1999 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 100 metres

The men's 100 metres event at the 1999 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Gothenburg, Sweden, at Ullevi on 29 and 30 July 1999. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Gold	Christoforos Choidis   Greece
Silver	Marcin Nowak   Poland
Silver	Christian Malcolm   Great Britain

Results

Final

30 July
Wind: 2.8 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Christoforos Choidis	Greece	10.19w
	Marcin Nowak	Poland	10.28w
	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain	10.28w
4	John Ertzgaard	Norway	10.29w
5	Jérôme Éyana	France	10.41w
6	Frédéric Krantz	France	10.46w
7	Adam Forgheim	Poland	10.47w
8	David Patros	France	10.55w

Semifinals

29 July
Qualified: first 4 in each to the Final

Semifinal 1

Wind: 0.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain	10.22	Q, CR
2	Christoforos Choidis	Greece	10.25	Q
3	Jérôme Éyana	France	10.30	Q
4	Adam Forgheim	Poland	10.32	Q
5	Jamie Henthorn	Great Britain	10.39
6	Martijn Ungerer	Netherlands	10.46
7	Yordan Yovchev	Bulgaria	10.62
	Diego Santos	Spain	DNS

Semifinal 2

Wind: -0.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marcin Nowak	Poland	10.25	Q
2	John Ertzgaard	Norway	10.27	Q
3	Frédéric Krantz	France	10.40	Q
4	David Patros	France	10.47	Q
5	Mark Findlay	Great Britain	10.49
6	Leszek Dyja	Poland	10.58
7	Alexander Kosenkow	Germany	10.60
8	José Illán	Spain	10.69

Heats

29 July
Qualified: first 3 in each heat and 1 best to the Semifinal

Heat 1

Wind:-1.8 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marcin Nowak	Poland	10.47	Q
2	Mark Findlay	Great Britain	10.56	Q
3	Yordan Yovchev	Bulgaria	10.64	Q
4	Lenny Martinez	Sweden	10.64
5	Thomas Mellin-Olsen	Norway	10.66
6	Hildberto Almeida	Portugal	10.67
7	Orkatz Beitia	Spain	10.68

Heat 2

Wind: -0.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Frédéric Krantz	France	10.51	Q
2	Diego Santos	Spain	10.57	Q
3	Martijn Ungerer	Netherlands	10.60	Q
4	Christofer Ohlsson	Sweden	10.60
5	Attila Farkas	Hungary	10.61
6	Boštjan Fridrih	Slovenia	10.64
7	Vitor Vasconcelos	Portugal	10.85

Heat 3

Wind: 0.4 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	John Ertzgaard	Norway	10.27	Q, CR
2	Christian Malcolm	Great Britain	10.31	Q
3	Adam Forgheim	Poland	10.34	Q
4	Luca Verdecchia	Italy	10.50
5	Gideon Jablonka	Israel	10.62
6	Pavel Rada	Czech Republic	10.68
7	Georgíos Skender	Cyprus	11.37

Heat 4

Wind: 1.6 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jérôme Éyana	France	10.40	Q
2	Jamie Henthorn	Great Britain	10.42	Q
3	Alexander Kosenkow	Germany	10.45	Q
4	Leszek Dyja	Poland	10.47	q
5	Aristotelis Gavelas	Greece	10.50
6	Roman Zubek	Czech Republic	10.62
7	Shamil Mamudov	Georgia	11.02

Heat 5

Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Christoforos Choidis	Greece	10.37	Q
2	David Patros	France	10.49	Q
3	José Illán	Spain	10.52	Q
4	Erik Kringeland	Norway	10.55
5	László Babály	Hungary	10.58
6	Francesco Scuderi	Italy	10.59
7	Predrag Momirović	Yugoslavia	10.81

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 35 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

•   Bulgaria (1)
•   Cyprus (1)
•   Czech Republic (2)
•   France (3)
•   Georgia (1)
•   Germany (1)
•   Great Britain (3)
•   Greece (2)
•   Hungary (2)
•   Israel (1)
•   Italy (2)
•   Netherlands (1)
•   Norway (3)
•   Poland (3)
•   Portugal (2)
•   Slovenia (1)
•   Spain (3)
•   Sweden (2)
•   Yugoslavia (1)

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