Athletics at the 2013 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
Dates	26 – 29 June
Host city	Mersin, Turkey
Venue	Nevin Yanıt Athletics Complex
Events	43 + 1 disability
Participation	319 (+disability) athletes from 23 nations
← 2009 Pescara 2018 Tarragona → 2013 Mediterranean Games

The athletics competitions at the 2013 Mediterranean Games in Mersin took place between 26 June and 29 June at the Nevin Yanıt Athletics Complex while half marathons were held at the Adnan Menderes Boulevard.

Athletes competed in 43 events and 1 paralympic event. Men's 20 km walk, men's decathlon, women's shot put and women's 1500m T54 were cancelled.

Medal summary

Main article: Athletics at the 2013 Mediterranean Games – Results

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Emmanuel Biron  France	10.22	Ramil Guliyev  Turkey	10.23	Michael Tumi  Italy	10.25
200 metres	Lykourgos Tsakonas  Greece	20.45	Ramil Guliyev  Turkey	20.46	Sergio Ruiz Serrano  Spain	20.74
400 metres	Matteo Galvan  Italy	45.59	Anas Beshr  Egypt	45.79	Mame-Ibra Anne  France	45.81
800 metres	İlham Tanui Özbilen  Turkey	1:44.00 GR	Samir Jamaa  Morocco	1:45.47	Mohamed Ahmed Hamada  Egypt	1:45.71
1500 metres	İlham Tanui Özbilen  Turkey	3:35.09	Yassine Bensghir  Morocco	3:36.49	Imad Touil  Algeria	3:36.71
5000 metres	Rabah Aboud  Algeria	13:38.01	Othmane El Goumri  Morocco	13:38.24	Aziz Lahbabi  Morocco	13:40.33
10,000 metres	Polat Kemboi Arıkan  Turkey	28:17.26	Aziz Lahbabi  Morocco	28:55.24	Soufiyan Bouqantar  Morocco	28:57.22
110 metres hurdles	Konstadinos Douvalidis  Greece	13.45 GR	Thomas Martinot-Lagarde  France	13.48	Othmane Hadj Lazib  Algeria	13.61
400 metres hurdles	Emir Bekrić  Serbia	48.83 GR	Miloud Rahmani  Algeria	49.34	Hugo Grillas  France	49.92
3000 metres steeplechase	Amor Ben Yahia  Tunisia	8:14.05	Tarık Langat Akdağ  Turkey	8:20.08	Hamid Ezzine  Morocco	8:21.03
4×100 metres relay	Italy (ITA) Simone Collio Davide Manenti Jacques Riparelli Michael Tumi	39.06	Greece (GRE) Efthymios Stergioulis Christos Kalamaras Emmanouil Paterakis Panagiotis Andreadis	40.22	Turkey (TUR) Ismail Aslan Ferhat Altunkalem İzzet Safer Umutcan Emektas	40.82
4×400 metres relay	Italy (ITA) Lorenzo Valentini Isalbet Juarez Michele Tricca Matteo Galvan	3:04.61	Turkey (TUR) Mehmet Guzel Bugrahan Kocebeyoglu Halit Kiliç Yavuz Can	3:05.28	Greece (GRE) Dimitrios Gravalos Petros Kyriakidis Periklis Iakovakis Konstantinos Nakopoulos	3:07.36
Half marathon	Ruggero Pertile  Italy	1:07:07	Wissem Hosni  Tunisia	1:08:32	Muzaffer Bayram  Turkey	1:09:40
High jump	Konstadinos Baniotis  Greece	2.34 m GR	Silvano Chesani  Italy	2.28 m	Fabrice Saint-Jean  France	2.24 m
Pole vault	Giuseppe Gibilisco  Italy	5.70 m GR	Kévin Menaldo  France	5.60 m	Giorgio Piantella  Italy	5.50 m
Long jump	Louis Tsatoumas  Greece	8.14 m	Georgios Tsakonas  Greece	7.97 m	Emanuele Catania  Italy	7.92 m
Triple jump	Daniele Greco  Italy	17.13 m	Dimitrios Tsiamis  Greece	17.00 m	Fabrizio Schembri  Italy	16.62 m
Shot put	Borja Vivas  Spain	19.99 m	Marin Premeru  Croatia	19.72 m	Hamza Alić  Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.69 m
Discus throw	Martin Marić  Croatia	61.46 m	Ercüment Olgundeniz  Turkey	61.46 m	Danijel Furtula  Montenegro	61.44 m
Hammer throw	Mostafa El Gamel  Egypt	76.68 m	Hassan Mohamed Mahmoud  Egypt	74.96 m	Nicola Vizzoni  Italy	74.86 m
Javelin throw	Fatih Avan  Turkey	83.84 m	Ihab Abdelrahman  Egypt	82.45 m	Spyridon Lebesis  Greece	78.53 m

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Ilenia Draisci  Italy	11.53	Estela García  Spain	11.53	Eleni Artymata  Cyprus	11.55
200 metres	Eleni Artymata  Cyprus	23.18	Libania Grenot  Italy	23.20	Nimet Karakuş  Turkey	23.40
400 metres	Chiara Bazzoni  Italy	52.06	Maria Benedicta Chigbolu  Italy	52.66	Agnès Raharolahy  France	52.90
800 metres	Malika Akkaoui  Morocco	2:00.72	Siham Hilali  Morocco	2:00.79	Tuğba Karakaya  Turkey	2:01.74
1500 metres	Siham Hilali  Morocco	4:04.06	Luiza Gega  Albania	4:05.63	Tuğba Karakaya  Turkey	4:06.22
5000 metres	Christine Bardelle  France	15:39.64	Silvia Weissteiner  Italy	15:44.53	Elena Romagnolo  Italy	16:11.17
10,000 metres	Kenza Dahmani  Algeria	32:42.47	Elvan Abeylegesse  Turkey	32:59.30	Souad Aït Salem  Algeria	33:19.34
100 metres hurdles	Marzia Caravelli  Italy	12.92	Veronica Borsi  Italy	13.05	Marina Tomić  Slovenia	13.11
400 metres hurdles	Hayat Lambarki  Morocco	55.27	Lamiae Lhabze  Morocco	55.51	Manuela Gentili  Italy	55.89
3000 metres steeplechase	Amina Bettiche  Algeria	9:40.71 GR	Salima El Ouali Alami  Morocco	9:43.71	[[]]  Morocco	-
4×100 metres relay	Italy (ITA) Audrey Alloh Ilenia Draisci Jessica Paoletta Micol Cattaneo	44.66	Cyprus (CYP) Paraskevi Andreou Ramona Papaioannou Dimitra Kyriakidou Eleni Artymata	44.79	Greece (GRE) Maria Gatou Agni Derveni Olympia Petsoudi Grigoria Keramida	45.12
4×400 metres relay	Italy (ITA) Maria Enrica Spacca Elena Maria Bonfanti Maria Benedicta Chigbolu Chiara Bazzoni	3:32.44	Turkey (TUR) Saliha Ozyurt Birsen Engin Sema Apak Derya Yildirim	3:43.61
Half marathon	Valeria Straneo  Italy	1:11:00 GR	Souad Aït Salem  Algeria	1:13:54	Ümmü Kiraz  Turkey	1:16:51
20 kilometres walk	Eleonora Giorgi  Italy	1:39:13	Raquel González Campos  Spain	1:41:08	Antigoni Drisbioti  Greece	1:41:53
High jump	Ana Šimić  Croatia Burcu Ayhan Yüksel  Turkey	1.92 m			Antonia Stergiou  Greece	1.90 m
Pole vault	Stella-Iro Ledaki  Greece	4.50 m =GR	Naroa Agirre  Spain	4.40 m	Marion Buisson  France	4.40 m
Long jump	Nektaria Panagi  Cyprus	6.51 m	Nina Kolarič  Slovenia	6.49 m	Tania Vicenzino  Italy	6.38 m
Triple jump	Athanasia Perra  Greece	14.48 m	Snežana Rodič  Slovenia	14.36 m	Baya Rahouli  Algeria	14.04 m
Discus throw	Sandra Perković  Croatia	66.21 m	Dragana Tomašević  Serbia	61.88 m	Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou  Greece	55.01 m
Hammer throw	Jessika Guehaseim  France	67.14 m	Berta Castells  Spain	66.16 m	Silvia Salis  Italy	62.52 m
Javelin throw	Martina Ratej  Slovenia	60.28 m	Tatjana Jelača  Serbia	57.88 m	Nora Aída Bicet  Spain	57.65 m
Heptathlon	Yasmina Omrani  Algeria	5802 pts	Sofia Yfantidou  Greece	5752 pts	Serpil Kocak  Turkey	5158 pts

Paralympic events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's 1500 metres T54	Julien Casoli  France	3:26.66	Roger Puigbò  Spain	3:26.70	Yassine Gharbi  Tunisia	3:26.81

Medal table

Italy, with 13 gold medals, finished first in the medal table.

  *   Host nation (Turkey)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	13	5	9	27
2	Greece	6	4	6	16
3	Turkey*	5	7	7	19
4	France	4	2	5	11
5	Algeria	4	2	4	10
6	Morocco	3	7	4	14
7	Croatia	3	1	0	4
8	Cyprus	2	1	1	4
9	Spain	1	5	2	8
10	Egypt	1	3	1	5
11	Slovenia	1	2	1	4
12	Serbia	1	2	0	3
13	Tunisia	1	1	1	3
14	Albania	0	1	0	1
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
	Montenegro	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		45	43	43	131

Participating nations

• Albania (2)
• Algeria (17)
• Andorra (2)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (5)
• Croatia (4)
• Cyprus (12)
• Egypt (8)
• France (36)
• Greece (34)
• Italy (57)
• Lebanon (2)
• Libya (4)
• Macedonia (2)
• Monaco (1)
• Montenegro (2)
• Morocco (26)
• San Marino (1)
• Serbia (8)
• Slovenia (12)
• Spain (19)
• Syria (1)
• Tunisia (3)
• Turkey (60)

Doping cases

On 6 March 2015 IAAF announced that Moroccan Ahmed Baday who originally won gold medal in half marathon event had been suspended for two years for a biological passport anti-doping rule violation. His results from 26 March 2010 and onwards were annulled and get back his gold medal.

External links

• Official web site
• Results