Athletics at the 1990 Goodwill Games

Athletics at the 1990 Goodwill Games
Husky Stadium was the athletics venue for the 1990 Games
Host city	Seattle, United States
Date(s)	July – August 1990
Main stadium	Husky Stadium
Participation	370 athletes from 28 nations
Events	43
Records set	1 world record 14 Games records
← 1986 Moscow 1994 St. Peterburg → 1990 Goodwill Games

At the 1990 Goodwill Games, the athletics events were held in Seattle, Washington, United States between July and August 1990. A total of 43 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 20 by female athletes. Athletes from the United States and the Soviet Union dominated the competition as they had done in the inaugural edition, with United States coming out on top this time with 54 medal won, 20 of them gold. The Soviet Union was a clear second place with 14 golds and 43 medals in total. The Greater Antillean island nations of Cuba and Jamaica had the third- and fourth-greatest medal hauls, respectively.

The number of competitors in each event was smaller than that of the 1986 Goodwill Games and the invited athletes only had to compete in a single final, rather than the qualification-round model typically found at multi-sport events. Fourteen Games records were beaten in the second edition and one world record was also set at the competition – Nadezhda Ryashkina of the Soviet Union beat the previous best mark in the 10,000 metres track walk with her time of 41:56.23. The 1990 Games saw the athletics competition's first doping infractions, as Tamara Bykova and Larisa Nikitina both lost silver medals after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.