Athletics at the 1997 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
The athletics stadium was the Games main stadium
Dates15–19 June
Host cityBari, Italy
VenueStadio San Nicola
Records set24


At the 1997 Mediterranean Games, the athletics events were held at the Stadio San Nicola in Bari, Italy from 15–19 June 1997.[1][2] A total of forty-three events were contested, of which 23 by male and 20 by female athletes. A total of 24 Games records were broken or equalled during the competition.

The host country, Italy, topped the medal table with twelve gold medals and a total haul of 36 medals – by far the largest. France was the second most successful nation with ten golds and 23 medals, while Greece with seven golds and 19 overall. Morocco, Algeria, Spain and Slovenia also featured prominently on the podiums. Fourteen nations had medal winning athletes in the competition.

Greece won both the 100 metres titles through Angelos Pavlakakis and Ekaterini Thanou, both of whom ran meet record times. Christine Arron won the women's 200 metres and 4×100 metres relay for France. Morocco's Nezha Bidouane took the women's 400 metres hurdles title, an event in which she would later win at the 1997 World Championships.

Men's results

100 meters

200 meters

400 meters

800 meters

1500 meters

18 June

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Driss Maazouzi  Morocco 3:44.77
Branko Zorko  Croatia 3:45.17
Reyes Estévez  Spain 3:45.40
4 Carlos García  Spain 3:45.96
5 Abdelhak Abdellah  Morocco 3:45.99
6 Ali Hakimi Tunisia 3:46.11
7 Mickaël Damian  France 3:46.16
8 Massimo Pegoretti  Italy 3:46.67
Andrea Giocondi  Italy DNF [3]

5000 meters

16 June

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Alberto García  Spain 13:25.29 GR
El Hassan Lahssini  Morocco 13:28.95
Saïd Berioui  Morocco 13:53.98
4 Dragoslav Prpa  Yugoslavia 14:00.89
5 Mehdi Khelifi Tunisia 14:00.96
6 Ali Mabruk Ezzayedi Libya 14:03.76
7 Zeki Öztürk  Turkey 14:04.01
8 Mahieddine Belhadj  Algeria 14:04.06
9 Marco Antonio Rufo  Spain 14:07.51
Umberto Pusterla  Italy DNF

10,000 meters

18 June

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Ismaïl Sghyr  Morocco 28:05.74 GR
Abderrahim Zitouna  Morocco 28:19.85
Kamel Kohil  Algeria 28:24.19
4 Rachid Berradi  Italy 28:33.31
5 Simone Zanon  Italy 29:47.34
6 Fatih Çintimar  Turkey 30:30.86
Zeki Öztürk  Turkey DNF
Spyridon Andriopoulos  Greece DNF

Marathon

15 June

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Azzedine Sakhri  Algeria 2:20:40
Giovanni Ruggiero  Italy 2:21:08
Mustapha Damaoui  Morocco 2:21:32
4 Cihangir Demirel  Turkey 2:23:04
5 Haydar Doğan  Turkey 2:27:30
6 Nikolaos Polias  Greece 2:30:56
7 Adel Mohamed Adili Libya 2:34.02
Sid-Ali Sakhri  Algeria DNF
Roman Kejžar  Slovenia DNF
Massimiliano Ingrami  Italy DNF

110 meters hurdles

400 meters hurdles

3000 meters steeplechase

16 June

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Brahim Boulami  Morocco 8:18.80 GR
Hicham Bouaouiche  Morocco 8:20.30
Giuseppe Maffei  Italy 8:23.43
4 Stathis Stasi  Cyprus 8:26.83
5 José González  Spain 8:28.75
6 Eliseo Martín  Spain 8:37.95
7 Georgios Giannelis  Greece 9:01.78

4 x 100 meters relay

18 June

Rank Lane Nation Competitors Time Notes
4  Italy Nicola Asuni, Giovanni Puggioni, Angelo Cipolloni, Sandro Floris 38.61 GR
5  Spain Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Javier Navarro 38.85 =NR
2  Cyprus Georgios Skender, Anninos Marcoullides, Prodromos Katsantonis, Yiannis Zisimides 39.12 NR
4 3  France Christophe Cheval, Pascal Théophile, Éric Perrot, David Patros 39.84
6  Greece Angelos Pavlakakis, Georgios Panagiotopoulos, Ioannis Nafpliotis, Alexandros Terzian DQ

4 x 400 meters relay

18 June

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
 Algeria Samir-Adel Louahla, Kamel Talhaoui, Ahmed Aichaoui, Malik Louahla 3:02.78 GR, NR
 France Pierre-Marie Hilaire, Rodrigue Nordin, Jimmy Coco, Fred Mango 3:02.84
 Italy Michele Grando, Fabrizio Mori, Walter Groff, Ashraf Saber 3:03.08
4  Spain César Martínez, Iñigo Monreal, Ion Lopetegui, Antonio Andrés 3:04.73
5  Yugoslavia Aleksandar Popović, Branislav Stojanović, Siniša Peša, Slobodan Branković 3:06.62

20 kilometers walk

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Giovanni De Benedictis  Italy 1:24:59
Michele Didoni  Italy 1:25:21
Hatem Ghoula Tunisia 1:25:36
4 Denis Langlois  France 1:25:46
5 Aleksandar Raković  Yugoslavia 1:28:40
6 Juan Antonio Porras  Spain 1:32:12
7 Spyridon Kastanis  Greece 1:33:53
8 David Márquez  Spain 1:34:37
Jean-Olivier Brosseau  France DQ [4]

High jump

18 June

Rank Name Nationality 2.15 2.18 2.21 2.24 2.26 2.28 2.30 Result Notes
Stevan Zorić  Yugoslavia 2.28 =GR
Arturo Ortiz  Spain o xo xo xxx 2.26
Ignacio Pérez  Spain o xo xo xxx 2.26
4 Dimitrios Kokotis  Greece 2.24
5 Joël Vincent  France 2.21
6 Ioannis Giantsios  Greece 2.21
7 Dejan Miloševič  Slovenia 2.18
8 Elvir Krehmić Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.15

Pole vault

16 June

Rank Name Nationality 5.00 5.20 5.30 5.50 5.60 5.70 Result Notes
Alain Andji  France 5.70 GR
Juan Gabriel Concepción  Spain o o o xxx 5.50
Andrea Giannini  Italy 5.50
4 Sébastien Levicq  France 5.30
5 Montxu Miranda  Spain o o xxx 5.30
6 Konstantinos Tzivas  Greece 5.20
7 Christos Pallakis  Greece 5.20
8 Jurij Rovan  Slovenia 5.00

Long jump

Qualification – 17 June

Rank Group Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes
1 A Younès Moudrik  Morocco 7.77
1 B Anis Gallali Tunisia 7.77
? ? Kader Klouchi  France 7.66 [4]
? ? Nicola Trentin  Italy 7.53 [3]
? ? Milko Campus  Italy 7.36 [3]
7 A José Antonio Giralde  Spain 7.35 7.29 7.32 7.35

Final – 18 June

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
Gregor Cankar  Slovenia 8.00
Konstandinos Koukodimos  Greece 7.95
Dimitrios Hatzopoulos  Greece 7.92
4 Younès Moudrik  Morocco 7.89
5 Marko Rajić  Yugoslavia 7.75
6 Siniša Ergotić  Croatia 7.74
7 Nicola Trentin  Italy 7.71
8 Anis Gallali Tunisia 7.71
9 Emmanuel Bangué  France 7.70 [4]
10 Hatem Mersal  Egypt 7.66
11 Kader Klouchi  France 7.65 [4]

Triple jump

16 June

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes
Paolo Camossi  Italy 16.63
Hristos Meletoglou  Greece 16.50
Germain Martial  France 16.18
4 Álvaro Bartolomé  Spain x x x 15.27 15.88 x 15.88
5 Murat Ayaydın  Turkey 15.84
6 Stamatios Lenis  Greece 15.71

Shot put

16 June

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes
Alessandro Andrei  Italy 19.21 x 19.15 19.44 19.45 19.54 19.54
Corrado Fantini  Italy 19.19
Stevimir Ercegovac  Croatia 19.00
4 José Luis Martínez  Spain 18.80 x 18.60 x 18.44 18.36 18.80
5 Alexios Leonidis  Greece 18.71
6 Carlos Gerones  Spain 17.72 18.12 18.03 x x x 18.12
7 Stéphane Vial  France 18.00
8 Ekrem Ay  Turkey 16.90

Discus throw

17 June

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes
Igor Primc  Slovenia 60.62 58.00 60.84 60.74 60.98 61.66 61.66
Diego Fortuna  Italy 59.90
Simone Sbrogiò  Italy 59.20
4 Christos Papadopoulos  Greece 58.88
5 Jean Pons  France 57.90
6 Dragan Mustapić  Croatia 57.04
7 José Luis Valencia  Spain x 55.36 x 54.70 55.98 x 55.98
8 Ercüment Olgundeniz  Turkey 55.78
Abraham Delgado  Spain x x x NM

Hammer throw

16 June

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes
Christophe Épalle  France 75.76 78.44 78.44 GR
Raphaël Piolanti  France 77.20
Enrico Sgrulletti  Italy 76.32
4 Alexandros Papadimitriou  Greece 75.70
5 Nicola Vizzoni  Italy 74.96
6 Hristos Polihroniou  Greece 74.14
7 Cherif El Hennawi  Egypt 69.76
8 Hakim Toumi  Algeria 69.14
10 Anscari Salgado  Spain 63.42 64.22 x 64.22
12 Moisés Campeny  Spain x 59.30 x 59.30

Javelin throw

16 June

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes
Konstadinos Gatsioudis  Greece 80.94 83.78 x 84.70 x 89.22 89.22 GR
Dimitrios Polymerou  Greece 77.88
Maher Ridane Tunisia 77.10
4 David Brisseault  France 74.66
5 Fabio De Gaspari  Italy 73.92
6 Raimundo Fernández  Spain 68.02 68.84 73.02 x 70.34 x 73.02
7 Ivan Soffiato  Italy 72.00
8 Firas Al-Mahamid  Syria 69.82

Decathlon

16–17 June[5]

  The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow
Rank Name Nationality 100m LJ SP HJ 400m 110m H DT PV JT 1500m Points Notes
Pierre-Alexandre Vial  France 10.84 7.00 13.02 1.93 47.74 14.80 44.56 4.90 58.44 4:21.30 8070 GR
Beniamino Poserina  Italy 11.00 6.78 14.66 1.99 48.85 14.24 46.20 4.60 58.78 4:38.26 7991
Prodromos Korkizoglou  Greece 10.65 7.23 14.09 2.02 49.07 14.77 41.38 4.90 53.86 4:51.13 7932
4 Slavoljub Nikolić  Yugoslavia 11.02 6.60 16.20 1.93 49.00 14.08 46.14 4.00 54.80 4:49.57 7693
5 Luciano Asta  Italy 11.07 7.01 14.49 2.02 52.01 15.05 43.14 4.60 51.24 4:59.41 7497
6 Anis Riahi Tunisia 10.95 6.98 11.48 1.90 46.95 15.18 35.56 4.50 55.18 4:38.80 7448

Women's results

100 meters

200 meters

400 meters

800 meters

1500 meters

18 June

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Nouria Mérah-Benida  Algeria 4:11.27
Samira Raif  Morocco 4:11.60
Maite Zúñiga  Spain 4:11.63
4 Karolina Skourti  Greece 4:11.85
5 Blandine Bitzner  France 4:12.68
6 Marta Domínguez  Spain 4:15.21
7 Serenella Sbrissa  Italy 4:19.17
8 Saadia Saadi  Morocco 4:19.31
Vincenzina Curri  Italy DNF [3]

5000 meters

16 June

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Roberta Brunet  Italy 15:00.69 GR
Julia Vaquero  Spain 15:04.48
Zahra Ouaziz  Morocco 15:30.19
4 Olivera Jevtić  Yugoslavia 15:38.12
5 Estíbaliz Urrutia  Spain 15:47.61
6 Chantal Dallenbach  France 16:13.39

10,000 meters

18 June

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Chrysostomia Iakovou  Greece 32:34.87 GR
Silvia Sommaggio  Italy 32:41.79
Olivera Jevtić  Yugoslavia 32:43.42
4 Helena Javornik  Slovenia 33:16.59
5 Zaiha Dahmani  France 33:22.28
6 Zhour El Kamch  Morocco 34:45.94
7 Fatiha Klilech  Morocco 35:41.29
Chantal Dällenbach  France DNF

Marathon

15 June

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Serap Aktaş  Turkey 2:39:22 GR
Carol Galea  Malta 2:43:53
Lale Öztürk  Turkey 2:46:56
4 Matilde Ravizza  Italy 2:49:57
5 Sonia Agoun Tunisia 2:58:58
Anna Villani  Italy DNF
Panagiota Nikolakopoulou  Greece DNF
Paraskevi Kastriti  Greece DNF

100 meters hurdles

17 June
Wind: +0.3 m/s

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Patricia Girard  France 12.90
Brigita Bukovec  Slovenia 13.01
Carla Tuzzi  Italy 13.30
4 Nadège Joseph  France 13.44
5 Margaret Macchiut  Italy 13.47
6 Christina Tambaki  Greece 14.12
7 Virginie Gollino  Monaco 15.30
8 Anila Meta  Albania 15.46

400 meters hurdles

17 June

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
5 Nouzha Bidouane  Morocco 55.01 GR
3 Miriam Alonso  Spain 55.89
2 Carla Barbarino  Italy 56.76
4 6 Eva Paniagua  Spain 57.00
5 1 Maja Gorjup  Slovenia 57.45
6 7 Zahra Lachgar  Morocco 59.63
7 4 Maria Pachatouridou  Greece 1:00.73
8 8 Klodiana Shala  Albania 1:02.46

4 x 100 meters relay

18 June

Rank Lane Nation Competitors Time Notes
5  France Frédérique Bangué, Christine Arron, Patricia Girard, Sylviane Félix 42.63 GR
6  Greece Maria Tsoni, Ekaterini Koffa, Marina Vasarmidou, Ekaterini Thanou 43.07 NR
4  Italy Stefania Ferrante, Annarita Luciano, Giada Gallina, Manuela Levorato 44.15
4 3  Spain Carme Blay, Arantxa Reinares, Carmen García-Campero, Patricia Morales 44.55

4 x 400 meters relay

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
 Italy Carla Barbarino, Francesca Cola, Patrizia Spuri, Francesca Carbone 3:29.98 GR
 France Marie-Louise Bévis, Sophie Domenech, Marie-Line Scholent, Elsa Devassoigne 3:30.62
 Spain Miriam Alonso, Esther Lahoz, Miriam Bravo, Yolanda Reyes 3:31.93
4  Greece Chrysoula Goudenoudi, Maria Pachatouridou, Christina Panagou, Marina Vasarmidou 3:34.67
5  Morocco Nadia Zétouani, Zahra Lachgar, Fatima Zahra Dkouk, Hasna Benhassi 3:43.01

10 kilometers walk

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Elisabetta Perrone  Italy 44:40 GR
Annarita Sidoti  Italy 45:35
Celia Marcén  Spain 46:07
4 Nathalie Fortain  France 48:29
5 Teresa Linares  Spain 49:04
6 Christina Kokotou  Greece 51:11
7 Kada Delić Bosnia and Herzegovina 54:28
8 Mimoza Xhafa  Albania 1:00:04

High jump

17 June

Rank Name Nationality 1.70 1.75 1.81 1.84 1.87 1.89 1.91 1.93 1.95 1.97 2.00 Results Notes
Antonella Bevilacqua  Italy o o o o xxo o x– x 1.95
Niki Bakogianni  Greece x 1.93
Britta Bilač  Slovenia 1.91
4 Çiğdem Arslan  Turkey 1.91
5 Vassiliki Xenou  Greece 1.87
6 Carlota Castrejana  Spain o o xo xxx 1.84
7 Nevena Lenđel  Croatia 1.84
8 Agni Charalambous  Cyprus 1.78
9 Ruth Beitia  Spain o xxx 1.70

Long jump

16 June

Rank Name Nationality Results Notes
Niki Xanthou  Greece 6.72 GR
Linda Ferga  France 6.49
Anastasia Mahob  France 6.47
4 Arianna Zivez  Italy 6.24
5 Baya Rahouli  Algeria 6.19
6 Ksenija Predikaka  Slovenia 6.06
7 Anja Valant  Slovenia 5.93
8 Irene Charalambous  Cyprus 5.84

Triple jump

15 June

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Results Notes
Olga Vasdeki  Greece 14.00 x x x 14.13 13.69 14.13 GR
Betty Lise  France 13.81
Antonella Capriotti  Italy 13.80
4 Valerie Guiyoule  France 13.60
5 Anja Valant  Slovenia 13.31
6 Baya Rahouli  Algeria 13.25
7 Marija Martinović  Yugoslavia 13.23
8 Concepción Paredes  Spain x 11.92 13.07 x x 13.23 13.23
9 Maria Costanza Moroni  Italy 12.47 [3]

Shot put

18 June

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Results Notes
Mara Rosolen  Italy 17.31 17.68 17.77 17.81 17.82 17.82
Eleni Tsentemeidou  Greece 17.70
Margarita Ramos  Spain 17.42 16.99 17.03 x x x 17.42
4 Laurence Manfredi  France 17.23
5 Fotini Kyriakidou  Greece 17.05
6 Agnese Maffeis  Italy 17.01
7 Nataša Erjavec  Slovenia 16.94
8 Martina de la Puente  Spain 16.70 16.70 x x x x 16.70

Discus throw

16 June

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Results Notes
Anastasia Kelesidou  Greece 58.84 61.46 60.22 63.78 66.18 64.28 66.18 GR
Styliani Tsikouna  Greece 61.96
Isabelle Devaluez  France 61.28
4 Agnese Maffeis  Italy 60.60
5 Monia Kari Tunisia 59.10
6 Mara Rosolen  Italy 54.28
7 Ángeles Barreiro  Spain x 52.96 53.94 x x 54.00 54.00
8 Carmen Solé  Spain 46.02 49.84 51.78 49.34 52.54 x 52.54

Javelin throw

Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Results Notes
Nadine Auzeil  France 57.32
Claudia Coslovich  Italy 57.16
Angeliki Tsiolakoudi  Greece 56.70
4 Marta Míguez  Spain x 50.68 55.16 53.74 x 52.70 55.16
5 Idoia Mariezkurrena  Spain 52.26 54.58 52.38 50.02 54.04 47.96 54.58

Heptathlon

15–16 June

Rank Name Nationality 100m H HJ SP 200m LJ JT 800m Points Notes
Nathalie Teppe  France 14.05 1.78 13.49 26.01 5.90 57.38 2:17.45 6161
Gertrud Bacher  Italy 14.31 1.69 13.16 24.92 5.58 45.70 2:11.01 5859
Marie Collonvillé  France 13.82 1.81 11.65 24.90 5.84 38.56 2:16.67 5839
4 Imma Clopés  Spain 14.24 1.75 13.51 25.50 5.80 41.30 2:23.17 5725
5 Roula Hambarsian  Syria 4102
Susana Cruz  Spain 14.43 1.72 11.90 26.17 NM 36.14 DNS DNF

References

  1. ^ Results Archived 2014-06-23 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Eventi: Giochi del Mediterraneo 97 – Archivio Giugno 1997 Archived 2012-03-16 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian). RAI Sport. Retrieved on 2011-01-15.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "Annuario dell'ATLETICA 2010" (PDF). 2010-05-01. p. 485. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-08-28. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "French results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-23. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  5. ^ Decathlon results (p11)
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