1999 European Athletics U23 Championships

The 2nd European Athletics U23 Championships were held in Gothenburg, Sweden, at Ullevi from 29 July to 1 August 1999.

2nd European Athletics U23 Championships
Dates	29 July - 1 August 1999
Host city	Göteborg, Sweden
Venue	Ullevi
Level	U23
Type	Outdoor
Events	43
Participation	726 athletes from 42 nations
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Complete results and medal winners were published.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Hristoforos Hoidis Greece	10.19	Marcin Nowak Poland	10.28	Christian Malcolm Great Britain	10.28
200 metres	John Ertzgaard Norway	20.47	Christian Malcolm Great Britain	20.47	Stefan Holz Germany	20.69
400 metres	Piotr Haczek Poland	45.78	Zsolt Szeglet Hungary	46.09	Marc Raquil France	46.18
800 metres	Nils Schumann Germany	1:45.21	James Nolan Ireland	1:46.94	Paweł Czapiewski Poland	1:46.98
1500 metres	Rui Silva Portugal	3:44.29	Gert-Jan Liefers Netherlands	3:44.60	Mehdi Baala France	3:45.41
5000 metres	Yousef El Nasri Spain	13:30.48	Marius Bakken Norway	13:31.53	Marco Mazza Italy	13:47.17
10,000 metres	Marco Mazza Italy	28:39.29	Janne Holmén Finland	28:40.87	Ovidiu Tat Romania	29:26.31
110 metres hurdles	Tomasz Ścigaczewski Poland	13.36	Staņislavs Olijars Latvia	13.55	Jan Schindzielorz Germany	13.71
400 metres hurdles	Thomas Goller Germany	49.67	Boris Gorban Russia	49.94	Periklis Iakovakis Greece	49.97
3000 metres steeplechase	Günther Weidlinger Austria	8:30.34	Gael Pencreach France	8:35.60	Antonio David Jiménez Spain	8:37.29
20 kilometres walk	David Márquez Spain	1:23:42	Semyon Lovkin Russia	1:24:04	Alfio Corsaro Italy	1:24:25
4 × 100 metres relay	Great Britain Christian Malcolm Jamie Henthorn John Stewart Mark Findlay	38.96	France Jérôme Éyana Frédéric Krantz Cédric Gold Dalg David Patros	39.14	Germany Alexander Kosenkow Stefan Holz Michael Schäfer Falk Schrader	39.69
4 × 400 metres relay	Germany Sebastian Debnar-Daumler Thomas Goller Nils Schumann Stefan Holz	3:02.96	Poland Michał Węglarski Piotr Długosielski Mariusz Bizoń Piotr Haczek	3:03.22	Great Britain Geoff Dearman Matthew Elias Peter Brend David Naismith	3:03.58
High jump	Ben Challenger Great Britain	2.30	Andriy Sokolovskyy Ukraine	2.28	Javier Bermejo Spain	2.22
Pole vault	Romain Mesnil France	5.93	Lars Börgeling Germany	5.80	Vasiliy Gorshkov Russia	5.60
Long jump	Yago Lamela Spain	8.36	Vitaliy Shkurlatov Russia	8.02	Nathan Morgan Great Britain	7.99
Triple jump	Ionut Punga Romania	16.73	Colomba Fofana France	16.57	Vasil Gergov Bulgaria	16.53
Shot put	Mikuláš Konopka Slovakia	19.60	Joachim Olsen Denmark	19.50	Jarkko Haukijärvi Finland	19.15
Discus throw	Aliaksandr Malashevich Belarus	63.78	Roland Varga Hungary	61.99	Mario Pestano Spain	61.73
Hammer throw	Vladyslav Piskunov Ukraine	76.26	András Haklits Croatia	73.73	Maciej Pałyszko Poland	73.50
Javelin throw	Harri Haatainen Finland	83.02	Ville Räsänen Finland	78.36	Mark Frank Germany	77.62
Decathlon	Attila Zsivoczky Hungary	8379	Boris Kawohl Germany	7815	Dmitri Ivanov Russia	7787

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Manuela Levorato Italy	11.26	Olena Pastushenko Ukraine	11.33	Kim Gevaert Belgium	11.39
200 metres	Manuela Levorato Italy	22.68	Muriel Hurtis France	22.85	Sabrina Mulrain Germany	22.85
400 metres	Otilia Ruicu Romania	51.93	Jitka Burianová Czech Republic	52.01	Grażyna Prokopek Poland	52.28
800 metres	Claudia Gesell Germany	2:03.05	Irina Krakoviak Lithuania	2:04.08	Laetitia Valdonado France	2:04.20
1500 metres	Lidia Chojecka Poland	4:07.86	Yelena Zadorozhnaya Russia	4:09.03	Anca Safta Romania	4:09.78
5000 metres	Katalin Szentgyörgy Hungary	15:18.80	Cristina Iloc Romania	15:22.64	Olivera Jevtić Yugoslavia	15:24.83
10,000 metres	Olivera Jevtić Yugoslavia	32:37.59	Rosaria Console Italy	33:05.77	Patricia Arribas Spain	33:23.01
100 metres hurdles	Agnieszka Karaczun Poland	13.32	Julie Pratt Great Britain	13.40	Éva Miklós Hungary	13.40
400 metres hurdles	Tasha Danvers Great Britain	56.00	Ulrike Urbansky Germany	56.08	Anika Ahrens Germany	57.34
20 kilometres walk	Claudia Iovan Romania	1:33:17	Lyudmila Dedekina Russia	1:34:02	Melanie Seeger Germany	1:34:17
4 × 100 metres relay	France Nadine Mahobah Muriel Hurtis Fabe Dia Doris Deruel	43.39	Germany Alice Reuss Marion Wagner Esther Möller Sabrina Mulrain	43.53	Poland Monika Długa Irena Sznajder Agnieszka Rysiukiewicz Magdalena Haszczyc	44.47
4 × 400 metres relay	Russia Tatyana Levina Irina Yemelyanova Marina Grishakova Svetlana Pospelova	3:29.04	Germany Nicole Marahrens Anika Ahrens Ulrike Urbansky Claudia Marx	3:29.37	Romania Ramona Popovici Anca Safta Andrea Burlacu Otilia Ruicu	3:31.71
High jump	Svetlana Lapina Russia	1.98	Amewu Mensah Germany	1.93	Linda Horvath Austria	1.93
Pole vault	Vala Flosadóttir Iceland	4.30	Nastja Ryjikh Germany	4.35	Dana Cervantes Spain	4.15
Long jump	Aurélie Félix France	6.85	Inga Leiwesmeier Germany	6.64	Éva Miklós Hungary	6.51
Triple jump	Cristina Nicolau Romania	14.70	Oksana Rogova Russia	14.65	Adelina Gavrilă Romania	14.37
Shot put	Yelena Ivanenko Belarus	17.27	Nadine Beckel Germany	17.15	Assunta Legnante Italy	16.53
Discus throw	Lacramioara Ionescu Romania	58.24	Nadine Beckel Germany	57.75	Věra Pospíšilová Czech Republic	56.65
Hammer throw	Florence Ezeh France	64.56	Kirsten Münchow Germany	63.68	Manuela Priemer Germany	62.36
Javelin throw	Susan Mathies Germany	57.64	Tetyana Lyakhovych Ukraine	57.35	Veera Oksanen Finland	55.90
Heptathlon	Natalya Roshchupkina Russia	6125	Yelena Prokhorova Russia	6011	Sonja Kesselschläger Germany	5832

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	5	11	9	25
2	Romania	5	1	4	10
3	France	4	4	3	11
4	Poland	4	2	4	10
5	Russia	3	7	2	12
6	Great Britain	3	2	3	8
7	Italy	3	1	3	7
8	Spain	3	0	5	8
9	Hungary	2	2	2	6
10	Belarus	2	0	0	2
11	Ukraine	1	3	0	4
12	Finland	1	2	2	5
13	Norway	1	1	0	2
14	Austria	1	0	1	2
	Greece	1	0	1	2
	Yugoslavia	1	0	1	2
17	Iceland	1	0	0	1
	Portugal	1	0	0	1
	Slovakia	1	0	0	1
20	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
21	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Ireland	0	1	0	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
27	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
Totals (28 entries)		43	43	43	129

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 726 athletes from 42 countries participated in the event.

• Albania (2)
• Andorra (2)
• Austria (4)
• Belarus (18)
• Belgium (10)
• Bulgaria (7)
• Croatia (4)
• Cyprus (8)
• Czech Republic (28)
• Denmark (4)
• Estonia (3)
• Finland (32)
• France (67)
• Georgia (1)
• Germany (73)
• Gibraltar (1)
• Great Britain (64)
• Greece (20)
• Hungary (27)
• Iceland (3)
• Ireland (11)
• Israel (2)
• Italy (31)
• Latvia (7)
• Lithuania (9)
• Luxembourg (1)
• Macedonia (1)
• Moldova (2)
• Netherlands (13)
• Norway (9)
• Poland (41)
• Portugal (15)
• Romania (23)
• Russia (32)
• Slovakia (10)
• Slovenia (11)
• Spain (61)
• Sweden (28)
• Switzerland (7)
• Turkey (5)
• Ukraine (17)
• Yugoslavia (12)

References

• Results
• Full results