Athletics at the 1951 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 1951 Mediterranean Games
Dates	6 – 10 October
Host city	Alexandria
Events	23
Participation	9 nations
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Athletics at the 1951 Mediterranean Games were held in Alexandria, Egypt.^[1]

Results

Main article: Athletics at the 1951 Mediterranean Games – Results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Stefanos Petrakis  Greece	10.9	Mauro Frizzoni  Italy	11.2	Wolfango Montanari  Italy	11.2
200 metres	Antonio Siddi  Italy	22.0	Jacques Degats  France	22.1	Wolfango Montanari  Italy	22.1
400 metres	Jacques Degats  France	47.8	Antonio Siddi  Italy	47.9	Zvonko Sabolović  Yugoslavia	48.6
800 metres	Patrick El Mabrouk  France	1:50.9	Michel Clare  France	1:54.2	Ekrem Koçak  Turkey	1:54.7
1500 metres	Patrick El Mabrouk  France	3:55.8	Cahit Önel  Turkey	3:56.9	Zdravko Ceraj  Yugoslavia	4:01.5
5000 metres	Alain Mimoun  France	14:38.3	Zdravko Ceraj  Yugoslavia	15:05.2	Stevan Pavlović  Yugoslavia	15:05.5
10,000 metres	Alain Mimoun  France	31:07.9	Franjo Mihalić  Yugoslavia	31:42.8	Mustafa Özcan  Turkey	34:27.5
Marathon	Ahmet Aytar  Turkey	3:07:25	Athanasios Ragazos  Greece	3:21:31	Mohamed Omran  Egypt	3:24:24
110 metres hurdles	Jean-François Brisson  France	15.5	Ioannis Kambadellis  Greece	15.8	Mustafa Batman  Turkey	15.8
400 metres hurdles	Armando Filiput  Italy	53.8	Doğan Acarbay  Turkey	55.1	Igor Zupančič  Yugoslavia	55.4
3000 m steeplechase	Božidar Đurašković  Yugoslavia	9:38.5	Petar Šegedin  Yugoslavia	9:39.2	Mustafa Özcan  Turkey	9:44.9
10 km walk	Pino Dordoni  Italy	51:39.6	Athanasios Aposporis  Greece	54:28.0	Wahib Saleh  Egypt	1:04:20.9
4 x 100 metres relay	Italy Wolfango Montanari Franco Leccese Antonio Siddi Mauro Frizzoni	42.4	Greece Vassilis Syllis Takis Ventikos Michail Tsolakis Stefanos Petrakis	43.5	Yugoslavia Marko Račič Zvonko Sabolović Boris Brandl Petar Pecelj	43.9
4 x 400 metres relay	France Jacques Degats Jean-Paul Martin du Gard Michel Clare Patrick El Mabrouk	3:19.5	Yugoslavia Igor Zupančič Andrija Otenhajmer Marko Račič Zvonko Sabolović	3:23.4	Turkey Cahit Önel Doğan Acarbay Ekrem Koçak Emin Doybak	3:25.9

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Georges Damitio  France	2.00 m	Papagallo Thiam  France	1.90 m	Mihajlo Dimitrijević  Yugoslavia	1.80 m
Pole vault	Victor Sillon  France	4.00 m	Rigas Efstathiadis  Greece	4.00 m	Theodosios Balafas  Greece	3.90 m
Long jump	Boris Brnad  Yugoslavia	7.28 m	Dimitrios Kipouros  Greece	6.96 m	Avni Akgün  Turkey	6.85 m
Triple jump	Akın Altıok  Turkey	14.15 m	Victor Sillon  France	14.13 m	Fawzi Chaaban  Egypt	14.09 m
Shot put	Konstantinos Giataganas  Greece	15.03 m	Angiolo Profeti  Italy	15.02 m	Nuri Turan  Turkey	14.71 m
Discus throw	Giuseppe Tosi  Italy	48.49 m	Nikolaos Syllas  Greece	46.07 m	Konstantinos Giataganas  Greece	43.18 m
Hammer throw	Teseo Taddia  Italy	52.33 m	Ivan Gubijan  Yugoslavia	51.20 m	Rudolf Galin  Yugoslavia	50.43 m
Javelin throw	Branko Dangubić  Yugoslavia	65.82 m	Halil Zıraman  Turkey	63.62 m	Vassilios Kallimatis  Greece	59.57 m
Decathlon	Fotis Kosmas  Greece	5135 pts	Lorenzo Vecchiutti  Italy	5001 pts	Rachad Khadr  Egypt	4798 pts

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Egypt)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	9	4	0	13
2	Italy	6	4	2	12
3	Greece	3	7	3	13
4	Yugoslavia	3	5	7	15
5	Turkey	2	3	7	12
6	Egypt*	0	0	4	4
Totals (6 entries)		23	23	23	69

References

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

External links

• Complete 1951 Mediterranean Games Standings.