Athletics at the 1959 Mediterranean Games – Results

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These are the partial results of the athletics competition at the 1959 Mediterranean Games taking place between 19 and 23 October in Beirut, Lebanon.[1][2]

Results[]

100 meters[]

200 meters[]

400 meters[]

800 meters[]

1500 meters[]

22 October

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tomás Barris  Spain 3:50.6
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jean Clausse  France 3:51.8
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Evangelos Depastas  Greece 3:52.6
4 Muharrem Dalkılıç  Turkey 3:53.4
5 Abdeslem Dargouth  Tunisia 3:59.2
6  United Arab Republic 4:00.1
7  Lebanon ?:??.?

5000 meters[]

21 October[5]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Robert Bogey  France 14:31.0
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Spain 14:32.6
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Carlos Pérez  Spain 14:45.0
4  France 14:47.6
5 Said Ben Mohamed Gerouani  Morocco 15:05.2
6  Tunisia 15:12.0
7  United Arab Republic 15:12.8
8  United Arab Republic 15:13.2
9  Turkey 15:23.2
10 Fevzi Pakel  Turkey 15:35.4
11  Greece 15:37.8
12  Tunisia 16:01.4
13  Lebanon 16:21.6

10,000 meters[]

19 October

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hamoud Ameur  France 30:19.2
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Saïd Ben Mohamed Gerouani  Morocco 30:22.4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Spain 30:24.2
4 Carlos Pérez  Spain 30:41.4
5  France 30:42.6
6 Bachir Benaïssa  Morocco 31:18.4
7 Georgios Papavasileiou  Greece 31:24.0 [6]
8  United Arab Republic 31:34.6
9  Tunisia 31:57.4
10  Turkey 32:02.0
11  United Arab Republic 32:02.2
12  Greece 32:02.2
13  Tunisia 32:24.2
14  Lebanon 35:02.0

Marathon[]

22 October[7]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Bakir Benaïssa  Morocco 2:24:15 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Miguel Navarro  Spain 2:27:28 NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  United Arab Republic 2:35:04
4  United Arab Republic 2:35:25
5 Ahmet Aytar  Turkey 2:39:18
6  United Arab Republic 2:40:15
7  Turkey 2:40:15
8  Lebanon 3:25:00

110 meters hurdles[]

400 meters hurdles[]

3000 meters steeplechase[]

22 October

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Georgios Papavasileiou  Greece 9:04.0 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Spain 9:06.2
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Franc Hafner  Yugoslavia 9:09.6
4 Hamoud Ameur  France 9:11.6

4 × 100 meters relay[]

21 October[8]

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  France , , Paul Genevay, Ali Brakchi 41.5
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Greece Ioannis Komitoudis, , Leonidas Kormalis, Nikolaos Georgopoulos 41.7
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Spain , , , 42.2 NR
4  United Arab Republic , , , 43.4
5  Lebanon M. Nasrallah, , , 45.5

4 × 400 meters relay[]

22 October

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Greece Leonidas Kormalis, Konstantinos Moragiemos, Nikolaos Georgopoulos, Vassilios Sillis 3:15.0
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  France Paul Genevay, Jean-Pierre Goudeau, , Pierre-Yvon Lenoir 3:15.4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  United Arab Republic , Rachoui, , 3:17.6
4  Spain Bernardino Lombao, , , 3:17.6
5  Morocco Ben Taber, , , Said 3:25.1

20 kilometers walk[]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  France 1:43:17
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Greece 1:50:19

High jump[]

20 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Maurice Fournier  France 1.99
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Çetin Şahiner  Turkey 1.96
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  France 1.90
4 Marc Rabémila  France 1.90
5 Sylvain Bitan  Tunisia 1.90
6  Greece 1.85
7  Lebanon 1.85
8  United Arab Republic 1.80

Pole vault[]

22 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Rigas Efstathiadis  Greece 4.10
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Spain 3.80
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  United Arab Republic 3.80
4  United Arab Republic 3.70
5  Lebanon 3.50
6  Lebanon 3.40

Long jump[]

21 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ali Brakchi  France 7.59
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Dimosthenis Magglaras  Greece 7.44
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Spain 7.24
4  United Arab Republic 7.06
5  Greece 7.02
6 Éric Battista  France 6.80
7  France 6.33
8  Lebanon 6.09

Triple jump[]

19 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Éric Battista  France 15.82
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Marc Rabémila  France 15.47
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  United Arab Republic 15.04
4 Konstantinos Sfikas  Greece 14.69
5  United Arab Republic 14.43
6  Lebanon 12.76

Shot put[]

21 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Georgios Tsakanikas  Greece 16.97
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Antonios Kounadis  Greece 15.12
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  United Arab Republic 14.95
4  Lebanon 14.36
5  United Arab Republic 13.91

Discus throw[]

20 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Antonios Kounadis  Greece 55.02
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Dako Radošević  Yugoslavia 54.01
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Giorgios Tsakanikas  Greece 47.88
4  Greece 45.88
5  United Arab Republic 45.71
6  Lebanon 42.04
7  United Arab Republic 40.24
8  Lebanon 39.53

Hammer throw[]

19 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Krešimir Račić  Yugoslavia 62.26
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Greece 55.44
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Andreas Kouvelogiannis  Greece 53.31
4 Michel Skaff  Lebanon 40.42
5  Lebanon 36.98

Javelin throw[]

22 October

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Léon Syrovatski  France 74.10
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Yugoslavia 73.80
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Greece 68.80
4  United Arab Republic 63.53
5  United Arab Republic 58.00
6  Lebanon 52.97
7  Lebanon 50.88

Decathlon[]

17–18 October

  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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jože Brodnik  Yugoslavia 11.5 6.43 13.19 1.70 52.0 15.6 39.00 3.95 64.08 4:46.8 6581 [9]
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Georgios Marsellos  Greece 11.3 6.79 11.42 1.87 54.8 14.7 35.07 3.20 46.08 5:11.1 5908 [6]
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  United Arab Republic 11.1 6.68 11.47 1.65 50.4 16.6 36.65 3.70 45.50 5:04.6 5816
4 Aydin Onur  Turkey 10.9 6.65 11.50 1.60 53.6 18.6 32.66 3.80 40.25 4:47.0 5357
 United Arab Republic 12.2 6.39 9.18 1.65 54.8 ? – – – – DNF

References[]

  1. ^ "Results" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-08-23.
  2. ^ Castelló, F. "Los Juegos del Líbano (III Juegos Mediterráneos)" (PDF). Atletismo (in Spanish). December 1959: 14–18. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Spanish results
  4. ^ a b c d e French results
  5. ^ a b c "Νικαι των αθλητων μας εις τουν Μεσογειακους (Victory of our athletes in the Mediterranean)" (in Greek). Eleftheria. 22 October 1959. p. 5. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  6. ^ a b "Αιελληνικαι επιτυχιαι και αποτυχιαι εις Βηρυττον (Greek success and failure in Beirut)" (in Greek). Empros. 24 October 1959. p. 13. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  7. ^ Spanish long-distance records (p128)
  8. ^ Spanish 4x100m records chronology
  9. ^ 1959 decathlon results
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