At the 1997 Mediterranean Games, the athletics events were held at the Stadio San Nicola in Bari, Italy from 15–19 June 1997.Results Eventi: Giochi del Mediterraneo 97 – Archivio Giugno 1997 . RAI Sport. Retrieved on 2011-01-15. 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 table

Medal summary Men 100 metres 10.13 GR 10.23 10.28200 metres 20.44 GR 20.53 20.55400 metres 45.58 45.74 46.07800 metres 1:47.10 1:47.54 1:47.761500 metres 3:44.77 3:45.17 3:45.405000 metres 13:25.29 GR 13:28.95 13:53.9810,000 metres 28:05.74 GR 28:19.85 28:24.19110 metres hurdles 13.61 13.71 13.72400 metres hurdles 49.25 49.27 49.433000 metres steeplechase 8:18.80 GR 8:20.30 8:23.434×100 metres relay Nicola AsumiGiovanni PuggioniAngelo CipolloniSandro Floris38.61 GR Frutos FeoVenancio JoséJordi MayoralFrancisco Javier Navarro38.85 Georgios SkenderAnninos MarcoullidesProdromos KatsantonisYiannis Zisimides39.124×400 metres relay Samir-Adel LouahlaKamel TalhaouiAhmed AichaouiMalik Louahla3:02.78 GR Pierre-Marie HilaireRodrigue NordinJimmy CocoFred Mango3:02.84 Michele GrandoFabrizio MoriWalter GroffAshraf Saber3:03.08 Marathon 2:20:40 2:21:08 2:21:3220 km walk 1:24:59 1:25:21 1:25:36 High jump 2.28 m GR= 2.26 mNot awarded Pole vault 5.70 m GR 5.50 m 5.50 m Long jump 8.00 m 7.95 m 7.92 m Triple jump 16.63 m 16.50 m 16.18 m Shot put 19.54 m 19.19 m 19.00 m Discus throw 61.66 m 59.90 m 59.20 m Hammer throw 78.44 m GR 77.20 m 76.32 m Javelin throw 89.22 m GR 77.88 m 77.10 m Decathlon 8070 pts GR 7991 pts 7932 pts

Women 100 metres 11.13 GR 11.22 11.27200 metres 22.62 GR 22.80 22.95400 metres 51.31 GR 52.02 52.57800 metres 2:03.70 2:03.71 2:04.241500 metres 4:11.27 4:11.60 4:11.635000 metres 15:00.69 GR 15:04.48 15:30.1910,000 metres 32:34.87 GR 32:41.79 32:43.42100 metres hurdles 12.90 13.01 13.30400 metres hurdles 55.01 GR 55.89 56.764×100 metres relay Frédérique BanguéChristine ArronPatricia GirardSylviane Félix42.63 GR Maria TsoniEkaterini KoffaMarina VasarmidouEkaterini Thanou43.07 Stefania FerranteAnnarita LucianoGiada GallinaManuela Levorato44.154×400 metres relay Carla BarbarinoFrancesca ColaPatrizia SpuriFrancesca Carbone3:29.98 GR Marie-Louise BévisSophie DomenechMarie-Line ScholentElsa Devassoigne3:30.62 Miriam AlonsoEsther LahozMiriam BravoYolanda Reyes3:31.93 Marathon 2:39:22 2:43:53 2:46:5610 km walk 44:40 GR 45:35 46:07 High jump 1.95 m 1.93 m 1.91 m Long jump 6.72 m GR 6.49 m 6.47 m Triple jump 14.13 m GR 13.81 m 13.80 m Shot put 17.82 m 17.70 m 17.42 m Discus throw 66.18 m GR 61.96 m 61.28 m Javelin throw(Old javelin model) 57.32 m 57.16 m 56.70 m Heptathlon 6161 pts 5859 pts 5839 pts

Participation

Men's results 100 meters Heats – 16 JuneWind: Heat 1: +0.5 m/s, Heat 2: +1.0 m/s, Heat 3: +0.6 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Stéphane Cali 10.27 Q 1 2 Angelos Pavlakakis 10.30 Q 1 3 Anninos Marcoullides 10.36 Q 2 1 Nicola Asuni 10.40 Q 2 3 Frutos Feo 10.40 Q 3 1 Venancio José 10.48 q 3 3 Andrea Colombo 10.55 ? ? Sokol Shepeteja 10.72 Final – 16 JuneWind: +0.4 m/s Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Angelos Pavlakakis 10.13 GR, NR 6 Anninos Marcoullides 10.23 4 Stéphane Cali 10.28 4 2 Georgios Skender 10.41 5 3 Nicola Asuni 10.43 6 7 Venancio José 10.45 7 8 Frutos Feo 10.48 8 1 Pascal Théophile 10.52

200 meters

Heats – 17 JuneWind: Heat 1: -0.7 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Georgios Panagiotopoulos 20.77 Q 1 2 Giovanni Puggioni 20.85 Q 2 1 Carlo Occhiena 20.93 Q 4 1 Jordi Mayoral 21.11 q 5 2 Francisco Navarro 21.19 Final – 17 JuneWind: +1.3 m/s Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Giovanni Puggioni 20.44 GR 3 Georgios Panagiotopoulos 20.53 7 Prodromos Katsantonis 20.55 4 4 Alexandros Terzian 20.67 5 1 Christophe Cheval 20.87 6 8 Jordi Mayoral 20.88 7 2 Anninos Marcoullides 20.94 6 Carlo Occhiena

400 meters Heats – 16 June Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Jean-Louis Rapnouil 45.64 Q 2 3 Samir-Adel Louahla 46.05 Q 1 2 Fred Mango 46.44 Q 1 1 Marco Vaccari 46.47 Q 2 1 Antonio Andrés 46.80 Q 2 2 Kamel Talhaoui 46.84 Q 4 3 Michele Grando 47.04 4 2 César Martínez 47.22 4 1 Matija Šestak 47.33 5 1 Ercan Sunu 47.39 Final – 17 June Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 3 Jean-Louis Rapnouil 45.58 4 Marco Vaccari 45.74 5 Samir-Adel Louahla 46.07 4 6 Fred Mango 46.69 5 1 Panagiotis Sarris 46.80 6 8 Slobodan Branković 46.82 7 7 Kamel Talhaoui 46.95 8 2 Antonio Andrés 46.97

800 meters Heats – 16 June Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Benyounés Lahlou 1:46.27 Q 2 2 Andrea Longo 1:46.56 Q 3 2 Panagiotis Stroumbakos 1:46.81 Q 1 1 Giuseppe D'Urso 1:48.80 Q ? ? Djabir Saïd-Guerni 1:47.33 5 2 José Antonio Redolat 1:47.42 q 6 2 Dalibor Balgač 1:47.46 3 1 Pedro Antonio Esteso 1:49.05 Q 4 1 Mahmoud Al-Kheirat 1:49.18 Final – 17 June Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Giuseppe D'Urso 1:47.10 Andrea Longo 1:47.54 Djabir Saïd-Guerni 1:47.76 4 Benyounés Lahlou 1:47.83 5 Adem Hecini 1:48.24 6 Panagiotis Stroumbakos 1:48.31 7 José Antonio Redolat 1:48.49 8 Pedro Antonio Esteso 1:48.62

1500 meters 18 June Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Driss Maazouzi 3:44.77 Branko Zorko 3:45.17 Reyes Estévez 3:45.40 4 Carlos García 3:45.96 5 Abdelhak Abdellah 3:45.99 6 Ali Hakimi 3:46.11 7 Mickaël Damian 3:46.16 8 Massimo Pegoretti 3:46.67 Andrea Giocondi

5000 meters 16 June Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Alberto García 13:25.29 GR El Hassan Lahssini 13:28.95 Saïd Berioui 13:53.98 Dragoslav Prpa 14:00.89 Mehdi Khelifi 14:00.96 Ali Mabruk Ezzayedi 14:03.76 Zeki Öztürk 14:04.01 Mahieddine Belhadj 14:04.06 Marco Antonio Rufo 14:07.51 Umberto Pusterla

10,000 meters 18 June Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Ismaïl Sghyr 28:05.74 GR Abderrahim Zitouna 28:19.85 Kamel Kohil 28:24.19 4 Rachid Berradi 28:33.31 5 Simone Zanon 29:47.34 6 Fatih Çintimar 30:30.86 Zeki Öztürk Spyridon Andriopoulos

Marathon 15 June Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Azzedine Sakhri 2:20:40 Giovanni Ruggiero 2:21:08 Mustapha Damaoui 2:21:32 4 Cihangir Demirel 2:23:04 5 Haydar Doğan 2:27:30 6 Nikolaos Polias 2:30:56 7 Adel Mohamed Adili 2:34.02 Sid-Ali Sakhri Roman Kejžar Massimiliano Ingrami

110 meters hurdles Heats – 17 JuneWind: Heat 1: -0.9 m/s, Heat 2: -0.6 m/s Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Vincent Clarico 13.74 Q 1 1 Emiliano Pizzoli 13.88 Q 2 2 Mauro Re 13.97 Q ? Sébastien Thibault Final – 17 JuneWind: +0.7 m/s Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 6 Vincent Clarico 13.61 4 Mauro Re 13.71 5 Emiliano Pizzoli 13.72 4 1 Mohamed Boukrouna 14.15 5 7 Mohamed Abdel Aal 14.31 6 8 Zoran Miljuš 14.45 7 2 Besnik Bala 15.75

400 meters hurdles Heats – 17 June Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Laurent Ottoz 49.67 Q ? ? Miro Kocuvan 49.97 Q 1 2 Zeid Abou Hamed 50.17 Q ? ? Siniša Peša 50.28 ? ? Pascal Maran 50.65 4 2 Óscar Pitillas 50.68 q Final – 17 June Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 5 Zeid Abou Hamed 49.25 3 Laurent Ottoz 49.27 6 Miro Kocuvan 49.43 PB 4 1 Jimmy Coco 49.53 5 4 Siniša Peša 50.45 6 2 Óscar Pitillas 50.77 7 8 Walid Ketite 51.30 7 Pascal Maran

3000 meters steeplechase 16 June Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Brahim Boulami 8:18.80 GR Hicham Bouaouiche 8:20.30 Giuseppe Maffei 8:23.43 4 Stathis Stasi 8:26.83 5 José González 8:28.75 6 Eliseo Martín 8:37.95 7 Georgios Giannelis 9:01.78

4 x 100 meters relay 18 June Rank Lane Nation Competitors Time Notes 4 Nicola Asuni, Giovanni Puggioni, Angelo Cipolloni, Sandro Floris 38.61 GR 5 Frutos Feo, Venancio José, Jordi Mayoral, Javier Navarro 38.85 =NR 2 Georgios Skender, Anninos Marcoullides, Prodromos Katsantonis, Yiannis Zisimides 39.12 NR 4 3 Christophe Cheval, Pascal Théophile, Éric Perrot, David Patros 39.84 6 Angelos Pavlakakis, Georgios Panagiotopoulos, Ioannis Nafpliotis, Alexandros Terzian

4 x 400 meters relay 18 June Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes Samir-Adel Louahla, Kamel Talhaoui, Ahmed Aichaoui, Malik Louahla 3:02.78 GR, NR Pierre-Marie Hilaire, Rodrigue Nordin, Jimmy Coco, Fred Mango 3:02.84 Michele Grando, Fabrizio Mori, Walter Groff, Ashraf Saber 3:03.08 4 César Martínez, Iñigo Monreal, Ion Lopetegui, Antonio Andrés 3:04.73 5 Aleksandar Popović, Branislav Stojanović, Siniša Peša, Slobodan Branković 3:06.62

20 kilometers walk Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Giovanni De Benedictis 1:24:59 Michele Didoni 1:25:21 Hatem Ghoula 1:25:36 4 Denis Langlois 1:25:46 5 Aleksandar Raković 1:28:40 6 Juan Antonio Porras 1:32:12 7 Spyridon Kastanis 1:33:53 8 David Márquez 1:34:37 Jean-Olivier Brosseau

High jump 18 June Rank Name Nationality 2.15 2.18 2.21 2.24 2.26 2.28 2.30 Result Notes Stevan Zorić 2.28 =GR Arturo Ortiz – o – xo xo – xxx 2.26 Ignacio Pérez o – xo – xo xxx 2.26 4 Dimitrios Kokotis 2.24 5 Joël Vincent 2.21 6 Ioannis Giantsios 2.21 7 Dejan Miloševič 2.18 8 Elvir Krehmić 2.15

Pole vault 16 June Rank Name Nationality 5.00 5.20 5.30 5.50 5.60 5.70 Result Notes Alain Andji 5.70 GR Juan Gabriel Concepción o – o o xxx 5.50 Andrea Giannini 5.50 4 Sébastien Levicq 5.30 5 Montxu Miranda o – o xxx 5.30 6 Konstantinos Tzivas 5.20 7 Christos Pallakis 5.20 8 Jurij Rovan 5.00

Long jump Qualification – 17 June Rank Group Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes 1 A Younès Moudrik 7.77 1 B Anis Gallali 7.77 ? ? Kader Klouchi 7.66 ? ? Nicola Trentin 7.53 ? ? Milko Campus 7.36 7 A José Antonio Giralde 7.35 7.29 7.32 7.35

Final – 18 June Rank Name Nationality Result Notes Gregor Cankar 8.00 Konstandinos Koukodimos 7.95 Dimitrios Hatzopoulos 7.92 Younès Moudrik 7.89 Marko Rajić 7.75 Siniša Ergotić 7.74 Nicola Trentin 7.71 Anis Gallali 7.71 Emmanuel Bangué 7.70 10 Hatem Mersal 7.66 11 Kader Klouchi 7.65

Triple jump 16 June Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Paolo Camossi 16.63 Hristos Meletoglou 16.50 Germain Martial 16.18 4 Álvaro Bartolomé x x x 15.27 15.88 x 15.88 5 Murat Ayaydın 15.84 6 Stamatios Lenis 15.71

Shot put 16 June Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Alessandro Andrei 19.21 x 19.15 19.44 19.45 19.54 19.54 Corrado Fantini 19.19 Stevimir Ercegovac 19.00 4 José Luis Martínez 18.80 x 18.60 x 18.44 18.36 18.80 5 Alexios Leonidis 18.71 6 Carlos Gerones 17.72 18.12 18.03 x x x 18.12 7 Stéphane Vial 18.00 8 Ekrem Ay 16.90

Discus throw 17 June Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Igor Primc 60.62 58.00 60.84 60.74 60.98 61.66 61.66 Diego Fortuna 59.90 Simone Sbrogiò 59.20 4 Christos Papadopoulos 58.88 5 Jean Pons 57.90 6 Dragan Mustapić 57.04 7 José Luis Valencia x 55.36 x 54.70 55.98 x 55.98 8 Ercüment Olgundeniz 55.78 Abraham Delgado x x x

Hammer throw 16 June Rank Name Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Christophe Épalle 75.76 78.44 78.44 GR Raphaël Piolanti 77.20 Enrico Sgrulletti 76.32 Alexandros Papadimitriou 75.70 Nicola Vizzoni 74.96 Hristos Polihroniou 74.14 Cherif El Hennawi 69.76 Hakim Toumi 69.14 10 Anscari Salgado 63.42 64.22 x 64.22 12 Moisés Campeny x 59.30 x 59.30

Javelin throw 16 June