Athletics at the 1959 Mediterranean Games – Results

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

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[3]
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[4]
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[4]
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 [3]
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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Abdoulaye Seye  France 10.3 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Paul Genevay  France 10.6
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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[5]
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[3]
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,[4] =NR
2 2 Bernard Cahen  France 21.1 Q[4]
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 Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Paul Genevay  France 20.9
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Nikolaos Georgopoulos  Greece 21.5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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 [3]
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[3]
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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Viktor Šnajder  Yugoslavia 47.1 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab  United Arab Republic 48.3
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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[3]
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[3]
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 Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pierre-Yvon Lenoir  France 1:55.4
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tomás Barris  Spain 1:55.8
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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 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 Mohamed Abdul Magd Omar  United Arab Republic 4:00.1
7 Samir Nassar  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) Luis García  Spain 14:32.6
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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
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) 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 [6]
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[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) 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[5]
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[4]
2 2 Emilio Campra  Spain 14.9 Q[3]
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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Georgios Marsellos  Greece 14.5 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Marcel Duriez  France 14.5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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 [3]
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 Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Fahir Özgüden  Turkey 53.4
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mongi Soussi Zarrouki  Tunisia 54.1
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Georgios Papavasileiou  Greece 9:04.0 GR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Manuel Alonso  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 Bernard Cahen, Alain David, Paul Genevay, Ali Brakchi 41.5
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Greece Ioannis Komitoudis, Constantin Lolos, Leonidas Kormalis, Nikolaos Georgopoulos 41.7
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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 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, Jean Bertozzi, Pierre-Yvon Lenoir 3:15.4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pierre Attane  France 1:43:17
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Stavros Hatzilaios  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) 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 Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Rigas Efstathiadis  Greece 4.10
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Fernando Adarraga  Spain 3.80
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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 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) 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 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) 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 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) 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 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 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 Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Krešimir Račić  Yugoslavia 62.26
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Frangiskos Politis  Greece 55.44
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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 Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Léon Syrovatski  France 74.10
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Božidar Miletić  Yugoslavia 73.80
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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
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) 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

  1. ^ "Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-23. 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" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-06-23. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
  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
  • Day 2 results
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  • Day 4 results