Athletics at the 2001 Mediterranean Games

At the 2001 Mediterranean Games, the athletics events were held in Tunis and Radès in Tunisia from 11 to 14 September 2001.^[1] Italy topped the medal table with 9 gold medals and 30 medals in total, shortly followed by France which also had 9 golds but 23 medals overall. Greece had the next greatest medal haul and the hosts Tunisia won 9 medals, two of which were gold. A total of 10 new Games records were set during the competition.

A total of 46 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 23 by female athletes. This was the first time that the male and female event programmes had reached parity as a number of new events were introduced for women, including: 3000 metres steeplechase, pole vault and hammer throw. Two women's events were modified: the javelin model was changed and the 10 km racewalk was extended to a 20 kilometres racewalk. This was also the final time that marathon races were held at the Mediterranean Games as they were replaced by the half marathon from 2005 onwards.

Records

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Men's events
Manuel Martínez	Shot put	Spain	21.03 m	GR
Diego Fortuna	Discus throw	Italy	64.40 m	GR
Nicola Vizzoni	Hammer throw	Italy	78.49 m	GR
Women's events
Asmae Leghzaoui	10,000 metres	Morocco	31:16.94	GR
Élodie Olivarès	3000 metres steeplechase†	France	9:44.68	GR
Patricia Girard	100 metres hurdles	France	12.82	GR
Dana Cervantes	Pole vault†	Spain	4.10	GR
Florence Ezeh	Hammer throw†	France	64.59	GR
Claudia Coslovich	Javelin throw†	Italy	62.02	GR
Erica Alfridi	20 kilometres race walk†	Italy	1:36:47	GR
Key:0000 WR — World record  • AR — Area record  • GR — Games record  • NR — National record

• † = New event or model

Medal summary

For full event details see Athletics at the 2001 Mediterranean Games – Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres Wind: 2.5 m/s	Aristotelis Gavelas (GRE)	10.14w	Maurizio Checcucci (ITA)	10.15w	Anninos Marcoullides (CYP)	10.21w
200 metres	Anninos Marcoullides (CYP)	20.60	Andrea Colombo (ITA)	20.60	Panagiotis Sarris (GRE)	20.72
400 metres	Malik Louahla (ALG)	45.56	Sofiane Labidi (TUN)	46.33	Amin Badany Goma'a (EGY)	46.87
800 metres	Adem Hecini (ALG)	1:49.21	Khalid Tighazouine (MAR)	1:49.42	Franck Barré (FRA)	1:49.48
1500 metres	Abdelkader Hachlaf (MAR)	3:46.45	Mohamed Khaldi (ALG)	3:47.55	Fouad Chouki (FRA)	3:47.97
5000 metres	Mohamed Khaldi (ALG)	14:06.30	Mohammed Amyn (MAR)	14:06.73	Ricardo Fernández (ESP)	14:07.20
10,000 metres	Jaouad Gharib (MAR)	28:58.97	Kamal Kohil (ALG)	29:00.47	Ahmed Baday (MAR)	29:13.36
Marathon	Sergio Chiesa (ITA)	2:21:07	Mustapha Damaoui (MAR)	2:22:25	Ali Mohamed Zaïdi (LBA)	2:22:56
110 metres hurdles	Vincent Clarico (FRA)	13.62	Devis Favaro (ITA)	13.89	Nenad Lončar (YUG)	13.90
400 metres hurdles	Periklis Iakovakis (GRE)	50.21	Darko Juričić (CRO)	50.35	Laurent Ottoz (ITA)	50.75
3000 metres steeplechase	Antonio Jiménez (ESP)	8:31.31	José Luis Blanco (ESP)	8:34.94	Laïd Bessou (ALG)	8:35.32
4×100 metres relay	Italy (ITA) Maurizio Checcucci Marco Torrieri Francesco Scuderi Andrea Colombo	39.14	France (FRA) Yannick Urbino Thierry Lubin Alex Menal Needdy Guims	39.73	Spain (ESP) Cecilio Maestra Pedro Pablo Nolet Carlos Meléndez Carlos Berlanga	40.00
4×400 metres relay	Greece (GRE) Stylianos Dimotsios Ioannis Lessis Georgios Ikonomidis Georgios Doupis	3:07.28	Algeria (ALG) Malik Louhala Djamel Belaid Nabil Salmi Adem Hecini	3:07.50	France (FRA) Laurent Claudel Marc Foucan Philippe Bouche Bruno Wavelet	3:07.87
20 km walk	Hatem Ghoula (TUN)	1:26:43	José Alejandro Cambil (ESP)	1:28:43	Alessandro Gandellini (ITA)	1:29:18
High jump	Abderrahmane Hammad (ALG)	2.25 m	Giulio Ciotti (ITA)	2.19 m	Elvir Krehmic (BIH)	2.19 m
Pole vault	Andrea Giannini (ITA)	5.45 m	Giuseppe Gibilisco (ITA)	5.40 m	Khalid Lachheb (FRA)	5.40 m
Long jump	Siniša Ergotić (CRO)	8.08 m	Younès Moudrik (MAR)	8.07 m (w)	Nicola Trentin (ITA)	7.93 m (w)
Triple jump	Fabrizio Donato (ITA)	17.05 m	Sébastien Pincemail (FRA)	16.58 m (w)	Raúl Chapado (ESP)	16.41 m (w)
Shot put	Manuel Martínez (ESP)	21.03 m GR	Paolo Dal Soglio (ITA)	20.60 m	Vaios Tigas (GRE)	19.42 m
Discus throw	Diego Fortuna (ITA)	64.40 m GR	David Martínez (ESP)	63.85 m	Mario Pestano (ESP)	63.71 m
Hammer throw	Nicola Vizzoni (ITA)	78.49 m GR	Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE)	76.98 m	Raphaël Piolanti (FRA)	71.52 m
Javelin throw	Laurent Dorique (FRA)	80.88 m	Eleutherios Karasmanakis (GRE)	77.58 m	Edi Ponoš (CRO)	76.12 m
Decathlon	Prodromos Korkizoglou (GRE)	7773 pts	Hamdi Dhouibi (TUN)	7530 pts	Paolo Casarsa (ITA)	7522 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Nora Güner (TUR)	11.25	Manuela Levorato (ITA)	11.25	Effrosini Patsou (GRE)	11.45
200 metres Wind: 2.6 m/s	Nora Güner (TUR)	22.86 w	Fabé Dia (FRA)	23.18 w	Anita Mormand (FRA)	23.50 w
400 metres	Marie-Louise Bévis (FRA)	52.90	Francine Landre (FRA)	52.96	Awatef Ben Hassine (TUN)	53.77
800 metres	Seltana Aït Hammou (MAR)	2:04.28	Brigita Langerholc (SLO)	2:04.91	Abir Nakhli (TUN)	2:04.98
1500 metres	Fatma Lanouar (TUN)	4:10.33	Süreyya Ayhan (TUR)	4:10.69	Ebru Kavaklioglu (TUR)	4:12.03
5000 metres	Ebru Kavaklioglu (TUR)	15:26.33	Asmae Leghzaoui (MAR)	15:29.35	Olivera Jevtić (YUG)	15:40.61
10,000 metres	Asmae Leghzaoui (MAR)	31:16.94 GR	Olivera Jevtić (YUG)	31:33.08	Elvan Abeylegesse (TUR)	32:29.20
Marathon	Mehtap Sizmaz (TUR)	2:40:49	Serap Aktaş (TUR)	2:43:18	Sonia Agoun (TUN)	2:46:03
100 metres hurdles	Patricia Girard (FRA)	12.82 GR	Haydy Aron (FRA)	13.04	Margaret Macchiut (ITA)	13.31
400 metres hurdles	Sylvanie Morandais (FRA)	57.02	Monika Niederstätter (ITA)	57.22	Meta Macus (SLO)	57.51
3000 metres steeplechase	Élodie Olivarès (FRA)	9:44.68 GR	Laurence Duquénoy (FRA)	10:05.90	Hana Chaouach (TUN)	10:18.31
4×100 metres relay	France (FRA) Haydy Aron Céline Thelamon Fabé Dia Sylvie Mballa Éloundou	44.40	Italy (ITA) Anita Pistone Francesca Cola Manuela Grillo Danielle Perpoli	44.89	Greece (GRE) Athina Kopsia Effrosyni Patsou Olga Kaidantzi Giannoula Kafetzi	44.97
4×400 metres relay	France (FRA) Anita Mormand Viviane Dorsile Marie-Louise Bévis Francine Landre	3:34.28	Italy (ITA) Daniela Reina Fabiola Piroddi Francesca Carbone Danielle Perpoli	3:38.90	Greece (GRE) Georgia Koumnaki Hristina Hantzi-Neag Paraskevi Tsapara Chrysoula Goudenoudi	3:42.22
20 km walk	Erica Alfridi (ITA)	1:36:47 GR	Elisabetta Perrone (ITA)	1:36:47	Rocío Florido (ESP)	1:37:14
High jump	Blanka Vlašić (CRO)	1.90 m	Nevena Lendjel (CRO)	1.87 m	Anna Visigalli (ITA)	1.87 m
Pole vault	Dana Cervantes (ESP)	4.10 m GR	Thaleia Iakovidou (GRE)	4.00 m	Marie Poissonnier (FRA)	3.90 m
Long jump	Concepción Montaner (ESP)	6.48 m	Stella Pilatou (GRE)	6.41 m	Silvia Favre (ITA)	6.14 m
Triple jump	Baya Rahouli (ALG)	14.30 m (w)	Marija Martinović (YUG)	13.97 m (w)	Carlota Castrejana (ESP)	13.72 m (w)
Shot put	Assunta Legnante (ITA)	17.23 m	Irini Terzoglou (GRE)	16.97 m	Martina de la Puente (ESP)	16.55 m
Discus throw	Areti Abatzi (GRE)	61.42 m	Agnese Maffeis (ITA)	57.38 m	Monia Kari (TUN)	56.44 m
Hammer throw	Florence Ezeh (FRA)	64.59 m GR	Ester Balassini (ITA)	64.13 m	Alexandra Papageorgiou (GRE)	62.87 m
Javelin throw	Claudia Coslovich (ITA)	62.02 m GR	Angeliki Tsiolakoudi (GRE)	58.16 m	Marta Míguez (ESP)	55.19 m
Heptathlon	Anzhela Atroshchenko (TUR)	5833 pts	Gertrud Bacher (ITA)	5764 pts	Julie Mézerette (FRA)	5670 pts

Medal table

Key

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	9	14	7	30
2	France	9	6	8	23
3	Greece	5	6	6	17
4	Algeria	5	3	1	9
5	Turkey	5	2	2	9
6	Morocco	4	5	1	10
7	Spain	4	3	8	15
8	Tunisia	2	2	5	9
9	Croatia	2	2	1	5
10	Cyprus	1	0	1	2
11	Yugoslavia	0	2	2	4
12	Slovenia	0	1	1	2
13=	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
13=	Egypt	0	0	1	1
13=	Libya	0	0	1	1
Total		46	46	46	138

Participation

References

Results

• Mediterranean Games – Past Medallists. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-04-01.
• Day 1 results (archived)
• Day 2 results (archived)
• Day 3 results (archived)
• Day 4 results (archived)

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