Athletics at the 1951 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 1951 Mediterranean Games
Dates	6 – 10 October
Host city	Alexandria
Events	23
Participation	9 nations
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Athletics at the 1951 Mediterranean Games were held in Alexandria, Egypt, and took place from the 6 October to the 10 October. ^[1]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Egypt)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	9	4	0	13
2	Italy	6	4	2	12
3	Greece	3	7	3	13
4	Yugoslavia	3	5	7	15
5	Turkey	2	3	7	12
6	Egypt*	0	0	4	4
Totals (6 entries)		23	23	23	69

Medal summary

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Stefanos Petrakis Greece	10.9	Mauro Frizzoni   Italy	11.2	Wolfango Montanari   Italy	11.2
200 metres	Antonio Siddi   Italy	22.0	Jacques Degats   France	22.1	Wolfango Montanari   Italy	22.1
400 metres	Jacques Degats   France	47.8	Antonio Siddi   Italy	47.9	Zvonko Sabolović   Yugoslavia	48.6
800 metres	Patrick El Mabrouk   France	1:50.9	Michel Clare   France	1:54.2	Ekrem Koçak   Turkey	1:54.7
1500 metres	Patrick El Mabrouk   France	3:55.8	Cahit Önel   Turkey	3:56.9	Zdravko Ceraj   Yugoslavia	4:01.5
5000 metres	Alain Mimoun   France	14:38.3	Zdravko Ceraj   Yugoslavia	15:05.2	Stevan Pavlović   Yugoslavia	15:05.5
10,000 metres	Alain Mimoun   France	31:07.9	Franjo Mihalić   Yugoslavia	31:42.8	Mustafa Özcan   Turkey	34:27.5
Marathon	Ahmet Aytar   Turkey	3:07:25	Athanasios Ragazos Greece	3:21:31	Mohamed Omran Egypt	3:24:24
110 metres hurdles	Jean-François Brisson   France	15.5	Ioannis Kambadellis Greece	15.8	Mustafa Batman   Turkey	15.8
400 metres hurdles	Armando Filiput   Italy	53.8	Doğan Acarbay   Turkey	55.1	Igor Zupančič   Yugoslavia	55.4
3000 m steeplechase	Božidar Đurašković   Yugoslavia	9:38.5	Petar Šegedin   Yugoslavia	9:39.2	Mustafa Özcan   Turkey	9:44.9
10 km walk	Pino Dordoni   Italy	51:39.6	Athanasios Aposporis Greece	54:28.0	Wahib Saleh Egypt	1:04:20.9
4 x 100 metres relay	Italy Wolfango Montanari Franco Leccese Antonio Siddi Mauro Frizzoni	42.4	Greece Vassilis Syllis Takis Ventikos Michail Tsolakis Stefanos Petrakis	43.5	Yugoslavia Marko Račič Zvonko Sabolović Boris Brandl Petar Pecelj	43.9
4 x 400 metres relay	France Jacques Degats Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Michel Clare Patrick El Mabrouk	3:19.5	Yugoslavia Igor Zupančič Andrija Otenhajmer Marko Račič Zvonko Sabolović	3:23.4	Turkey Cahit Önel Doğan Acarbay Ekrem Koçak Emin Doybak	3:25.9

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Georges Damitio   France	2.00 m	Papagallo Thiam   France	1.90 m	Mihajlo Dimitrijević   Yugoslavia	1.80 m
Pole vault	Victor Sillon   France	4.00 m	Rigas Efstathiadis Greece	4.00 m	Theodosios Balafas Greece	3.90 m
Long jump	Boris Brnad   Yugoslavia	7.28 m	Dimitrios Kipouros Greece	6.96 m	Avni Akgün   Turkey	6.85 m
Triple jump	Akın Altıok   Turkey	14.15 m	Victor Sillon   France	14.13 m	Fawzi Chaaban Egypt	14.09 m
Shot put	Konstantinos Giataganas Greece	15.03 m	Angiolo Profeti   Italy	15.02 m	Nuri Turan   Turkey	14.71 m
Discus throw	Giuseppe Tosi   Italy	48.49 m	Nikolaos Syllas Greece	46.07 m	Konstantinos Giataganas Greece	43.18 m
Hammer throw	Teseo Taddia   Italy	52.33 m	Ivan Gubijan   Yugoslavia	51.20 m	Rudolf Galin   Yugoslavia	50.43 m
Javelin throw	Branko Dangubić   Yugoslavia	65.82 m	Halil Zıraman   Turkey	63.62 m	Vassilios Kallimatis Greece	59.57 m
Decathlon	Fotis Kosmas Greece	5135 pts	Lorenzo Vecchiutti   Italy	5001 pts	Rachad Khadr Egypt	4798 pts

Results

100 meters

Heats – 6 October [2] Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Stefanos Petrakis Greece 11.2 Q 2 1 Wolfango Montanari   Italy 11.3 Q [3] 3 1 Fawzi Chaaban Egypt 11.5 Q 4 1 George Bonello du Puis Malta 11.7 Q 5 1 Nasser Attar   Lebanon 11.9 1 2 Youssef Amer Egypt 11.0 Q 2 2 Michail Tsolakis Greece 11.3 Q 3 2 Franco Leccese   Italy 11.3 Q [3] 4 2 Ialikaf Syria ??.? Q 1 3 Petar Pecelj   Yugoslavia 11.1 Q 2 3 Emad El-Din Shafei Egypt 11.2 Q 3 3 Mauro Frizzoni   Italy 11.3 Q [3] 4 3 Takis Ventikos Greece 11.5 Q Semifinals Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 2 1 Wolfango Montanari   Italy 11.2 Q [3] 3 1 Franco Leccese   Italy 11.3 Q [3] 3 2 Mauro Frizzoni   Italy 11.4 Q [3]

Final Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Stefanos Petrakis Greece 10.9 Mauro Frizzoni   Italy 11.2 Wolfango Montanari   Italy 11.2 4 Petar Pecelj   Yugoslavia 11.3 5 Franco Leccese   Italy 11.6 Youssef Amer Egypt DNF

200 meters

Heats – 8 October [4] Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Antonio Siddi   Italy 22.6 Q [3] 2 1 Jacques Degats   France 23.0 Q 3 1 Vassilis Syllis Greece 23.2 Q 4 1 Nasser Attar   Lebanon 24.0 Q 1 2 Wolfango Montanari   Italy 22.2 Q [3] 2 2 Emad El-Din Shafei Egypt 22.8 Q 3 2 Michail Tsolakis Greece 23.0 Q 4 2 George Bonello du Puis Malta 27.0 Q 1 3 Stefanos Petrakis Greece 22.4 Q 2 3 Jean-Paul Martin du Gard   France 22.4 Q [5] 3 3 Mauro Frizzoni   Italy 23.3 Q [3] 4 3 Amin El Azim Egypt 23.7 Q Semifinals – 9 October [6] Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Jacques Degats   France 23.7 Q 2 1 Wolfango Montanari   Italy 24.0 Q [3] 3 1 Stefanos Petrakis Greece 26.3 Q 1 2 Antonio Siddi   Italy 22.7 Q [3] 2 2 Mauro Frizzoni   Italy 23.2 Q [3] 3 2 Emad El-Din Shafei Egypt 23.3 Q 4 2 Jean-Paul Martin du Gard   France 23.5 [5] 5 2 Vassilis Syllis Greece 23.7

Final – 10 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Antonio Siddi   Italy 22.0 Jacques Degats   France 22.1 Wolfango Montanari   Italy 22.1 4 Emad El-Din Shafei Egypt 22.6 5 Mauro Frizzoni   Italy 22.7 6 Stefanos Petrakis Greece 22.9

400 meters

Heats – 6 October [2] Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Antonio Siddi   Italy 50.7 Q [3] 2 1 Marko Račič   Yugoslavia 52.0 Q 3 1 Eddie Turner Malta 54.2 1 3 Jean-Paul Martin du Gard   France 50.1 Q 2 3 Armando Filiput   Italy 50.6 Q [3] 3 3 Dros Egypt 50.7 4 3 Vassilios Sillis Greece 51.0 [7]

Final – 8 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jacques Degats   France 47.8 Antonio Siddi   Italy 47.9 Zvonko Sabolović   Yugoslavia 48.6 4 Jean-Paul Martin du Gard   France 49.1 5 Armando Filiput   Italy 49.8 Marko Račič   Yugoslavia DNF

800 meters

Heats – 6 October [2] Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Andrija Otenhajmer   Yugoslavia 1:56.9 Q 2 1 Michel Clare   France 1:56.9 Q 3 1 Evangelos Depastas Greece 1:58.3 Q

Final – 9 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Patrick El Mabrouk   France 1:50.9 Michel Clare   France 1:54.2 Ekrem Koçak   Turkey 1:54.7 4 William Fahmy Hanna Egypt 1:55.3 5 Andrija Otenhajmer   Yugoslavia 1:55.9 6 Evangelos Depastas Greece 2:00.4

1500 meters

10 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Patrick El Mabrouk	France	3:55.8
	Cahit Önel	Turkey	3:56.9
	Zdravko Ceraj	Yugoslavia	4:01.5
4	Ekrem Koçak	Turkey	4:03.0
5	William Fahmy Hanna	Egypt	4:04.1
6	Hawary Hassan	Egypt	4:23.6

5000 meters

9 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alain Mimoun	France	14:38.3
	Zdravko Ceraj	Yugoslavia	15:05.2
	Stevan Pavlović	Yugoslavia	15:05.5
4	Franjo Mihalić	Yugoslavia	15:07.9
5	Vasilios Mavrapostolos	Greece	15:42.5
6	Abdallah El Naffady	Egypt	??:??.?

10,000 meters

8 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alain Mimoun	France	31:07.9
	Franjo Mihalić	Yugoslavia	31:42.8
	Mustafa Özcan	Turkey	34:27.5
4	Mohamed Omran	Egypt	35:20.0
5	Hassan Abdel Fattah	Egypt	35:41.0
6	Abdallah El Naffady	Egypt	37:26.0

Marathon

10 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ahmet Aytar	Turkey	3:07:25
	Athanasios Ragazos	Greece	3:21:31
	Mohamed Omran	Egypt	3:24:24
4	Dimitrios Dervinis	Greece	3:41:02

110 meters hurdles

Heats – 6 October [2] Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Jean-François Brisson   France 15.2 Q [5] 1 2 Ioannis Kambadellis Greece 15.9 Q 2 2 Ahmed Saleh Egypt 17.2 Q 3 2 Saïd Madbouli Egypt 17.2 Q

Final – 7 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jean-François Brisson   France 15.5 Ioannis Kambadellis Greece 15.8 Mustafa Batman   Turkey 15.8 4 Mohamed Soliman Egypt 15.9 5 Ahmed Saleh Egypt 17.0 6 Saïd Madbouli Egypt 17.1

400 meters hurdles

Heats – 7 October [7] Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Armando Filiput   Italy 56.2 Q [3] 2 1 Emin Doybak   Turkey 57.6 Q 3 1 Abdulkadir Attya Egypt 1:00.3 Q 1 2 Doğan Acarbay   Turkey 57.0 Q 2 2 Igor Zupančič   Yugoslavia 58.0 Q 3 2 Ahmed Saleh Egypt 1:00.3 Q

Final – 8 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Armando Filiput   Italy 53.8 Doğan Acarbay   Turkey 55.1 Igor Zupančič   Yugoslavia 55.4 4 Emin Doybak   Turkey 56.8 5 Abdulkadir Attya Egypt 1:00.0 6 Ahmed Saleh Egypt 1:01.6

3000 meters steeplechase

10 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Božidar Đurašković	Yugoslavia	9:38.5
	Petar Šegedin	Yugoslavia	9:39.2
	Mustafa Özcan	Turkey	9:44.9
4	Dimitrios Melidonis	Greece	9:56.2
5	Ali Hassan	Egypt	?:??.?

4 × 100 meters relay

9 October

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Italy	Wolfango Montanari, Franco Leccese, Antonio Siddi, Mauro Frizzoni	42.4
	Greece	Vassilis Syllis, Takis Ventikos, Michail Tsolakis, Stefanos Petrakis	43.5
	Yugoslavia	Marko Račič, Zvonko Sabolović, Boris Brandl, Petar Pecelj	43.9
4	Egypt		44.2

4 × 400 meters relay

10 October

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	France	Jacques Degats, Jean-Paul Martin du Gard, Michel Clare, Patrick El Mabrouk	3:19.5
	Yugoslavia	Igor Zupančič, Andrija Otenhajmer, Marko Račič, Zvonko Sabolović	3:23.4
	Turkey	Cahit Önel, Doğan Acarbay, Ekrem Koçak, Emin Doybak	3:25.9
4	Egypt		3:29.4
	Greece		DNS

10 kilometers walk

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Pino Dordoni	Italy	51:39.6
	Athanasios Aposporis	Greece	54:28.0
	Wahib Saleh	Egypt	1:04:20.9
4	Gamil Gadaan	Egypt	1:12:36.9

High jump

10 October ^[8]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Georges Damitio	France	2.00
	Papagallo Thiam	France	1.90
	Mihajlo Dimitrijević	Yugoslavia	1.80
4	Alexandros Parodos	Greece	1.75
5	Emad El-Din Shafei	Egypt	1.75
6	Aras	Turkey	1.75

Pole vault

9 October ^[6]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Victor Sillon	France	4.00
	Rigas Efstathiadis	Greece	4.00
	Theodosios Balafas	Greece	3.90
4	Muhittin Akın	Turkey	3.80
5	Gamal El-Din El-Sherbini	Egypt	3.60

Long jump

8 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Boris Brnad	Yugoslavia	7.28
	Dimitrios Kipouros	Greece	6.96
	Avni Akgün	Turkey	6.85
4	Ismail Mounib	Egypt	6.81
5	Yarawant Bervekzyan	Egypt	6.70
6	Nasser Attar	Lebanon	6.36

Triple jump

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Avni Akgün	Turkey	14.15
	Victor Sillon	France	14.13
	Fawzi Chaaban	Egypt	14.09
4	Atef Ismail	Egypt	13.15
5	Bey Dedeyan	Egypt	12.78
6	Mohamed Kalfa	Syria	11.89

Shot put

8 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	15.03
	Angiolo Profeti	Italy	15.02
	Nuri Turan	Turkey	14.71
4	Petar Šarčević	Yugoslavia	14.39
5	Gouda Attiya	Egypt	13.37

Discus throw

9 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Giuseppe Tosi	Italy	48.49
	Nikolaos Syllas	Greece	46.07
	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	43.18
4	Angelo Profeti	Italy	42.50
5	Nuri Turan	Turkey	39.07

Hammer throw

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Teseo Taddia	Italy	52.33
	Ivan Gubijan	Yugoslavia	51.20
	Rudolf Galin	Yugoslavia	50.43
4	Toma Balcı	Turkey	47.33
5	Dimos Papageorgiou	Greece	43.86
6	Athanassios Kabaflis	Greece	36.86

Javelin throw

10 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Branko Dangubić	Yugoslavia	65.82
	Halil Zıraman	Turkey	63.62
	Vassilios Kallimatis	Greece	59.57
4	Dimos Papageorgiou	Greece	55.54
5	Abdullah El Mardi	Egypt	54.38
6	Ibrahim Abou Al Fadl	Egypt	45.43

Decathlon

7–8 October ^{[7] [4]}

  The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	100m	LJ	SP	HJ	400m	110m H	DT	PV	JT	1500m	Points	Notes
	Fotis Kosmas	Greece	11.8	6.19	10.52	1.60	51.0	16.8	31.54	3.10	48.28	4:40.0	5135
	Lorenzo Vecchiutti	Italy	12.3	6.33	11.43	1.76	54.3	16.4	34.28	3.30	39.89	4:59.0	5001	[3]
	Rachad Khadr	Egypt	12.7	6.10	10.31	1.73	52.8	18.4		3.10	47.19	4:22.0	4798
4	Mohamed Saïd Saki	Egypt	12.4	5.99	9.79	1.50	53.4				29.44		3860
5	Mustafa Mohamed	Egypt	12.6	5.97	10.65	1.60	53.9		32.48		45.34	4:53.0	3799

References

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External links

• Complete 1951 Mediterranean Games Standings.