1999 European Athletics U23 Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
20 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 400 metres event at the 1999 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Göteborg, Sweden, at Ullevi on 29, 30, and 31 July 1999.^[1][2]

Gold	Piotr Haczek  Poland
Silver	Zsolt Szeglet  Hungary
Bronze	Marc Raquil  France

31 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Piotr Haczek	Poland	45.78
	Zsolt Szeglet	Hungary	46.09
	Marc Raquil	France	46.18
4	Geoff Dearman	United Kingdom	46.49
5	David Canal	Spain	46.57
6	Marcel Lopuchovský	Slovakia	46.62
7	Maik Liebe	Germany	47.08
8	Jimisola Laursen	Sweden	47.15

30 July
Qualified: first 4 in each to the Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marc Raquil	France	45.93	Q
2	Marcel Lopuchovský	Slovakia	45.95	Q
3	Jimisola Laursen	Sweden	46.04	Q
4	Maik Liebe	Germany	46.20	Q
5	David Naismith	United Kingdom	46.27
6	Anastasios Gousis	Greece	46.61
7	Michał Węglarski	Poland	46.69
8	Adrián Fernández	Spain	47.73

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Piotr Haczek	Poland	46.09	Q
2	Zsolt Szeglet	Hungary	46.13	Q
3	Geoff Dearman	United Kingdom	46.34	Q
4	David Canal	Spain	46.46	Q
5	Piotr Długosielski	Poland	46.78
6	Kjell Provost	Belgium	46.94
7	Sebastian Debnar-Daumler	Germany	47.41
8	Damien Grosso	France	48.05

29 July
Qualified: first 3 in each heat and 4 best to the Semifinal

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marc Raquil	France	46.54	Q
2	Jimisola Laursen	Sweden	46.57	Q
3	David Naismith	United Kingdom	46.83	Q
4	Sebastian Debnar-Daumler	Germany	47.21	q
5	Jan Hanzl	Czech Republic	47.75
6	Roald Bergheim	Norway	48.15
7	Antonis Ayiomamitis	Cyprus	49.50

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	David Canal	Spain	46.45	Q
2	Maik Liebe	Germany	46.66	Q
3	Piotr Długosielski	Poland	46.86	Q
4	Paul McKee	Ireland	47.33
5	Rikkert van Rhee	Netherlands	47.36
6	Goran Gajović	Yugoslavia	47.50
7	Lee Calderon	Gibraltar	52.40
	Jacob Stafstedt	Sweden	DQ

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marcel Lopuchovský	Slovakia	46.52	Q
2	Piotr Haczek	Poland	46.56	Q
3	Kjell Provost	Belgium	46.57	Q
4	Anastasios Gousis	Greece	46.78	q
5	Loïc Lerouge	France	47.70
6	Luis Flores	Spain	48.52
7	Edoardo Vallet	Italy	48.69
	Ercan Sunu	Turkey	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Geoff Dearman	United Kingdom	46.73	Q
2	Zsolt Szeglet	Hungary	46.83	Q
3	Michał Węglarski	Poland	46.84	Q
4	Adrián Fernández	Spain	47.19	q
5	Damien Grosso	France	47.25	q
6	Marcel Knospe	Germany	47.29
7	Pedro Tubal	Portugal	47.78
8	Pavel Jelínek	Czech Republic	48.37

According to an unofficial count, 31 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event.