 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source .(June 2018) |
| III Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 9–10 June 2018 |
| Host city | Jesolo, Italy |
| Events | 42 |
| Participation | 25 nations |
The 2018 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships was an athletics competition which was held in Jesolo, Italy, from 9 to 10 June 2018. A total of 42 events were contested, of which 21 by male and 21 by female athletes. A total of 25 nations participated in the championships. [1]
Host
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  France | 16 | 6 | 8 | 30 |
| 2 |  Italy * | 13 | 15 | 9 | 37 |
| 3 |  Spain | 4 | 7 | 6 | 17 |
| 4 |  Tunisia | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 |  Turkey | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 |
| 6 |  Portugal | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 |  Israel | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 |  Greece | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 |  Morocco | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 |  Cyprus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 |  Croatia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 |  Algeria | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 13 |  Egypt | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 |  Montenegro | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | 42 | 42 | 41 | 125 | |
Paraskevi "Voula" Papachristou is a former Greek triple jumper and long jumper. She won two gold medals at the European Athletics U23 Championships and took the third place at the 2016 World indoor Championships. She was removed from the Greek team for the 2012 London Olympics by the Greek Olympic Committee after making a racist comment online. At the 2016 Summer Olympics' final in Rio de Janeiro, she took the 8th place. In 2018 she was the European Champion in Berlin with a jump of 14,60 metres.
Pierre-Alexandre Vial is a retired French decathlete.
The 8th European Athletics U23 Championships were held on 14–17 July 2011 in the Městský stadion in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
The NACAC U23 Championships in Athletics is an under-23 athletics competition held between the member associations of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC). Rules and regulations were approved at an extraordinary meeting of the members attending the XVIII Central American and Caribbean Games in Maracaibo, Venezuela held on August 18, 1998. First, the competition was open for athletes aged under-25. The Congress held on the island of Grenada on July 3, 2003, resulted in the reduction of the age limit for its bi-annual championships to athletes under-23 years of age in the year of competition.
Davide Manenti is an Italian sprinter. He competed in the 4 × 100 m relay event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 200 m event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He has competed with the Italian national relay team and was a gold medallist in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships, the 2013 Mediterranean Games, the 2018 Mediterranean Games and the 2021 World Athletics Relays. He holds a personal best of 10.48 seconds for the 100 metres and 20.44 seconds for the 200 metres.
Yemaneberhan "Yeman" Crippa is an Ethiopian-born Italian long-distance runner. He won the gold medal in the 10,000 metres and bronze for the 5000 metres at the European Athletics Championships in 2022, and bronze in the 10,000 m in 2018. Crippa claimed four medals in the age-group races at the European Cross Country Championships and a bronze in the senior race in 2019.
The Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships is a biennial athletics competition open for under the age of 23 athletes of the opened to all affiliated Federations of the Mediterranean Athletics Union, who is the organizer. The event was first held in 2014. A Mediterranean Athletics U23 Indoor Championships was inaugurated five years later.
The 2014 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships was an athletics competition which was held in Aubagne, France, from 14 to 15 June 2014. A total of 42 events were contested, of which 21 by male and 21 by female athletes. A total of 25 nations participated in the championships.
Christian Falocchi is an Italian male high jumper, national champion at senior level in the high jump indoor in 2022
Fátima Diame Diame is a Spanish athlete specializing in the long jump and triple jump. At the age of 17, she became the Spanish national indoor champion in both the long jump and the 60 meters.
The 2016 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships was an athletics competition which was held in Tunis, Tunisia, from 4 to 5 June 2016. A total of 42 events were contested, of which 21 were contested by male and 21 by female athletes. A total of 27 nations participated in the championships.
These are the official results of the 2018 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships which took place on 09–10 June 2018 in Jesolo, Italy.
The 2019 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Indoor Championships was an athletics competition which was held in Miramas, France, 19 January 2019. A total of 16 events were contested, of which 8 by male and 8 by female athletes.
Diana Vaisman is a Belarusian-born Israeli track and field athlete and sprinter. She holds the Israeli national record in the 100 metre sprint.
The 10th NACAC U18 and U23 Championships in Athletics were held in Queretaro, Mexico from July 5–7, 2019. It was the first time that an U18 competition was added to the event alongside the U23 category.
The Mediterranean Athletics U23 Indoor Championships is a biennial indoor track and field competition open to athletes aged under 23 from Mediterranean nations. Organised by the Mediterranean Athletics Union, it was first held in 2019.
Elena Bellò is an Italian middle-distance runner specialized in the 800 m, her best result at the international senior level was second place at the 2021 European Team Championships in Silesia. She won five national titles at senior level. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in 800 m.
Mathilde Sénéchal is a French long-distance runner. In 2019, she competed in the senior women's race at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships held in Aarhus, Denmark. She finished in 60th place.
Ossama Meslek is an Italian middle-distance runner who specialises in the 1500 metres.