Track and field at the 1999 Military World Games

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Track and field at the II World Military Games
Games records


At the

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:

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

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  
Slaven Krajacic
40.23
4×400 metres relay[6]  Poland (POL)
Marcin Jędrusiński
Piotr Rysiukiewicz
Jacek Bocian
Robert Maćkowiak
3:02.78
GR
 
Andrey Semyonov
3:02.98   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
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 Michael Stolle (GER) 5.70 m
GR
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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.

  *   Host nation (Croatia)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Italy46414
2 Kenya44412
3 Germany4239
4 Ukraine35210
5 Russia33511
6 Latvia3003
7 Algeria2103
8 Poland2002
9 North Korea1203
10 China1113
 Slovenia1113
12 Belarus1012
 Qatar1012
14 Senegal1001
 Tanzania1001
16 Croatia*0325
17 Slovakia0134
18 Austria0101
 Brazil0101
 Finland0101
21 Barbados0011
 Belgium0011
 Greece0011
 Switzerland0011
 United States0011
Totals (25 entries)32323296

References

  1. ^ 1999 AIMS Event Winners. Association of International Marathons and Distance Races. Retrieved on 2014-11-17.
  2. ^ a b c Military World Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-11-17.
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  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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