1999 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's discus throw

The men's discus throw event at the 1999 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Göteborg, Sweden, at Ullevi on 31 July and 1 August 1999.[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Aleksandr Malashevich  Belarus
Silver	Roland Varga  Hungary
Bronze	Mario Pestano  Spain

Results

Final

1 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Aleksandr Malashevich	Belarus	53.97	59.54	60.02	61.07	63.78	x	63.78	CR
	Roland Varga	Hungary	61.99	56.62	x	x	x	x	61.99
	Mario Pestano	Spain	59.61	x	x	x	57.36	61.73	61.73
4	Gábor Máté	Hungary	59.43	x	61.26	56.65	60.03	58.39	61.26
5	Petri Hakala	Finland	56.54	54.95	58.08	x	57.21	59.26	59.26
6	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary	58.51	56.26	56.04	55.61	54.75	x	58.51
7	Emeka Udechuku	Great Britain	57.87	54.72	x	57.85	x	57.68	57.87
8	Patrick Stang	Germany	56.89	54.33	57.85	55.01	x	55.55	57.85
9	Carl Myerscough	Great Britain	56.68	54.00	x				56.68
10	Jörg Schulte	Germany	54.75	55.38	53.51				55.38
11	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	54.86	53.99	54.97				54.97
12	Yves Niaré	France	53.58	x	x				53.58

Qualifications

31 July
Qualifying perf. 58.00 or 12 best to the Final

Group A

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Aleksandr Malashevich	Belarus	58.82	Q
2	Mario Pestano	Spain	58.78	Q
3	Jörg Schulte	Germany	55.88	q
4	Carl Myerscough	Great Britain	55.17	q
5	Emeka Udechuku	Great Britain	54.54	q
6	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary	54.50	q
7	Čaba Guljaš	FR Yugoslavia	53.70
8	Adam Doležel	Czech Republic	53.47
9	Jean-Baptiste Tiercelin	France	52.72
10	Gjøran Sørli	Norway	50.11
	Demetris Toumbas	Cyprus	45.66

Group B

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Roland Varga	Hungary	58.75	Q
2	Gábor Máté	Hungary	57.85	q
3	Petri Hakala	Finland	57.58	q
4	Patrick Stang	Germany	56.83	q
5	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	55.15	q
6	Yves Niaré	France	53.91	q
7	Janne Hummastenniemi	Finland	52.52
8	Spiridon Arabatzis	Greece	52.45
9	Dariusz Slowik	Denmark	51.17
	Iván Tirado	Spain	NM

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

Belarus (1)  Cyprus (1)  Czech Republic (1)  Denmark (2)

Finland (2)  France (2)  Germany (2)

Great Britain (2)  Greece (1)  Hungary (3)

Norway (1)  Spain (2)  FR 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