1999 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw

These are the official results of the Men's Discus Throw event at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Spain. There were a total number of 37 participating athletes, with the final held on Tuesday August 24, 1999.

Medalists

Gold	Anthony Washington United States (USA)
Silver	Jürgen Schult Germany (GER)
Bronze	Lars Riedel Germany (GER)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
22.08.1999 – 10:00h	22.08.1999 – 10:00h
Final Round
24.08.1999 – 20:30h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Qualification

• Held on Tuesday 1999-08-22 with the mark set at 65.00 metres

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Virgilijus Alekna  (LTU)	65.86 m
2.	Lars Riedel  (GER)	64.00 m
3.	Michael Möllenbeck  (GER)	63.53 m
4.	Aleksander Tammert  (EST)	63.27 m
5.	Anthony Washington  (USA)	63.18 m
6.	Li Shaojie  (CHN)	62.89 m
7.	Róbert Fazekas  (HUN)	62.79 m
8.	Igor Primc  (SLO)	62.35 m
9.	Leonid Cherevko  (BLR)	61.40 m
10.	Dmitriy Shevchenko  (RUS)	60.80 m
11.	Jason Tunks  (CAN)	60.13 m
12.	Andrzej Krawczyk  (POL)	59.48 m
13.	Diego Fortuna  (ITA)	58.52 m
14.	Romas Ubartas  (LTU)	58.49 m
15.	Glen Smith  (GBR)	58.27 m
16.	Libor Malina  (CZE)	57.18 m
17.	Abbas Samimi  (IRI)	54.21 m
18.	Ercüment Olgundeniz  (TUR)	53.01 m
—	Costel Grasu  (ROM)	DNF

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Jürgen Schult  (GER)	65.65 m
2.	Vladimir Dubrovshchik  (BLR)	64.23 m
3.	Andy Bloom  (USA)	64.06 m
4.	Aleksandr Borichevskiy  (RUS)	63.40 m
5.	Vaclavas Kidykas  (LTU)	62.83 m
6.	Robert Weir  (GBR)	62.71 m
7.	Andreas Seelig  (GER)	62.57 m
8.	John Godina  (USA)	62.27 m
9.	Frantz Kruger  (RSA)	62.02 m
10.	Mickaël Conjungo  (CAF)	59.16 m
11.	Timo Tompuri  (FIN)	58.90 m
12.	Ian Winchester  (NZL)	58.74 m
13.	Nick Sweeney  (IRL)	58.62 m
14.	Pieter van der Kruk Jr.  (NED)	57.65 m
15.	Mario Pestano  (ESP)	57.30 m
16.	Attila Horváth  (HUN)	56.83 m
17.	Jason Gervais  (CAN)	54.19 m
18.	Aleksandr Malashevich  (BLR)	53.20 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Anthony Washington  (USA)	66.29	X	65.76	X	64.93	69.08	69.08 m	CR
	Jürgen Schult  (GER)	64.85	68.18	66.24	64.66	X	65.06	68.18 m	SB
	Lars Riedel  (GER)	64.63	66.94	68.09	X	65.38	X	68.09 m
4	Virgilijus Alekna  (LTU)	65.45	66.49	65.95	64.61	X	67.53	67.53 m	SB
5	Vaclavas Kidykas  (LTU)	65.05	62.28	61.91	X	X	X	65.05 m
6	Michael Möllenbeck  (GER)	63.33	64.90	64.54	X	X	64.51	64.90 m
7	Vladimir Dubrovshchik  (BLR)	64.00	63.86	63.83	61.00	63.46	62.72	64.00 m
8	Aleksandr Borichevskiy  (RUS)	63.59	61.05	60.56	X	61.24	X	63.59 m
9	Li Shaojie  (CHN)	62.15	63.22	62.38				63.22 m	SB
10	Aleksander Tammert  (EST)	62.29	X	X				62.29 m
11	Róbert Fazekas  (HUN)	61.30	X	61.71				61.71 m
—	Andy Bloom  (USA)	X	X	X				NM

See also

• 1998 Men's European Championships Discus Throw (Budapest)
• 2000 Men's Olympic Discus Throw (Sydney)
• 2002 Men's European Championships Discus Throw (Munich)

References

• Results
• trackandfieldnews