Athletics at the 1979 Mediterranean Games – Results

These are the partial results of the athletics competition at the 1979 Mediterranean Games taking place between 23 and 28 September 1979 in Split, Yugoslavia.^[1]

Men's results[]

100 meters[]

Heats – 23 September^[2]
Wind:
Heat 1: +3.6 m/s, Heat 2: +0.5 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.15	Q, GR^[3]
2	1	Gianfranco Lazzer	Italy	10.33	Q^[4]
3	1		France	10.52	Q
4	1	Omar Ghizlat	Morocco	10.53	Q
5	1		Yugoslavia	10.59	Q
6	2		Greece	10.62	Q
7	2	Antoine Richard	France	10.64	Q
8	2	Aleksandar Popović	Yugoslavia	10.66	Q
9	1	José Javier Arqués	Spain	10.74	^[5]
10	1		Greece	10.77
11	2	Nabil Nahry	Syria	10.82
12	2	Ángel Heras	Spain	10.93	^[5]
13	1		Malta	11.18

Final – 24 September
Wind:
-0.6 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Pietro Mennea	Italy	10.24
	Gianfranco Lazzer	Italy	10.47
		France	10.56
4	Antoine Richard	France	10.70
5	Omar Ghizlat	Morocco	10.73
6	Aleksandar Popović	Yugoslavia	10.74
7		Greece	10.79
8		Yugoslavia	10.90

200 meters[]

Heats – 25 September^[6]
Wind:
Heat 1: ? m/s, Heat 2: +1.7 m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Bernard Petitbois	France	20.85	Q
2	1	Aleksandar Popović	Yugoslavia	21.04	Q
3	1	Omar Ghizlat	Morocco	21.25	Q
4	1		Greece	21.26	Q
1	2	Luciano Caravani	Italy	21.08	Q^[4]
2	2	Nabil Nahry	Syria	21.64	Q
3	2	Ángel Heras	Spain	21.76	Q^[5]
4	2		Greece	22.82	Q

Final – 27 September

Wind: +0.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Luciano Caravani	Italy	20.74
	Bernard Petitbois	France	21.02
		Greece	21.14
4	Omar Ghizlat	Morocco	21.14
5	Aleksandar Popović	Yugoslavia	21.25
6	Nabil Nahry	Syria	21.52
7	Ángel Heras	Spain	21.63
		Greece	DNS

400 meters[]

Heats – 23 September^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Josip Alebić	Yugoslavia	46.68	Q^[7]
2	1	Didier Dubois	France	46.81	Q
3	1	Roberto Tozzi	Italy	47.02	Q^[4]
4	1		Egypt	47.09	Q
5	1	Benjamín González	Spain	47.29	^[5]
6	2	Stefano Malinverni	Italy	50.19	Q^[4]
7	2		Greece	50.51	Q
8	2	Željko Knapić	Yugoslavia	50.57	Q
9	1	Darmanin	Morocco	52.25
10	2	Francis Demarthon	France	53.09	Q

Final – 25 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Francis Demarthon	France	45.89
	Didier Dubois	France	46.11
	Josip Alebić	Yugoslavia	46.24
4	Željko Knapić	Yugoslavia	46.42
5	Roberto Tozzi	Italy	46.80
6		Egypt	46.87
7	Stefano Malinverni	Italy	47.00
8		Greece	47.59

800 meters[]

Heats – 23 September

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Sotirios Moutsanas	Greece	1:48.9	Q^[7]
2	1		Turkey	1:49.3	Q
3	1	Milovan Savić	Yugoslavia	1:49.6	Q
4	1	Roqui Sanchez	France	1:49.7	Q
5	1	Aida	Algeria	1:50.0
6	1		Italy	1:50.38	^[4]
1	2		Yugoslavia	1:51.60	Q^[8]
2	2	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	1:51.8	Q
3	2	Mohamed Alouini	Tunisia	1:52.1	Q
4	2	Colomán Trabado	Spain	1:52.17	Q^[5]
5	2		Greece	1:52.3	^[8]

Final – 25 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
		Yugoslavia	1:45.20	GR
	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	1:46.38
	Sotirios Moutsanas	Greece	1:46.66
4	Milovan Savić	Yugoslavia	1.46.8
5	Colomán Trabado	Spain	1:47.37
6		Turkey	1:47.79
7	Mohamed Alouini	Tunisia	1:48.2
8	Roqui Sanchez	France	1:50.3

1500 meters[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	José Marajo	France	3:41.00	GR
	Dragan Zdravković	Yugoslavia	3:41.22
	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	3:41.40
4	Vittorio Fontanella	Italy	3:42.08
5		Greece	3:42.3
6	Mehdi Aidet	Algeria	3:42.7
7	Boško Božinović	Yugoslavia	3:43.0
8		Turkey	3:44.0
9	Alexandre Gonzalez	France	3:44.3	^[9]
11		Italy	3:50.41	^[4]

5000 meters[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Luigi Zarcone	Italy	13:45.11
	Rachid Habchaoui	Algeria	13:47.24
	El Hachemi Abdenouz	Algeria	13:57.55
4	Saïd Aouita	Morocco	14:06.6
5	Piero Selvaggio	Italy	14:07.19
6		Yugoslavia	14:10.6
7	Necdet Ayaz	Turkey	14:16.0
8		Yugoslavia	14:23.6

10,000 meters[]

23 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Abdelmadjid Mada	Algeria	28:33.08
	Luigi Zarcone	Italy	28:39.06
	Rachid Habchaoui	Algeria	28:59.72
4	Dušan Janićijević	Yugoslavia	29:17.3
5	Jean-Paul Gomez	France	29:38.7
6		Yugoslavia	29:55.4
7		Greece	29:56.6
	Necdet Ayaz	Turkey	DNF

Marathon[]

28 September
The results are unofficial as the distance was 41.3 km, thus shorter than the required 42.195 kilometres.^[10]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Michael Koussis	Greece	2:06:53*
	Marco Marchei	Italy	2:07:15*
	Mehmet Terzi	Turkey	2:10:11*
4		Yugoslavia	2:11:18*
5	Orlando Pizzolato	Italy	2:12:33*
6		Greece	2:13:56*
7		Spain	2:14:15*
8		Yugoslavia	2:14:15*
9	Veli Balli	Turkey	2:14:50*
		France	DNF	^[9]
	Fernand Kolbeck	France	DNF	^[9]

110 meters hurdles[]

28 September
Wind: -1.2 m/s^[11]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Borisav Pisić	Yugoslavia	13.85
	Giuseppe Buttari	Italy	13.88
	Javier Moracho	Spain	13.92
4		France	14.05
5		Greece	14.09
6	Petar Vukićević	Yugoslavia	14.14
7	Carlos Sala	Spain	14.33
8		Turkey	15.05

400 meters hurdles[]

24 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rok Kopitar	Yugoslavia	49.70	GR
		France	50.85
		Italy	50.90
4	Giorgio Ballati	Italy	51.18
5		Greece	51.40
6		Spain	51.41
7		Yugoslavia	52.98

3000 meters steeplechase[]

27 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Mariano Scartezzini	Italy	8:24.19
	Domingo Ramón	Spain	8:25.75
		France	8:27.26
4		Yugoslavia	8:32.59
5		Greece	8:33.97
6	Lahcene Babaci	Algeria	8:39.9
7	Michele Cinà	Italy	8.40.6
8	Petar Svet	Yugoslavia	8.55.9

4 × 100 meters relay[]

28 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Italy	Gianfranco Lazzer, Luciano Caravani, Giovanni Grazioli, Pietro Mennea	39.27	GR
	France	, Bernard Petitbois, Lucien Sainte-Rose, Antoine Richard	39.98
	Yugoslavia	, , Aleksandar Popović, Borisav Pisić	40.53
4	Greece		41.12
5	Spain	Javier Moracho, Carlos Sala, José Javier Arqués, Ángel Heras	41.33	^[5]

4 × 400 meters relay[]

28 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	France	Jacques Fellice, Robert Froissart, , Francis Demarthon	3:03.67	GR
	Yugoslavia	Željko Knapić, , Rok Kopitar, Josip Alebić	3:04.33
	Italy	Alfonso Di Guida, , Stefano Malinverni, Roberto Tozzi	3:04.61
4	Spain	, Ángel Heras, Benjamín González, Colomán Trabado	3:11.2	^[5]

20 kilometers walk[]

24 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Gérard Lelièvre	France	1:23:51	GR
	José Marín	Spain	1:24:18
	Carlo Mattioli	Italy	1:24:56
4	Giorgio Damilano	Italy	1:25:31
5	Jorge Llopart	Spain	1:28:59
6	Dominique Guebey	France	1:30:09
7	Vinko Galušić	Yugoslavia	1:34:56
8		Yugoslavia	1:37:05

High jump[]

28 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Massimo Di Giorgio	Italy	2.26	GR
	Oscar Raise	Italy	2.26
	Danial Temim	Yugoslavia	2.20
4	Francis Agbo	France	2.20
5		Greece	2.17
6		France	2.17
7	Abdelhamid Sahil	Algeria	2.17
8		Turkey	2.14

Pole vault[]

27 September^[12]

Rank	Name	Nationality	4.80	5.00	5.10	5.20	5.30	5.45	5.50	Result	Notes
	Philippe Houvion	France					o	xxx		5.30	GR
	Jean-Michel Bellot	France	–	–	xxo	–	xxo	–	xxx	5.30
	Roger Oriol	Spain	o	o	o	xxx				5.10	^[5]
4	Dimitrios Kyteas	Greece								5.00
5		Italy								4.80

Long jump[]

27 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Nenad Stekić	Yugoslavia	8.09	8.01	8.04	7.89	8.21	8.10	8.21	GR^[12]
	Philippe Deroche	France	7.63	8.04	7.68	7.77	x	x	8.04	^[12]
	Miljenko Rak	Yugoslavia							7.62
4		France							7.59
5	Carlo Arrighi	Italy							7.51
6		Greece							7.29
7		Turkey							7.10

Triple jump[]

27 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Bernard Lamitié	France							16.90	GR
	Miloš Srejović	Yugoslavia							16.55
	Milan Spasojević	Yugoslavia							16.55
4	Christian Valétudie	France							16.50
5	Roberto Mazzucato	Italy							16.37
6		Spain	x	15.77	15.44	16.18	16.16	16.35	16.35	^[5]
7		Turkey							15.65
8	Paolo Piapan	Italy							15.44

Shot put[]

24 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Vladimir Milić	Yugoslavia	20.58	GR
	Nagui Yusuf Assad	Egypt	19.70
	Ivan Ivančić	Yugoslavia	19.13
4	Luc Viudès	France	18.93
5	Angelo Groppelli	Italy	18.46
6		Italy	17.91
7		Egypt	17.20
8		Morocco	15.00

Discus throw[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
	Armando De Vincentiis	Italy	57.96
	Hassan Ahmed Hamad	Egypt	56.06
	Silvano Simeon	Italy	55.06
4		Tunisia	54.84
5		Yugoslavia	53.38
6	Vladimir Milić	Yugoslavia	52.90
7		Morocco	46.12

Hammer throw[]

25 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Giampaolo Urlando	Italy	69.92	GR
	Edoardo Podberscek	Italy	69.42
	Srećko Štiglić	Yugoslavia	68.56
4		Greece	63.56
5		Yugoslavia	61.94

Javelin throw[]

Rank	Nationality	Result	Notes
	France	81.08	GR
	Tunisia	78.42
	Yugoslavia	76.72
4	Greece	74.44
5	Yugoslavia	65.52

Decathlon[]

24–25 September^[13]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	100m	LJ	SP	HJ	400m	110m H	DT	PV	JT	1500m	Points	Notes
		France	11.35	7.30	14.17	2.09	49.85	15.46	41.32	4.15	63.30	4:44.2	7744	GR
		Yugoslavia	11.30	6.90	13.39	1.86	49.50	16.08	41.58	3.70	64.06	4:33.7	7345
	Joško Vlašić	Yugoslavia	11.56	7.30	13.44	1.97	51.30	15.36	41.60	3.30	57.30	4:24.3	7327
4	Hubert Indra	Italy	11.72	6.64	13.52	1.89	52.31	15.76	39.60	4.30	57.62	4:40.2	7135
5		Lebanon											6548
6		Greece											6522

Women's results[]

100 meters[]

Heats – 24 September
Wind:
Heat 1: +0.6 m/s, Heat 2: ? m/s

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Chantal Réga	France	11.79	Q
1	1	Marisa Masullo	Italy	11.80	Q^[4]
2	2	Laura Miano	Italy	11.92	Q^[4]
4	1		Spain	12.22	q^[5]

Final – 24 September
Wind:
-1.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Chantal Réga	France	11.48	GR
	Marisa Masullo	Italy	11.66
	Laura Miano	Italy	11.67
4	Annie Alizé	France	11.71
5		Yugoslavia	11.97
6	Nawal El Moutawakel	Morocco	12.13
7		Spain	12.23
8		Yugoslavia	12.26

200 meters[]

27 September
Wind:
+1.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Marisa Masullo	Italy	23.26
	Annie Alizé	France	23.37
		France	24.03
4		Yugoslavia	24.64
5	Nawal El Moutawakel	Morocco	24.64
6		Spain	24.97
		Yugoslavia	DNF

400 meters[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Jelica Pavličić	Yugoslavia	52.96
		Yugoslavia	54.57
		Greece	54.93
4	Sarra Touibi	Tunisia	56.75

800 meters[]

25 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	2:01.78	GR
	Agnese Possamai	Italy	2:03.73
		Yugoslavia	2:04.03
4		Spain	2:07.2
5		Yugoslavia	2:08.6
6	Hassania Darami	Morocco	2:09.4
7		Turkey	2:11.7

1500 meters[]

28 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Margherita Gargano	Italy	4:06.71	GR
	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:07.07
	Sakina Boutamine	Algeria	4:10.60
4		Spain	4:15.4
5	Véronique Renties	France	4:16.5
6	Breda Pergar	Yugoslavia	4:16.8
7		Spain	4:17.5
8	Hassania Darami	Morocco	4:18.3

100 meters hurdles[]

Wind: -3.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Laurence Elloy	France	13.87
		Greece	14.33
	Patrizia Lombardo	Italy	14.65
4		Yugoslavia	14.73
5		Greece	14.81
6	Breda Lorenci	Yugoslavia	14.97

4 × 100 meters relay[]

28 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	France	Annie Alizé, Emma Sulter, , Chantal Réga	44.58	GR
	Italy	, Patrizia Lombardo, Marisa Masullo, Laura Miano	45.32
	Greece	, , Elisavet Pantazi, Maroula Lambrou	46.17
4	Yugoslavia		46.23

4 × 400 meters relay[]

28 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Yugoslavia	Jelica Pavličić, , ,	3:38.91
	France	Annie Alizé, Florence Picaut, Véronique Renties,	3:56.84

High jump[]

25 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.60	1.70	1.75	1.81	1.84	1.90	1.95	1.98	2.02	Result	Notes
	Sara Simeoni	Italy	–	–	–	–	o	o	o	xo	xxx	1.98	GR^[14]
	Donatella Bulfoni	Italy										1.81
	Lidija Benedetič	Yugoslavia										1.75
4	Biljana Bojović	Yugoslavia										1.75
5		Greece										1.70
6		Tunisia										1.70
7		Turkey										1.60

Long jump[]

24 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Maroula Lambrou	Greece							6.32	GR
	Snežana Dančetović	Yugoslavia							6.20
		Spain	5.85	5.77	x	6.06	5.74	6.03	6.06	^[5]
4		Italy							6.04
5		Italy							5.89
6		Tunisia							5.72
7		Yugoslavia							5.69

Shot put[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Léone Bertimon	France	16.80	GR
		Greece	16.69
	Cinzia Petrucci	Italy	16.17
4		Yugoslavia	15.34
5		Yugoslavia	15.07

Discus throw[]

23 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Renata Scaglia	Italy	44.56	49.06	52.92	x	51.12	51.46	52.92	GR^[8]
		Tunisia							49.24
		Yugoslavia							48.82
4	Zoubida Laayouni	Morocco							45.88
5		Spain	40.34	43.26	43.04	x	x	41.36	43.26	^[5]
6		Greece							42.54
7		Yugoslavia							42.34

Javelin throw[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Sofia Sakorafa	Greece	57.96	GR
	Fausta Quintavalla	Italy	57.06
		Yugoslavia	54.50
4	Giuliana Amici	Italy	52.00
5	Anna Verouli	Greece	50.92
6		Yugoslavia	45.62

Pentathlon[]

^[15]

The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	100m H	SP	HJ	LJ	800m	Points	Notes
	Florence Picaut	France	13.69	13.13	1.78	6.10	2:20.0	4424	^[16]
	Breda Lorenci	Yugoslavia	14.39	13.68	1.72	5.58	2:21.1	4180
		Italy	14.44	10.54	1.72	5.91	2:26.0	3994
4	Lidija Benedetič	Yugoslavia	15.10	9.50	1.80	5.75	2:28.6	3862
5		Spain	15.14	8.38	1.74	5.76	2:17.8	3852	NR^[5]

References[]

^ Results Archived 2014-06-24 at the Wayback Machine
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Day 1 results" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 24 September 1979. p. 37. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
^ 100 m year list
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Annuario dell'ATLETICA 2010" (PDF). 2010-05-01. p. 484. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Spanish results
^ "Day 2 results" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 26 September 1979. p. 24. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Mennea continua a volare: 10"15" (in Italian). La Stampa. 24 September 1979. p. 23. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Aburrimiento enla apertura del atletismo" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 24 September 1979. p. 13. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c French results
^ "ARRS results". Retrieved 5 December 2018.
^ 110 m hurdles year list
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Medalla de plata para Ramón y de bronce para Oriol" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 28 September 1979. p. 21. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
^ Decathlon results (p27)
^ "Poca gloria aporto la segunda sesión atletica" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 26 September 1979. p. 21. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
^ Spanish combined events records
^ French combined events results

[1] Results Archived 2014-06-24 at the Wayback Machine

[Mundo1-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Day 1 results" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 24 September 1979. p. 37. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

[3] 100 m year list

[ITA-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Annuario dell'ATLETICA 2010" (PDF). 2010-05-01. p. 484. Retrieved 2020-10-31.

[ESP-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Spanish results

[Mundo2-6] "Day 2 results" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 26 September 1979. p. 24. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

[Stampa1-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Mennea continua a volare: 10"15" (in Italian). La Stampa. 24 September 1979. p. 23. Retrieved 4 November 2020.

[Mundo-8] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Aburrimiento enla apertura del atletismo" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 24 September 1979. p. 13. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

[FRA-9] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c French results

[10] "ARRS results". Retrieved 5 December 2018.

[11] 110 m hurdles year list

[Mundo4-12] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Medalla de plata para Ramón y de bronce para Oriol" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 28 September 1979. p. 21. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

[13] Decathlon results (p27)

[Mundo3-14] "Poca gloria aporto la segunda sesión atletica" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 26 September 1979. p. 21. Retrieved 25 November 2020.

[15] Spanish combined events records

[16] French combined events results

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