Athletics at the 1979 Mediterranean Games – Results

These are the partial results of the athletics competition at the 1979 Mediterranean Games taking place between 23 and 28 September 1979 in Split, Yugoslavia.[1][2]

Men's results

100 meters

Heats – 23 September[3] Wind: Heat 1: +3.6 m/s, Heat 2: +0.5 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Pietro Mennea  Italy 10.15 Q, GR[4] 2 1 Gianfranco Lazzer  Italy 10.33 Q[5] 3 1 Philippe Lejoncour  France 10.52 Q 4 1 Omar Ghizlat  Morocco 10.53 Q 5 1 Dragan Zarić  Yugoslavia 10.59 Q 6 2 Stratos Kosmas  Greece 10.62 Q 7 2 Antoine Richard  France 10.64 Q 8 2 Aleksandar Popović  Yugoslavia 10.66 Q 9 1 José Javier Arqués  Spain 10.74 [6] 10 1 Nikos Hadjnicolaou  Greece 10.77 11 2 Nabil Nahry  Syria 10.82 12 2 Ángel Heras  Spain 10.93 [6] 13 1 Alan Zammit  Malta 11.18

Final – 24 September Wind: -0.6 m/s Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Pietro Mennea  Italy 10.24 4 Gianfranco Lazzer  Italy 10.47 2 Philippe Lejoncour  France 10.56 4 5 Antoine Richard  France 10.70 5 7 Omar Ghizlat  Morocco 10.73 6 8 Aleksandar Popović  Yugoslavia 10.74 7 1 Kosmas Stratos  Greece 10.79 8 6 Dragan Zarić  Yugoslavia 10.90

200 meters

Heats – 25 September[7] Wind: Heat 1: ? m/s, Heat 2: +1.7 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Bernard Petitbois  France 20.85 Q 2 1 Aleksandar Popović  Yugoslavia 21.04 Q 3 1 Omar Ghizlat  Morocco 21.25 Q 4 1 Georgios Tzouvaras  Greece 21.26 Q 1 2 Luciano Caravani  Italy 21.08 Q[5] 2 2 Nabil Nahry  Syria 21.64 Q 3 2 Ángel Heras  Spain 21.76 Q[6] 4 2 Theodoros Gatzios  Greece 22.82 Q

Final – 27 September Wind: +0.7 m/s Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 4 Luciano Caravani  Italy 20.74 3 Bernard Petitbois  France 21.02 7 Georgios Tzouvaras  Greece 21.14 4 1 Omar Ghizlat  Morocco 21.14 5 6 Aleksandar Popović  Yugoslavia 21.25 6 8 Nabil Nahry  Syria 21.52 7 5 Ángel Heras  Spain 21.63 2 Theodoros Gatzios  Greece DNS

400 meters

Heats – 23 September[3] Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Josip Alebić  Yugoslavia 46.68 Q[8] 2 1 Didier Dubois  France 46.81 Q 3 1 Roberto Tozzi  Italy 47.02 Q[5] 4 1 Nafe Mersaal  Egypt 47.09 Q 5 1 Benjamín González  Spain 47.29 [6] 6 2 Stefano Malinverni  Italy 50.19 Q[5] 7 2 Panagiotis Stefanopoulos  Greece 50.51 Q 8 2 Željko Knapić  Yugoslavia 50.57 Q 9 1 Darmanin  Morocco 52.25 10 2 Francis Demarthon  France 53.09 Q

Final – 25 September Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Francis Demarthon  France 45.89 Didier Dubois  France 46.11 Josip Alebić  Yugoslavia 46.24 4 Željko Knapić  Yugoslavia 46.42 5 Roberto Tozzi  Italy 46.80 6 Nafe Mersaal  Egypt 46.87 7 Stefano Malinverni  Italy 47.00 8 Panagiotis Stefanopoulos  Greece 47.59

800 meters

Heats – 23 September Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Sotirios Moutsanas  Greece 1:48.9 Q[8] 2 1 Sermet Timurlenk  Turkey 1:49.3 Q 3 1 Milovan Savić  Yugoslavia 1:49.6 Q 4 1 Roqui Sanchez  France 1:49.7 Q 5 1 Mehdi Aidet  Algeria 1:50.0 6 1 Adorno Corradini  Italy 1:50.38 [5] 1 2 Dragan Životić  Yugoslavia 1:51.60 Q[9] 2 2 Abderrahmane Morceli  Algeria 1:51.8 Q 3 2 Mohamed Alouini  Tunisia 1:52.1 Q 4 2 Colomán Trabado  Spain 1:52.17 Q[6] 5 2 Stavros Mermingis  Greece 1:52.3 [9]

Final – 25 September Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Dragan Životić  Yugoslavia 1:45.20 GR Abderrahmane Morceli  Algeria 1:46.38 Sotirios Moutsanas  Greece 1:46.66 4 Milovan Savić  Yugoslavia 1.46.8 5 Colomán Trabado  Spain 1:47.37 6 Sermet Timurlenk  Turkey 1:47.79 7 Mohamed Alouini  Tunisia 1:48.2 8 Roqui Sanchez  France 1:50.3

1500 meters

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	José Marajo	France	3:41.00	GR
	Dragan Zdravković	Yugoslavia	3:41.22
	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	3:41.40
4	Vittorio Fontanella	Italy	3:42.08
5	Christos Papachristos	Greece	3:42.3
6	Mehdi Aidet	Algeria	3:42.7
7	Boško Božinović	Yugoslavia	3:43.0
8	Sermet Timurlenk	Turkey	3:44.0
9	Alexandre Gonzalez	France	3:44.3	[10]
10	Fotios Kourtis	Greece	3:45.1
11	Fulvio Costa	Italy	3:50.41	[5]
12	Nabil Chouéry	Lebanon	3:50.9

5000 meters

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Luigi Zarcone	Italy	13:45.11
	Rachid Habchaoui	Algeria	13:47.24
	El Hachemi Abdenouz	Algeria	13:57.55
4	Saïd Aouita	Morocco	14:06.6
5	Piero Selvaggio	Italy	14:07.19
6	Stanko Lisec	Yugoslavia	14:10.6
7	Necdet Ayaz	Turkey	14:16.0
8	Vojko Arzenšek	Yugoslavia	14:23.6

10,000 meters

23 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Abdelmadjid Mada	Algeria	28:33.08
	Luigi Zarcone	Italy	28:39.06
	Rachid Habchaoui	Algeria	28:59.72
4	Dušan Janićijević	Yugoslavia	29:17.3
5	Jean-Paul Gomez	France	29:38.7
6	Slavko Kuzmanović	Yugoslavia	29:55.4
7	Spyridon Nakos	Greece	29:56.6
	Necdet Ayaz	Turkey	DNF

Marathon

28 September
The results are unofficial as the distance was 41.3 km, thus shorter than the required 42.195 kilometres.[11]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Michael Koussis	Greece	2:06:53*
	Marco Marchei	Italy	2:07:15*
	Mehmet Terzi	Turkey	2:10:11*
4	Numan Ukić	Yugoslavia	2:11:18*
5	Orlando Pizzolato	Italy	2:12:33*
6	Anastasios Psathas	Greece	2:13:56*
7	Abel Perau	Spain	2:14:15*
8	Pero Budija	Yugoslavia	2:14:15*
9	Veli Balli	Turkey	2:14:50*
10	Mahni Houcin	Tunisia	?:??:??*
	Guy Connan	France	DNF	[10]
	Fernand Kolbeck	France	DNF	[10]
	Abdelmajid Mada	Algeria	DNF

110 meters hurdles

28 September
Wind: -1.2 m/s[12]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Borisav Pisić	Yugoslavia	13.85
	Giuseppe Buttari	Italy	13.88
	Javier Moracho	Spain	13.92
4	Emile Raybois	France	14.05
5	Petros Evripidou	Greece	14.09
6	Petar Vukićević	Yugoslavia	14.14
7	Carlos Sala	Spain	14.33
8	Ilhan Agibas	Turkey	15.05

400 meters hurdles

24 September

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Rok Kopitar	Yugoslavia	49.70	GR
	6	Claude Anicet	France	50.85
	1	Fulvio Zorn	Italy	50.90
4	5	Giorgio Ballati	Italy	51.18
5	3	Georgios Rambotas	Greece	51.40
6	8	Antonio Rivero	Spain	51.41
7	7	Janez Penka	Yugoslavia	52.98

3000 meters steeplechase

27 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mariano Scartezzini	Italy	8:24.19
	Domingo Ramón	Spain	8:25.75
	Philippe Gauthier	France	8:27.26
4	Bilko Kačar	Yugoslavia	8:32.59
5	Nikolaos Chalatsis	Greece	8:33.97
6	Lahcene Babaci	Algeria	8:39.9
7	Michele Cinà	Italy	8:40.6
8	Petar Svet	Yugoslavia	8:55.9
9	Abderrazak Bounour	Algeria	8:59.9

4 × 100 meters relay

28 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Italy	Gianfranco Lazzer, Luciano Caravani, Giovanni Grazioli, Pietro Mennea	39.27	GR
	France	Philippe Lejoncour, Antoine Richard, Lucien Sainte-Rose, Bernard Petitbois	39.98
	Yugoslavia	Janez Sagadin, Dragan Zarić, Aleksandar Popović, Borisav Pisić	40.53
4	Greece		41.12
5	Spain	Javier Moracho, Carlos Sala, José Javier Arqués, Ángel Heras	41.33	[6]

4 × 400 meters relay

28 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	France	Jacques Fellice, Robert Froissart, Didier Dubois, Francis Demarthon	3:03.67	GR
	Yugoslavia	Željko Knapić, Dragan Životić, Rok Kopitar, Josip Alebić	3:04.33
	Italy	Alfonso Di Guida, Flavio Borghi, Stefano Malinverni, Roberto Tozzi	3:04.61
4	Spain	Antonio Rivero, Ángel Heras, Benjamín González, Colomán Trabado	3:11.2	[6]

20 kilometers walk

24 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Gérard Lelièvre	France	1:23:51	GR
	José Marín	Spain	1:24:18
	Carlo Mattioli	Italy	1:24:56
4	Giorgio Damilano	Italy	1:25:31
5	Jorge Llopart	Spain	1:28:59
6	Dominique Guebey	France	1:30:09
7	Vinko Galušić	Yugoslavia	1:34:56
8	Lazo Pejčić	Yugoslavia	1:37:05

High jump

28 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Massimo Di Giorgio	Italy	2.26	GR
	Oscar Raise	Italy	2.26
	Danial Temim	Yugoslavia	2.20
4	Francis Agbo	France	2.20
5	Dimitrios Patronis	Greece	2.17
6	Frank Bonnet	France	2.17
7	Abdelhamid Sahil	Algeria	2.17
8	Ekrem Özdamar	Turkey	2.14
9	Vaso Komnenić	Yugoslavia	2.14

Pole vault

27 September[13]

Rank	Name	Nationality	4.80	5.00	5.10	5.20	5.30	5.45	5.50	Result	Notes
	Philippe Houvion	France					o	xxx		5.30	GR
	Jean-Michel Bellot	France	–	–	xxo	–	xxo	–	xxx	5.30
	Roger Oriol	Spain	o	o	o	xxx				5.10	[6]
4	Dimitrios Kyteas	Greece								5.00
5	Vincenzo Bellone	Italy								4.80
	Miran Bizjak	Yugoslavia								NM
	Želimir Šarcevic	Yugoslavia								NM

Long jump

27 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Nenad Stekić	Yugoslavia	8.09	8.01	8.04	7.89	8.21	8.10	8.21	GR[13]
	Philippe Deroche	France	7.63	8.04	7.68	7.77	x	x	8.04	[13]
	Miljenko Rak	Yugoslavia							7.62
4	Gilbert Zante	France							7.59
5	Carlo Arrighi	Italy							7.51
6	Evangelos Tsoulias	Greece							7.29
7	Temel Erbek	Turkey							7.10

Triple jump

27 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Bernard Lamitié	France							16.90	GR
	Miloš Srejović	Yugoslavia							16.55
	Milan Spasojević	Yugoslavia							16.55
4	Christian Valétudie	France							16.50
5	Roberto Mazzucato	Italy							16.37
6	José Luis Rodríguez	Spain	x	15.77	15.44	16.18	16.16	16.35	16.35	[6]
7	Temel Erbek	Turkey							15.65
8	Paolo Piapan	Italy							15.44

Shot put

24 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Vladimir Milić	Yugoslavia	20.58	GR
	Nagui Yusuf Assad	Egypt	19.70
	Ivan Ivančić	Yugoslavia	19.13
4	Luc Viudès	France	18.93
5	Angelo Groppelli	Italy	18.46
6	Luigi De Santis	Italy	17.91
7	Ali Fayez Emad	Egypt	17.20
8	Mohmed Fahiti	Morocco	15.00

Discus throw

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Armando De Vincentiis	Italy	57.96
	Hassan Ahmed Hamad	Egypt	56.06
	Silvano Simeon	Italy	55.06
4	Abderrazak Benhassine	Tunisia	54.84
5	Dimitar Marčeta	Yugoslavia	53.38
6	Vladimir Milić	Yugoslavia	52.90
7	Mohmed Fahiti	Morocco	46.12

Hammer throw

25 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Giampaolo Urlando	Italy	69.92	GR
	Edoardo Podberscek	Italy	69.42
	Srećko Štiglić	Yugoslavia	68.56
4	Vassilios Magganas	Greece	63.56
5	Dražen Goijć	Yugoslavia	61.94

Javelin throw

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Penisio Lutui	France	81.08	GR
	Tarek Chaabani	Tunisia	78.42
	Neđo Đurović	Yugoslavia	76.72
4	Ioannis Peristeris	Greece	74.44
5	Miran Globevnik	Yugoslavia	65.52
	Vincenzo Marchetti	Italy	DNS

Decathlon

24–25 September[14]

  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
	Eric Motti	France	11.35	7.30	14.17	2.09	49.85	15.46	41.32	4.15	63.30	4:44.2	7744	GR
	Darko Cujnik	Yugoslavia	11.30	6.90	13.39	1.86	49.50	16.08	41.58	3.70	64.06	4:33.7	7345
	Joško Vlašić	Yugoslavia	11.56	7.30	13.44	1.97	51.30	15.36	41.60	3.30	57.30	4:24.3	7327
4	Hubert Indra	Italy	11.72	6.64	13.52	1.89	52.31	15.76	39.60	4.30	57.62	4:40.2	7135
5	Elie Sfeir	Lebanon	11.81	6.55	12.92	1.86	53.17	16.60	34.22	3.40	55.18	4:39.00	6548
6	Stefanos Simeonidis	Greece	11.52	7.19	11.07	1.89	52.64	17.32	33.82	4.00	44.34	4:54.8	6522
	Konstantinos Kostis	Greece	11.29	7.26	13.56	2.01	53.03	15.34	39.84	?	DNS	–	DNF

Women's results

100 meters

Heats – 24 September Wind: Heat 1: +0.6 m/s, Heat 2: ? m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Chantal Réga  France 11.79 Q 1 1 Marisa Masullo  Italy 11.80 Q[5] 2 2 Laura Miano  Italy 11.92 Q[5] 4 1 Dolores Vives  Spain 12.22 q[6]

Final – 24 September Wind: -1.0 m/s Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Chantal Réga  France 11.48 GR Marisa Masullo  Italy 11.66 Laura Miano  Italy 11.67 4 Annie Alizé  France 11.71 5 Dejana Sokač  Yugoslavia 11.97 6 Nawal El Moutawakel  Morocco 12.13 7 Dolores Vives  Spain 12.23 8 Verica Petrović  Yugoslavia 12.26

200 meters

27 September
Wind:
+1.2 m/s

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2	Marisa Masullo	Italy	23.26
	4	Annie Alizé	France	23.37
	1	Claudine Mas	France	24.03
4	3	Verica Petrović	Yugoslavia	24.64
5	8	Nawal El Moutawakel	Morocco	24.64
6	7	Dolores Vives	Spain	24.97
	6	Dejana Sokač	Yugoslavia	DNF

400 meters

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jelica Pavličić	Yugoslavia	52.96
	Ana Guštin	Yugoslavia	54.57
	Georgia Troumbouki	Greece	54.93
4	Sarra Touibi	Tunisia	56.75

800 meters

25 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	2:01.78	GR
	Agnese Possamai	Italy	2:03.73
	Nađa Avdibašić	Yugoslavia	2:04.03
4	Rosa Ochandiano	Spain	2:07.2
5	Zora Tomecić	Yugoslavia	2:08.6
6	Hassania Darami	Morocco	2:09.4
7	Neşe Çetin	Turkey	2:11.7

1500 meters

28 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Margherita Gargano	Italy	4:06.71	GR
	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:07.07
	Sakina Boutamine	Algeria	4:10.60
4	Mercedes Calleja	Spain	4:15.4
5	Véronique Renties	France	4:16.5
6	Breda Pergar	Yugoslavia	4:16.8
7	Rosa Ochandiamo	Spain	4:17.5
8	Hassania Darami	Morocco	4:18.3

100 meters hurdles

Wind: -3.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Laurence Elloy	France	13.87
	Elizavet Pantazi	Greece	14.33
	Patrizia Lombardo	Italy	14.65
4	Margita Papić	Yugoslavia	14.73
5	Irina Pagdati	Greece	14.81
6	Breda Lorenci	Yugoslavia	14.97

4 × 100 meters relay

28 September

Rank	Lane	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	3	France	Annie Alizé, Emma Sulter, Claudine Mas, Chantal Réga	44.58	GR
	1	Italy	Irma Galli, Patrizia Lombardo, Marisa Masullo, Laura Miano	45.32
	2	Greece	Irini Pagdati, Alexandra Siulis, Elisavet Pantazi, Maroula Lambrou	46.17
4	4	Yugoslavia		46.23

4 × 400 meters relay

28 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	Yugoslavia	Jelica Pavličić, Nađa Avdibašić, Elizabeta Božinovska, Ana Guštin	3:38.91
	France	Annie Alizé, Florence Picaut, Véronique Renties, Claudine Mas	3:56.84

High jump

25 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	1.60	1.70	1.75	1.81	1.84	1.90	1.95	1.98	2.02	Result	Notes
	Sara Simeoni	Italy	–	–	–	–	o	o	o	xo	xxx	1.98	GR[15]
	Donatella Bulfoni	Italy										1.81
	Lidija Benedetič	Yugoslavia										1.75
4	Biljana Bojović	Yugoslavia										1.75
5	Panteli Panagiotou	Greece										1.70
6	Kaouther Akremi	Tunisia										1.70
7	Afitap Sahin	Turkey										1.60

Long jump

24 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Maroula Lambrou	Greece							6.32	GR
	Snežana Dančetović	Yugoslavia							6.20
	Amanda Naval	Spain	5.85	5.77	x	6.06	5.74	6.03	6.06	[6]
4	Marcella Iacovelli	Italy							6.04
5	Barbara Norello	Italy							5.89
6	Kaouther Akremi	Tunisia							5.72
7	Luciana Vinazza	Yugoslavia							5.69

Shot put

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Léone Bertimon	France	16.80	GR
	Soultana Saroudi	Greece	16.69
	Cinzia Petrucci	Italy	16.17
4	Mirjana Tufegdžić	Yugoslavia	15.34
5	Marta Gozo	Yugoslavia	15.07

Discus throw

23 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Renata Scaglia	Italy	44.56	49.06	52.92	x	51.12	51.46	52.92	GR[9]
	Fethia Jerbi	Tunisia							49.24
	Kosa Stojković	Yugoslavia							48.82
4	Zoubida Laayouni	Morocco							45.88
5	Encarnación Gambus	Spain	40.34	43.26	43.04	x	x	41.36	43.26	[6]
6	Soultana Saroudi	Greece							42.54
7	Nevenka Mrinjek	Yugoslavia							42.34

Javelin throw

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Sofia Sakorafa	Greece	57.96	GR
	Fausta Quintavalla	Italy	57.06
	Borbala Menjhart	Yugoslavia	54.50
4	Giuliana Amici	Italy	52.00
5	Anna Verouli	Greece	50.92
6	Aljana Kovač	Yugoslavia	45.62

Pentathlon

[16]

  The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	100m H	SP	HJ	LJ	800m	Points	Notes
	Florence Picaut	France	13.69	13.13	1.78	6.10	2:20.0	4424	[17]
	Breda Lorenci	Yugoslavia	14.39	13.68	1.72	5.58	2:21.1	4180
	Barbara Bachlechner	Italy	14.44	10.54	1.72	5.91	2:26.0	3994
4	Lidija Benedetič	Yugoslavia	15.10	9.50	1.80	5.75	2:28.6	3862
5	Ana Pérez	Spain	15.14	8.38	1.74	5.76	2:17.8	3852	NR[6]

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12. 110 m hurdles year list
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14. Decathlon results (p27)
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