Athletics at the 1997 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
	The athletics stadium was also the Games main stadium
Host city	Bari, Italy
Date(s)	15–19 June
Main stadium	Stadio San Nicola
Records set	24
	← 1993 Narbonne 2001 Tunis → ; 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.^[1] 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

For event details see Athletics at the 1997 Mediterranean Games – Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Angelos Pavlakakis (GRE)	10.13 GR	Anninos Marcoullides (CYP)	10.23	Stéphane Cali (FRA)	10.28
200 metres	Giovanni Puggioni (ITA)	20.44 GR	Georgios Panayotopoulos (GRE)	20.53	Prodromos Katsantonis (CYP)	20.55
400 metres	Jean-Louis Rapnouil (FRA)	45.58	Marco Vaccari (ITA)	45.74	Samir-Adel Louahla (ALG)	46.07
800 metres	Giuseppe D'Urso (ITA)	1:47.10	Andrea Longo (ITA)	1:47.54	Djabir Saïd-Guerni (ALG)	1:47.76
1500 metres	Driss Maazouzi (MAR)	3:44.77	Branko Zorko (CRO)	3:45.17	Reyes Estévez (ESP)	3:45.40
5000 metres	Alberto García (ESP)	13:25.29 GR	El Hassan Lahssini (MAR)	13:28.95	Saïd Bérioui (MAR)	13:53.98
10,000 metres	Ismaïl Sghyr (MAR)	28:05.74 GR	Abderrahim Zitouna (MAR)	28:19.85	Kamel Kohil (ALG)	28:24.19
110 metres hurdles	Vincent Clarico (FRA)	13.61	Mauro Re (ITA)	13.71	Emiliano Pizzoli (ITA)	13.72
400 metres hurdles	Zid Abou Hamed (SYR)	49.25	Laurent Ottoz (ITA)	49.27	Miro Kocuvan (SLO)	49.43
3000 metres steeplechase	Brahim Boulami (MAR)	8:18.80 GR	Hicham Bouaouiche (MAR)	8:20.30	Giuseppe Maffei (ITA)	8:23.43
4×100 metres relay	Italy (ITA) Nicola Asumi Giovanni Puggioni Angelo Cipolloni Sandro Floris	38.61 GR	Spain (ESP) Frutos Feo Venancio José Jordi Mayoral Francisco Javier Navarro	38.85	Cyprus (CYP) Georgios Skender Anninos Markoullidis Prodromos Katsantonis Yiannis Zisimides	39.12
4×400 metres relay	Algeria (ALG) Samir-Adel Louahla Kamel Talhaoui Ahmed Aichaoui Malik Louahla	3:02.78 GR	France (FRA) Pierre Marie Hilaire Rodrigue Nordin Jimmy Coco Fred Mango	3:02.84	Italy (ITA) Michele Grando Fabrizio Mori Walter Groff Ashraf Saber	3:03.08
Marathon	Azzedine Sakhri (ALG)	2:20:40	Giovanni Ruggiero (ITA)	2:21:08	Mustapha Damaoui (MAR)	2:21:32
20 km walk	Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA)	1:24:59	Michele Didoni (ITA)	1:25:21	Hatem Ghoula (TUN)	1:25:36
High jump	Stevan Zorić (YUG)	2.28 m GR=	Arturo Ortíz (ESP) Ignacio Pérez (ESP)	2.26 m	Not awarded
Pole vault	Alain Andji (FRA)	5.70 m GR	Juan Gabriel Concepción (ESP)	5.50 m	Andrea Giannini (ITA)	5.50 m
Long jump	Gregor Cankar (SLO)	8.00 m	Kostas Koukodimos (GRE)	7.95 m	Dimitrios Chatzopoulos (GRE)	7.92 m
Triple jump	Paolo Camossi (ITA)	16.63 m	Hristos Meletoglou (GRE)	16.50 m	Germain Martial (FRA)	16.18 m
Shot put	Alessandro Andrei (ITA)	19.54 m	Corrado Fantini (ITA)	19.19 m	Stevimir Ercegovac (CRO)	19.00 m
Discus throw	Igor Primc (SLO)	61.66 m	Diego Fortuna (ITA)	59.90 m	Simone Sbrogiò (ITA)	59.20 m
Hammer throw	Christophe Épalle (FRA)	78.44 m GR	Raphaël Piolanti (FRA)	77.20 m	Enrico Sgrulletti (ITA)	76.32 m
Javelin throw	Kostas Gatsioudis (GRE)	89.22 m GR	Dimitrios Polymerou (GRE)	77.88 m	Maher Ridane (TUN)	77.10 m
Decathlon	Pierre-Alexandre Vial (FRA)	8070 pts GR	Beniamino Poserina (ITA)	7991 pts	Prodromos Korkizoglou (GRE)	7932 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Ekaterini Thanou (GRE)	11.13 GR	Frédérique Bangué (FRA)	11.22	Sylviane Félix (FRA)	11.27
200 metres	Christine Arron (FRA)	22.62 GR	Ekaterini Koffa (GRE)	22.80	Alenka Bikar (SLO)	22.95
400 metres	Virna de Angeli (ITA)	51.31 GR	Dora Kyriakou (CYP)	52.02	Patrizia Spuri (ITA)	52.57
800 metres	Hasna Benhassi (MAR)	2:03.70	Jolanda Steblovnik (SLO)	2:03.71	Séverine Foulon (FRA)	2:04.24
1500 metres	Nouria Mérah-Benida (ALG)	4:11.27	Samira Raïf (MAR)	4:11.60	Maite Zúñiga (ESP)	4:11.63
5000 metres	Roberta Brunet (ITA)	15:00.69 GR	Julia Vaquero (ESP)	15:04.48	Zahra Ouaziz (MAR)	15:30.19
10,000 metres	Hrisostomia Iakovou (GRE)	32:34.87 GR	Silvia Sommaggio (ITA)	32:41.79	Olivera Jevtić (YUG)	32:43.42
100 metres hurdles	Patricia Girard (FRA)	12.90	Brigita Bukovec (SLO)	13.01	Carla Tuzzi (ITA)	13.30
400 metres hurdles	Nezha Bidouane (MAR)	55.01 GR	Miriam Alonso (ESP)	55.89	Carla Barbarino (ITA)	56.76
4×100 metres relay	France (FRA) Frédérique Bangué Christine Arron Patricia Girard Sylviane Félix	42.63 GR	Greece (GRE) Maria Tsoni Ekaterini Koffa Marina Vasarmidou Ekaterini Thanou	43.07	Italy (ITA) Stefania Ferrante Annarita Luciano Giada Gallina Manuela Levorato	44.15
4×400 metres relay	Italy (ITA) Carla Barbarino Francesca Cola Patrizia Spuri Francesca Carbone	3:29.98 GR	France (FRA) Marie-Louise Bévis Sophie Domenech Marie-Line Scholent Elsa Devassoigne	3:30.62	Spain (ESP) Miriam Alonso Esther Lahoz Miriam Bravo Yolanda Reyes	3:31.93
Marathon	Serap Aktaş (TUR)	2:39:22	Carol Galea (MLT)	2:43:53	Lale Öztürk (TUR)	2:46:56
10 km walk	Elisabetta Perrone (ITA)	44:40 GR	Annarita Sidoti (ITA)	45:35	Celia Marcén (ESP)	46:07
High jump	Antonella Bevilacqua (ITA)	1.95 m	Niki Bakoyianni (GRE)	1.93 m	Britta Bilač (SLO)	1.91 m
Long jump	Niki Xanthou (GRE)	6.72 m GR	Linda Ferga (FRA)	6.49 m	Anastasia Mahob (FRA)	6.47 m
Triple jump	Olga Vasdeki (GRE)	14.13 m GR	Betty Lise (FRA)	13.81 m	Antonella Capriotti (ITA)	13.80 m
Shot put	Mara Rosolen (ITA)	17.82 m	Eleni Tsentemeidou (GRE)	17.70 m	Margarita Ramos (ESP)	17.42 m
Discus throw	Anastasia Kelesidou (GRE)	66.18 m GR	Stella Tsikouna (GRE)	61.96 m	Isabelle Devaluez (FRA)	61.28 m
Javelin throw (Old javelin model)	Nadine Auzeil (FRA)	57.32 m	Claudia Coslovich (ITA)	57.16 m	Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi (GRE)	56.70 m
Heptathlon	Nathalie Teppe (FRA)	6161 pts	Gertrud Bacher (ITA)	5859 pts	Marie Collonvillé (FRA)	5839 pts

Medal table

File:Osaka07 D2M Christine Arron.jpg

Christine Arron won 200 m and relay gold medals for France.

File:Olivera Jevtić.jpg

A 19-year-old Olivera Jevtić was one of two Yugoslavian medallists.

Key

The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	12	13	11	36
2	France	10	6	7	23
3	Greece	7	9	3	19
4	Morocco	5	4	3	12
5	Algeria	3	0	3	6
6	Slovenia	2	2	3	7
7	Spain	1	5	6	12
8=	Yugoslavia	1	0	1	2
8=	Turkey	1	0	1	2
10	Syria	1	0	0	1
11	Cyprus	0	2	2	4
12	Croatia	0	1	1	2
13	Malta	0	1	0	1
14	Tunisia	0	0	2	2
Total		43	43	43	129