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 Göteborg, 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	FR 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)  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