2015 Mediterranean Beach Games

I Mediterranean Beach Games
Nations	24
Athletes	900
Events	58 in 11 sports
Opening	28 August 2015
Closing	6 September 2015
Opened by	Massimo Cassano; Undersecretary at the Ministry of Social Policies
Ceremony venue	Marina of Pescara
Website	pescara2015.it
	2019 →

Last updated June 08, 2025

The 2015 Mediterranean Beach Games was the first edition of the Mediterranean Beach Games. It was held from 28 August to 6 September 2015 in Pescara, Italy.

Sports

Aquathlon ( details ) (2)
Beach handball ( details ) (2)
Beach soccer ( details ) (1)
Beach tennis ( details ) (3)
Beach volleyball ( details ) (2)
Beach wrestling ( details ) (7)
Canoe ocean racing ( details ) (2)
Finswimming ( details ) (18+5) (Pool+Open Water)
Open water swimming ( details ) (3)
Rowing beach sprint ( details ) (7)
Water skiing ( details ) (6)

Participating nations

All 24 member nations of the International Committee for the Mediterranean Games competed in this edition of Mediterranean Beach Games.^[3]

Albania (8)
Algeria (21)
Andorra (1)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (9)
Croatia (61)
Cyprus (31)
Egypt (111)
France (121)
Greece (87)
Italy (199) (host country)
Lebanon (21)
Libya (17)
North Macedonia (10)
Malta (20)
Monaco (42)
Montenegro (33)
Morocco (29)
San Marino (10)
Serbia (122)
Slovenia (128)
Spain (181)
Syria (9)
Tunisia (81)
Turkey (162)

Medal table

Final medal standings are shown below, information from official website of 2015 Mediterranean Beach Games for 58 events while one bronze sharing in beach wrestling.^[4]^[5]^[6]

* Host nation (Italy)

Results

https://web.archive.org/web/20190824190922/https://www.mbgpatras2019.gr/pescara2015

Aquathlon

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Gianluca Pozzati Italy	Riccardo De Palma Italy	Dylan Magnien France
Women	Sara Papais Italy	Anna Godoy Contreras Spain	Elisa Marcon Italy

Beach handball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Tunisia Mohamed Khalil Ben Mida Achraf Elabed Hassine Hamza Lakhdar Mohamed Maaouia Omar Saied Ahmed Sfar Marouane Soussi Aimen Touzi	Cyprus Christos Argyrou Julios Argyrou Theodotos Christou Christos Hadjiefrem Xenios Kyprianou Andreas Miltos Markides Yiannos Nikiforou Kyriacos Sophocleous Georgios Stylianou Themistoklis Tsivikos	Turkey Çetin Çelik Ozan Erdoğan Musa Günerler Cemal Kütahya Ramazan Mutlu Müjdat Özcan Gökhan Şanlı Yakup Yasar Simsar Ekrem Tüfekçidere Burak Turan
Women	Italy Angela Cappellaro Eleonora Costa Irene Fanton Cristina Gheorghe Valentina Landri Francesca Luchin Anika Niederwieser Monika Prünster Laura Celeste Rotondo Gaia Maria Zuin	Greece Ntafina Dimitri Sofia Dimitriou Anna Polyxeni Kaloidi Elisavet Mastaka Eleni Mournou Anastasia Papavasileiou Eleni Poimenidou Niki Ratsika Vasiliki Skara Athina Vasileiadou	Turkey Esma Adnar Neslihan Çalışkan Merve Durdu Serpil İskenderoğlu Sibel Karameke Reyhan Kaya Buket Keskin İrem Köseler Fetane Uzunlar Yeliz Yılmaz

Beach soccer

Beach tennis

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's doubles	Italy Teo Casadei Gian Maria Pazzaglia	Italy Diego Bollettinari Dennis Valmori	San Marino Nicoló Bombini Alvise Galli
Women's doubles	Italy Veronica Casadei Greta Giusti	Italy Nicole Nobile Ninny Jannika Valentini	San Marino Alice Grandi Camilla Zafferani
Mixed doubles	Italy Nicole Nobile Diego Bollettinari	Italy Veronica Casadei Teo Casadei	Slovenia Marcela Cuderman Urban Cevka

Beach volleyball

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	Turkey Murat Giginoğlu Volkan Gogtepe	Italy Marco Caminati Enrico Rossi	Croatia Filip Silić Ivan Zeljković
Women	Serbia Milena Matić Marija Milošević	Italy Laura Giombini Giulia Toti	France Melinda Adelin Zoé Cazalet

Beach wrestling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 70 kg	Apostolos Taskoudis Greece	Mehdi Ait Amrane Algeria	Christos Navrozidis Greece
Men's 80 kg	Billel Hadri Algeria	Vincenzo Chiara Italy	Georgios Koulouchidis Greece
Men's 80 kg	Billel Hadri Algeria	Vincenzo Chiara Italy	Osman Hajdari Albania
Men's 90 kg	Salvatore Purpura Italy	Timofei Xenidis Greece	Aly Moustafa Egypt
Men's +90 kg	Raja Alkrad Syria	Micheil Tsikovani Greece	Juan Francisco Espino Spain

Women's 60 kg	Emilie Dufour France	Rabia Lamalsa Algeria	Amina Benabderrahmane Algeria
Women's 70 kg	Agoro Papavasileiou Greece	Aurora Fajardo Spain	Mariana Kolic France
Women's +70 kg	Samar Amer Egypt	Aikaterini Eirini Pitsiava Greece	Tassadit Amer Algeria

Canoe ocean racing

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 10 km	Maximilian Benassi Italy	Esteban Medina Spain	Mattia Colombi Italy
Women's 10 km	Stefania Cicali Italy	Anna Alberti Italy	Abir Ben Ismaïl Tunisia

Finswimming

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m apnea	Alexandre Noir France	Cesare Fumarola Italy	Loukas Karetzopoulos Greece
50 m bi-fins	Andrea Pegoraro Italy	Michele Russo Italy	Mohamed Elmozayen Egypt
100 m bi-fins	Andrea Pegoraro Italy	Mohamed Elmozayen Egypt	Michele Russo Italy
200 m bi-fins	Andrea Pegoraro Italy	Mohamed Elmozayen Egypt	Mohamed Benyahia Nedjar Algeria
100 m surface	Alexandre Noir France	Cesare Fumarola Italy	Loukas Karetzopoulos Greece
200 m surface	Christos Christoforidis Greece	Davide De Ceglie Italy	Stefano Figini Italy
400 m surface	Christos Christoforidis Greece	Stefano Figini Italy	Davide De Ceglie Italy
4 × 50 m bi-fins	Italy Davide De Ceglie Giona Cristofari Michele Russo Andrea Pegoraro	Turkey Berker Çakar Can Şerifoğlu Hamit Taha Tayfur Ozcan Esen	France Nicola Crisante Hugo Pellet Stanys Caron Alexandre Noir
4 × 100 m surface	Italy Giona Cristofari Stefano Figini Davide De Ceglie Cesare Fumarola	Spain Jesus Caravaca Javier Lopez David Asin José Antonio Perez	France Alexandre Noir Stanys Caron Nicola Crisante Hugo Pellet
Open water 2 km bi-fins	Mohamed Benyahia Nedjar Algeria	Malek Zagrani Tunisia	Mohamed Saadani Tunisia
Open water 4 km surface	Davide De Ceglie Italy	Andrej Matic Serbia	Moustafa Nail Egypt

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 m apnea	Sofia Ktena Greece	Camille Heitz France	Erica Barbon Italy
50 m bi-fins	Elisa Mammi Italy	Silvia Baroncini Italy	Khouloud Saadani Tunisia
100 m bi-fins	Giorgia Di Credico Italy	Isabella Brambilla Italy	Khouloud Saadani Tunisia
200 m bi-fins	Giorgia Di Credico Italy	Isabella Brambilla Italy	Najla Mansour Tunisia
100 m surface	Camille Heitz France	Sofia Ktena Greece	Erica Barbon Italy
200 m surface	Camille Heitz France	Erica Barbon Italy	Alexandra Nisioti Greece
400 m surface	Erica Barbon Italy	Alexandra Nisioti Greece	Serena Monduzzi Italy
4 × 50 m bi-fins	Italy Elisa Mammi Silvia Baroncini Giorgia Di Credico Erica Barbon	France Colette Gelas Pauline Rivens Camille Heitz Nolwenn Patrie	Tunisia Najla Mansour Amira Trabelsi Meriem Ben Haj Khouloud Saadani
4 × 100 m surface	Italy Erica Barbon Isabella Brambilla Giorgia Di Credico Silvia Baroncini	Turkey Zühre İşici Zeynep Ak Ecem Tekin Beste Tuğçem Akgün	France Oceane Hubaut Nolwenn Patrie Loren Baron Camille Heitz
Open water 2 km bi-fins	Elisa Mammi Italy	Najla Mansour Tunisia	Isabella Brambilla Italy
Open water 4 km surface	Serena Monduzzi Italy	Yassmin Amin Egypt	Alaa Mohamed Egypt

Mixed

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Open water 4 × 2 km	Italy Stefano Figini Silvia Baroncini Serena Monduzzi Davide De Ceglie	Egypt Abanob Meshrky Alaa Mohamed Yassmin Amin Moustafa Nail	France Antoine Fauveau Pauline Rivens Julien Guilbaut Loren Baron

Open water swimming

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 5 km	Dario Verani Italy	Andrea Manzi Italy	Georgios Arniakos Greece
Women's 5 km	Arianna Bridi Italy	Giulia Gabbrielleschi Italy	Špela Perše Slovenia
Mixed 5 km team	Italy Andrea Bianchi Arianna Bridi Dario Verani	Italy Giulia Gabbrielleschi Andrea Manzi Barbara Pozzobon	Croatia Matija Luka Rafaj Ivan Šitić Karla Šitić

Rowing beach sprint

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's C1X	Simone Ranieri Italy	Mohamed Ben Sidhom Tunisia	Matej Grobelnik Slovenia
Men's C2X	France Benoit Bride Julien Gazaix	Slovenia Gasper Ostanek Vid Pugelj	Italy Tiziano Evangelisti Dino Pari
Men's C4X+1	France Vincent Alligier Benjamin Bajard Guillaume Bec Olivier Duffet Remi Rouviere	Algeria Kamel Ait Daoud Mohamed Abderraouf Djouimai Chaouki Dries Mohamed Ryad Garidi Adlane Larbi	Italy Simone Ferrarese Stefano Gioia Jacopo Mancini Simone Martini Nicolò Pagani

Women's C1X	Carmela Pappalardo Italy	Jessica Berra France	Nawel Chiali Algeria
Women's C2X	Italy Veronica Paccagnella Benedetta Bellio	Algeria Nawel Chiali Narimane Harzallah	Tunisia Malek Ounis Ibtissem Trimèche
Women's C4X+1	France Justine Billet Anne Jouy Charlène Malaboeuf Agathe Pichon Marie Tavernier	Greece Paraskevi Giannou Panagiota Gkeka Dimitra Kouklotidou Styliani Koumpli Maria Pergouli	Italy Ludovica Lucidi Fabiana Romito Elena Waiglein Serena Cicerchia Ludovica Serafini

Relay	France Benoit Bride Julien Gazaix Jessica Berra Lionel Picard Justine Billet Charlène Malaboeuf	Tunisia Abdallah Adouani Skander Cherni Sarra Boulares Mohamed Ben Sidhom Malek Ounis Ibtissem Trimèche	Italy Tiziano Evangelisti Dino Pari Carmela Pappalardo Simone Ranieri Benedetta Bellio Veronica Paccagnella

Water ski

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's slalom	Thibaut Daillant France	Davide Napolitano Italy	Lorenzo D'Alberto Italy
Men's trick	Thibaut Daillant France	Pierre Ballon France	Nikolas Plytas Greece
Women's slalom	Clementine Lucine France	Beatrice Ianni Italy	Claire Lise Welter France
Women's trick	Clementine Lucine France	Marialuisa Pajni Italy	Natalia Paschou Greece

Men's wakeboard	Nicolò Caimi Italy	Yann Calvez France	Lucas Langlois France
Women's wakeboard	Giorgia Gregorio Italy	Sina Luxor Egypt	Marie Vympranietsova Greece

References

↑ "LET'S THE 1st MEDITERRANEAN BEACH GAMES BEGIN !". European Olympic Committees. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
↑ "Mediterranean Beach Games start out with four sports and the opening ceremony". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
↑ "Participating countries". pescara2015.it. Archived from the original on 2015-08-23. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
↑ "Medal Table". Archived from the original on 2015-09-10. Retrieved 2015-09-08.
↑ "PESCARA 2015 - Mediterranean Beach Games, Patras 2019". www.mbgpatras2019.gr. Archived from the original on 24 August 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
↑ "MEDITERRANEAN BEACH GAMES – Μεσογειακοί Παράκτιοι Αγώνες Πάτρας 2019".

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[1] "LET'S THE 1st MEDITERRANEAN BEACH GAMES BEGIN !". European Olympic Committees. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.

[2] "Mediterranean Beach Games start out with four sports and the opening ceremony". Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.

[3] "Participating countries". pescara2015.it. Archived from the original on 2015-08-23. Retrieved 2015-09-01.

[4] "Medal Table". Archived from the original on 2015-09-10. Retrieved 2015-09-08.

[5] "PESCARA 2015 - Mediterranean Beach Games, Patras 2019". www.mbgpatras2019.gr. Archived from the original on 24 August 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2022.

[6] "MEDITERRANEAN BEACH GAMES – Μεσογειακοί Παράκτιοι Αγώνες Πάτρας 2019".

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy*	33	23	14	70
2	France	13	5	9	27
3	Greece	5	7	9	21
4	Algeria	2	4	4	10
5	Egypt	1	6	4	11
6	Tunisia	1	4	7	12
7	Turkey	1	2	2	5
8	Serbia	1	1	0	2
9	Syria	1	0	0	1
10	Spain	0	4	1	5
11	Slovenia	0	1	3	4
12	Cyprus	0	1	0	1
13	Croatia	0	0	2	2
13	San Marino	0	0	2	2
15	Albania	0	0	1	1
15	Libya	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		58	58	59	175