Athletics at the 1999 Summer Universiade
Host stadium in 2003.
Dates	4–9 July
Host city	Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Venue	Estadio Son Moix
Level	Senior
Events	45
Participation	998 athletes from 94 nations
Records set	5 UR's
← Catania 1997 Beijing 2001 → 1999 Summer Universiade

The Athletics Tournament at the 1999 Summer Universiade took place in the new Estadio Son Moix in Palma de Mallorca, Spain from July 4 to July 9, 1999. Five Universiade records were set. A total of 23 men's and 22 women's events were contested (the programme remaining identical to the previous edition with steeplechase being for men only).

The United States topped the athletics medal table (as it did in 1997) with a total of 25 medals, twelve of them gold. Romania and Cuba were the next strongest nations, with six and five gold medals respectively. Romania was the only other nation to reach double figures in the medal tally. The host nation, Spain, won six medals. A total of 38 nations reached the medal table.

Among the returning 1997 champions, Cuban Yoelbi Quesada won the men's triple jump for a second time, while three women managed that feat: Olena Shekhovtsova (long jump), Olena Hovorova (triple jump) and Mihaela Melinte (hammer throw). Melinte also went on to win the global title at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics held the following month.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.5 m/s) details	André Domingos (BRA)	10.34	John Capel (USA)	10.35	Mathew Quinn (RSA)	10.42
200 metres (wind: -1.0 m/s) details	Coby Miller (USA)	20.32	Patrick van Balkom (NED)	20.57	Christos Magos (GRE)	20.70
400 metres details	Jerome Davis (USA)	44.91	Paston Coke (JAM)	45.15	Jopie van Oudtshoorn (RSA)	45.21
800 metres details	Norberto Téllez (CUB)	1:46.11	André Bucher (SUI)	1:46.49	Derrick Peterson (USA)	1:46.75
1500 metres details	Bernard Lagat (KEN)	3:40.99	Leszek Zblewski (POL)	3:41.81	Lorenzo Lazzari (ITA)	3:42.36
5000 metres details	Serhiy Lebid (UKR)	13:37.52	Roberto García (ESP)	13:38.59	Naoki Mishiro (JPN)	13:39.10
10,000 metres details	José Manuel Martínez (ESP)	29:37.56	Naoki Mishiro (JPN)	29:39.14	Pedro Trejo (ESP)	29:47.27
Half marathon details	Marílson dos Santos (BRA)	1:04:05	Takayuki Nishida (JPN)	1:04:11	Oh Sung-Keun (KOR)	1:04:33
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.1 m/s) details	Terrence Trammell (USA)	13.44	Jonathan Nsenga (BEL)	13.51	Dawane Wallace (USA)	13.59
400 metres hurdles details	Paweł Januszewski (POL)	48.64	Bayano Kamani (USA)	48.74	Marcel Schelbert (SUI)	48.77
3000 metres steeplechase details	Giuseppe Maffei (ITA)	8:33.18	Khamis Seif Abdullah (QAT)	8:33.62	Joël Bourgeois (CAN)	8:34.20
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States (USA) Kaaron Conwright Terrence Trammell Coby Miller John Capel	38.55	South Africa (RSA) Morné Nagel Bradley Agnew Lee-Roy Newton Mathew Quinn	39.08	Italy (ITA) Luca Verdecchia Alessandro Orlandi Alessandro Attene Andrea Colombo	39.31
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) Tony Berrian Brandon Couts Derrick Brew Jerome Davis Derrick Peterson	3:00.88	Great Britain (GBR) Richard Knowles Geoff Dearman Chris Rawlinson Jared Deacon John Stewart Graham Beasley	3:03.95	Senegal (SEN) Ousmane Niang Papa Serigne Diene Jules Doumbya Alpha Babacar Sall	3:05.45
20 kilometres walk details	Alejandro López (MEX)	1:25:12	Lorenzo Civallero (ITA)	1:25:23	Daisuke Ikeshima (JPN)	1:26:01
High jump details	Ben Challenger (GBR)	2.30	Mark Boswell (CAN)	2.30	Lee Jin-Taek (KOR)	2.28
Pole vault details	Richard Spiegelburg (GER)	5.60	Štěpán Janáček (CZE)	5.60	Romain Mesnil (FRA)	5.55
Long jump details	Aleksey Lukashevich (UKR)	8.16	Luis Méliz (CUB)	8.05	Erik Nijs (BEL)	7.99
Triple jump details	Yoelbi Quesada (CUB)	17.40	Charles Friedek (GER)	17.20	Jirí Kuntos (CZE)	16.97
Shot put details	Andy Bloom (USA)	21.11 UR	Adam Nelson (USA)	20.64	Stevimir Ercegovac (CRO)	19.94
Discus throw details	Frantz Kruger (RSA)	66.90	Andy Bloom (USA)	64.68	Doug Reynolds (USA)	63.65
Hammer throw details	Zsolt Németh (HUN)	80.40	Christos Polychroniou (GRE)	79.83	Vladislav Piskunov (UKR)	78.61
Javelin throw details	Ēriks Rags (LAT)	83.78	Gregor Högler (AUT)	82.63	Isbel Luaces (CUB)	82.18
Decathlon details	Raúl Duany (CUB)	8050	Stephen Moore (USA)	8028	Benjamin Jensen (DEN)	7982

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.2 m/s) details	Angela Williams (USA)	11.19	Katia Benth (FRA)	11.23	Virgen Benavides (CUB)	11.25
200 metres (wind: -1.1 m/s) details	Kim Gevaert (BEL)	23.10	Zuzanna Radecka (POL)	23.14	Nanceen Perry (USA)	23.27
400 metres details	Ionela Târlea (ROM)	49.88 UR	Miki Barber (USA)	51.03	Doris Jacob (NGR)	51.04
800 metres details	Yuliya Taranova (RUS)	1:59.63	Brigita Langerholc (SLO)	1:59.87	Elena Buhăianu (ROM)	2:00.26
1500 metres details	Elena Buhăianu (ROM)	4:13.04	Luminița Gogîrlea (ROM)	4:14.61	Ana Amelia Menéndez (ESP)	4:14.95
5000 metres details	Rie Ueno (JPN)	15:51.24	Ana Dias (POR)	15:53.23	Cristina Casandra (ROM)	16:03.18
10,000 metres details	Leigh Daniel (USA)	32:58.80	Yuri Kano (JPN)	33:16.41	Annemette Jensen (DEN)	33:36.11
Half marathon details	Rosaria Console (ITA)	1:14:14	Yukiko Akaba (JPN)	1:14:35	Marta Fernández (ESP)	1:14:52
100 metres hurdles (wind: -2.8 m/s) details	Andria King (USA)	13.04	Yolanda McCray (USA)	13.08	Diane Allahgreen (GBR)	13.17
400 metres hurdles details	Daimí Pernía (CUB)	53.95 UR	Joanna Hayes (USA)	54.57	Ulrike Urbansky (GER)	54.93
4 × 100 metres relay details	United States (USA) Angela Williams Torri Edwards LaKeisha Backus Nanceen Perry	43.49	Poland (POL) Agnieszka Rysiukiewicz Irena Sznajder Monika Borejza Zuzanna Radecka	43.74	Germany (GER) Shanta Gosh Kirsten Bolm Andrea Bornscheuer Nicole Mahrarens	43.96
4 × 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) Yolanda Brown-Moore Yulanda Nelson Mikele Barber Suziann Reid	3:27.97	Russia (RUS) Natalya Khrushchelyova Yuliya Taranova Olga Salnykova Anna Tkatch	3:30.54	Great Britain (GBR) Tasha Danvers Dawn Higgins Lee McConnell Sinead Dudgeon	3:32.25
10 kilometres walk details	Claudia Iovan (ROM)	44:22	Rossella Giordano (ITA)	44:39	Valentyna Savchuk (UKR)	45:23
High jump details	Monica Iagar (ROM)	1.95	Svetlana Lapina (RUS)	1.93	Solange Witteveen (ARG)	1.93
Pole vault details	Pavla Hamácková (CZE)	4.25	Monique de Wilt (NED)	4.20	Dana Cervantes (ESP)	4.10
Long jump details	Olena Shekhovtsova (UKR)	6.92	Adrien Sawyer (USA)	6.61	Maurren Maggi (BRA)	6.58
Triple jump details	Olena Hovorova (UKR)	14.99w	Wu Lingmei (CHN)	14.55w	Adelina Gavrilă (ROM)	14.33
Shot put details	Yumileidi Cumbá (CUB)	18.70	Song Feina (CHN)	18.28	Elisângela Adriano (BRA)	18.17
Discus throw details	Nicoleta Grasu (ROM)	65.21	Joanna Wiśniewska (POL)	63.97	Elisângela Adriano (BRA)	62.23
Hammer throw details	Mihaela Melinte (ROM)	74.24	Lyudmila Gubkina (BLR)	68.27	Manuela Montebrun (FRA)	68.11
Javelin throw details	Ewa Rybak (POL)	60.76 UR	Evfemija Štorga (SLO)	59.30	Yanuris la Motaña (CUB)	59.08
Heptathlon details	Tiffany Lott (USA)	5959	Katerina Nekolná (CZE)	5900	Clare Thompson (AUS)	5766

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Spain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	12	9	4	25
2	Romania (ROM)	6	1	3	10
3	Cuba (CUB)	5	1	3	9
4	Ukraine (UKR)	4	0	2	6
5	Poland (POL)	2	4	0	6
6	Italy (ITA)	2	2	2	6
7	Brazil (BRA)	2	0	3	5
8	Japan (JPN)	1	4	2	7
9	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	2	1	4
10	Russia (RUS)	1	2	0	3
11	Spain (ESP)*	1	1	4	6
12	Germany (GER)	1	1	2	4
	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	2	4
	South Africa (RSA)	1	1	2	4
15	Belgium (BEL)	1	1	1	3
16	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
	Kenya (KEN)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
	Mexico (MEX)	1	0	0	1
20	China (CHN)	0	2	0	2
	Netherlands (NED)	0	2	0	2
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	2	0	2
23	France (FRA)	0	1	2	3
24	Canada (CAN)	0	1	1	2
	Greece (GRE)	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	1	2
27	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	0	1
	Jamaica (JAM)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	1	0	1
32	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	2	2
	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	2	2
34	Argentina (ARG)	0	0	1	1
	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria (NGR)	0	0	1	1
	Senegal (SEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (38 entries)		45	45	45	135

Participating nations