1999 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1999 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Göteborg, Sweden, at Ullevi on 29 and 30 July 1999.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Thomas Goller  Germany
Silver	Boris Gorban  Russia
Bronze	Periklis Iakovakis  Greece

Results

Final

30 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Thomas Goller	Germany	49.67
	Boris Gorban	Russia	49.94
	Periklis Iakovakis	Greece	49.97
4	Lambros Zervakos	Greece	50.48
5	Tomasz Rudnik	Poland	50.63
6	Eduardo Iván Rodríguez	Spain	50.67
7	Brian Liddy	Ireland	50.76
8	Matthew Elias	United Kingdom	52.39

Heats

29 July
Qualified: first 2 in each heat and 2 best to the Final

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Matthew Elias	United Kingdom	50.84	Q
2	Periklis Iakovakis	Greece	50.93	Q
3	Tomasz Rudnik	Poland	51.02	q
4	Francesco Filisetti	Italy	51.09
5	Jaime Juan	Spain	51.60
6	David Keogan	Ireland	51.86
7	Cédric El-Idrissi	Switzerland	53.12
8	Iztok Hodnik	Slovenia	53.83

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Boris Gorban	Russia	50.57	Q
2	Lambros Zervakos	Greece	50.93	Q
3	Brian Liddy	Ireland	50.99	q
4	Guilhem Barthes	France	51.31
5	Boris Vazovan	Slovakia	52.10
6	Kimmo Haapasalo	Finland	52.23
7	Charles Robertson-Adams	United Kingdom	52.95
8	Filip Faems	Belgium	62.16

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Eduardo Iván Rodríguez	Spain	50.92	Q
2	Thomas Goller	Germany	51.01	Q
3	Leonid Vershinin	Belarus	51.15
4	Daniel Gómez	Andorra	51.77
5	Josef Rous	Czech Republic	52.51
6	James Hillier	United Kingdom	52.79
7	Panagiotis Raptis	Cyprus	53.17
	Naman Keïta	France	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.

•  Andorra (1)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Cyprus (1)
•  Czech Republic (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (2)
•  Germany (1)
•  Greece (2)
•  Ireland (2)
•  Italy (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  Russia (1)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  Spain (2)
•   Switzerland (1)
•  United Kingdom (3)

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