Athletics at the 1967 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 1967 Mediterranean Games
Dates	13–16 September
Host city	Tunis
Venue	Stade El Menzah
Events	22 + 6
Participation	12 nations
← 1963 Naples 1971 Izmir → 1967 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 1967 Mediterranean Games were held in Tunis, Tunisia ^[1] and took place from 13 to 16 September. ^[2] It was the first time that women competed at the Mediterranean Games.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Tunisia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	14	6	6	26
2	Tunisia*	4	7	4	15
3	Yugoslavia	4	5	3	12
4	Spain	2	5	8	15
5	Greece	2	2	4	8
6	France	2	1	1	4
7	Turkey	0	2	0	2
8	Algeria	0	0	2	2
Totals (8 entries)		28	28	28	84

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Charis Ayvaliotis  (GRE)	10.6	Pasquale Giannattasio  (ITA)	10.6	Ennio Preatoni  (ITA)	10.8
200 metres	Ito Giani  (ITA)	21.1	Livio Berruti  (ITA)	21.2	Miguel Irandegui  (ESP)	21.3
400 metres	Sergio Bello  (ITA)	47.7	Rogelio Rivas  (ESP)	47.9	Nikolaos Regoukos  (GRE)	47.9
800 metres	Pierre Toussaint  (FRA)	1:54.3	Youssef Nasri  (TUN)	1:54.7	Virgilio González  (ESP)	1:54.7
1500 metres	Renzo Finelli  (ITA)	3:49.6 GR	José María Morera  (ESP)	3:50.0	Jorge González  (ESP)	3:50.5
5000 metres	Mohammed Gammoudi  (TUN)	14:02.2 GR	Drago Žuntar  (YUG)	14:04.2	Giuseppe Cindolo  (ITA)	14:05.0
10,000 metres	Mohammed Gammoudi  (TUN)	31:01.6	Ali Khamassi  (TUN)	31:22.8	Drago Žuntar  (YUG)	31:35.0
Marathon	Antonio Ambu  (ITA)	2:21:31 GR	İsmail Akçay  (TUR)	2:21:44	Carlos Pérez  (ESP)	2:23:04
110 metres hurdles	Giovanni Cornacchia  (ITA)	14.2	Sergio Liani  (ITA)	14.2	Athanassios Lazaridis  (GRE)	14.7
400 metres hurdles	Alessandro Scatena  (ITA)	52.9	Mehmet Gesas  (TUR)	53.4	Manuel Gayoso  (ESP)	53.9
3000 m steeplechase	Javier Álvarez  (ESP)	8:44.3 GR	Labidi Ayachi  (TUN)	8:48.4	Mariano Haro  (ESP)	8:50.0
4×100 metres relay	Italy  (ITA) Ito Giani Ennio Preatoni Pasquale Giannattasio Carlo Laverda	40.6	Spain  (ESP) Miguel Irandegui Pedro Carda Juan Carlos Jones José Luis Sánchez	41.6	Tunisia  (TUN) Ajailia Miguel M'Zoughi Arfa Mohamed Belkhodja	42.7
4×400 metres relay	Italy  (ITA) Sergio Bello Furio Fusi Sergio Ottolina Giacomo Puosi	3:12.6	Spain  (ESP) Rogelio Rivas Álvaro González Ramón Magariños Virgilio González	3:15.9	Tunisia  (TUN) Moktar Herzi Chamman Hamida Gammoudi Youssef Nasri	3:20.9
20 km walk	Nicola De Vito  (ITA)	1:38:42.6 GR	Chedli Benali  (TUN)	1:39:08.6	Hamed Nadhari  (TUN)	1:43:58.2
50 km walk	Vittorio Visini  (ITA)	4:39:53.7	Naceur Ben Messaoud  (TUN)	4:43:48.6	Hamed Nadhari  (TUN)	4:52:43.5
High jump	Miodrag Todosijević  (YUG)	2.13 m GR	Ioannis Kousoulas  (GRE)	2.05 m	Polde Milek  (YUG)	2.02 m
Pole vault	Christos Papanikolaou  (GRE)	5.15 m GR	Renato Dionisi  (ITA)	4.90 m	Jean-Pierre Colusso  (FRA)	4.70 m
Long jump	Miljenko Rak  (YUG)	7.53 m	Panagiotis Khatzistathis  (GRE)	7.51 m	Rafael Blanquer  (ESP)	7.50 m
Triple jump	Luis Felipe Areta  (ESP)	16.23 m GR	Giuseppe Gentile  (ITA)	16.04 m	Michail Karagiannis  (GRE)	15.45 m
Shot put	Tomislav Šuker  (YUG)	18.01 m GR	Arnjolt Beer  (FRA)	17.72 m	Milija Jocović  (YUG)	17.53 m
Discus throw	Silvano Simeon  (ITA)	57.30 m GR	Marian Gredelj  (YUG)	55.90 m	Gilberto Ferrini  (ITA)	53.72 m
Javelin throw	Franco Radman  (ITA)	69.20 m	Alfonso de Andrés  (ESP)	66.78 m	Fernando Tallón  (ESP)	64.10 m

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Sylviane Telliez  (FRA)	11.8	Donata Govoni  (ITA)	11.9	Patrizia Seriau  (ITA)	12.4
80 metres hurdles	Carla Panerai  (ITA)	11.3	Đurđa Fočić  (YUG)	11.4	Magalì Vettorazzo  (ITA)	11.5
High jump	Snežana Hrepevnik  (YUG)	1.70 m	Đurđa Fočić  (YUG)	1.61 m	Luciana Giamperlati  (ITA)	1.58 m
Long jump	Maria Vittoria Trio  (ITA)	6.13 m	Đurđa Fočić  (YUG)	5.75 m	Charoula Sassagianni  (GRE)	5.74 m
Shot put	Beya Bouabdallah  (TUN)	11.57 m	Djemai El Hem  (TUN)	9.10 m	Rabea Ghezlane  (ALG)	8.36 m
Javelin throw	Chedlia Ben Mrad  (TUN)	33.10 m	Beya Bouabdallah  (TUN)	30.84 m	Rabea Ghezlane  (ALG)	24.78 m

Men's results

100 meters

Heats – 13 September Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Pasquale Giannattasio   Italy 10.7 Q [3] 2 1 Miguel Irandegui Spain 10.8 Q [4] 3 1 Hassan El-Mech   Morocco 11.0 Q 4 1 Miguel M'Zoughi Tunisia 11.2 Q 1 2 Charis Ayvaliotis Greece 10.6 Q, GR 2 2 Ennio Preatoni   Italy 10.8 Q [3] 3 2 José Luis Sánchez Spain 11.0 Q [4] 4 2 Mohamed Belkhodja Tunisia 11.0 Q

Final – 15 September Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Charis Ayvaliotis Greece 10.6 =GR Pasquale Giannattasio   Italy 10.6 =GR Ennio Preatoni   Italy 10.8 4 Mohamed Belkhodja Tunisia 10.8 5 José Luis Sánchez Spain 10.9 6 Miguel Irandegui Spain 11.2 7 Miguel M'Zoughi Tunisia 11.3 8 Hassan El-Mech   Morocco 12.3

200 meters

Heats – 15 September Wind: Heat 1: +1.0 m/s, Heat 2: +0.1 m/s [5] Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Ippolito Giani   Italy 21.96 Q [3] 2 1 Ramón Magariños Spain 22.22 Q, NR [4] 3 1 Ahmed Tubraki Libya 22.2 Q 4 1 Godwin Zammit   Malta 23.4 Q 1 2 Livio Berruti   Italy 21.76 Q [3] 2 2 Miguel Irandegui Spain 22.17 Q, NR [4] 3 2 Charis Ayvaliotis Greece 22.38 Q 4 2 Talbi Rahal   Morocco 22.4 Q 5 2 Laroussi Ajailia Tunisia 22.8 6 2 Mohamed Abou Dulekhi Libya 23.1

Final – 16 September Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Ippolito Giani   Italy 21.1 GR Livio Berruti   Italy 21.2 Miguel Irandegui Spain 21.3 4 Ramón Magariños Spain 21.8 5 Ahmed Tubraki Libya 22.2 6 Godwin Zammit   Malta 23.3 Charis Ayvaliotis Greece DNF Talbi Rahal   Morocco DNF

400 meters

Heats – 14 September Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Sergio Bello   Italy 49.9 Q [3] ? ? Moktar Herzi Tunisia 50.2 Q 3 1 Rogelio Rivas Spain 50.4 Q [4] ? ? Nikolaos Regoukos Greece 50.5 Q

Final – 15 September Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Sergio Bello   Italy 47.7 Rogelio Rivas Spain 47.9 Nikolaos Regoukos Greece 47.9 4 Moktar Herzi Tunisia 49.2 5 Moulay Ahmed Hasnaoui   Morocco 49.4 6 Dimitrios Tombaidis Greece 49.6 7 Moulay Aomar El Amrany   Morocco 51.1 Chérif Sadok Tunisia DNF

800 meters

Heats – 13 September Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Pierre Toussaint   France 1:52.0 Q 2 1 Virgilio González Spain 1:52.5 Q [4] 3 1 Gianfranco Carabelli   Italy 1:52.8 Q [3] 4 1 Mohamed Seghaier Hamdouni Tunisia ?:??.? Q 1 2 Youssef Nasri Tunisia 1:54.5 Q 2 2 Mustafa El Fennan   Morocco 1:55.0 Q 3 2 Konstantinos Michailidis Greece 1:55.0 Q 4 2 Gianni Del Bueno   Italy 1:56.3 Q [3]

Final – 14 September Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Pierre Toussaint   France 1:54.3 Youssef Nasri Tunisia 1:54.7 Virgilio González Spain 1:54.7 4 Gianfranco Carabelli   Italy 1:55.1 5 Gianni Del Bueno   Italy 1:55.3 6 Mustafa El Fennan   Morocco 1:57.2 Konstantinos Michailidis Greece DNF Mohamed Seghaier Hamdouni Tunisia DNF

1500 meters

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Renzo Finelli	Italy	3:49.6	GR
	José María Morera	Spain	3:50.0
	Jorge González	Spain	3:50.5
4	Hamida Gammoudi	Tunisia	3:52.5
5	Ioannis Birbilis	Greece	3:52.8
6	Abdellatif Derradji	Algeria	3:58.7

5000 meters

16 September ^[6]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mohamed Gammoudi	Tunisia	14:02.2	GR
	Drago Žuntar	Yugoslavia	14:04.2
	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy	14:05.0
4	Javier Álvarez	Spain	14:10.8
5	Ahmed Zammel	Tunisia	14:12.2
6	Ioannis Birbilis	Greece	14:28.9
7	Fernando Aguilar	Spain	??:??.?
8	L. Oukada	Morocco	??:??.?
9	S.G. Ben Moha	Morocco	??:??.?
10	M.A. Laghmari	Lebanon	??:??.?
11	S.H. Breki	Lebanon	??:??.?
12	J. Bonello	Malta	??:??.?

10,000 meters

15 September ^[6]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mohamed Gammoudi	Tunisia	31:01.6
	Ali Khamassi	Tunisia	31:22.8
	Drago Žuntar	Yugoslavia	31:35.0
4	Antonio Ambu	Italy	31:45.0
5	Saïd Ben Mohamed Gerouani	Morocco	?:??.?
6	Carlos Pérez	Spain	31:58.0
7	José Miguel Maiz	Spain	32:05.4
8	Antonio Giancaterino	Italy	32:22.2
9	S.H. Breki	Lebanon	??:??.?
10	M.A. Laghmari	Lebanon	??:??.?

Marathon

16 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Antonio Ambu	Italy	2:21:31	GR
	İsmail Akçay	Turkey	2:21:44
	Carlos Pérez	Spain	2:23:04
4	Allal Ben Saoudi	Tunisia	2:30:45
5	Hüseyin Aktaş	Turkey	2:32.25
5	Abdelkader Zaddem	Tunisia	2:39.40

110 meters hurdles

Heats – 13 September Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Giovanni Cornacchia   Italy 14.7 Q [3] ? ? Çetin Şahiner   Turkey 15.2 Q 1 2 Sergio Liani   Italy 15.3 Q [3] ? ? Athanassios Lazaridis Greece 15.4 Q ? ? Aboubaker Mejbri Libya 15.5 Q ? ? Djilali Sekkouri   Morocco 15.7 Q ? ? Abdelkader Boudjemaa   Algeria 15.9 Q ? ? Brahim Chalghoumi Tunisia 16.2 Q

Final – 15 September Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Giovanni Cornacchia   Italy 14.2 Sergio Liani   Italy 14.2 Athanassios Lazaridis Greece 14.7 4 Çetin Şahiner   Turkey 15.1 5 Aboubaker Mejbri Libya 15.7 6 Djilali Sekkouri   Morocco 15.7 7 Abdelkader Boudjemaa   Algeria 15.9 8 Brahim Chalghoumi Tunisia 16.1

400 meters hurdles

Heats – 13 September [7] Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes\ 2 1 Roberto Frinolli   Italy 57.3 Q [3] 3 1 Pedro Carda Spain 57.6 Q [4] 1 2 Manuel Gayoso Spain 53.66 Q, NR [4] 2 2 Alessandro Scatena   Italy 54.97 Q [3] 3 2 Chérif Sadok   Tunisia 55.01 Q 4 2 Mehmet Gesas   Turkey 55.03 Q 5 2 Muhammad Assway Califa Libya 58.2

Final – 15 September Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Alessandro Scatena   Italy 52.9 Mehmet Gesas   Turkey 53.4 Manuel Gayoso Spain 53.9 4 Cengiz Akıncı   Turkey 54.4 5 Pedro Carda Spain 54.5 6 Abdellatif Trabelsi Tunisia 56.6 Chérif Sadok Tunisia DNF Roberto Frinolli   Italy DNS

3000 meters steeplechase

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Javier Álvarez	Spain	8:44.3	GR
	Labidi Ayachi	Tunisia	8:48.4
	Mariano Haro	Spain	8:50.0
4	Giovanni Pizzi	Italy	8:50.0
5	Umberto Risi	Italy	9:14.4
6	Mohamed Seghaier Hamdouni	Tunisia	9:25.0

4 × 100 meters relay

14 September ^[8]

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Italy	Ito Giani, Ennio Preatoni, Pasquale Giannattasio, Carlo Laverda	40.6
	Spain	Miguel Irandegui, Pedro Carda, Juan Carlos Jones, José Luis Sánchez	41.45	NR [4]
	Tunisia	Ajailia, Miguel M'Zoughi, Arfa, Mohamed Belkhodja	42.7
4	Malta	Godwin Zammit, Hobbs, Grech, Chircop	44.5

4 × 400 meters relay

16 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Italy	Sergio Bello, Furio Fusi, Sergio Ottolina, Giacomo Puosi	3:12.6
	Spain	Rogelio Rivas, Álvaro González, Ramón Magariños, Virgilio González	3:15.9
	Tunisia	Moktar Herzi, Chamman, Hamida Gammoudi, Youssef Nasri	3:20.9
4	Morocco		3:20.9
5	Libya		3:22.3

20 kilometers walk

13 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Nicola De Vito	Italy	1:38:43	GR
	Chedli Benali	Tunisia	1:39:09
	Hamed Nadhari	Tunisia	1:43:58
4	Jaral Mabrouk	Libya	1:46:18
5	Ali Burki	Libya	1:47:38
6	Aynur Ayhan	Turkey	1:50:27

50 kilometers walk

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Vittorio Visisni	Italy	4:39:54
	Naceur Ben Ahmed Messaoud	Tunisia	4:43:49
	Hamed Nadhari	Tunisia	4:52:43
4	Ahmed Yekou	Libya	?:??.?
5	Abdullsalem Shonshen	Libya	?:??.?

High jump

16 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Miodrag Todosijević	Yugoslavia	2.13	GR , NR
	Ioannis Kousoulas	Greece	2.05
	Polde Milek	Yugoslavia	2.02
4	Jacques Madubost	France	2.02
5	Jesús López	Spain	1.96	[4]

Pole vault

14 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece	5.15	GR
	Renato Dionisi	Italy	4.90
	Jean-Pierre Colusso	France	4.70
4	Ignacio Sola	Spain	4.60
5	Pantelis Nikolaidis	Greece	4.50

Long jump

14 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Miljenko Rak	Yugoslavia							7.53
	Panagiotis Katseris	Greece							7.51
	Rafael Blanquer	Spain	7.25	7.20	7.19	x	7.35	7.50	7.50
4	Dimosthenis Magglaras	Greece							7.47
5	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy							7.23
6	Mokhtar Sayed	Morocco							7.04	NR
	Luis Felipe Areta	Spain	x	x	x				NM

Triple jump

16 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Luis Felipe Areta	Spain	16.23	GR , NR
	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	16.04
	Michail Karagiannis	Greece	15.45
4	Panagiotis Katseris	Greece	15.31
5	Jesús Bartholomé	Spain	14.85
6	Mokthar Seyad	Morocco	14.19
7	Kamel Sellami	Turkey	13.75

Shot put

14 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Tomislav Šuker	Yugoslavia	18.01	GR
	Arnjold Beer	France	17.72
	Tomislav Šuker	Yugoslavia	17.53
4	Lahcen Samsam Akka	Algeria	16.17
5	Ahmed Bendiffalah	Algeria	13.57
6	Omar Musa Mejbari	Libya	13.48

Discus throw

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Silvano Simeon	Italy	57.30	GR
	Marian Gredelj	Yugoslavia	55.90
	Gilberto Ferrini	Italy	53.72
4	Ömer Çakır	Turkey	45.22
5	Ahmed Bendiffalah	Algeria	41.28
6	Belhassem Essedik	Tunisia	39.08

Javelin throw

16 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Franco Radman	Italy	69.20
	Alfonso de Andrés	Spain	66.78
	Fernando Tallón	Spain	64.10
4	Moncef Chtai	Tunisia	55.10
5	Faraj Saffran	Libya	54.80
6	Youcef Gouider	Tunisia	42.11

Women's results

100 meters

16 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sylviane Telliez	France	11.8	GR
	Donata Govoni	Italy	11.96
	Patrizia Seriau	Italy	12.38
4	Fatma Ben Hdar	Tunisia	13.0
5	Fatma Askri	Tunisia	13.7

80 meters hurdles

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Carla Panerai	Italy	11.32	GR
	Đurđa Fočić	Yugoslavia	11.4
	Magali Vettorazzo	Italy	11.58
4	Rabea Ghezlane	Algeria	12.5
5	Beya Bouabdallah	Tunisia	13.5
6	Fatma Askri	Tunisia	13.6

High jump

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Snežana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia	1.70	GR
	Đurđa Fočić	Yugoslavia	1.61
	Luciana Giamperlati	Italy	1.58
4	Beya Bouabdallah	Tunisia	1.43
5	Farida Chaouech	Algeria	1.43

Long jump

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Maria Vittoria Trio	Italy	6.13	GR
	Đurđa Fočić	Yugoslavia	5.75
	Charoula Sassagianni	Greece	5.74
4	Djemai El Hem	Tunisia	4.65
5	Rabea Ghezlane	Algeria	4.43
6	Wassila Ben Soltane	Tunisia	4.20

Shot put

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Beya Bouabdallah	Tunisia	11.57	GR
	Djemai El Hem	Tunisia	9.10
	Rabea Ghezlane	Algeria	8.36
4	Farida Chaouech	Algeria	7.77

Javelin throw

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Chedlia Ben Mrad	Tunisia	33.10	GR
	Beya Bouabdallah	Tunisia	30.84
	Rabea Ghezlane	Algeria	24.78
4	Farida Chaouech	Algeria	20.78

References

1. "Mediterranean Games – Past Medallists". sports-gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
2. "Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-23. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
3. "Annuario dell'ATLETICA 2010" (PDF). 2010-05-01. p. 483. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-08-28. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
4. Spanish results
5. Spanish sprinting records Archived 2022-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (p46)
6. Results
7. "Spanish hurdling records" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
8. Spanish 4x100 m records

External links

• Complete 1967 Mediterranean Games Standings.
• Mediterranean Games – Past Medallists. GBR Athletics.
• Day 1 results
• Day 2 results
• Day 3 results
• Day 4 results
• Day 5 results