Athletics at the 1959 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 1959 Mediterranean Games
Athletics at the 1959 Mediterranean Games
Dates	19–23 October
Host city	Beirut
Venue	Camille Chamoun Stadium
Events	23
Participation	131 athletes from ; 9 nations
	← 1955 Barcelona 1963 Naples → ; 1959 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 1959 Mediterranean Games were held in Beirut, Lebanon^[1] and took place from 19 to 23 October.^[2]^[3]

Medal table

Medal summary

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Abdoulaye Seye (FRA)	10.3 GR	Paul Genevay (FRA)	10.6	Alain David (FRA)	10.6
200 metres	Paul Genevay (FRA)	20.9 GR	Nikolaos Georgopoulos (GRE)	21.5	Bernard Cahen (FRA)	21.8
400 metres	Viktor Šnajder (YUG)	47.1 GR	Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab	48.3	Vassilios Sillis (GRE)	48.7
800 metres	Pierre-Yvon Lenoir (FRA)	1:55.4	Tomás Barris (ESP)	1:55.8	Evangelos Depastas (GRE)	1:56.1
1500 metres	Tomás Barris (ESP)	3:50.6	Jean Clausse (FRA)	3:51.8	Evangelos Depastas (GRE)	3:52.6
5000 metres	Robert Bogey (FRA)	14:31.0	Luis García (ESP)	14:32.6	Carlos Perez (ESP)	14:45.0
10,000 metres	Hamoud Ameur (FRA)	30:19.2 GR	Mohamed Saïd (MAR)	30:22.4	Luis García (ESP)	30:24.2
Marathon	Bakir Benaïssa (MAR)	2:24:14.8 GR	Miguel Navarro (ESP)	2:27:27.8	Mahmoud Abdelkrim (UAR)	2:35:03.4
110 metres hurdles	Georgios Marsellos (GRE)	14.5 GR	Marcel Duriez (FRA)	14.5	Emilio Campra (ESP)	15.4
400 metres hurdles	Fahir Özgüden (TUR)	53.4	Mongi Zarrouki (TUN)	54.1	Abdel Mohamed Abdallah (EGY)	54.4
3000 m steeplechase	Georgios Papavasileiou (GRE)	9:04.0 GR	Manuel Alonso (ESP)	9:06.2	Franc Hafner (YUG)	9:09.6
4 x 100 metres relay	France Bernard Cahen Alain David Paul Genevay Ali Brakchi	41.5	Greece Ioannis Komitoudis Constantin Lolos Leonidas Kormalis Nikolaos Georgopoulos	41.7	Spain Emilio Campra José Luis Martínez Jesús Rancaño José Luis Albarran	42.2
4 x 400 metres relay	Greece Leonidas Kormalis Konstantinos Moragiemos Nikolaos Georgopoulos Vassilios Sillis	3:15.0	France Paul Genevay Jean-Pierre Goudeau Jean Bertozzi Pierre-Yvon Lenoir	3:15.4	United Arab Republic Farouk Tadros Rachoui Abdel Moneim Abdallah Hassan Ahmed Ragab	3:17.6
20 km walk	Pierre Attane (FRA)	1:43:16.6	Stavros Hatzilaios (GRE)	1:50:18.6	not assigned

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Maurice Fournier (FRA)	1.99 m	Çetin Şahiner (TUR)	1.96 m	Michel Hermann (FRA)	1.90 m
Long jump	Ali Brakchi (FRA)	7.59 m GR	Dimos Manglaras (GRE)	7.44 m	Manuel González (ESP)	7.24 m
Pole vault	Rigas Efstathiadis (GRE)	4.10 m	Fernando Adarraga (ESP)	3.80 m	Farid Hanna (UAR)	3.80 m
Triple jump	Éric Battista (FRA)	15.82 m GR	Marc Rabémila (FRA)	15.47 m	Mahmoud Atef Abdel Fattah (UAR)	15.04 m
Shot put	Georgios Tsakanikas (GRE)	16.97 m GR	Antonios Kounadis (GRE)	15.12 m	Chebel Hassan Farag (UAR)	14.95 m
Discus throw	Antonios Kounadis (GRE)	55.02 m GR	Dako Radošević (YUG)	54.01 m	Georgios Tsakanikas (GRE)	47.88 m
Hammer throw	Krešimir Račić (YUG)	62.26 m GR	Frangiskos Politis (GRE)	55.44 m	Andreas Kouvelogiannis (GRE)	53.31 m
Javelin throw	Léon Syrovatski (FRA)	74.10 m GR	Božidar Miletić (YUG)	73.80 m	Myron Anyfantakis (GRE)	68.80 m
Decathlon	Jože Brodnik (YUG)	6581 pts GR	Georgios Marsellos (GRE)	5908 pts	Mohamed Saïd Zaki (UAR)	5816 pts

Participating nations

France (20)
Greece (24)
Lebanon (21)
Morocco (6)
Spain (13)
Tunisia (5)
Turkey (8)
United Arab Republic (28)
Yugoslavia (6)

Results

100 meters

Heats – 19 October

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Abdoulaye Seye	France	10.9	Q
2	1	Ioannis Komitoudis	Greece	10.9	Q
3	1	José Luis Albarran	Spain	11.2	Q^[4]
4	1	Aydin Onur	Turkey	11.5	Q
5	1	Tadros Farouk	United Arab Republic	11.7
1	2	Paul Genevay	France	10.5	Q^[5]
2	2	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	10.7	Q
3	2	Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab	United Arab Republic	10.9	Q
4	2	Bougaib M'Rak	Morocco	11.2	Q
5	2	Mounir Maasri	Lebanon	11.8
1	3	Alain David	France	10.6	Q^[5]
2	3	Abdulai Soliman Taisir	United Arab Republic	10.9	Q
3	3	Constantin Lolos	Greece	11.2	Q
4	3	Mounir Zeitoun	Lebanon	11.5	Q

Semifinals – 19 October

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Paul Genevay	France	10.5	Q
2	1	Abdulai Soliman Taisir	United Arab Republic	10.8	Q
3	1	Ioannis Komitoudis	Greece	10.9	Q
4	1	José Luis Albarran	Spain	11.0	^[4]
5	1	Constantin Lolos	Greece	11.3
6	1	Mounir Zeitoun	Lebanon	??.?
1	2	Abdoulaye Seye	France	10.5	Q
2	2	Alain David	France	10.6	Q
3	2	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	10.6	Q
4	2	Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab	United Arab Republic	11.2
5	2	Bougaib M'Rak	Morocco	11.3
6	2	Aydin Onur	Turkey	??.?

Final – 20 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Abdoulaye Seye	France	10.3	GR
	Paul Genevay	France	10.6
	Alain David	France	10.8
4	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	11.0
5	Abdulai Soliman Taisir	United Arab Republic	11.0
6	Ioannis Komitoudis	Greece	11.0

200 meters

Heats – 21 October^[6]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	21.6	Q
2	1	Ioannis Komitoudis	Greece	22.2	Q
3	1	José Luis Albarran	Spain	22.4	Q^[4]
4	1	Bougaib M'Rak	Morocco	22.6
5	1	Tadros Farouk	United Arab Republic	23.1
	1	Abdoulaye Seye	France	DNS
1	2	Paul Genevay	France	20.8	Q, GR,^[5] =NR
2	2	Bernard Cahen	France	21.1	Q^[5]
3	2	Leonidas Kormalis	Greece	22.3	Q
4	2	Abdulai Soliman Taisir	United Arab Republic	22.6
5	2	Zein El Abdin Youssef	United Arab Republic	22.9
6	2	Mounir Zeitoun	Lebanon	23.6

Final – 22 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Paul Genevay	France	20.9
	Nikolaos Georgopoulos	Greece	21.5
	Bernard Cahen	France	21.8
4	Leonidas Kormalis	Greece	22.1
5	Ioannis Komitoudis	Greece	22.1
6	José Luis Albarran	Spain	22.4

400 meters

Heats – 20 October

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Viktor Šnajder	Yugoslavia	48.8	Q
2	1	Jean-Pierre Goudeau	France	49.2	Q
3	1	Jesús Rancaño	Spain	49.9	^[4]
4	1	Abdel Moneim Abdallah	United Arab Republic	50.0
5	1	Saleh Nasser	Lebanon	55.0
1	2	Jean Bertozzi	France	49.5	Q
2	2	José Luis Martínez	Spain	49.7	Q^[4]
3	2	Tadros Farouk	United Arab Republic	50.4
4	2	Garo Kazandijan	Lebanon	54.3
1	3	Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab	United Arab Republic	49.1	Q
2	3	Vassilios Sillis	Greece	50.2	Q
3	3	Fahir Özgüden	Turkey	51.7
4	3	Michel Tawil	Lebanon	54.0

Final – 21 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Viktor Šnajder	Yugoslavia	47.1	GR
	Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab	United Arab Republic	48.3
	Vassilios Sillis	Greece	48.7
4	Jean-Pierre Goudeau	France	49.1
5	Jean Bertozzi	France	49.2
6	José Luis Martínez	Spain	49.5

800 meters

Heats – 19 October

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Pierre-Yvon Lenoir	France	1:54.1	Q
2	1	Elías Reguero	Spain	1:54.9	Q^[4]
3	1	Konstantinos Moragiemos	Greece	1:54.9	Q
4	1	Abdeslem Dargouth	Tunisia	1:55.5
5	1	Mohamed Abdul Magd Omar	United Arab Republic	1:58.5
1	2	Tomás Barris	Spain	1:54.5	Q^[4]
2	2	Evangelos Depastas	Greece	1:54.5	Q
3	2	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	1:55.2	Q
4	2	Mohamed Radouan Raghoan	United Arab Republic	1:56.0
5	2	Mohamed Reguib	Morocco	2:05.0

Final – 20 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Pierre-Yvon Lenoir	France	1:55.4
	Tomás Barris	Spain	1:55.8
	Evangelos Depastas	Greece	1:56.1
4	Konstantinos Moragiemos	Greece	1:56.7
5	Elías Reguero	Spain	1:57.5
	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	DNF

1500 meters

22 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Tomás Barris	Spain	3:50.6
	Jean Clausse	France	3:51.8
	Evangelos Depastas	Greece	3:52.6
4	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	3:53.4
5	Abdeslem Dargouth	Tunisia	3:59.2
6	Mohamed Abdul Magd Omar	United Arab Republic	4:00.1
7	Samir Nassar	Lebanon	?:??.?

5000 meters

21 October^[6]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Robert Bogey	France	14:31.0
	Luis García	Spain	14:32.6
	Carlos Pérez	Spain	14:45.0
4	Salah Beddiaf	France	14:47.6
5	Said Ben Mohamed Gerouani	Morocco	15:05.2
6	Ahmed Ben Salem Boughalem	Tunisia	15:12.0
7	Mahmoud Saleh Al-Rachidi	United Arab Republic	15:12.8
8	Fathi Atta Khalifa	United Arab Republic	15:13.2
9	Şükrü Şaban	Turkey	15:23.2
10	Fevzi Pakel	Turkey	15:35.4
11	Spyros Kontos	Greece	15:37.8
12	Ahmed Dali Labibi	Tunisia	16:01.4
13	Moussa Aly El Hajje	Lebanon	16:21.6

10,000 meters

19 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Hamoud Ameur	France	30:19.2
	Saïd Ben Mohamed Gerouani	Morocco	30:22.4
	Luis García	Spain	30:24.2
4	Carlos Pérez	Spain	30:41.4
5	Salah Beddiaf	France	30:42.6
6	Bachir Benaïssa	Morocco	31:18.4
7	Georgios Papavasileiou	Greece	31:24.0	^[7]
8	Fathi Atta Khalifa	United Arab Republic	31:34.6
9	Ahmed Ben Salem Boughalem	Tunisia	31:57.4
10	Şükrü Şaban	Turkey	32:02.0
11	Mahmoud Saleh Al-Rachidi	United Arab Republic	32:02.2
12	Spyros Kontos	Greece	32:02.2
13	Ahmed Dali Labibi	Tunisia	32:24.2
14	Moussa Aly El Hajje	Lebanon	35:02.0

Marathon

22 October^[8]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bakir Benaïssa	Morocco	2:24:15	GR
	Miguel Navarro	Spain	2:27:28	NR
	Mahmoud Abdelkrim	United Arab Republic	2:35:04
4	Farag Salem Farag	United Arab Republic	2:35:25
5	Ahmet Aytar	Turkey	2:39:18
6	Ali Hamed Ahmed	United Arab Republic	2:40:15
7	Aydar Erturan	Turkey	2:40:15
8	Mohamed El Outa	Lebanon	3:25:00

110 meters hurdles

Heats – 21 October^[6]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Georgios Marsellos	Greece	14.8	Q
2	1	Abdel Mohamed Abdallah	United Arab Republic	14.9	Q
3	1	Maurice Fournier	France	15.6	Q
4	1	Kheir El Dine Rameh	Lebanon	16.2
1	2	Marcel Duriez	France	14.4	Q^[5]
2	2	Emilio Campra	Spain	14.9	Q^[4]
3	2	Dimitrios Skourtis	Greece	15.4	Q
4	2	Ahmed Atef Abdallah	United Arab Republic	15.4

Final – 22 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Georgios Marsellos	Greece	14.5	GR
	Marcel Duriez	France	14.5
	Emilio Campra	Spain	15.4
4	Abdel Mohamed Abdallah	United Arab Republic	15.4
5	Maurice Fournier	France	15.5
6	Dimitrios Skourtis	Greece	15.8

400 meters hurdles

Heats – 19 October

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Fahir Özgüden	Turkey	55.0	Q
2	1	Abdel Mohamed Abdallah	United Arab Republic	55.4	Q
3	1	Alexandros Froussios	Greece	55.4	Q
4	1	Bernardino Lombao	Spain	55.6	^[4]
5	1	Michel Tawil	Lebanon	58.7
1	2	Dimitrios Skourtis	Greece	55.4	Q
2	2	Mohamed Darwiche Zaki	United Arab Republic	55.5	Q
3	2	Mongi Soussi Zarrouki	Tunisia	55.6	Q
4	2	Mohamed Zouaki	Morocco	57.9
5	2	Saleh Nasser	Lebanon	1:02.1

Final – 20 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Fahir Özgüden	Turkey	53.4
	Mongi Soussi Zarrouki	Tunisia	54.1
	Abdel Mohamed Abdallah	United Arab Republic	54.4
4	Mohamed Darwiche Zaki	United Arab Republic	54.9
5	Dimitrios Skourtis	Greece	55.0
6	Alexandros Froussios	Greece	58.8

3000 meters steeplechase

22 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Georgios Papavasileiou	Greece	9:04.0	GR
	Manuel Alonso	Spain	9:06.2
	Franc Hafner	Yugoslavia	9:09.6
4	Hamoud Ameur	France	9:11.6

4 × 100 meters relay

21 October^[9]

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	France	Bernard Cahen, Alain David, Paul Genevay, Ali Brakchi	41.5
	Greece	Ioannis Komitoudis, Constantin Lolos, Leonidas Kormalis, Nikolaos Georgopoulos	41.7
	Spain	Emilio Campra, José Luis Martínez, Jesús Rancaño, José Luis Albarran	42.2	NR
4	United Arab Republic	Mohamed Saïd Zaki, Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab, Zein El Abdin Youssef, Taissir Abdulai Suleiman	43.4
5	Lebanon	M. Nasrallah, Fouad Nasrallah, Abdul Halim Karakallah, Mounir Zeitoun	45.5

4 × 400 meters relay

22 October

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time
	Greece	Leonidas Kormalis, Konstantinos Moragiemos, Nikolaos Georgopoulos, Vassilios Sillis	3:15.0
	France	Paul Genevay, Jean-Pierre Goudeau, Jean Bertozzi, Pierre-Yvon Lenoir	3:15.4
	United Arab Republic	Farouk Tadros, Rachoui, Abdel Moneim Abdallah, Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab	3:17.6
4	Spain	Bernardino Lombao, José Luis Martínez, Jesús Rancaño, Elias Requero	3:17.6
5	Morocco	Ben Taber, Bougaib M'Rak, Mohamed Reguib, Said	3:25.1

20 kilometers walk

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Pierre Attane	France	1:43:17
	Stavros Hatzilaios	Greece	1:50:19

High jump

20 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
	Maurice Fournier	France	1.99
	Çetin Şahiner	Turkey	1.96
	Michel Hermann	France	1.90
4	Marc Rabémila	France	1.90
5	Sylvain Bitan	Tunisia	1.90
6	Ioannis Koinis	Greece	1.85
7	Sami El Ahmar	Lebanon	1.85
8	Hassan Nassif	United Arab Republic	1.80

Pole vault

22 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
	Rigas Efstathiadis	Greece	4.10
	Fernando Adarraga	Spain	3.80
	Farid Hanna	United Arab Republic	3.80
4	Mohamed Saïd Zaki	United Arab Republic	3.70
5	Ahmed Adam	Lebanon	3.50
6	Abdul Halim Karakallah	Lebanon	3.40

Long jump

21 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
	Ali Brakchi	France	7.59
	Dimosthenis Magglaras	Greece	7.44
	Manuel González	Spain	7.24
4	Teymurlenk Shukri	United Arab Republic	7.06
5	Aristidis Kazantzidis	Greece	7.02
6	Éric Battista	France	6.80
7	Michel Hermann	France	6.33
8	Fouad Nasrallah	Lebanon	6.09

Triple jump

19 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
	Éric Battista	France	15.82
	Marc Rabémila	France	15.47
	Mahmoud Atef Abdel Fattah	United Arab Republic	15.04
4	Konstantinos Sfikas	Greece	14.69
5	Hassan Mohamed Sourour	United Arab Republic	14.43
6	Abbas El Masri	Lebanon	12.76

Shot put

21 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	16.97
	Antonios Kounadis	Greece	15.12
	Chebel Hassan Farag	United Arab Republic	14.95
4	Salem El Djirs	Lebanon	14.36
5	Mohamed Ali Abdul Oneim	United Arab Republic	13.91

Discus throw

20 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
	Antonios Kounadis	Greece	55.02
	Dako Radošević	Yugoslavia	54.01
	Giorgios Tsakanikas	Greece	47.88
4	Dimitrios Karaflas	Greece	45.88
5	Chebel Hassan Farag	United Arab Republic	45.71
6	Afif Boutros	Lebanon	42.04
7	Abadallah Haffez	United Arab Republic	40.24
8	Iskandar Saker	Lebanon	39.53

Hammer throw

19 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
	Krešimir Račić	Yugoslavia	62.26
	Frangiskos Politis	Greece	55.44
	Andreas Kouvelogiannis	Greece	53.31
4	Michel Skaff	Lebanon	40.42
5	Fabel El Hadji	Lebanon	36.98

Javelin throw

22 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
	Léon Syrovatski	France	74.10
	Božidar Miletić	Yugoslavia	73.80
	Myron Anifantakis	Greece	68.80
4	Mahmod Mohamed Mahmoud	United Arab Republic	63.53
5	Mohamed Atef Ismail	United Arab Republic	58.00
6	Afif Boutros	Lebanon	52.97
7	Elie Makhoul	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
	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	^[10]
	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	^[7]
	Mohamed Saïd Zaki	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
	Abdallah Habrachi	United Arab Republic	12.2	6.39	9.18	1.65	54.8	?	–	–	–	–	DNF

References

^ "Mediterranean Games – Past Medallists". sports-gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
^ "Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-23. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
^ Castelló, F. "Los Juegos del Líbano (III Juegos Mediterráneos)" (PDF). Atletismo (in Spanish). December 1959: 14–18. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Spanish results
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "French results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-23. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
^ ^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.
^ ^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.
^ Spanish long-distance records (p128)
^ Spanish 4x100m records chronology
^ 1959 decathlon results

External links

[1] "Mediterranean Games – Past Medallists". sports-gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 19 December 2012.

[2] "Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-23. Retrieved 2020-08-23.

[3] Castelló, F. "Los Juegos del Líbano (III Juegos Mediterráneos)" (PDF). Atletismo (in Spanish). December 1959: 14–18. Retrieved 4 March 2021.

[ESP-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Spanish results

[FRA-5] "French results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-23. Retrieved 2020-08-23.

[Eleftheria22-6] "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.

[Empros24-7] "Αιελληνικαι επιτυχιαι και αποτυχιαι εις Βηρυττον (Greek success and failure in Beirut)" (in Greek). Empros. 24 October 1959. p. 13. Retrieved 12 February 2021.

[8] Spanish long-distance records (p128)

[9] Spanish 4x100m records chronology

[10] 1959 decathlon results

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