The 1990 Boston Marathon was the 94th running of the annual marathon race in Boston, United States, which was held on April 16. The elite men's race was won by Italy's Gelindo Bordin in a time of 2:08:19 hours and the women's race was won by Portugal's Rosa Mota in 2:25:24.

A total of 7950 runners finished the race, 6516 men and 1434 women.

Results

Men

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Gelindo Bordin	Italy	2:08:19
	Juma Ikangaa	Tanzania	2:09:52
	Rolando Vera	Ecuador	2:10:46
4	John Campbell	New Zealand	2:11:04
5	Robert de Castella	Australia	2:11:28
6	Isidro Rico	Mexico	2:13:02
7	Geoffrey Smith	United Kingdom	2:13:38
8	Salah Qoqaiche	Morocco	2:13:53
9	Futoshi Shinohara	Japan	2:14:10
10	Philip O'Brien	United Kingdom	2:14:21
11	Tesfaye Tafa	Ethiopia	2:14:29
12	Gerry Curtis	Ireland	2:14:37
13	Peter Maher	Canada	2:15:25
14	Darrell General	United States	2:15:28
15	Thomas Eickmann	West Germany	2:15:51
16	Osamu Monoe	Japan	2:16:02
17	Kjell-Erik Ståhl	Sweden	2:16:19
18	Art Boileau	Canada	2:16:26
19	Steve Spence	United States	2:16:40
20	Delmir Alves Dos Santos	Brazil	2:16:44
21	Ryszard Marczak	Poland	2:16:44
22	Rich McCandless	United States	2:16:56
23	Joseph Leuchtmann	United States	2:17:25
24	Mario Cuevas	Mexico	2:17:30
25	Vincent Ruguga	Uganda	2:17:46

Women

Position	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Rosa Mota	Portugal	2:25:24
	Uta Pippig	East Germany	2:28:03
	María Trujillo	United States	2:28:53
4	Kamila Gradus	Poland	2:28:56
5	Kim Jones	United States	2:31:01
6	Véronique Marot	United Kingdom	2:31:09
7	Zoya Ivanova	Soviet Union	2:31:15
8	Ritva Lemettinen	Finland	2:38:44
9	Dimitra Papaspirou	Greece	2:38:45
10	Anne Roden	England	2:39:36
11	Jane Welzel	United States	2:42:04
12	Chie Matsuda	Japan	2:42:14
13	Christa Vahlensieck	West Germany	2:42:18
14	Cindy New	Canada	2:44:18
15	Gillian Horovitz	United Kingdom	2:45:00
16	Janine Aiello	United States	2:45:02
17	Cesarina Taroni	Italy	2:46:32
18	Chiemi Saito	Japan	2:47:28
19	Jane Hutchison	United States	2:47:55
20	Kristin Larson	United States	2:49:13
21	Judith Hine	New Zealand	2:49:30
22	Junko Kawakami	Japan	2:50:04
23	Christine Gibbons	United States	2:50:09
24	Maureen Griffith	Canada	2:50:40
25	Mary Wood	United States	2:51:09