1999 European Athletics U23 Championships

2nd European Athletics U23 Championships
Dates	29 July - 1 August 1999
Host city	Gothenburg, Sweden
Venue	Ullevi
Level	U23
Type	Outdoor
Events	43
Participation	726 athletes from 42 nations
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The 2nd European Athletics U23 Championships were held in Gothenburg, Sweden, at Ullevi from 29 July to 1 August 1999.

Complete results and medal winners were published. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Hristoforos Hoidis   Greece	10.19	Marcin Nowak   Poland	10.28	Christian Malcolm   Great Britain	10.28
200 metres details	John Ertzgaard   Norway	20.47	Christian Malcolm   Great Britain	20.47	Stefan Holz   Germany	20.69
400 metres details	Piotr Haczek   Poland	45.78	Zsolt Szeglet   Hungary	46.09	Marc Raquil   France	46.18
800 metres details	Nils Schumann   Germany	1:45.21	James Nolan   Ireland	1:46.94	Paweł Czapiewski   Poland	1:46.98
1500 metres details	Rui Silva   Portugal	3:44.29	Gert-Jan Liefers   Netherlands	3:44.60	Mehdi Baala   France	3:45.41
5000 metres details	Yousef El Nasri   Spain	13:30.48	Marius Bakken   Norway	13:31.53	Marco Mazza   Italy	13:47.17
10,000 metres details	Marco Mazza   Italy	28:39.29	Janne Holmén   Finland	28:40.87	Ovidiu Tat   Romania	29:26.31
110 metres hurdles details	Tomasz Ścigaczewski   Poland	13.36	Staņislavs Olijars   Latvia	13.55	Jan Schindzielorz   Germany	13.71
400 metres hurdles details	Thomas Goller   Germany	49.67	Boris Gorban   Russia	49.94	Periklis Iakovakis   Greece	49.97
3000 metres steeplechase details	Günther Weidlinger   Austria	8:30.34	Gael Pencreach   France	8:35.60	Antonio David Jiménez   Spain	8:37.29
20 kilometres walk details	David Márquez   Spain	1:23:42	Semyon Lovkin   Russia	1:24:04	Alfio Corsaro   Italy	1:24:25
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain Christian Malcolm Jamie Henthorn John Stewart Mark Findlay	38.96	France Jérôme Éyana Frédéric Krantz Cédric Gold Dalg David Patros	39.14	Germany Alexander Kosenkow Stefan Holz Michael Schäfer Falk Schrader	39.69
4 × 400 metres relay details	Germany Sebastian Debnar-Daumler Thomas Goller Nils Schumann Stefan Holz	3:02.96	Poland Michał Węglarski Piotr Długosielski Mariusz Bizoń Piotr Haczek	3:03.22	Great Britain Geoff Dearman Matthew Elias Peter Brend David Naismith	3:03.58
High jump details	Ben Challenger   Great Britain	2.30	Andriy Sokolovskyy   Ukraine	2.28	Javier Bermejo   Spain	2.22
Pole vault details	Romain Mesnil   France	5.93	Lars Börgeling   Germany	5.80	Vasiliy Gorshkov   Russia	5.60
Long jump details	Yago Lamela   Spain	8.36	Vitaliy Shkurlatov   Russia	8.02	Nathan Morgan   Great Britain	7.99
Triple jump details	Ionut Punga   Romania	16.73	Colomba Fofana   France	16.57	Vasil Gergov   Bulgaria	16.53
Shot put details	Mikuláš Konopka   Slovakia	19.60	Joachim Olsen   Denmark	19.50	Jarkko Haukijärvi   Finland	19.15
Discus throw details	Aliaksandr Malashevich   Belarus	63.78	Roland Varga   Hungary	61.99	Mario Pestano   Spain	61.73
Hammer throw details	Vladyslav Piskunov   Ukraine	76.26	András Haklits   Croatia	73.73	Maciej Pałyszko   Poland	73.50
Javelin throw details	Harri Haatainen   Finland	83.02	Ville Räsänen   Finland	78.36	Mark Frank   Germany	77.62
Decathlon details	Attila Zsivoczky   Hungary	8379	Boris Kawohl   Germany	7815	Dmitri Ivanov   Russia	7787

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Manuela Levorato   Italy	11.26	Olena Pastushenko   Ukraine	11.33	Kim Gevaert   Belgium	11.39
200 metres details	Manuela Levorato   Italy	22.68	Muriel Hurtis   France	22.85	Sabrina Mulrain   Germany	22.85
400 metres details	Otilia Ruicu   Romania	51.93	Jitka Burianová   Czech Republic	52.01	Grażyna Prokopek   Poland	52.28
800 metres details	Claudia Gesell   Germany	2:03.05	Irina Krakoviak   Lithuania	2:04.08	Laetitia Valdonado   France	2:04.20
1500 metres details	Lidia Chojecka   Poland	4:07.86	Yelena Zadorozhnaya   Russia	4:09.03	Anca Safta   Romania	4:09.78
5000 metres details	Katalin Szentgyörgy   Hungary	15:18.80	Cristina Iloc   Romania	15:22.64	Olivera Jevtić   Yugoslavia	15:24.83
10,000 metres details	Olivera Jevtić   Yugoslavia	32:37.59	Rosaria Console   Italy	33:05.77	Patricia Arribas   Spain	33:23.01
100 metres hurdles details	Agnieszka Karaczun   Poland	13.32	Julie Pratt   Great Britain	13.40	Éva Miklós   Hungary	13.40
400 metres hurdles details	Tasha Danvers   Great Britain	56.00	Ulrike Urbansky   Germany	56.08	Anika Ahrens   Germany	57.34
20 kilometres walk details	Claudia Iovan   Romania	1:33:17	Lyudmila Dedekina   Russia	1:34:02	Melanie Seeger   Germany	1:34:17
4 × 100 metres relay details	France Nadine Mahobah Muriel Hurtis Fabe Dia Doris Deruel	43.39	Germany Alice Reuss Marion Wagner Esther Möller Sabrina Mulrain	43.53	Poland Monika Długa Irena Sznajder Agnieszka Rysiukiewicz Magdalena Haszczyc	44.47
4 × 400 metres relay details	Russia Tatyana Levina Irina Yemelyanova Marina Grishakova Svetlana Pospelova	3:29.04	Germany Nicole Marahrens Anika Ahrens Ulrike Urbansky Claudia Marx	3:29.37	Romania Ramona Popovici Anca Safta Andrea Burlacu Otilia Ruicu	3:31.71
High jump details	Svetlana Lapina   Russia	1.98	Amewu Mensah   Germany	1.93	Linda Horvath   Austria	1.93
Pole vault details	Vala Flosadóttir   Iceland	4.30	Nastja Ryjikh   Germany	4.35	Dana Cervantes   Spain	4.15
Long jump details	Aurélie Félix   France	6.85	Inga Leiwesmeier   Germany	6.64	Éva Miklós   Hungary	6.51
Triple jump details	Cristina Nicolau   Romania	14.70	Oksana Rogova   Russia	14.65	Adelina Gavrilă   Romania	14.37
Shot put details	Yelena Ivanenko   Belarus	17.27	Nadine Beckel   Germany	17.15	Assunta Legnante   Italy	16.53
Discus throw details	Lacramioara Ionescu   Romania	58.24	Nadine Beckel   Germany	57.75	Věra Pospíšilová   Czech Republic	56.65
Hammer throw details	Florence Ezeh   France	64.56	Kirsten Münchow   Germany	63.68	Manuela Priemer   Germany	62.36
Javelin throw details	Susan Mathies   Germany	57.64	Tetyana Lyakhovych   Ukraine	57.35	Veera Oksanen   Finland	55.90
Heptathlon details	Natalya Roshchupkina   Russia	6125	Yelena Prokhorova   Russia	6011	Sonja Kesselschläger   Germany	5832

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	5	11	9	25
2	Romania	5	1	4	10
3	France	4	4	3	11
4	Poland	4	2	4	10
5	Russia	3	7	2	12
6	Great Britain	3	2	3	8
7	Italy	3	1	3	7
8	Spain	3	0	5	8
9	Hungary	2	2	2	6
10	Belarus	2	0	0	2
11	Ukraine	1	3	0	4
12	Finland	1	2	2	5
13	Norway	1	1	0	2
14	Austria	1	0	1	2
	Greece	1	0	1	2
	Yugoslavia	1	0	1	2
17	Iceland	1	0	0	1
	Portugal	1	0	0	1
	Slovakia	1	0	0	1
20	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
21	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Ireland	0	1	0	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
27	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
Totals (28 entries)		43	43	43	129

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 726 athletes from 42 countries participated in the event.

•   Albania (2)
•   Andorra (2)
•   Austria (4)
•   Belarus (18)
•   Belgium (10)
•   Bulgaria (7)
•   Croatia (4)
•   Cyprus (8)
•   Czech Republic (28)
•   Denmark (4)
•   Estonia (3)
•   Finland (32)
•   France (67)
•   Georgia (1)
•   Germany (73)
•   Gibraltar (1)
•   Great Britain (64)
•   Greece (20)
•   Hungary (27)
•   Iceland (3)
•   Ireland (11)
•   Israel (2)
•   Italy (31)
•   Latvia (7)
•   Lithuania (9)
•   Luxembourg (1)
•   Macedonia (1)
•   Moldova (2)
•   Netherlands (13)
•   Norway (9)
•   Poland (41)
•   Portugal (15)
•   Romania (23)
•   Russia (32)
•   Slovakia (10)
•   Slovenia (11)
•   Spain (61)
•   Sweden (28)
•    Switzerland (7)
•   Turkey (5)
•   Ukraine (17)
•   Yugoslavia (12)

References

1. European Athletics U23 Championships Ostrava 2011 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK - 2nd European Athletics U23 Championships - Göteborg, Sweden 29.7.-1.8. 1999 (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 17–29, retrieved 24 October 2014
2. European Championships U23 - Göteborg/SWE () - 29.07.-01.08.99 (PDF), sportfieber.pytalhost.com, archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013, retrieved 27 October 2014
3. "Championnats d'Europe Espoirs - Göteborg (Suède), 29 juillet au 1er août 1999", L'Athlétisme (in French), 09 (N423), Fédération française d'athlétisme: 22–23, 1999, retrieved 28 October 2014
4. Athletics Weekly, EUROPEAN UNDER 23 CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly , retrieved 24 October 2014

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