Swimming at the 1959 Mediterranean Games

Swimming at the 1959 Mediterranean Games
Location	Beirut, Lebanon
Dates	11–23 October 1959

The swimming competition at the 1959 Mediterranean Games was held in Beirut, Lebanon.

Medallists

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Paolo Pucci  Italy	57.2	Janez Kocmur  Yugoslavia	58.2	Giorgio Perondini  Italy	58.4
400 m freestyle	Vlado Brinovec  Yugoslavia	4:44.5	Milan Jeger  Yugoslavia	4:44.9	Guy Montserret  France	4:47.8
1500 m freestyle	Guy Montserret  France	19:05.4	Vlado Brinovec  Yugoslavia	19:48.6	Zein Yahia Ahmed  United Arab Republic	20:03.6
100 m backstroke	Robert Christophe  France	1:04.8	Mihovil Dorčić  Yugoslavia	1:06.4	Christian Schollmeier  Italy	1:08.1
200 m breaststroke	Roberto Lazzari  Italy	2:48.7	Guillermo Alsina  Spain	2:51.8	Zakaropoulos  Greece	2:55.6
200 m butterfly	Federico Dennerlein  Italy	2:26.7	René Pirolley  France	2:30.3	José Vicente León  Spain	2:36.1
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Italy	8:50.6	Yugoslavia	9:00.7	France	9:09.7
4 × 100 m medley relay	Italy	4:27.1	France	4:31.0	Yugoslavia	4:35.7

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	5	0	2	7
2	France	2	2	2	6
3	Yugoslavia	1	5	1	7
4	Spain	0	1	1	2
5	Greece	0	0	1	1
	United Arab Republic	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		8	8	8	24

References

• Complete 1959 Mediterranean Games report released by the International Mediterranean Games Committee