Athletics at the 1971 Mediterranean Games – Results

These are the partial results of the athletics competition at the 1971 Mediterranean Games taking place between 12 and 17 October in Izmir, Turkey. ^[1]

Men's results

100 meters

Heats – 12 October Wind: Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Manuel Carballo   Spain 10.5 Q [2] 5 1 Vincenzo Guerini   Italy 10.6 [3] 3 2 Ennio Preatoni   Italy 10.7 Q [3]

Final – 13 October Wind: +0.1 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Vasilis Papageorgopoulos   Greece 10.4 Mohamed Belkhodja   Tunisia 10.7 Ivica Karasi   Yugoslavia 10.7 4 Manuel Carballo   Spain 10.8 5 Hamouda El Fray   Tunisia 10.8 6 Ennio Preatoni   Italy 10.8 7 Predrag Križan   Yugoslavia 10.9 8 Omar Chokhmane   Morocco 11.0

200 meters

Heats Wind: Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Pietro Mennea   Italy 21.1 Q [3] 1 2 Luigi Benedetti   Italy 21.6 Q [3]

Final – 16 October Wind: +0.1 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Pietro Mennea   Italy 20.7 Ivica Karasi   Yugoslavia 21.2 Predrag Križan   Yugoslavia 21.4 4 Omar Chokhmane   Morocco 21.4 5 Luigi Benedetti   Italy 21.5 6 Georgios Mikelidis   Greece 21.7 7 Ertuğrul Oğulbulan   Turkey 22.2 Salah Fettouh   Morocco DNS

400 meters

Heats – 13 October Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Giacomo Puosi   Italy 47.3 Q [3] [4] 2 1 Kyriakos Onisiforou   Greece 47.4 Q [4] 3 1 Moulay Ahmed Hasnaoui   Morocco 47.5 Q [4] 4 1 Moktar Herzi   Tunisia 47.5 Q [4] 5 1 Miro Kocuvan   Yugoslavia 47.6 6 1 Alfonso Gabernet   Spain 47.6 [2] 7 1 Gunejill   Algeria 49.8 8 1  ?   Lebanon 49.9 1 2 Manuel Gayoso   Spain 47.7 Q [2] 2 2 Luciano Sušanj   Yugoslavia 47.9 Q [4] 3 2 Sergio Bello   Italy 48.0 Q [3] 4 2 Omar Ghizlat   Morocco 48.1 Q [4] 5 2 Mohammed Ghadri   Tunisia 48.1 6 2 Ergenc   Turkey 49.9 7 2 Hamden   Lebanon 50.1

Final – 14 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Kyriakos Onisiforou   Greece 46.9 Giacomo Puosi   Italy 47.1 Luciano Sušanj   Yugoslavia 47.2 4 Omar Ghizlat   Morocco 47.3 5 Sergio Bello   Italy 47.4 6 Manuel Gayoso   Spain 47.7 7 Moktar Herzi   Tunisia 47.7 8 Moulay Ahmed Hasnaoui   Morocco 47.8

800 meters

Heats – 15 October Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Stavros Mermingis   Greece 1:49.7 Q 2 1 Azzedine Azzouzi   Algeria 1:50.7 Q 3 1 Jože Međimurec   Yugoslavia 1:51.1 Q 4 1 Antonio Fernández   Spain 1:51.1 Q [2] 5 1 Mehmet Tümkan   Turkey 1:51.1 1 2 Mansour Guettaya   Tunisia 1:50.9 Q 2 2 Francisco Morera   Spain 1:51.1 Q [2] 3 2 Sid Ali Djouadi   Algeria 1:51.3 Q 4 2 Slavko Koprivica   Yugoslavia 1:51.4 Q 5 2 Mohamed Hayachi   Morocco 1:51.4

Final – 16 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Mansour Guettaya   Tunisia 1:47.6 Jože Međimurec   Yugoslavia 1:48.1 Azzedine Azzouzi   Algeria 1:48.2 4 Slavko Koprivica   Yugoslavia 1:48.4 5 Francisco Morera   Spain 1:49.0 6 Stavros Mermingis   Greece 1:50.0 7 Sid Ali Djouadi   Algeria 1:51.0 8 Antonio Fernández   Spain 1:53.7

1500 meters

Heats – 12 October Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Jacky Boxberger   France 3:53.6 Q [5] 2 1 Mehmet Tümkan   Turkey 3:53.7 Q 3 1 Slavko Koprivica   Yugoslavia 3:53.8 Q 4 1 Antonio Burgos   Spain 3:54.1 Q [2] 5 1 Kamel Guemar   Algeria 3:54.2 Q 1 2 Franco Arese   Italy 4:08.8 Q [3]

Final – 13 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Mansour Guettaya   Tunisia 3:46.5 Franco Arese   Italy 3:47.6 Mehmet Tümkan   Turkey 3:48.8 4 Mohamed Hayachi   Morocco 3:49.5 5 Hamida Gammoudi   Tunisia 3:52.2 6 Mohamed Gouasmi   Algeria 3:52.8 7 Slavko Koprivica   Yugoslavia 3:53.2 8 Antonio Burgos   Spain 3:55.3 Jacky Boxberger   France DNF [5]

5000 meters

Heats – 12 October [6] Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Mohamed Gammoudi   Tunisia 14:14.8 Q 2 1 Raymond Zembri   France 14:17.6 Q [5] 3 1 Jaddour Haddou   Morocco 14:18.4 Q 4 1 Ioannis Birbilis   Greece 14:19.0 Q 5 1 Ramon Tasende   Spain 14:22.8 Q [2] 6 1 Chérif Benali   Algeria 14:45.0 Q 7 1 Musa Kalemoğlu   Turkey 15:04.4 1 2 Hamza Canavar   Turkey 14:49.8 Q 2 2 Abdel Hamid Khamis   Egypt 14:57.4 Q 3 2 Chérif Hannachi   Tunisia 14:57.6 Q 4 2 Giuseppe Cindolo   Italy 15:10.8 Q [3] 5 2 Javier Álvarez   Spain 15:10.8 Q [2] 6 2 Mohamed Gouasmi   Algeria 15:14.2 Q 7 2 Al Deff   Syria 15:17.0

Final – 14 October [6] Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Javier Álvarez   Spain 13:37.2 Mohamed Gammoudi   Tunisia 13:40.8 Jaddour Haddou   Morocco 13:44.0 4 Ramon Tasende   Spain 13:57.8 5 Giuseppe Cindolo   Italy 14:08.6 6 Abdel Hamid Khamis   Egypt 14:13.2 7 Ioannis Birbilis   Greece 14:21.4 8 Chérif Hannachi   Tunisia 14:27.0 9 Mohamed Gouasmi   Algeria ??:??.? 10 Hamza Canavar   Turkey ??:??.? 11 Chérif Benali   Algeria ??:??.? Raymond Zembri   France DNF [5]

10,000 meters

16 October ^[6]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Javier Álvarez	Spain	28:52.2
	Mariano Haro	Spain	28:54.4
	Giuseppe Cindolo	Italy	28:59.0
4	Abdelkader Zaddem	Tunisia	29:18.4
5	Abdel Hamid Khamis	Egypt	30:04.2
6	Ioannis Birbilis	Greece	30:30.8
7	Mohamed Gouasmi	Algeria	30:33.8
8	Hamza Canavar	Turkey	30:38.0
9	A. Fitos	Turkey	31:41.6
	Mohamed Gammoudi	Tunisia	DNF

Marathon

17 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Gian Battista Bassi	Italy	2:23:33
	Hüseyin Aktaş	Turkey	2:24:14
	İsmail Akçay	Turkey	2:28:35
4	Agustín Fernández	Spain	2:34:02
5	Stamatios Milas	Greece	2:36:43
6	Francesco Amante	Italy	2:40:17
7	Souleiman Tabet	Syria	2:53:12
	Mariano Haro	Spain	DNF	[2]

110 meters hurdles

Heats – 14 October Wind: Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Sergio Liani   Italy 14.2 Q [3] 1 1 Guy Drut   France 14.3 Q 2 1 Marco Acerbi   Italy 14.5 Q [3]

Final – 15 October Wind: +0.3 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Guy Drut   France 13.7 Sergio Liani   Italy 14.2 Efstratios Vassiliou   Greece 14.2 4 Nurullah Candan   Turkey 14.8 5 Abdelkader Boudjemaa   Algeria 15.0 6 Cumaa Ammami   Lebanon 15.1 7 Murat Kaçar   Turkey 15.4 Marco Acerbi   Italy DNS

400 meters hurdles

Heats – 12 October Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 2 1 Daniele Giovardini   Italy 52.0 Q [3] 1 2 Francisco Suárez   Spain 52.1 Q [2] 3 1 Manuel Soriano   Spain 52.3 Q [2] 2 2 Alessandro Scatena   Italy 53.4 Q [3]

Final – 13 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Stavros Tziortzis   Greece 51.0 Manuel Soriano   Spain 51.2 Francisco Suárez   Spain 51.4 4 Daniele Giovardini   Italy 51.5 5 Alessandro Scatena   Italy 51.9 6 Georgios Birmbilis   Greece 53.0 7 Hassan Bergaoui   Tunisia 53.0 8 Abdallah Rouine   Tunisia 53.3

3000 meters steeplechase

16 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8:30.0
	Spyridon Kondossoros	Greece	8:35.4
	Umberto Risi	Italy	8:40.8
4	Boualem Rahoui	Algeria	8:47.8
5	Panagiotis Nakopoulos	Greece	8:48.2
6	Vicente Egido	Spain	8:56.0
7	Julio Gude	Spain	8:56.2
8	Murat Tascioglu	Turkey	9:19.6
9	Mehmet Akgün	Turkey	9:23.8
10	Khalife	Syria	9:26.6

4 × 100 meters relay

15 October

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Italy	Ennio Preatoni, Pasqualino Abeti, Vincenzo Guerini, Pietro Mennea	39.7	GR
	Yugoslavia	Ivan Karasi, Predrag Križan, Miro Kocuvan, Luciano Sušanj	40.5
	Morocco	Moulay Ahmed Hasnaoui, Omar Ghizlat, Omar Chokmane, Mohamed El Kheir	41.1	NR
4	Tunisia		41.1
5	Greece		41.1
6	Turkey		41.7

4 × 400 meters relay

16 October

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Italy	Sergio Bello, Daniele Giovanardi, Gian Lorenzo Cellerino, Giacomo Puosi	3:07.5	GR
	Yugoslavia	Ivan Karasi, Miro Kocuvan, Jože Međimurec, Luciano Sušanj	3:08.1	NR
	Morocco	Moulay Ahmed Hasnaoui, Omar Ghizlat, Salah Fettouh, Omar Chokmane	3:08.4	NR
4	Spain	Alfonso Gabernet, Manuel Gayoso, Francisco Suárez, Manuel Soriano	3:08.7
5	Greece		3:12.4
6	Turkey		3:16.5
7	Libya		3:19.1

20 kilometers walk

12 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Pascale Busca	Italy	1:36:55.0
	Victor Campos	Spain	1:41:11.2
	Agustín Jorba	Spain	1:47:03.2
4	Aynur Aynan	Turkey	1:50:43.6
	Hasan Öz	Turkey	DNF
	Georgios Fakiolas	Greece	DNF
	Abdon Pamich	Italy	DNF

50 kilometers walk

14 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Abdon Pamich	Italy	4:21:21.8
	Vittorio Visini	Italy	4:29:19.4
	Hasan Öz	Turkey	4:54:06.6
4	Aynur Ayhan	Turkey	5:05:02.2
	Georgios Fakiolas	Greece	DQ

High jump

16 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.85	1.95	2.00	2.05	2.08	2.11	Result	Notes
	Gian Marco Schivo	Italy							2.11
	Ioannis Kousoulas	Greece							2.11
	Dimitrios Patronis	Greece							2.08
4	Erminio Azzaro	Italy							2.05
5	Murat Ayata	Turkey							2.00
6	Luis María Garriga	Spain	–	–	xo	xx			2.00
7	José Ocio	Spain	o	o	xo	xxx			2.00
8	Nurullah Candan	Turkey							2.00
9	Chaouach	Syria							1.90

Pole vault

15 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	3.90	4.40	4.50	4.70	4.90	5.20	Result	Notes
	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece							5.20
	Ignacio Sola	Spain	–	–	–	xo	xxx		4.70
	Theodoros Tongas	Greece							4.50
4	Mohamed Alaa Gheyta	Tunisia							4.40
5	Ömer Giraygil	Turkey							4.40
6	Mohamed Nasser	Lebanon							4.40
7	Tayfun Aygun	Turkey							3.90

Long jump

13 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Jacques Pani	France							7.90
	Miljenko Rak	Yugoslavia							7.78
	Mariano Pérez	Spain	x	x	7.19	7.40	x	x	7.40	[2]
4	Hamed Ezzedine Yacoub	Egypt							7.32
5	Gürol Dinsel	Turkey							7.15
6	Sinan Şenulaş	Turkey							7.00
7	Abdul Majib Touraifi	Syria							6.63

Triple jump

15 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Milan Spasojević	Yugoslavia							16.18
	Apostolos Kathiniotis	Greece							15.84
	Jésus Bartholomé	Spain	15.31	15.64	15.68	15.21	15.09	x	15.68	[2]
4	Luis Felipe Areta	Spain	15.05	15.64	x	15.33	15.48	15.49	15.64	[2]
5	Aşkın Tuna	Turkey							15.53
6	Attila Sivri	Turkey							14.54
7	Slim Kilani	Tunisia							14.22
8	Abdul Majib Touraifi	Syria							13.84

Shot put

12 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Yusuf Nagui Assad	Egypt							20.19
	Lahcen Samsam Akka	Morocco							18.85
	Yves Brouzet	France							18.69
4	Ivan Ivančić	Yugoslavia							18.38
5	Loukas Louka	Greece							17.62
6	Milija Jocović	Yugoslavia							17.60
7	Georgios Lemonis	Greece							17.21
8	Antonio Herreria	Spain	16.89	x	16.46	x	x	16.07	16.89	[2]

Discus throw

14 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Slivano Simeon	Italy	57.64	GR
	Yusuf Nagui Assad	Egypt	54.72
	Marian Gredelj	Yugoslavia	54.32
4	Stilianos Agloupas	Greece	53.00
5	Omar Musa Mejbari	Lebanon	45.48
6	Ahmed Bendiffalah	Algeria	44.58
7	Abdul Moumen Tujarr	Syria	43.42
8	Omer Casir	Turkey	43.08

Hammer throw

15 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Georgios Georgiadis	Greece							68.76
	Mario Vecchiato	Italy							67.64
	Srećko Štiglić	Yugoslavia							66.28
4	Stevan Gromilović	Yugoslavia							62.98
5	José Alcantara	Spain	x	59.20	x	59.44	58.94	57.14	59.44	[2]
6	Nurullah İvak	Turkey							53.96
7	Abdul Moumen Tujarr	Syria							38.22

Javelin throw

16 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Renzo Cramerotti	Italy	78.04	GR
	Recep Kalender	Turkey	61.34
	Ali Aydın	Turkey	59.80
4	Ghazi Samkari	Syria	57.30
5	Oussama Chami	Syria	54.24

Decathlon

13–14 October ^{[7] [8]}

  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
	Vassilios Sevastis	Greece	11.39	7.09	12.90	1.75	50.8	15.90	39.76	4.00	63.52	4:34.3	7222
	Rafael Cano	Spain	11.32	6.93	12.27	1.89	50.5	15.20	31.96	3.70	60.14	4:37.5	7072
	Pedro Pablo Fernández	Spain	11.07	7.23	13.33	1.83	50.1	16.11	43.26	3.00	40.14	4:30.4	6934
4	Zissis Kourellos	Greece	11.12	7.09	11.83	1.86	50.0	15.58	32.04	3.80	53.00	4:55.8	6907
5	Mohammed Nasser	Lebanon	11.67	6.37	11.49	1.86	51.7	16.74	36.64	4.35	46.60	4:35.3	6702
6	Abdelsalam Tabaa	Tunisia	11.48	6.20	11.23	1.75	51.4	16.57	34.14	3.20	45.40	4:23.4	6316

Women's results

100 meters

Heats – 12 October Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Michèle Beugnet   France 12.0 Q [5] 2 1 Laura Nappi   Italy 12.1 Q [3] 1 2 Cecilia Molinari   Italy 11.9 Q [3] 2 2 Nicole Pani   France 12.1 Q

Final – 13 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Cecilia Molinari   Italy 11.9 Nicole Pani   France 12.0 Michèle Beugnet   France 12.1 4 Laura Nappi   Italy 12.2 5 Fatima El-Faquir   Morocco 12.8 6 Suude Koçgil   Turkey 13.0 7 Ülkü Okay   Turkey 13.1 8 Saousan Khalife   Syria 13.2

400 meters

16 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Colette Besson	France	53.0
	Donata Govoni	Italy	54.4
	Josephina Salgado	Spain	56.0
4	Malika Hadky	Morocco	56.5
5	Alia Sorour	Egypt	58.2
6	Suude Koçgil	Turkey	58.8
7	Bahriye Doğrulu	Turkey	1:00.3
8	Georgette Jamal	Syria	1:03.1

800 meters

14 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	2:02.2
	Donata Govoni	Italy	2:04.9
	Colette Besson	France	2:07.2
4	Freixa Del Pilar	Spain	2:12.5
5	Alia Sorour	Egypt	2:14.6
6	Hadhoum Khadiri	Morocco	2:14.6
7	Nese Karatepe	Turkey	2:16.0
8	Ülker Atlı	Turkey	2:19.0

1500 meters

15 October ^[9]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	4:20.3
	Paola Pigni	Italy	4:22.6
	Đurďica Rajher	Yugoslavia	4:23.0
4	Belén Azpeitia	Spain	4:23.8	NR
5	Angela Ramello	Italy	4:26.6
6	Nese Karatepe	Turkey	4:32.4
7	Hadhoum Khadiri	Morocco	4:37.0
8	Consuelo Alonso	Spain	4:37.6
9	Ülker Atlı	Turkey	4:41.1
10	Malak Nasser	Syria	5:32.9

100 meters hurdles

Heats – 13 October Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Milena Leskovac   Yugoslavia 14.1 Q [10] 2 1 Odette Ducas   France 15.2 Q [10] 3 1 Ana María Molina   Spain 15.6 Q, NR [2] [10] 4 1 Saousan Khalife   Syria 16.7 Q [10] 5 1 Müfide Dinc   Turkey 18.1 [10]

Final – 14 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Milena Leskovac   Yugoslavia 14.0 Ileana Ongar   Italy 14.1 Đurđa Fočić   Yugoslavia 14.5 4 Odette Ducas   France 15.6 5 Cherifa Meskaoui   Morocco 15.6 6 Ana María Molina   Spain 15.7 7 Saousan Khalife   Syria 16.7 8 Eser Ercan   Turkey 17.6

4 × 100 meters relay

15 October

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Italy	Maddalena Grassano, Laura Nappi, Ileana Ongar, Cecilia Molinari	45.6
	France	Colette Besson, Michèle Beugnet, Nicole Pani, Odette Ducas	45.6
	Yugoslavia	Đurđa Fočić, Milena Leskovac, Breda Babošek, Vera Nikolić	48.4
4	Turkey		49.6

High jump

15 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.45	1.50	1.53	1.56	1.59	1.65	1.74	1.77	Result	Notes
	Snežana Hrepevnik	Yugoslavia									1.77
	Sara Simeoni	Italy									1.74
	Breda Babošek	Yugoslavia									1.74
4	Teresa Roca	Spain	o	o	o	o	xo	xxx			1.59	[2]
5	Carmen Palacios	Spain	o	xxo	xxo	o	xxx				1.56	[2]
6	Gülden Erdoǧan	Turkey									1.45

Discus throw

12 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Roberta Grottini	Italy	48.90
	Maria Stella Masocco	Italy	47.44
	Despina Kafenidou	Greece	46.06
4	Chérifa Meskaoui	Morocco	38.60
5	Aynur Taşdemir	Turkey	36.14
6	Gülser Apaydın	Turkey	34.12
7	Iman Jalabi	Syria	27.50

References

1. "Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-06-24. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
2. Spanish results
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. "Clamoroso a Smirne: Arese battuto da uno sconosciuto militare tunisino" (in Italian). La Stampa. 14 October 1971. p. 19. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
5. "French results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-23. Retrieved 2020-06-27.
6. Results
7. Decathlon results (p18)
8. Spanish combined events records Archived 2021-11-22 at the Wayback Machine (p270)
9. Spanish middle-distance records (p394)
10. Spanish records chronology

• Day 1 results
• Day 2 results
• Day 3 results
• Day 4 results
• Day 5 results