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.

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	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)
• Yugoslavia (1)