1999 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1999 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Göteborg, Sweden, at Ullevi on 29 and 31 July 1999.[1][2]

Medalists edit

Gold Rui Silva
  Portugal
Silver Gert-Jan Liefers
  Netherlands
Bronze Mehdi Baala
  France

Results edit

Final edit

31 July

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
  Rui Silva   Portugal 3:44.29
  Gert-Jan Liefers   Netherlands 3:44.60
  Mehdi Baala   France 3:45.41
4 Ivan Heshko   Ukraine 3:45.94
5 Jan Fitschen   Germany 3:45.99
6 Manuel Damião   Portugal 3:46.41
7 Gareth Turnbull   Ireland 3:46.79
8 Yacin Yusuf   United Kingdom 3:46.87
9 Michal Šneberger   Czech Republic 3:46.88
10 Pietro Pelusi   Italy 3:47.22
11 Aleš Tomič   Slovenia 3:49.44
12 Matthew Dixon   United Kingdom 3:50.79

Heats edit

29 July
Qualified: first 4 in each heat and 4 best to the Final

Heat 1 edit

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Mehdi Baala   France 3:42.46 Q
2 Gert-Jan Liefers   Netherlands 3:42.84 Q
3 Manuel Damião   Portugal 3:43.61 Q
4 Aleš Tomič   Slovenia 3:43.86 Q
5 Yacin Yusuf   United Kingdom 3:44.00 q
6 Pietro Pelusi   Italy 3:44.14 q
7 Michal Šneberger   Czech Republic 3:45.20 q
8 Daniel Oniciuc   Romania 3:45.30
9 Pol Guillén   Spain 3:46.28
10 Robert Neryng   Poland 3:49.40
11 Lars Kelpien   Germany 3:50.41
12 Ferenc Békési   Hungary 3:53.69
Vanco Stojanov   Macedonia DNS

Heat 2 edit

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Rui Silva   Portugal 3:43.70 Q
2 Gareth Turnbull   Ireland 3:.43.86 Q
3 Ivan Heshko   Ukraine 3:43.94 Q
4 Matthew Dixon   United Kingdom 3:44.06 Q
5 Jan Fitschen   Germany 3:44.10 q
6 Juan Higuero   Spain 3:45.34
7 Jari Matinlauri   Finland 3:45.58
8 Michael East   United Kingdom 3:47.09
9 Christian Thielen   Luxembourg 3:48.31
10 Roman Hanzel   Slovakia 3:52.07
11 Mattias Norling   Sweden 3:53.01
12 Grzegorz Kujawski   Poland 3:54.80

Participation edit

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event. The announced athlete from   Macedonia did not show.

References edit

  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