At the 1991 Mediterranean Games, the athletics events were held at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece. A total of 38 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 15 by female athletes. An exhibition heptathlon also took place, with Algeria's Yasmina Azzizi being the only athlete to compete. Several hundred athletes from fourteen Mediterranean nations took part in the competition.Results
Nine nations reached the medal table, with eight of them having an athlete top the podium. Italy was dominant, taking eleven gold medals and 38 overall. France was a clear second with nine golds from a haul of 25 medals. Algeria won the next highest number of golds (five), while Spain had the third largest overall medals with thirteen. Morocco also performed well (four golds and twelve in total) as did the host nation Greece (three golds and eleven overall).Affiche officielle des JM d’Athènes 1991 . CIJM (1991). Retrieved on 2013-07-28. A total of 22 games records were broken in Athens – this was over half of the event programme and only five field event records were unbeaten by the end of the tournament.Mediterranean Games. GBRAthletics. Retrieved on 2013-07-28.
Hassiba Boulmerka won a middle-distance double and went on to win the 1500 metres at the World Championships a month later. Fabienne Ficher was runner-up in the 200 metres but she added two golds to her tally through victories in the relays with the French team. Ezio Madonia won the men's 100 metres and anchored the Italian team to a second gold in the 4×100 metres relay. Italy's Agnese Maffeis broke the games record in the discus throw and also won the shot put silver medal. Paraskevi Patoulidou played a role in three of Greece's medals, taking the women's 100 m gold, silver in the 100 metres hurdles and a bronze in the 4×100 m relay.
Three former Olympic champions featured in Italy's team (Maurizio Damilano, Alessandro Andrei, and Gabriella Dorio). Damilano, who set a games record, won the men's 20 kilometres walk title at that year's world championships, while men's steeplechase winner Azzedine Brahmi became a world bronze medallist in his event. Brahim Boutayeb, the reigning Olympic champion in the 10,000 metres, took the world 5000 metres bronze after his games record performance in Athens.
The games proved a launching point for many less-established athletes: the 1992 Barcelona Olympics saw Mediterranean medallists Boulmerka, Patoulidou, Khalid Skah and Daniel Plaza win an Olympic gold medal. The 1500 m runner-up Rachid El Basir repeated his placing there. Women's 400 m hurdles winner Nezha Bidouane went on to become a two-time world champion and 1500 m champion Gennaro Di Napoli later had two wins at the IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Medal table
† Excludes Yasmina Azzizi's gold in the heptathlon, as this was an exhibition event only.
Medal summary Men 100 metres(wind: +0.5 m/s) 10.27 10.41 10.44200 metres(wind: -1.0 m/s) 20.73 20.76 20.96400 metres 45.41 45.93 45.9800 metres 1:47.62 1:47.84 1:47.861500 metres 3:42.80 3:43.06 3:43.225000 metres 13:29.64 GR 13:30.00 13:38.0810,000 metres 28:24.19 GR 28:38.19 28:52.84110 metres hurdles(wind: +0.7 m/s) 13.56 GR 13.64 13.72400 metres hurdles 49.27 GR 49.85 50.053000 metres steeplechase 8:21.58 8:22.95 8:24.154×100 metres relay Mario LongoCarlo SimionatoSandro FlorisEzio Madonia39.12 Juan TraperoEnrique TalaveraMiguel Ángel GómezLuis Turón39.39 Antoine RichardÉric PerrotOlivier ThéophilePascal Théophile39.994×400 metres relay Marco VaccariAlessandro AimarFabio GrossiAndrea Nuti3:03.20 GR Dejan JovkovićNenad ĐurovićIsmail MačevSlobodan Branković3:03.74 Abdelali KasbaneAli DahaneBouchaib BelkaidBenyounés Lahlou3:03.75 Marathon 2:20:26 2:20:54 2:24:5420 km walk 1:22:48 GR 1:23:51 1:26:45 High jump 2.28 m GR 2.26 m 2.26 m Pole vault 5.60 m GR 5.60 m 5.50 m Long jump 8.26 m GR 8.15 m (w) 7.89 m Triple jump 17.13 m GR 16.74 m 16.64 m Shot put 19.38 m 19.25 m 19.05 m Discus throw 60.10 m 59.82 m 59.16 m Hammer throw 75.10 m GR 74.78 m 70.06 m Javelin throw(new model) 76.04 m GR 73.10 m 72.52 m Decathlon 7771 pts GR 7650 pts 7513 pts
Women 100 metres(wind: +0.3 m/s) 11.48 11.50 11.53200 metres(wind: +0.2 m/s) 23.21 GR 23.40 23.52400 metres 51.88 GR 52.85 53.43800 metres 2:01.27 2:01.51 2:02.581500 metres 4:08.17 4:10.30 4:10.633000 metres 8:45.68 GR 8:46.94 9:22.94100 metres hurdles(wind: -0.2 m/s) 12.88 GR 12.96 13.34400 metres hurdles 55.13 GR 55.42 57.574×100 metres relay Magali SimioneckMaguy NestoretFabienne FicherValérie Jean-Charles43.66 Marisa MasulloDonatella Dal BiancoDaniela FerrianRossella Tarolo43.67 KanelidouEkaterini KoffaMarina VasarmidouVoula Patoulidou44.774×400 metres relay Elsa DevassoigneVéronique PoulainFrancine LandreFabienne Ficher3:31.00 GR Roberta RabaioliJohanna ZuddasBarbara MartinelliCosetta Campana3:33.68 Idoia GrandaGregoria FerrerAmaia AndrésEsther Lahoz3:34.21 High jump 1.90 m 1.87 m 1.87 m Long jump 6.60 m GR 6.52 m 6.14 m Shot put 17.71 m 17.46 m 15.95 m Discus throw 59.46 m GR 56.14 m 55.80 m Javelin throw(old model) 60.34 m 54.82 m 54.34 m Heptathlon(exhibition event) 6114 pts GROnly one participant
Participation Fifteen of the eighteen nations present at the 1991 edition of the games entered athletes into the athletics competition. Lebanon, Libya and Malta did not send any track and field athletes.
Men's results 100 meters Heats – 6 JulyWind: Heat 1: -1.1 m/s, Heat 2: -0.5 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Ezio Madonia 10.43 Q 5 1 Juan Jesús Trapero 10.59 qSpanish results 3 2 Luis Rodríguez 10.64 Q 4 2 Giovanni Puggioni 10.69 Final – 6 JulyWind: +0.4 m/s Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Ezio Madonia 10.27 6 Yannis Zisimedes 10.41 3 Cengiz Kavaklıoğlu 10.44 4 5 Driss Bensaddou 10.45 5 2 Éric Perrot 10.49 6 8 Juan Jesús Trapero 10.54 7 7 Antoine Richard 10.57 8 1 Luis Rodríguez 10.59
200 meters Heats – 10 JulyWind: Heat 1: +0.6 m/s, Heat 2: -1.9 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Stefano Tilli 20.96 Q 2 1 Miguel Ángel Gómez 21.02 Q 1 2 Sandro Floris 21.29 Q 4 2 Enrique Talavera 21.46 5 2 Olivier Théophile 21.56 Final – 10 JulyWind: -1.0 m/s Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Stefano Tilli 20.73 4 Miguel Ángel Gómez 20.76 6 Sandro Floris 20.96 4 7 Aldo Canti 21.02 5 1 Mohamed El Kandoussi 21.07 6 5 Hermann Lomba 21.11 7 8 Anninos Marcoullides 21.17 8 2 Cengiz Kavaklıoğlu 21.47
400 meters Heats – 6 July Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 2 2 Fabio Grossi 46.48 Q 4 1 Andrea Nuti 46.60 q 3 2 Antonio Sánchez 46.67 Q 5 1 Luis Cumellas 47.09 q 4 ? André Jaffory 47.29 Final – 7 July Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Olivier Noirot 45.41 6 Fabio Grossi 45.93 5 Abdellali Kasbane 45.99 4 3 Benyounés Lahlou 46.01 5 2 Andrea Nuti 46.02 6 8 Antonio Sánchez 46.63 7 7 Luis Cumellas 47.05 8 1 Amar Hacini 47.28
800 meters Heats – 6 July Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Andrea Benvenuti 1:49.65 Q 2 2 Luis Javier González 1:49.83 Q 3 2 Tonino Viali 1:49.90 Q 6 1 Alfredo Lahuerta 1:51.95 Final – 7 July Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Réda Abdenouz 1:47.62 Luis Javier González 1:47.84 Tonino Viali 1:47.86 4 Frédéric Cornette 1:47.93 5 Andrea Benvenuti 1:48.54 6 Spyros Christopoulos 1:49.77 7 Hamed Belkessam 1:50.54 8 Saïd Quaboudou 1:52.12
1500 meters 11 July Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Gennaro Di Napoli 3:42.80 Rachid El Basir 3:43.06 Zeki Öztürk 3:43.22 4 Abdelaziz Sahere 3:43.31 5 Davide Tirelli 3:43.37 6 Ángel Fariña 3:43.85 7 Mahmoud Kalboussi 3:44.24 9 Víctor Rojas 3:45.44
5000 meters 10 July Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Brahim Boutayeb 13:29.64 GR Khalid Skah 13:30.00 Antonio Martins 13:38.08 4 Zeki Öztürk 13:51.79 5 Stefano Baldini 13:53.15 6 José Manuel García 13:54.24 7 Emmanuel Chatzos 13:59.88 8 Nihat Yaylalı 14:07.30
10,000 meters 6 July Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Hammou Boutayeb 28:24.19 GR Francesco Bennici 28:38.19 Khalid Boulami 28:52.84 4 Vincenzo Modica 28:70.09 5 Mohamed Selmi 28:80.97 6 Emmanuel Chantzos 29:11.49 7 Nihat Yaylalı 29:23.80 8 Savvas Koubaras 29:37.18 9 Santiago Chiscano 29:57.52
Marathon 9 July Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Salah Qoqaiche 2:20:26 Gianluigi Curreli 2:20:54 Christos Sotiropoulos 2:24:54 4 Grigoris Georgitsas 2:25:43 5 Georgios Maliaris 2:25:55 6 Georgios Afordakos 2:27:02 7 Alberto Adamo 2:27:59 8 Allaoua Khellil 2:29:41
110 meters hurdles Heats – 10 JulyWind: Heat 1: +1.1 m/s, Heat 2: -0.3 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Carlos Sala 13.80 Q 2 2 Luigi Bertocchi 13.93 Q 2 1 Fausto Frigerio 13.98 Q 3 2 Antonio Lanau 14.04 Q Final – 10 JulyWind: +0.7 m/s Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Dan Philibert 13.56 GR 6 Carlos Sala 13.64 4 Fausto Frigerio 13.72 4 3 Luigi Bertocchi 13.79 5 1 Stéphane Remion 13.89 6 2 Grigoris Zagoras 14.03 7 7 Ruhan Işım 14.05 8 8 Antonio Lanau 14.12
400 meters hurdles Heats – 6 July Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 2 1 Mauro Maurizi 49.94 Q 1 2 Luigi Bertocchi 50.99 Q Final – 7 July Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 6 Stéphane Caristan 49.27 GR 1 Fabrizio Mori 49.85 3 Mauro Maurizi 50.05 4 5 Ahmed Abdelhalim Ghanem 50.32 5 4 Fadhel Khayati 50.46 6 8 Zid Abou Hamed 51.07 7 2 Sylvain Moreau 51.61 8 7 Suleiman Hawille 52.56
3000 meters steeplechase 8 July Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Azzedine Brahmi 8:21.58 Alessandro Lambruschini 8:22.95 Abdelaziz Sahere 8:24.15 4 Thierry Brusseau 8:27.55 5 Benito Nogales 8:28.55 6 Antonio Peula 8:29.80 7 Féthi Baccouche 8:30.36 8 Angelo Carosi 8:35.84
4 x 100 meters relay 11 July Rank Lane Nation Competitors Time Notes 5 Mario Longo, Carlo Simionato, Sandro Floris, Ezio Madonia 39.18 6 Juan Jesús Trapero, Enrique Talavera, Miguel Ángel Gómez, Luis Turón 39.39 4 Antoine Richard, Éric Perrot, Olivier Théophile, Pascal Théophile 39.99 4 8 Mohamed Moudamane, Driss Bensaddou, Mohamed El Kandoussi, Benyounés Lahlou 40.32 5 3 Markianidis, Konstadinos Labropoulos, Alexios Alexopoulos, Alexandros Yenovelis 40.44 6 2 Konstantinos Pochanis, Anninos Marcoullides, Andreas Constantinides, Yannis Zisimedes 41.21 7 7 Nicola Selva, Marco Tamagnini, Dominique Canti, Aldo Canti 41.86
4 x 400 meters relay 11 July Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes Marco Vaccari, Alessandro Aimar, Fabio Grossi, Andrea Nuti 3:03.20 GR Dejan Jovković, Nenad Đurović, Ismail Mačev, Slobodan Branković 3:03.74 Abdelail Kasbane, Ali Dahane, Bouchaib Belkaid, Benyounés Lahlou 3:03.75 4 Jacques Farraudière, Thierry Jean Charles, André Jaffory, Laurent Le Bras 3:03.81 5 Kharalambos Rethymniotakis, Vasilios Kalipossis, Bizioglis, Ioannis Nafpliotis 3:09.78 6 Dominique Canti, Aldo Canti, Marco Tamagnini, Manlio Molinari 3:24.38
20 kilometers walk 10 July Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Maurizio Damilano 1:22:48 GR Daniel Plaza 1:23:51 Olegario Regidor 1:26:45 4 Spiros Kastanis 1:27:50 5 Sergio Spagnolo 1:30:55 6 Dimitrios Tsiris 1:32:16 7 Abdelouahab Ferguene 1:33:27 8 Andreas Paspaliaris 1:33:33
High jump 11 July Rank Name Nationality 2.10 2.15 2.20 2.23 2.26 2.28 Result Notes Othmane Belfaa 2.28 GR, =AR Luca Toso 2.26 Fabrizio Borellini 2.26 4 Panagiotis Kontaxakis 2.23 5 Labros Papakostas 2.20 6 Joël Vincent 2.20 7 Gustova Becquer o o xo xx– x 2.20 8 Jean-Charles Gicquel 2.15
Pole vault 7 July Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Philippe d'Encausse 5.60 GR Jean-Marc Tailhardat 5.60 GR Marco Andreini 5.50 4 Sazan Fisheku 5.40 5 Stavros Tsitouras 5.30 6 Christos Pallakis 5.30 7 Gianni Iapichino 5.20 8 Ruhan Işım 5.20
Long jump 8 July Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Kostas Koukodimos 7.77 x x 7.98 x 8.26 8.26 GR Fausto Frigerio x 7.83 8.15w 8.15w Giovanni Evangelisti 7.89 4 Murat Ayadin 7.87 5 Lotfi Khaida 7.84 6 Sinisa Ergotic 7.78 7 Jesús Oliván 7.56 7.66 7.73 7.68 7.63 7.63 7.73 8 Spyridon Vasdekis 7.58 9 Frédéric Iola 7.29
Triple jump 11 July