Track and field at the 1999 Military World Games

Track and field at the II World Military Games
The host stadium for the athletics events
Host city Zagreb, Croatia
Date(s) 11–16 August 1999
Main stadium Sportski park Mladost athletic stadium
Level Military personnel
Events 32
Records set 22 Games records


1999 Military World Games

At the 1999 Military World Games, the track and field events were held at the Sportski park Mladost athletic stadium in Zagreb, Croatia from 11–16 August. A total of 32 events were contested, of which 22 by male and 10 by female athletes. The marathon events were held on 11 August, prior to the track and field competition.[1] It was the last time that the men's 20 kilometres walk and women's shot put featured on the programme. The women's 1500 metres and 5000 metres were added to the programme for the first time (the latter replacing the 3000 metres distance).[2] Nations could enter a maximum of two athletes into each event.

Only three athletes successfully defended their titles from the inaugural edition: Shem Kororia won the men's 5000 m to retain his gold medal, Boris Henry defended his title in the men's javelin throw, while Yekaterina Leshchova repeated as women's 100 metres champion and also added the 200 metres title to her honours. A total of 22 Games records were set during the competition, including new records in all but two of the women's events and all the men's field events.[2] Seven world bests for military competition were set during the competition.[3]

Italy topped the medal table in the athletics competition, having taken four golds and fourteen medals in total. Kenya was the next most successful nation with four medals of each colour. Germany also won four gold medals, while Russia had the third highest medal total with eleven. Host nation Croatia won five athletics medals, though none of them gold.[2]

Several athletes went on to success at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics held one week later, including Djabir Saïd-Guerni (800 m bronze),[4] Fabrizio Mori (400 m hurdles gold) and Nadine Kleinert (shot put silver). The games-winning Polish men's 4×400 metres relay team also became world champions that year.[5]

Medal summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Anatoliy Dovhal (UKR) 10.34 GR  Martin Lachkovics (AUT) 10.42  Vitaliy Seniv (UKR) 10.42
200 metres  Malik Louahla (ALG) 20.96  Maurizio Checcucci (ITA) 21.07  Massimiliano Donati (ITA) 21.14
400 metres  Ibrahima Wade (SEN) 45.92  Julius Chepkwony (KEN) 46.16  Salaheddine Safi Bakar (QAT) 46.35
800 metres  Djabir Saïd-Guerni (ALG) 1:46.41  Flávio Godoy (BRA) 1:47.94  Charles Makau (KEN) 1:48.04
1500 metres  Sammy Mutai (KEN) 3:38.94  Stephen Kipkorir (KEN) 3:40.25  Branko Zorko (CRO) 3:41.06
5000 metres  Shem Kororia (KEN) 13:50.51  Miroslav Vanko (SVK) 13:52.01  Viktor Röthlin (SUI) 13:58.52
10,000 metres  Elijah Korir  (KEN) 28:24.82  William Kalya (KEN) 28:31.30  Róbert Štefko (SVK) 28:49.90
110 metres hurdles  Staņislavs Olijars (LAT) 13.32 GR  Falk Balzer (GER) 13.44  Igor Kováč (SVK) 13.63
400 metres hurdles  Thomas Goller (GER) 48.75 GR  Fabrizio Mori (ITA) 48.83  Hillary Maritim (KEN) 49.48
3000 metres steeplechase  Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin (QAT) 8:21.92  Jonathan Kandie (KEN) 8:22.81  Christopher Koskei (KEN) 8:31.19
4×100 metres relay  Italy (ITA)
Andrea Rabino
Massimiliano Donati
Maurizio Checcucci
Giovanni Puggioni		39.92 GR  Ukraine (UKR)
Dmitriy Myshka
Vitaly Seniv
Anatoliy Dovhal
Hennadiy Horbenko		40.10  Croatia (CRO)
Tihomir Buinjac
Dejan Vojnovic
Vjekoslav Orsolic
Slaven Krajacic		40.23
4×400 metres relay[6]  Poland (POL)
Marcin Jędrusiński
Piotr Rysiukiewicz
Jacek Bocian
Robert Maćkowiak		3:02.78 GR  Russia (RUS)
Daniyil Shekin
Mikhail Vdovin
Innokentiy Zharov
Andrey Semyonov		3:02.98  Kenya (KEN)
Samson Yego Kipchirchir
Hillary Maritim
David Kirui
Julius Chepkwony		3:03.43
Marathon  Grzegorz Gajdus (POL) 2:16:40  Kim Jong-Chol (PRK) 2:18:08  Gino Van Geyte (BEL) 2:18:22
20 km walk  Aigars Fadejevs (LAT) 1:21:42 GR  Marco Giungi (ITA) 1:21:47  Andrey Makarov (BLR) 1:22:56
High jump  Ivan Bernasconi (ITA) 2.27 m GR  Abderrahmane Hammad (ALG) 2.27 m GR  Vyacheslav Tyrtyshnik (UKR) 2.24 m
Pole vault  Maurilio Mariani (ITA) 5.70 m GR=  Michael Stolle (GER) 5.70 m GR=  Yevgeniy Smiryagin (RUS) 5.65 m
Long jump  Huang Le (CHN) 8.21 m GR  Chen Jing (CHN) 8.15 m  Kostas Koukodimos (GRE) 8.09 m
Triple jump  Remmy Limo (KEN) 16.84 m (w)  Paolo Camossi (ITA) 16.80 m GR  Vyacheslav Taranov (RUS) 16.76 m
Shot put  Paolo Dal Soglio (ITA) 20.39 m GR  Roman Virastyuk (UKR) 19.90 m  Pavol Pankuch (SVK) 19.06 m
Discus throw  Andreas Seelig (GER) 63.52 m GR  Igor Primc (SLO) 61.67 m  Diego Fortuna (ITA) 59.85 m
Hammer throw  Andriy Skvaruk (UKR) 79.76 m GR  Nicola Vizzoni (ITA) 78.04 m  Sergey Kirmasov (RUS) 77.02 m
Javelin throw  Boris Henry (GER) 85.69 m GR  Harri Haatainen (FIN) 82.76 m  Andreas Linden (GER) 78.93 m

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Yekaterina Leshchova (RUS) 11.41 GR  Rahela Markt (CRO) 11.71  Francesca Cola (ITA) 11.77
200 metres  Yekaterina Leshchova (RUS) 23.24 GR  Rahela Markt (CRO) 23.74  Uta Rohländer (GER) 23.88
400 metres  Irina Rosikhina (RUS) 52.46 GR  Kristina Perica (CRO) 53.04  Melissa Straker (BAR) 53.05
800 metres  Natalya Dukhnova (BLR) 2:00.84 GR  Yelena Buzhenko (UKR) 2:01.39  Heike Meißner (GER) 2:01.78
1500 metres  Helena Javornik (SLO) 4:07.34 GR  Yelena Zadorozhnaya (RUS) 4:09.03  Olga Komyagina (RUS) 4:09.87
5000 metres  Restituta Joseph (TAN) 15:31.49 GR  Elisa Rea (ITA) 15:32.67  Helena Javornik (SLO) 15:37.50
Marathon  Hong Ok-Dan (PRK) 2:35:25 GR  Ri Hyon-Gyong (PRK) 2:39:50  Kimberly Markland (USA) 2:46:31
High jump  Iryna Mykhalchenko (UKR) 1.95 m  Vita Styopina (UKR) 1.92 m  Olga Kychanova (RUS) 1.92 m
Long jump  Valentīna Gotovska (LAT) 6.64 m  Olena Khlopotnova (UKR) 6.57 m  Yu Yiqun (CHN) 6.36 m
Shot put  Nadine Kleinert (GER) 19.12 m GR  Larisa Peleshenko (RUS) 18.35 m  Mara Rosolen (ITA) 17.68 m

Medal table

Nadine Kleinert won shot put gold for Germany with a military world best.
Helena Javornik won two of Slovenia's three medals at the competition.
Key
  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Italy 4 6 4 14
2  Kenya 4 4 4 12
3  Germany 4 2 3 9
4  Ukraine 3 5 2 10
5  Russia 3 3 5 11
6  Latvia 3 0 0 3
7  Algeria 2 1 0 3
8  Poland 2 0 0 2
9  North Korea 1 2 0 2
10  China 1 1 1 3
 Slovenia 1 1 1 3
12  Belarus 1 0 1 2
 Qatar 1 0 1 2
14  Senegal 1 0 0 1
 Tanzania 1 0 0 1
16  Croatia 0 3 2 5
17  Slovakia 0 1 3 4
18  Austria 0 1 0 1
 Brazil 0 1 0 1
 Finland 0 1 0 1
21  Barbados 0 0 1 1
 Belgium 0 0 1 1
 Greece 0 0 1 1
  Switzerland 0 0 1 1
 United States 0 0 1 1
Total 32 32 32 96

References

  1. ↑ 1999 AIMS Event Winners. Association of International Marathons and Distance Races. Retrieved on 2014-11-17.
  2. 1 2 3 Military World Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-11-17.
  3. ↑ Bell, Daniel (2003). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. ISBN 0-7864-1026-4.
  4. ↑ Men's 800m Final. IAAF (1999-08-28). Retrieved on 2014-11-17.
  5. ↑ World Championships in Athletics. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-11-17.
  6. ↑ All-time men's best 4x400m relay. All Athletics (2014-05-10). Retrieved on 2014-11-17.
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