The 121 Sb(p,t) 119 Sb reaction has been measured in a high-resolution experiment at an incident energy of 21 MeV. Accurate measurement of the (p,t) reaction angular distributions for the transitions to the levels of 119 Sb allows us to determine energies of 59 levels, 23 of which have been identified for the first time, and to assign the angular momentum transfer values and a welldefined range for the J values. DWBA analysis has been performed in a finite-range approximation, assuming a dineutron cluster pickup mechanism, by using conventional Woods-Saxon potentials for the entrance proton and exit triton channel. The present (p,t) data have been supplemented by microscopic calculations in the framework of the quasiparticle-phonon model, giving a reasonably good description of the experimental fragmentation of the integrated cross sections and the absence of (p,t) strength above 2.9 MeV.