World Athletics Championships 1999 / Men's discus throw

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 24 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 22nd (qualification) August 24th (final)
Medalist Anthony Washington ( USA )   Jürgen Schult ( GER )   Lars Riedel ( GER )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The men's discus throw at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 22nd and 24th, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

In this competition the German discus throwers won two medals, silver and bronze. World champion was US American Anthony Washington , who won the discus throw at the 1991 Pan American Games .
Silver went to the Olympic champion in 1988 , Olympic II of 1992 , world champion in 1987 , two-time World Cup -third ( 1993 / 1997 ), European champion in 1990 , European Vice Champion of 1994 , EM -third of 1998 and world record holder Jürgen Schult .
The four-time world champion ( 1991 /1993/ 1995 /1997), Olympic champion in 1996 and European champion Lars Riedel won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	74.08 m	Jürgen Schult	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	June 6, 1986
World Cup record	68.76 m	Lars Riedel	World Cup 1995 in Gothenburg , Sweden	September 11, 1995

Record improvement

The US world champion Anthony Washington improved the existing World Cup record in the final on August 24th by 32 centimeters to 69.08 m.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid
r	Competition not continued (retired)

qualification

37 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 64.50 m. Two athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the ten next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 62.79 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

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  Romas Ubartas scored 58.49 m and was eliminated

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  Costel Grasu had to retire injured after his first throw, which was invalid

August 22, 1999, 10:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	65.86	65.86	-	-
2	Lars Riedel	Germany	64.00	64.00	-	-
3	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany	63.52	60.34	63.52	61.49
4th	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	63.27	63.27	59.34	59.90
5	Anthony Washington	United States	63.18	60.58	63.18	60.68
6th	Li Shaojie	People's Republic of China	62.89	61.00	59.97	62.89
7th	Róbert Fazekas	Hungary	62.79	57.23	61.37	62.79
8th	Igor Primc	Slovenia	62.35	57.18	60.39	62.35
9	Leonid Cherevko	Belarus	61.40	x	60.02	61.40
10	Dmitri Shevchenko	Russia	60.80	60.80	58.09	x
11	Jason Tunks	Canada	60.13	60.13	58.95	56.07
12	Andrzej Krawczyk	Poland	59.48	59.48	59.16	58.92
13	Diego Fortuna	Italy	58.52	58.07	58.52	57.08
14th	Romas Ubartas	Lithuania	58.49	58.04	x	58.49
15th	Glen Smith	Great Britain	58.27	x	58.27	56.59
16	Libor Malina	Czech Republic	57.18	x	55.84	57.18
17th	Abbas Samimi	Iran	54.121	54.21	x	51.45
18th	Ercüment Olgundeniz	Turkey	53.01	53.01	x	x
DNF	Costel Grasu	Romania	without space	x	r

Group B

With his 62.02 m, Frantz Kruger did not reach the final - the following year he won  Olympic bronze

Mario Pestano - 57.30 m were not enough for the final

August 22, 1999, 12:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)
1	Jürgen Schult	Germany	65.65	65.65	-	-
2	Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk	Belarus	64.23	x	63.63	64.23
3	Andy Bloom	United States	64.06	62.17	x	64.06
4th	Alexandr Boritschewski	Russia	63.40	60.42	63.40	61.92
5	Vaclavas Kidykas	Lithuania	62.83	62.83	61.91	59.03
6th	Robert Weir	Great Britain	62.71	62.71	61.75	61.04
7th	Andreas Seelig	Germany	62.57	57.07	61.92	62.57
8th	John Godina	United States	62.27	x	59.05	62.27
9	Frantz Kruger	South Africa	62.02	x	62.02	60.70
10	Mickaël Conjungo	Central African Republic	59.16	57.19	55.86	59.16
11	Timo Tompuri	Finland	58.90	x	58.90	x
12	Ian Winchester	New Zealand	58.74	58.74	x	55.21
13	Nick Sweeney	Ireland	58.62	58.62	57.27	x
14th	Pieter van der Kruk	Netherlands	57.65	x	57.50	57.65
15th	Mario Pestano	Spain	57.30	57.30	54.88	55.62
16	Attila Horváth	Hungary	56.83	55.55	56.03	56.83
17th	Jason Gervais	Canada	54.19	51.61	54.19	53.64
18th	Aleksandr Malashevich	Belarus	53.20	52.18	x	53.20

final

August 24, 1999, 8:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Anthony Washington	United States	69.08 CR	66.29	x	65.76	x	64.93	69.08
2	Jürgen Schult	Germany	68.18	64.85	68.18	66.24	64.66	x	65.06
3	Lars Riedel	Germany	68.09	64.63	66.94	68.09	x	65.38	x
4th	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania	67.53	65.45	66.49	65.95	64.61	x	67.53
5	Vaclavas Kidykas	Lithuania	65.05	65.05	62.28	61.91	x	x	x
6th	Michael Möllenbeck	Germany	64.90	63.33	64.90	64.54	x	x	64.51
7th	Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk	Belarus	64.00	64.00	63.86	63.83	61.00	63.46	62.72
8th	Alexandr Boritschewski	Russia	63.59	63.59	61.05	60.56	x	61.24	x
9	Li Shaojie	People's Republic of China	63.22	62.15	63.22	62.38	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia	62.29	62.29	x	x
11	Róbert Fazekas	Hungary	61.71	61.30	x	61.71
NM	Andy Bloom	United States	ogV	x	x	x

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  World record holder Jürgen Schult, highly decorated with medals and victories at major international events, became vice world champion

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  The four-time world champion, Olympic champion and reigning European champion Lars Riedel (Photo: 2016) won bronze this time

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  Virgilijus Alekna was fourth without a medal - that changed in the years to come, so he became Olympic champion the next year

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  Michael Möllenbeck finished sixth

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  Aleksander Tammert came in tenth place

Video links

• Jürgen Schult 1999 World Championships on youtube.com, accessed July 19, 2020
• lars riedel discus throw world champs 1999 on youtube.com, accessed July 19, 2020
• alekna discus throw world champs 1999 on youtube.com, accessed July 19, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 4, 2020
• Men Discus Throw Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 19, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men Discus Throw, Seville 1999, p. 191 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 19, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 19, 2020