1999 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1999 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Gothenburg, Sweden, at Ullevi on 29 and 31 July 1999. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Gold	Rui Silva   Portugal
Silver	Gert-Jan Liefers   Netherlands
Bronze	Mehdi Baala   France

Results

Final

31 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rui Silva	Portugal	3:44.29
	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	3:44.60
	Mehdi Baala	France	3:45.41
4	Ivan Heshko	Ukraine	3:45.94
5	Jan Fitschen	Germany	3:45.99
6	Manuel Damião	Portugal	3:46.41
7	Gareth Turnbull	Ireland	3:46.79
8	Yacin Yusuf	United Kingdom	3:46.87
9	Michal Šneberger	Czech Republic	3:46.88
10	Pietro Pelusi	Italy	3:47.22
11	Aleš Tomič	Slovenia	3:49.44
12	Matthew Dixon	United Kingdom	3:50.79

Heats

29 July
Qualified: first 4 in each heat and 4 best to the Final

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mehdi Baala	France	3:42.46	Q
2	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	3:42.84	Q
3	Manuel Damião	Portugal	3:43.61	Q
4	Aleš Tomič	Slovenia	3:43.86	Q
5	Yacin Yusuf	United Kingdom	3:44.00	q
6	Pietro Pelusi	Italy	3:44.14	q
7	Michal Šneberger	Czech Republic	3:45.20	q
8	Daniel Oniciuc	Romania	3:45.30
9	Pol Guillén	Spain	3:46.28
10	Robert Neryng	Poland	3:49.40
11	Lars Kelpien	Germany	3:50.41
12	Ferenc Békési	Hungary	3:53.69
	Vanco Stojanov	Macedonia	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rui Silva	Portugal	3:43.70	Q
2	Gareth Turnbull	Ireland	3:.43.86	Q
3	Ivan Heshko	Ukraine	3:43.94	Q
4	Matthew Dixon	United Kingdom	3:44.06	Q
5	Jan Fitschen	Germany	3:44.10	q
6	Juan Higuero	Spain	3:45.34
7	Jari Matinlauri	Finland	3:45.58
8	Michael East	United Kingdom	3:47.09
9	Christian Thielen	Luxembourg	3:48.31
10	Roman Hanzel	Slovakia	3:52.07
11	Mattias Norling	Sweden	3:53.01
12	Grzegorz Kujawski	Poland	3:54.80

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event. The announced athlete from Macedonia did not show.

•   Czech Republic (1)
•   Finland (1)
•   France (1)
•   Germany (2)
•   Hungary (1)
•   Ireland (1)
•   Italy (1)
•   Luxembourg (1)
•   Netherlands (1)
•   Poland (2)
•   Portugal (2)
•   Romania (1)
•   Slovakia (1)
•   Slovenia (1)
•   Spain (2)
•   Sweden (1)
•   Ukraine (1)
•   United Kingdom (3)

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