Athletics at the 1959 Mediterranean Games were held in Beirut, Lebanon and took place from 19 to 23 October.
Medal table
Medal summary Track 100 metres 10.3 GR 10.6 10.6 200 metres 20.9 GR 21.5 21.8 400 metres 47.1 GR Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab 48.3 48.7 800 metres 1:55.4 1:55.8 1:56.1 1500 metres 3:50.6 3:51.8 3:52.6 5000 metres 14:31.0 14:32.6 14:45.0 10,000 metres 30:19.2 GR 30:22.4 30:24.2 Marathon 2:24:14.8 GR 2:27:27.8 2:35:03.4 110 metres hurdles 14.5 GR 14.5 15.4 400 metres hurdles 53.4 54.1 54.4 3000 m steeplechase 9:04.0 GR 9:06.2 9:09.6 4 x 100 metres relay Bernard CahenAlain DavidPaul GenevayAli Brakchi 41.5 Ioannis KomitoudisConstantin LolosLeonidas KormalisNikolaos Georgopoulos 41.7 Emilio CampraJosé Luis MartínezJesús RancañoJosé Luis Albarran 42.2 4 x 400 metres relay Leonidas KormalisKonstantinos MoragiemosNikolaos GeorgopoulosVassilios Sillis 3:15.0 Paul GenevayJean-Pierre GoudeauJean BertozziPierre-Yvon Lenoir 3:15.4 Farouk TadrosRachouiAbdel Moneim AbdallahHassan Ahmed Ragab 3:17.6 20 km walk 1:43:16.6 1:50:18.6not assigned
Field
High jump 1.99 m 1.96 m 1.90 m Long jump 7.59 m GR 7.44 m 7.24 m Pole vault 4.10 m 3.80 m 3.80 m Triple jump 15.82 m GR 15.47 m 15.04 m Shot put 16.97 m GR 15.12 m 14.95 m Discus throw 55.02 m GR 54.01 m 47.88 m Hammer throw 62.26 m GR 55.44 m 53.31 m Javelin throw 74.10 m GR 73.80 m 68.80 m Decathlon 6581 pts GR 5908 pts 5816 pts
Participating nations
Results 100 meters Heats – 19 October Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Abdoulaye Seye 10.9 Q 2 1 Ioannis Komitoudis 10.9 Q 3 1 José Luis Albarran 11.2 QSpanish results 4 1 Aydin Onur 11.5 Q 5 1 Tadros Farouk 11.7 1 2 Paul Genevay 10.5 Q 2 2 Nikolaos Georgopoulos 10.7 Q 3 2 Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab 10.9 Q 4 2 Bougaib M'Rak 11.2 Q 5 2 Mounir Maasri 11.8 1 3 Alain David 10.6 Q 2 3 Abdulai Soliman Taisir 10.9 Q 3 3 Constantin Lolos 11.2 Q 4 3 Mounir Zeitoun 11.5 Q
Semifinals – 19 October Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Paul Genevay 10.5 Q 2 1 Abdulai Soliman Taisir 10.8 Q 3 1 Ioannis Komitoudis 10.9 Q 4 1 José Luis Albarran 11.0 5 1 Constantin Lolos 11.3 6 1 Mounir Zeitoun 1 2 Abdoulaye Seye 10.5 Q 2 2 Alain David 10.6 Q 3 2 Nikolaos Georgopoulos 10.6 Q 4 2 Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab 11.2 5 2 Bougaib M'Rak 11.3 6 2 Aydin Onur Final – 20 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Abdoulaye Seye 10.3 GR Paul Genevay 10.6 Alain David 10.8 4 Nikolaos Georgopoulos 11.0 5 Abdulai Soliman Taisir 11.0 6 Ioannis Komitoudis 11.0
200 meters Heats – 21 October Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Nikolaos Georgopoulos 21.6 Q 2 1 Ioannis Komitoudis 22.2 Q 3 1 José Luis Albarran 22.4 Q 4 1 Bougaib M'Rak 22.6 5 1 Tadros Farouk 23.1 1 Abdoulaye Seye 1 2 Paul Genevay 20.8 Q, GR, = 2 2 Bernard Cahen 21.1 Q 3 2 Leonidas Kormalis 22.3 Q 4 2 Abdulai Soliman Taisir 22.6 5 2 Zein El Abdin Youssef 22.9 6 2 Mounir Zeitoun 23.6 Final – 22 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Paul Genevay 20.9 Nikolaos Georgopoulos 21.5 Bernard Cahen 21.8 4 Leonidas Kormalis 22.1 5 Ioannis Komitoudis 22.1 6 José Luis Albarran 22.4
400 meters Heats – 20 October Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Viktor Šnajder 48.8 Q 2 1 Jean-Pierre Goudeau 49.2 Q 3 1 Jesús Rancaño 49.9 4 1 Abdel Moneim Abdallah 50.0 5 1 Saleh Nasser 55.0 1 2 Jean Bertozzi 49.5 Q 2 2 José Luis Martínez 49.7 Q 3 2 Tadros Farouk 50.4 4 2 Garo Kazandijan 54.3 1 3 Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab 49.1 Q 2 3 Vassilios Sillis 50.2 Q 3 3 Fahir Özgüden 51.7 4 3 Michel Tawil 54.0 Final – 21 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Viktor Šnajder 47.1 GR Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab 48.3 Vassilios Sillis 48.7 4 Jean-Pierre Goudeau 49.1 5 Jean Bertozzi 49.2 6 José Luis Martínez 49.5
800 meters Heats – 19 October Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Pierre-Yvon Lenoir 1:54.1 Q 2 1 Elías Reguero 1:54.9 Q 3 1 Konstantinos Moragiemos 1:54.9 Q 4 1 Abdeslem Dargouth 1:55.5 5 1 Mohamed Abdul Magd Omar 1:58.5 1 2 Tomás Barris 1:54.5 Q 2 2 Evangelos Depastas 1:54.5 Q 3 2 Muharrem Dalkılıç 1:55.2 Q 4 2 Mohamed Radouan Raghoan 1:56.0 5 2 Mohamed Reguib 2:05.0 Final – 20 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Pierre-Yvon Lenoir 1:55.4 Tomás Barris 1:55.8 Evangelos Depastas 1:56.1 4 Konstantinos Moragiemos 1:56.7 5 Elías Reguero 1:57.5 Muharrem Dalkılıç
1500 meters 22 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Tomás Barris 3:50.6 Jean Clausse 3:51.8 Evangelos Depastas 3:52.6 4 Muharrem Dalkılıç 3:53.4 5 Abdeslem Dargouth 3:59.2 6 Mohamed Abdul Magd Omar 4:00.1 7 Samir Nassar
5000 meters 21 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Robert Bogey 14:31.0 Luis García 14:32.6 Carlos Pérez 14:45.0 Salah Beddiaf 14:47.6 Said Ben Mohamed Gerouani 15:05.2 Ahmed Ben Salem Boughalem 15:12.0 Mahmoud Saleh Al-Rachidi 15:12.8 Fathi Atta Khalifa 15:13.2 Şükrü Şaban 15:23.2 10 Fevzi Pakel 15:35.4 11 Spyros Kontos 15:37.8 12 Ahmed Dali Labibi 16:01.4 13 Moussa Aly El Hajje 16:21.6
10,000 meters 19 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Hamoud Ameur 30:19.2 Saïd Ben Mohamed Gerouani 30:22.4 Luis García 30:24.2 Carlos Pérez 30:41.4 Salah Beddiaf 30:42.6 Bachir Benaïssa 31:18.4 Georgios Papavasileiou 31:24.0 Fathi Atta Khalifa 31:34.6 Ahmed Ben Salem Boughalem 31:57.4 10 Şükrü Şaban 32:02.0 11 Mahmoud Saleh Al-Rachidi 32:02.2 12 Spyros Kontos 32:02.2 13 Ahmed Dali Labibi 32:24.2 14 Moussa Aly El Hajje 35:02.0
Marathon 22 OctoberSpanish long-distance records (p128) Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Bakir Benaïssa 2:24:15 GR Miguel Navarro 2:27:28 NR Mahmoud Abdelkrim 2:35:04 4 Farag Salem Farag 2:35:25 5 Ahmet Aytar 2:39:18 6 Ali Hamed Ahmed 2:40:15 7 Aydar Erturan 2:40:15 8 Mohamed El Outa 3:25:00
110 meters hurdles Heats – 21 October Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Georgios Marsellos 14.8 Q 2 1 Abdel Mohamed Abdallah 14.9 Q 3 1 Maurice Fournier 15.6 Q 4 1 Kheir El Dine Rameh 16.2 1 2 Marcel Duriez 14.4 Q 2 2 Emilio Campra 14.9 Q 3 2 Dimitrios Skourtis 15.4 Q 4 2 Ahmed Atef Abdallah 15.4 Final – 22 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Georgios Marsellos 14.5 GR Marcel Duriez 14.5 Emilio Campra 15.4 4 Abdel Mohamed Abdallah 15.4 5 Maurice Fournier 15.5 6 Dimitrios Skourtis 15.8
400 meters hurdles Heats – 19 October Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Fahir Özgüden 55.0 Q 2 1 Abdel Mohamed Abdallah 55.4 Q 3 1 Alexandros Froussios 55.4 Q 4 1 Bernardino Lombao 55.6 5 1 Michel Tawil 58.7 1 2 Dimitrios Skourtis 55.4 Q 2 2 Mohamed Darwiche Zaki 55.5 Q 3 2 Mongi Soussi Zarrouki 55.6 Q 4 2 Mohamed Zouaki 57.9 5 2 Saleh Nasser Final – 20 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Fahir Özgüden 53.4 Mongi Soussi Zarrouki 54.1 Abdel Mohamed Abdallah 54.4 4 Mohamed Darwiche Zaki 54.9 5 Dimitrios Skourtis 55.0 6 Alexandros Froussios 58.8
3000 meters steeplechase 22 October Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Georgios Papavasileiou 9:04.0 GR Manuel Alonso 9:06.2 Franc Hafner 9:09.6 4 Hamoud Ameur 9:11.6
4 × 100 meters relay 21 OctoberSpanish 4x100m records chronology Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes Bernard Cahen, Alain David, Paul Genevay, Ali Brakchi 41.5 Ioannis Komitoudis, Constantin Lolos, Leonidas Kormalis, Nikolaos Georgopoulos 41.7 Emilio Campra, José Luis Martínez, Jesús Rancaño, José Luis Albarran 42.2 NR 4 Mohamed Saïd Zaki, Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab, Zein El Abdin Youssef, Taissir Abdulai Suleiman 43.4 5 M. Nasrallah, Fouad Nasrallah, Abdul Halim Karakallah, Mounir Zeitoun 45.5
4 × 400 meters relay 22 October Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes Leonidas Kormalis, Konstantinos Moragiemos, Nikolaos Georgopoulos, Vassilios Sillis 3:15.0 Paul Genevay, Jean-Pierre Goudeau, Jean Bertozzi, Pierre-Yvon Lenoir 3:15.4 Farouk Tadros, Rachoui, Abdel Moneim Abdallah, Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab 3:17.6 4 Bernardino Lombao, José Luis Martínez, Jesús Rancaño, Elias Requero 3:17.6 5 Ben Taber, Bougaib M'Rak, Mohamed Reguib, Said 3:25.1
20 kilometers walk Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Pierre Attane 1:43:17 Stavros Hatzilaios 1:50:19
High jump 20 October Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Maurice Fournier 1.99 Çetin Şahiner 1.96 Michel Hermann 1.90 4 Marc Rabémila 1.90 5 Sylvain Bitan 1.90 6 Ioannis Koinis 1.85 7 Sami El Ahmar 1.85 8 Hassan Nassif 1.80
Pole vault 22 October Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Rigas Efstathiadis 4.10 Fernando Adarraga 3.80 Farid Hanna 3.80 4 Mohamed Saïd Zaki 3.70 5 Ahmed Adam 3.50 6 Abdul Halim Karakallah 3.40
Long jump 21 October Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Ali Brakchi 7.59 Dimosthenis Magglaras 7.44 Manuel González 7.24 4 Teymurlenk Shukri 7.06 5 Aristidis Kazantzidis 7.02 6 Éric Battista 6.80 7 Michel Hermann 6.33 8 Fouad Nasrallah 6.09
Triple jump 19 October Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Éric Battista 15.82 Marc Rabémila 15.47 Mahmoud Atef Abdel Fattah 15.04 4 Konstantinos Sfikas 14.69 5 Hassan Mohamed Sourour 14.43 6 Abbas El Masri 12.76
Shot put 21 October Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Georgios Tsakanikas 16.97 Antonios Kounadis 15.12 Chebel Hassan Farag 14.95 4 Salem El Djirs 14.36 5 Mohamed Ali Abdul Oneim 13.91
Discus throw 20 October Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Antonios Kounadis 55.02 Dako Radošević 54.01 Giorgios Tsakanikas 47.88 4 Dimitrios Karaflas 45.88 5 Chebel Hassan Farag 45.71 6 Afif Boutros 42.04 7 Abadallah Haffez 40.24 8 Iskandar Saker 39.53
Hammer throw 19 October Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Krešimir Račić 62.26 Frangiskos Politis 55.44 Andreas Kouvelogiannis 53.31 4 Michel Skaff 40.42 5 Fabel El Hadji 36.98
Javelin throw 22 October Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Léon Syrovatski 74.10 Božidar Miletić 73.80 Myron Anifantakis 68.80 4 Mahmod Mohamed Mahmoud 63.53 5 Mohamed Atef Ismail 58.00 6 Afif Boutros 52.97 7 Elie Makhoul 50.88
Decathlon 17–18 October
RankAthleteNationality100mLJSPHJ400m110m HDTPVJT1500mPointsNotes Jože Brodnik 11.5 6.43 13.19 1.70 52.0 15.6 39.00 3.95 64.08 4:46.8 6581 1959 decathlon results Georgios Marsellos 11.3 6.79 11.42 1.87 54.8 14.7 35.07 3.20 46.08 5:11.1 5908 Mohamed Saïd Zaki 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 10.9 6.65 11.50 1.60 53.6 18.6 32.66 3.80 40.25 4:47.0 5357 Abdallah Habrachi 12.2 6.39 9.18 1.65 54.8
References
External links Complete 1959 Mediterranean Games Standings. Day 2 results Day 3 results Day 4 results