1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Road events
20 km	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's discus throw event at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Deveti Septemvri Stadium on 8 and 9 August.^[1][2] A 2 kg (senior implement) discus was used.

Gold	Ivan Iliev  Bulgaria
Silver	Frank Bicet  Cuba
Bronze	Jan Engelmann  East Germany

9 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Ivan Iliev	Bulgaria	52.34	56.26	57.64	x	58.28	57.84	58.28
	Frank Bicet	Cuba	55.30	x	x	57.10	55.88	53.30	57.10
	Jan Engelmann	East Germany	54.20	56.02	x	56.82	55.32	56.56	56.82
4	Anton Ellanskiy	Soviet Union	56.04	55.86	56.56	55.56	52.52	55.86	56.56
5	Gennadiy Barsegyan	Soviet Union	x	53.78	52.48	54.90	x	x	54.90
6	Jaroslav Žitnanský	Czechoslovakia	x	52.22	51.04	52.82	51.96	54.40	54.40
7	Miroslav Menc	Czechoslovakia	51.40	52.32	51.12	49.96	53.28	x	53.28
8	Alessandro Urlando	Italy	44.94	43.72	51.84	x	50.34	51.78	51.84
9	Johannes Kerälä	Finland	49.86	x	50.02				50.02
10	Markus Tschiers	West Germany	47.74	48.00	48.86				48.86
11	Courtney Ireland	New Zealand	48.22	48.82	x				48.82
12	Jörg Herwig	East Germany	48.46	x	x				48.46

8 Aug

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts			Result	Notes
			1	2	3
1	Ivan Iliev	Bulgaria	54.62	-	-	54.62	Q
2	Gennadiy Barsegyan	Soviet Union	54.34	-	-	54.34	Q
3	Jan Engelmann	East Germany	54.14	-	-	54.14	Q
4	Frank Bicet	Cuba	53.90	-	-	53.90	Q
5	Anton Ellanskiy	Soviet Union	48.18	52.80	-	52.80	Q
6	Jaroslav Žitnanský	Czechoslovakia	52.28	-	-	52.58	Q
7	Miroslav Menc	Czechoslovakia	43.46	50.86	50.02	50.86	q
8	Jörg Herwig	East Germany	50.26	x	48.24	50.23	q
9	Courtney Ireland	New Zealand	49.04	48.62	50.06	50.06	q
10	Johannes Kerälä	Finland	50.00	48.78	x	50.00	q
11	Markus Tschiers	West Germany	49.72	43.28	x	49.72	q
12	Alessandro Urlando	Italy	39.94	47.70	49.62	49.62	q
13	Lee Andrews	Canada	x	49.16	46.44	49.16
14	Jo Van Daele	Belgium	49.12	47.68	48.42	49.12
15	Arpad Konyi	Hungary	x	x	48.54	48.54
16	Christophe Dutournier	France	47.58	48.06	x	48.06
17	Glen Smith	United Kingdom	47.56	47.68	47.02	47.68
18	Stephen Dwight	Australia	44.92	47.00	47.34	47.34
19	Nikola Georgiev	Bulgaria	x	x	47.16	47.16
20	John Godina	United States	x	40.88	x	40.88
21	Bahadur Singh Sagoo	India	x	40.12	39.24	40.12

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.