1999 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1999 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Gothenburg, Sweden, at Ullevi on 30 July and 1 August 1999. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Gold	Nils Schumann   Germany
Silver	James Nolan   Ireland
Bronze	Paweł Czapiewski   Poland

Results

Final

1 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:45.21	CR
	James Nolan	Ireland	1:46.94
	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1:46.98
4	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:47.02
5	João Pires	Portugal	1:47.83
6	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:48.33
7	Pavel Pelepyagin	Belarus	1:51.15
8	Rickard Pell	Sweden	1:55.69

Heats

30 July
Qualified: first 2 in each heat and 2 best to the Final

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pavel Pelepyagin	Belarus	1:47.82	Q
2	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:47.86	Q
3	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1:47.96	q
4	Neil Speaight	United Kingdom	1:48.42
5	Tobias Dertmann	Germany	1:48.53
6	Ramon Wächter	Switzerland	1:49.39
7	Daniel Oniciuc	Romania	1:50.34
8	Roman Hanzel	Slovakia	1:53.56

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	James Nolan	Ireland	1:48.45	Q
2	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:48.82	Q
3	Aleksandr Trutko	Belarus	1:49.34
4	Vanco Stojanov	North Macedonia	1:49.66
5	Steve Gurnham	Switzerland	1:49.74
6	Andriy Tverdostup	Ukraine	1:51.24
7	Grant Cuddy	United Kingdom	1:52.12
8	René Breitenstein	Germany	1:57.63

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:47.09	Q
2	João Pires	Portugal	1:48.06	Q
3	Rickard Pell	Sweden	1:48.19	q
4	Israel Domínguez	Spain	1:48.98
5	Alasdair Donaldson	United Kingdom	1:49.18
6	Jan Verner	Czech Republic	1:49.60
7	Dalibor Balgač	Croatia	1:49.72
8	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:50.64

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

•   Belarus (2)
•   Belgium (1)
•   Croatia (1)
•   Czech Republic (2)
•   Germany (3)
•   Ireland (1)
•   Latvia (1)
•   North Macedonia (1)
•   Poland (1)
•   Portugal (1)
•   Romania (1)
•   Slovakia (1)
•   Spain (1)
•   Sweden (1)
•    Switzerland (2)
•   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