Athletics at the 1955 Mediterranean Games – Results

Last updated February 19, 2025

These are the complete results of the athletics competition at the 1955 Mediterranean Games which took place between 18 and 24 July in Barcelona, Spain.^[1]^[2]

Results

100 meters

Heats – 20 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Sergio D'Asnasch	Italy	10.9	Q
2	1	Jean Meunier	France	11.1	Q
3	1	Stefanos Petrakis	Greece	11.2	Q
4	1	Melanio Asensio	Spain	11.5	Q
1	2	Alain David	France	10.8	Q
2	2	Emad El-Din Shafei	Egypt	11.1	Q
3	2	Giovanni Ghiselli	Italy	11.2	Q
4	2	Luis Casar	Spain	11.6	Q
1	3	Luigi Gnocchi	Italy	11.0	Q
2	3	René Bonino	France	11.2	Q
3	3	Michail Tsolakis	Greece	11.3	Q
4	3	Youssef Zein El Abdin	Egypt	11.3	Q

Semifinals – 20 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Alain David	France	10.9	Q
2	1	Luigi Gnocchi	Italy	10.9	Q
3	1	Giovanni Ghiselli	Italy	11.0	Q
4	1	Jean Meunier	France	11.3
5	1	Emad El-Din Shafei	Egypt	11.5
6	1	Melanio Asensio	Spain	11.6
1	2	René Bonino	France	11.0	Q
2	2	Sergio D'Asnasch	Italy	11.1	Q
3	2	Michail Tsolakis	Greece	11.1	Q
4	2	Youssef Zein El Abdin	Egypt	11.3
5	2	Stefanos Petrakis	Greece	11.4
6	2	Luis Casar	Spain	11.7

Final – 21 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Luigi Gnocchi	Italy	10.9	=GR
	Alain David	France	11.0
	Sergio D'Asnasch	Italy	11.0
4	René Bonino	France	11.1
5	Giovanni Ghiselli	Italy	11.2
6	Michail Tsolakis	Greece	11.3

200 meters

Heats – 22 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Vincenzo Lombardo	Italy	21.7	Q
2	1	Luigi Gnocchi	Italy	22.0	Q
3	1	Farouk Tadros	Egypt	22.3	Q
4	1	Leonidas Kormalis	Greece	22.9
5	1	Marcelino Hosta	Spain	24.5
6	1	Habib Thiam	France	29.3
1	2	Wolfango Montanari	Italy	21.8	Q
2	2	Yussef Zein El Abdin	Egypt	22.3	Q
3	2	Stefanos Petrakis	Greece	22.5	Q
4	2	Jean-Pierre Geslin	France	22.7
5	2	Fahir Özgüden	Turkey	22.8
6	2	Hassan Ahmed Ragab	Egypt	23.0

Final – 23 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Luigi Gnocchi	Italy	21.6	GR
	Vincenzo Lombardo	Italy	21.7
	Wolfango Montanari	Italy	21.7
4	Yussef Zein El Abdin	Egypt	22.2
5	Farouk Tadros	Egypt	22.3
6	Stefanos Petrakis	Greece	22.7

400 meters

Heats – 20 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Pierre Haarhoff	France	57.2	Q
2	1	Francisco Ruf	Spain	57.4	Q
3	1	Farouk Tadros	Egypt	57.5	Q
4	1	Vincenzo Lombardo	Italy	57.7	Q
1	2	Jean-Pierre Goudeau	France	49.9	Q
2	2	Vassilios Sillis	Greece	50.0	Q
3	2	Hassan Ahmed Ragab	Egypt	50.0	Q
4	2	Fernando Bremón	Spain	50.1	Q
5	2	Marcello Dani	Italy	50.2
1	3	Luigi Grossi	Italy	49.9	Q
2	3	Jacques Degats	France	50.5	Q
3	3	Leonidas Kormalis	Greece	50.5	Q
4	3	Fahir Özgüden	Turkey	50.6	Q
5	3	Felipe Martín	Spain	50.8

Semifinals – 20 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Jacques Degats	France	48.7	Q
2	1	Jean-Pierre Goudeau	France	48.9	Q
3	1	Luigi Grossi	Italy	49.0	Q
4	1	Vassilios Sillis	Greece	49.5
5	1	Hassan Ahmed Ragab	Egypt	50.4
6	1	Francisco Ruf	Spain	50.5
1	2	Pierre Haarhoff	France	47.8	Q
2	2	Farouk Tadros	Egypt	48.3	Q
3	2	Vincenzo Lombardo	Italy	48.3	Q
4	2	Fahir Özgüden	Turkey	49.3
5	2	Fernando Bremón	Spain	49.8
6	2	Leonidas Kormalis	Greece	50.1

Final – 21 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jacques Degats	France	47.3	GR
	Pierre Haarhoff	France	47.5
	Vincenzo Lombardo	Italy	47.8
4	Jean-Pierre Goudeau	France	48.0
5	Farouk Tadros	Egypt	48.9
6	Luigi Grossi	Italy	49.2

800 meters

Heats – 22 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Evangelos Depastas	Greece	1:52.6	Q
2	1	Tomás Barris	Spain	1:53.8	Q
3	1	René Djian	France	1:53.9	Q
4	1	Cahit Önel	Turkey	1:54.1	Q
5	1	José María Giménez	Spain	1:54.3
6	1	Fadl El Sayed	Egypt	1:54.5
1	2	Ekrem Koçak	Turkey	1:51.2	Q
2	2	Daniel Dupoux	France	1:52.6	Q
3	2	René Félicité	France	1:52.9	Q
4	2	Manuel García	Spain	1:54.0	Q
5	2	Vassilios Sillis	Greece	2:01.2

Final – 24 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ekrem Koçak	Turkey	1:50.0	GR
	René Djian	France	1:51.1
	Evangelos Depastas	Greece	1:52.4
4	René Félicité	France	1:53.0
5	Manuel García	Spain	1:53.3
6	Daniel Dupoux	France	1:53.5
7	Tomás Barris	Spain	1:53.7
8	Cahit Önel	Turkey	1:55.8

1500 meters

21 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ekrem Koçak	Turkey	3:50.2	GR
	Cahit Önel	Turkey	3:52.2
	Antoine Vincendon	France	3:53.2
4	Tomás Barris	Spain	3:53.8	NR
5	Jean Vaillant	France	3:55.0
6	Georgios Papavasileiou	Greece	3:55.2
7	Gianfranco Baraldi	Italy	3:55.6
8	Bernard Rohée	France	3:56.6
9	José María Giménez	Spain	3:58.8
10	Turhan Göker	Turkey	?:??.?
11	Manuel Macías	Spain	?:??.?

5000 meters

22 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alain Mimoun	France	14:27.6	GR
	Osman Coşgül	Turkey	14:39.0
	Jean Carron	France	14:40.4
4	Georgios Papavasileiou	Greece	14:41.2
5	Luis García	Spain	14:49.6
6	Maurice Simonet	France	15:00.8
7	José Molíns	Spain	15:03.0
8	Mahmoud El Rashidi	Egypt	15:24.0

10,000 meters

24 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alain Mimoun	France	30:23.6	GR
	Luis García	Spain	31:32.8
	Raymond Mahaut	France	31:48.2
4	Mustafa Özcan	Turkey	31:53.2
5	Mahmoud Saleh El Rashidi	Egypt	32:05.6
6	Jesús Hurtado	Spain	33:16.4

Marathon

18 July

Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
Abdul Herin	Egypt	2:50:35	GR
Ali Hamid	Egypt	2:53.57
Erturan Haydar	Turkey	2:58.07
Jean Barthélémy	France	DNF
André Bouder	France	DNF
Jaime Guixa	Spain	DNF
Tomás Ostariz	Spain	DNF
Jaime Castro	Spain	DNF

110 meters hurdles

Heats – 21 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Philippe Candau	France	14.9	Q, GR
2	2	Ioannis Kambadelis	Greece	15.2	Q
3	1	Sébastian Junqueras	Spain	15.4	Q
4	1	Mustapha Marhoum	Egypt	15.8
5	1	Juan Busquets	Spain	16.1
1	2	Jacques Dohen	France	14.9	Q, =GR
2	2	Giampiero Massardi	Italy	15.4	Q
3	2	Jean-Claude Bernard	France	15.4	Q
4	2	Georgios Marsellos	Greece	15.8
5	2	Joaquin Berenguer	Spain	19.9

Final – 22 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Philippe Candau	France	14.9	=GR
	Jacques Dohen	France	15.2
	Jean-Claude Bernard	France	15.4
4	Giampiero Massardi	Italy	15.4
5	Ioannis Kambadelis	Greece	15.7
6	Sébastian Junqueras	Spain	20.0

400 meters hurdles

Heats – 23 July

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Armando Filiput	Italy	54.4	Q
2	1	Raymond Boisset	France	55.7	Q
3	1	Ioannis Kambadelis	Greece	56.4	Q
4	1	Nashat El Kholi	Egypt	56.6
5	1	Aureliano Moret	Spain	57.7
6	1	Amable Portoles	Spain	59.2
1	2	Guy Cury	France	53.4	Q
2	2	Robert Bart	France	54.0	Q
3	2	Fotios Kosmas	Greece	55.2	Q
4	2	Javier Saiz	Spain	56.6
5	2	Ibrahim Ghanem	Lebanon	1:02.8

Final – 24 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Guy Cury	France	52.4	GR
	Robert Bart	France	52.8
	Armando Filiput	Italy	53.4
4	Raymond Boisset	France	53.6
5	Ioannis Kambadelis	Greece	54.4
6	Fotios Kosmas	Greece	1:00.8

3000 meters steeplechase

23 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Georgios Papavasileiou	Greece	9:20.6	GR
	Julien Soucours	France	9:23.6
	José Teixeira	Spain	9:26.8
4	Mustafa Özcan	Turkey	9:38.8
5	Alonzo Cerezo	Spain	9:39.8
6	Félix Bidegui	Spain	9:44.6
7	Belkacem Chikhane	France	9:48.2
8	Robert Boutard	France	9:49.6

4 × 100 meters relay

24 July

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Italy	Giovanni Ghiselli, Sergio D'Asnasch, Wolfango Montanari, Luigi Gnocchi	41.0	GR
	Greece	Nikolaos Georgopoulos, Dimitrios Kipouros, Stefanos Petrakis, Konstantinos Tsalamanios	42.6
	Egypt	Mustafa Marhoum, Emad El-Din Shafei, Fawzi Chaaban, Yussef Zein El Abdin	42.8
4	Spain	Melanio Asensio, Marcelino Hosta, José María Alonso, Juan Miguel López	44.00
	France	Jacques Derderian, ?, ?, ?	DNF

4 × 400 meters relay

24 July

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	France	Jacques Degats, Pierre Haarhoff, René Galland, Jean-Paul Martin du Gard	3:12.8	GR
	Italy	Luigi Grossi, Mario Paoletti, Vincenzo Lombardo, Baldassare Porto	3:14.4
	Egypt	Hassan Ahmed Ragab, Fadl El Sayed, Nashat El Kholi, Farouk Tadros	3:16.2
4	Greece	Leonidas Kormalis, Konstantinos Moragemos, Vassilios Syllis, Evangelos Depastas	3:19.4
5	Spain	Fernando Bremón, Juan Cruz Echeandia, Francisco Ruf, Manuel García	3:20.0	NR

10 kilometers walk

21 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Pino Dordoni	Italy	48:21.8	GR
	Roland Griset	France	48:44.2
	Louis Chevalier	France	49:47.4
4	Alberto Gurt	Spain	50:39.4
5	Ioannis Skamangas	Greece	51:22.0
6	José Planas	Spain	51:46.0
7	Manuel Gracia	Spain	52:50.0

50 kilometers walk

23 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Abdon Pamich	Italy	5:03:33
	Roger Chaylat	France	5:20:07
	Francisco Villoldo	Spain	5:36:07
4	Antonio Farres	Spain	6:06:45
	Raymond Leborgne	France	DNF

High jump

22 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
	Maurice Fournier	France	1.98
	Papagallo Thiam	France	1.98
	Çetin Şahiner	Turkey	1.90
4	Georges Damitio	France	1.85
5	Ioannis Koinis	Greece	1.85
6	Juan Ignacio Ariño	Spain	1.85
7	Erdal Ekkan	Turkey	1.85
8	Georgios Marsellos	Greece	1.85
9	Salvador Morales	Spain	1.75

Pole vault

24 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Giulio Chiesa	Italy	4.28	GR
	Georgios Roubanis	Greece	4.25
	Victor Sillon	France	4.20
4	Rigas Efstathiadis	Greece	4.00
5	Roland Gras	France	4.00
6	Gamal El Shibiny	Egypt	3.70
7	Fernando Adarraga	Spain	3.60
8	Salvador Vadillo	Spain	3.50

Long jump

23 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result
	Luigi Ulivelli	Italy	x	x	7.11	x	7.17	6.90	7.17
	Emad El Din Shafei	Egypt	6.69	7.11	7.05	x	6.95	7.05	7.11
	René Cucuat	France	7.10	7.00	x	6.82	7.10	x	7.10
4	Dimitrios Kipouros	Greece	6.70	6.99	7.10	6.98	6.95	7.00	7.10
5	Antoine Bernal	France	x	6.94	x	7.00	x	7.05	7.05
6	Ernest Wanko	France	6.77	6.29	6.93	6.83	x	–	6.93
7	José María Alonso	Spain							6.91
8	Luis Pérez	Spain							6.86
9	Yarwant Bervekzyan	Egypt							6.61
10	Ural Suphi	Turkey							6.58
11	Fawzi Chaaban	Egypt							6.52

Triple jump

20 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Éric Battista	France	14.93	14.56	14.72	14.42	x	14.57	14.93	GR
	Fawzi Chaaban	Egypt	14.59	14.54	x	14.07	x	14.22	14.59
	Konstantinos Sfikas	Greece	14.58	14.25	14.45	x	13.91	x	14.58
4	Serge Gaiddon	France	14.37	14.25	14.35	12.66	13.07	14.05	14.37
5	Manuel Surroca	Spain	13.81	12.73	13.61	13.21	x	13.13	13.81
6	José Parellada	Spain	13.34	x	x	x	13.15	12.60	13.34
7	Leandro García	Spain	13.81	12.73	13.61	13.21	x	13.13	13.21
8	Pierre Thiolon	France	13.34	x	x	x	13.15	12.60	13.15

Shot put

22 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Raymond Thomas	France	15.00	15.48	15.34	14.60	15.19	15.70	15.70	GR
	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	13.85	15.13	15.49	15.49	15.04	15.41	15.49
	Silvano Meconi	Italy	14.89	14.86	14.86	14.64	15.24	15.35	15.35
4	Gérard Ernst	France	13.34	14.00	13.89	14.27	14.44	14.65	14.65
5	Jean Darot	France	13.94	x	x	x	13.99	13.86	13.99
6	Alfonso Vidal	Spain	12.76	12.81	12.62	12.33	12.91	12.71	12.91
7	José del Pino	Spain							12.76

Discus throw

23 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Adolfo Consolini	Italy	48.10	49.23	50.98	50.53	52.81	44.95	52.81	GR
	Antonios Kounadis	Greece	x	43.74	34.80	46.75	47.23	44.58	47.23
	Konstantinos Giataganas	Greece	45.31	x	45.63	45.00	x	x	45.63
4	Jean Guesdon	France	39.94	42.73	42.58	42.24	45.25	43.63	45.25
5	Jean Darot	France	43.73	44.93	43.20	45.08	45.06	42.83	45.08
6	Jean Maissant	France	44.69	44.26	44.79	42.25	43.30	43.45	44.79
7	Turan Nuri	Turkey							42.38
8	Alfonso Vidal	Spain							41.69
9	José Luis Torres	Spain							40.84

Hammer throw

21 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Teseo Taddia	Italy	54.32	x	x	55.09	x	55.14	55.14	GR
	Guy Husson	France	48.78	50.27	x	54.31	47.87	52.38	54.31
	Dimitrios Boulboutzis	Greece	45.59	x	48.23	47.65	44.09	47.23	48.23
4	Salvador Bosch	Spain	x	43.26	46.00	47.23	43.49	45.27	47.23

Javelin throw

24 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Michel Macquet	France	56.39	64.18	63.34	68.13	69.00	67.45	69.00	GR
	Francesco Ziggiotti	Italy	64.88	61.04	66.22	57.11	63.62	63.55	66.22
	Pedro Apellániz	Spain	48.38	62.64	x	54.54	x	x	62.64
4	Oleg Syrovatski	France	55.07	61.92	61.83	61.60	62.60	59.78	62.60
5	Jacques Guénard	France	55.32	49.49	60.98	56.52	58.54	59.66	60.98
6	Mohamed Atef Ismail	Egypt	60.54	x	53.93	55.43	54.79	59.94	60.54

Decathlon

20–21 July

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
	Bernardino Adarraga	Spain	12.0	6.22	12.65	1.65	53.0	17.0	38.97	3.50	53.59	4:30.4	5693	GR, NR
	Mohamed Saïd Zaki	Egypt	11.4	6.88	11.95	1.60	50.8	18.1	35.50	3.70	43.10	4:41.0	5633
	Robert Vaussenat	France	11.5	6.22	11.29	1.60	52.1	15.7	30.58	3.05	43.75	4:44.2	5262
4	Fotios Kosmas	Greece	11.8	6.12	10.65	1.50	51.1	16.8	31.60	3.05	43.85	?	4529
	Manuel González	Spain	11.6	6.67	11.63	1.65	51.5	19.4	36.53	DNF	–	–	DNF

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Athletics at the 1955 Mediterranean Games – Results

Contents

Results

100 meters

200 meters

400 meters

800 meters

1500 meters

5000 meters

10,000 meters

Marathon

110 meters hurdles

400 meters hurdles

3000 meters steeplechase

4 × 100 meters relay

4 × 400 meters relay

10 kilometers walk

50 kilometers walk

High jump

Pole vault

Long jump

Triple jump

Shot put

Discus throw

Hammer throw

Javelin throw

Decathlon

References