1999 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's shot put

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

Medalists

Gold	Mikuláš Konopka   Slovakia
Silver	Joachim Olsen   Denmark
Bronze	Jarkko Haukijärvi   Finland

Results

Final

29 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Mikuláš Konopka	Slovakia	18.04	x	x	18.15	19.02	19.60	19.60	CR
	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	x	18.91	x	17.97	19.50	18.52	19.50
	Jarkko Haukijärvi	Finland	18.02	18.21	x	x	19.15	18.56	19.15
4	Jimmy Nordin	Sweden	18.85	18.98	x	19.08	19.07	x	19.08
5	Vaios Tiggas	Greece	18.23	18.46	18.51	18.23	x	18.72	18.72
6	Ralf Bartels	Germany	x	18.34	x	18.53	18.44	x	18.53
7	Petr Stehlík	Czech Republic	18.36	x	x	17.94	18.31	18.10	18.36
8	Carl Myerscough	Great Britain	18.09	x	x	17.57	x	x	18.09
9	Iker Sukia	Spain	17.81	18.00	17.91				18.00
10	Yves Niaré	France	17.91	x	x				17.91
11	Mirosław Dec	Poland	17.58	x	x				17.58
12	Attila Pintér	Hungary	x	15.99	x				15.99

Qualifications

29 July
Qualifying 18.40 or 12 best to the Final

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Jimmy Nordin	Sweden	18.49	Q
2	Petr Stehlík	Czech Republic	18.02	q
3	Mirosław Dec	Poland	17.89	q
4	Yves Niaré	France	17.52	q
5	Mikko Rönkkö	Finland	17.39
6	Dmitriy Kruchenok	Belarus	17.38
7	Miran Vodovnik	Slovenia	17.10
8	Ivan Emelianov	Moldova	16.94
9	Gjøran Sørli	Norway	16.78
10	Andriy Borodkin	Ukraine	16.59
11	Arpad Sinko	Yugoslavia	16.55

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	18.64	Q
2	Carl Myerscough	Great Britain	18.43	Q
3	Attila Pintér	Hungary	18.38	q
4	Vaios Tiggas	Greece	18.28	q
5	Mikuláš Konopka	Slovakia	18.21	q
6	Jarkko Haukijärvi	Finland	18.21	q
7	Ralf Bartels	Germany	18.05	q
8	Iker Sukia	Spain	17.59	q
9	Leszek Śliwa	Poland	17.44
10	Anders Holmström	Sweden	17.23
11	Erwin Simpelaar	Netherlands	17.04

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

•   Belarus (1)
•   Czech Republic (1)
•   Denmark (1)
•   Finland (2)
•   France (1)
•   Germany (1)
•   Great Britain (1)
•   Greece (1)
•   Hungary (1)
•   Moldova (1)
•   Netherlands (1)
•   Norway (1)
•   Poland (2)
•   Slovakia (1)
•   Slovenia (1)
•   Spain (1)
•   Sweden (2)
•   Ukraine (1)
•   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