the "group of 239".


1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election, Aftermath
On July 16, 1990, this Parliament adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine. The Declaration was supported by 355 deputies.


1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election, Aftermath
On July 18 the "For a Soviet Sovereign Ukraine" group led by Oleksander Moroz elected Leonid Kravchuk as the Chairman of Parliament.


1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election, Aftermath
On 24 October 1990, the Parliament amended the 1978 Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR, in particular to exclude Article 6. Prior to the amendments, the supreme governing body of the Ukrainian SSR was the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR.