1999 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's discus throw

1999 European Athletics U23 Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
20 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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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		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		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		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		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		FR Yugoslavia	53.70
8		Czech Republic	53.47
9		France	52.72
10		Norway	50.11
		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		Finland	57.58	q
4		Germany	56.83	q
5	Joachim Olsen	Denmark	55.15	q
6	Yves Niaré	France	53.91	q
7		Finland	52.52
8		Greece	52.45
9	Dariusz Slowik	Denmark	51.17
		Spain	NM

Participation[]

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

References[]