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Athletics at the 1997 Mediterranean Games#Men

{{Infobox Athletics Championships

|Name = Athletics at the 1997 Mediterranean Games

|Logo = Stadio San Nicola Bari 2009.jpg

|Size = 250px

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|Optional caption = The athletics stadium was also the Games main stadium

|Host city = Bari, Italy

|Dates = 15–19 June

|Stadium = Stadio San Nicola

|Nations participating =

|Athletes participating =

|Events =

|Records set = 24

|Previous = 1993 Narbonne

|Next = 2001 Tunis

|Games = 1997 Mediterranean Games

}}

At the 1997 Mediterranean Games, the athletics events were held at the Stadio San Nicola in Bari, Italy from 15–19 June 1997.[http://www2.raisport.rai.it/news/eventi/bari97/199706/ Eventi: Giochi del Mediterraneo 97 – Archivio Giugno 1997] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316100114/http://www2.raisport.rai.it/news/eventi/bari97/199706/ |date=2012-03-16 }} {{in lang|it}}. RAI Sport. Retrieved on 2011-01-15. A total of forty-three events were contested, of which 23 by male and 20 by female athletes. A total of 24 Games records were broken or equalled during the competition.

The host country, Italy, topped the medal table with twelve gold medals and a total haul of 36 medals – by far the largest. France was the second most successful nation with ten golds and 23 medals, while Greece with seven golds and 19 overall. Morocco, Algeria, Spain and Slovenia also featured prominently on the podiums. Fourteen nations had medal winning athletes in the competition.

Greece won both the 100 metres titles through Angelos Pavlakakis and Ekaterini Thanou, both of whom ran meet record times. Christine Arron won the women's 200 metres and 4×100 metres relay for France. Morocco's Nezha Bidouane took the women's 400 metres hurdles title, an event in which she would later win at the 1997 World Championships.

Medal summary

{{main|Athletics at the 1997 Mediterranean Games – Results}}

=Men=

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
100 metres

|{{flagathlete|Angelos Pavlakakis|GRE}}

10.13 GR

|{{flagathlete|Anninos Marcoullides|CYP}}

10.23

|{{flagathlete|Stéphane Cali|FRA}}

10.28
200 metres

|{{flagathlete|Giovanni Puggioni|ITA}}

20.44 GR

|{{flagathlete|Georgios Panagiotopoulos|GRE}}

20.53

|{{flagathlete|Prodromos Katsantonis|CYP}}

20.55
400 metres

|{{flagathlete|Jean-Louis Rapnouil|FRA}}

45.58

|{{flagathlete|Marco Vaccari|ITA}}

45.74

|{{flagathlete|Samir-Adel Louahla|ALG}}

46.07
800 metres

|{{flagathlete|Giuseppe D'Urso|ITA}}

1:47.10

|{{flagathlete|Andrea Longo|ITA}}

1:47.54

|{{flagathlete|Djabir Saïd-Guerni|ALG}}

1:47.76
1500 metres

|{{flagathlete|Driss Maazouzi|MAR}}

3:44.77

|{{flagathlete|Branko Zorko|CRO}}

3:45.17

|{{flagathlete|Reyes Estévez|ESP}}

3:45.40
5000 metres

|{{flagathlete|Alberto García|ESP}}

13:25.29 GR

|{{flagathlete|El Hassan Lahssini|MAR}}

13:28.95

|{{flagathlete|Saïd Berioui|MAR}}

13:53.98
10,000 metres

|{{flagathlete|Ismaïl Sghyr|MAR}}

28:05.74 GR

|{{flagathlete|Abderrahim Zitouna|MAR}}

28:19.85

|{{flagathlete|Kamel Kohil|ALG}}

28:24.19
110 metres hurdles

|{{flagathlete|Vincent Clarico|FRA}}

13.61

|{{flagathlete|Mauro Re|ITA}}

13.71

|{{flagathlete|Emiliano Pizzoli|ITA}}

13.72
400 metres hurdles

|{{flagathlete|Zid Abou Hamed|SYR}}

49.25

|{{flagathlete|Laurent Ottoz|ITA}}

49.27

|{{flagathlete|Miro Kocuvan|SLO}}

49.43
3000 metres steeplechase

|{{flagathlete|Brahim Boulami|MAR}}

8:18.80 GR

|{{flagathlete|Hicham Bouaouiche|MAR}}

8:20.30

|{{flagathlete|Giuseppe Maffei|ITA}}

8:23.43
4×100 metres relay

| {{flagteam|ITA}}
Nicola Asumi
Giovanni Puggioni
Angelo Cipolloni
Sandro Floris

38.61 GR

| {{flagteam|ESP}}
Frutos Feo
Venancio José
Jordi Mayoral
Francisco Javier Navarro

38.85

| {{flagteam|CYP}}
Georgios Skender
Anninos Marcoullides
Prodromos Katsantonis
Yiannis Zisimides

39.12
4×400 metres relay

| {{flagteam|ALG}}
Samir-Adel Louahla
Kamel Talhaoui
Ahmed Aichaoui
Malik Louahla

3:02.78 GR

| {{flagteam|FRA}}
Pierre-Marie Hilaire
Rodrigue Nordin
Jimmy Coco
Fred Mango

3:02.84

| {{flagteam|ITA}}
Michele Grando
Fabrizio Mori
Walter Groff
Ashraf Saber

3:03.08
Marathon

|{{flagathlete|Azzedine Sakhri|ALG}}

2:20:40

|{{flagathlete|Giovanni Ruggiero|ITA}}

2:21:08

|{{flagathlete|Mustapha Damaoui|MAR}}

2:21:32
20 km walk

|{{flagathlete|Giovanni De Benedictis|ITA}}

1:24:59

|{{flagathlete|Michele Didoni|ITA}}

1:25:21

|{{flagathlete|Hatem Ghoula|TUN}}

1:25:36
High jump

|{{flagathlete|Stevan Zorić|FR Yugoslavia|code=YUG}}

2.28 m GR=

|{{flagathlete|Arturo Ortíz|ESP}}
{{flagathlete|Ignacio Pérez|ESP}}

2.26 m

|Not awarded

Pole vault

|{{flagathlete|Alain Andji|FRA}}

5.70 m GR

|{{flagathlete|Juan Gabriel Concepción|ESP}}

5.50 m

|{{flagathlete|Andrea Giannini|ITA}}

5.50 m
Long jump

|{{flagathlete|Gregor Cankar|SLO}}

8.00 m

|{{flagathlete|Konstandinos Koukodimos|GRE}}

7.95 m

|{{flagathlete|Dimitros Hatzopoulos|GRE}}

7.92 m
Triple jump

|{{flagathlete|Paolo Camossi|ITA}}

16.63 m

|{{flagathlete|Hristos Meletoglou|GRE}}

16.50 m

|{{flagathlete|Germain Martial|FRA}}

16.18 m
Shot put

|{{flagathlete|Alessandro Andrei|ITA}}

19.54 m

|{{flagathlete|Corrado Fantini|ITA}}

19.19 m

|{{flagathlete|Stevimir Ercegovac|CRO}}

19.00 m
Discus throw

|{{flagathlete|Igor Primc|SLO}}

61.66 m

|{{flagathlete|Diego Fortuna|ITA}}

59.90 m

|{{flagathlete|Simone Sbrogiò|ITA}}

59.20 m
Hammer throw

|{{flagathlete|Christophe Épalle|FRA}}

78.44 m GR

|{{flagathlete|Raphaël Piolanti|FRA}}

77.20 m

|{{flagathlete|Enrico Sgrulletti|ITA}}

76.32 m
Javelin throw

|{{flagathlete|Konstadinos Gatsioudis|GRE}}

89.22 m GR

|{{flagathlete|Dimitrios Polymerou|GRE}}

77.88 m

|{{flagathlete|Maher Ridane|TUN}}

77.10 m
Decathlon

|{{flagathlete|Pierre-Alexandre Vial|FRA}}

8070 pts GR

|{{flagathlete|Beniamino Poserina|ITA}}

7991 pts

|{{flagathlete|Prodromos Korkizoglou|GRE}}

7932 pts

=Women=

{{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
100 metres

|{{flagathlete|Ekaterini Thanou|GRE}}

11.13 GR

|{{flagathlete|Frédérique Bangué|FRA}}

11.22

|{{flagathlete|Sylviane Félix|FRA}}

11.27
200 metres

|{{flagathlete|Christine Arron|FRA}}

22.62 GR

|{{flagathlete|Ekaterini Koffa|GRE}}

22.80

|{{flagathlete|Alenka Bikar|SLO}}

22.95
400 metres

|{{flagathlete|Virna De Angeli|ITA}}

51.31 GR

|{{flagathlete|Dora Kyriakou|CYP}}

52.02

|{{flagathlete|Patrizia Spuri|ITA}}

52.57
800 metres

|{{flagathlete|Hasna Benhassi|MAR}}

2:03.70

|{{flagathlete|Jolanda Steblovnik|SLO}}

2:03.71

|{{flagathlete|Séverine Foulon|FRA}}

2:04.24
1500 metres

|{{flagathlete|Nouria Mérah-Benida|ALG}}

4:11.27

|{{flagathlete|Samira Raïf|MAR}}

4:11.60

|{{flagathlete|Maite Zúñiga|ESP}}

4:11.63
5000 metres

|{{flagathlete|Roberta Brunet|ITA}}

15:00.69 GR

|{{flagathlete|Julia Vaquero|ESP}}

15:04.48

|{{flagathlete|Zahra Ouaziz|MAR}}

15:30.19
10,000 metres

|{{flagathlete|Hrisostomia Iakovou|GRE}}

32:34.87 GR

|{{flagathlete|Silvia Sommaggio|ITA}}

32:41.79

|{{flagathlete|Olivera Jevtić|FR Yugoslavia|code=YUG}}

32:43.42
100 metres hurdles

|{{flagathlete|Patricia Girard|FRA}}

12.90

|{{flagathlete|Brigita Bukovec|SLO}}

13.01

|{{flagathlete|Carla Tuzzi|ITA}}

13.30
400 metres hurdles

|{{flagathlete|Nezha Bidouane|MAR}}

55.01 GR

|{{flagathlete|Miriam Alonso|ESP}}

55.89

|{{flagathlete|Carla Barbarino|ITA}}

56.76
4×100 metres relay

| {{flagteam|FRA}}
Frédérique Bangué
Christine Arron
Patricia Girard
Sylviane Félix

42.63 GR

| {{flagteam|GRE}}
Maria Tsoni
Ekaterini Koffa
Marina Vasarmidou
Ekaterini Thanou

43.07

| {{flagteam|ITA}}
Stefania Ferrante
Annarita Luciano
Giada Gallina
Manuela Levorato

44.15
4×400 metres relay

| {{flagteam|ITA}}
Carla Barbarino
Francesca Cola
Patrizia Spuri
Francesca Carbone

3:29.98 GR

| {{flagteam|FRA}}
Marie-Louise Bévis
Sophie Domenech
Marie-Line Scholent
Elsa Devassoigne

3:30.62

| {{flagteam|ESP}}
Miriam Alonso
Esther Lahoz
Miriam Bravo
Yolanda Reyes

3:31.93
Marathon

|{{flagathlete|Serap Aktaş|TUR}}

2:39:22

|{{flagathlete|Carol Galea|MLT}}

2:43:53

|{{flagathlete|Lale Öztürk|TUR}}

2:46:56
10 km walk

|{{flagathlete|Elisabetta Perrone|ITA}}

44:40 GR

|{{flagathlete|Annarita Sidoti|ITA}}

45:35

|{{flagathlete|Celia Marcén|ESP}}

46:07
High jump

|{{flagathlete|Antonella Bevilacqua|ITA}}

1.95 m

|{{flagathlete|Niki Bakoyianni|GRE}}

1.93 m

|{{flagathlete|Britta Bilač|SLO}}

1.91 m
Long jump

|{{flagathlete|Niki Xanthou|GRE}}

6.72 m GR

|{{flagathlete|Linda Ferga|FRA}}

6.49 m

|{{flagathlete|Anastasia Mahob|FRA}}

6.47 m
Triple jump

|{{flagathlete|Olga Vasdeki|GRE}}

14.13 m GR

|{{flagathlete|Betty Lise|FRA}}

13.81 m

|{{flagathlete|Antonella Capriotti|ITA}}

13.80 m
Shot put

|{{flagathlete|Mara Rosolen|ITA}}

17.82 m

|{{flagathlete|Eleni Tsentemeidou|GRE}}

17.70 m

|{{flagathlete|Margarita Ramos|ESP}}

17.42 m
Discus throw

|{{flagathlete|Anastasia Kelesidou|GRE}}

66.18 m GR

|{{flagathlete|Styliani Tsikouna|GRE}}

61.96 m

|{{flagathlete|Isabelle Devaluez|FRA}}

61.28 m
Javelin throw
(Old javelin model)

|{{flagathlete|Nadine Auzeil|FRA}}

57.32 m

|{{flagathlete|Claudia Coslovich|ITA}}

57.16 m

|{{flagathlete|Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi|GRE}}

56.70 m
Heptathlon

|{{flagathlete|Nathalie Teppe|FRA}}

6161 pts

|{{flagathlete|Gertrud Bacher|ITA}}

5859 pts

|{{flagathlete|Marie Collonvillé|FRA}}

5839 pts

Medal table

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File:Olivera Jevtić.jpg was one of two Yugoslavian medallists.]]

{{Medals table

| caption =

| host = ITA

| flag_template = flaglink

| event = at the 1997 Mediterranean Games

| team =

| gold_ITA = 12 | silver_ITA = 13 | bronze_ITA = 11 | host_ITA = yes

| gold_FRA = 10 | silver_FRA = 6 | bronze_FRA = 7

| gold_GRE = 7 | silver_GRE = 9 | bronze_GRE = 3

| gold_MAR = 5 | silver_MAR = 4 | bronze_MAR = 3

| gold_ALG = 3 | silver_ALG = 0 | bronze_ALG = 3

| gold_SLO = 2 | silver_SLO = 2 | bronze_SLO = 3

| gold_ESP = 1 | silver_ESP = 5 | bronze_ESP = 6

| gold_FRY = 1 | silver_FRY = 0 | bronze_FRY = 1 | name_FRY = {{flag|FR Yugoslavia}}

| gold_TUR = 1 | silver_TUR = 0 | bronze_TUR = 1

| gold_SYR = 1 | silver_SYR = 0 | bronze_SYR = 0

| gold_CYP = 0 | silver_CYP = 2 | bronze_CYP = 2

| gold_CRO = 0 | silver_CRO = 1 | bronze_CRO = 1

| gold_MLT = 0 | silver_MLT = 1 | bronze_MLT = 0

| gold_TUN = 0 | silver_TUN = 0 | bronze_TUN = 2

}}

Participation

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  • {{ITA}}
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  • {{MLT}}
  • {{MON}}
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  • {{SLO}}
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  • {{SYR}}
  • {{TUN}}
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References

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;Results

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20140623145053/http://www.cijm.org.gr/images/stories/pdf/JM1997.pdf Affiche officielle des JM de Bari 1997]. CIJM. Retrieved on 2011-01-22.
  • [http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/mg.htm Mediterranean Games – Past Medallists]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-01-22.

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