Mediterranean Games Marathon

Dates/Venues (14 runnings)

Men	Women	Venue
02 Jul 2005	02 Jul 2005	Almeria ESP (half marathon)
11 Sep 2001	11 Sep 2001	Tunis TUN
15 Jun 1997	15 Jun 1997	Bari ITA
20 Jun 1993	20 Jun 1993	Narbonne FRA
09 Jul 1991		Athens GRE
24 Sep 1987		Latakia SYR
16 Sep 1983		Casablanca MAR
28 Sep 1979		Split CRO
30 Aug 1975		Algers ALG
17 Oct 1971		Izmir TUR
16 Sep 1967		Tunis TUN
28 Sep 1963		Naples ITA
22 Oct 1959		Beirut LIB
1955		Barcelona ESP
1951		Alexandria EGY

Medalists

2005 (half marathon)

G	1:05:01	Said Belhout (ALG)	1:13:50	Zhor El Kamch (MAR)
S	1:05:05	Abdeljebir Lamachi (MAR)	1:15:40	Rosaria Console (ITA)
B	1:05:12	Jose Manuel Martinez (ESP)	1:16:32	Olivera Jevtic (SER)

2001

G	2:21:07	Sergio Chiesa (ITA)	2:40:49	Mehtap Sizmaz (TUR)
S	2:22:25	El Mostafa Damaoui (MAR)	2:43:18	Serap Aktas (TUR)
B	2:22:56	Ali El Zaidi (LBA)	2:46:03	Sonia Agoun (TUN)

1997

G	2:20:40	Azzedine Sakhri (ALG)	2:39:22	Serap Aktas (TUR)
S	2:21:08	Giovanni Ruggiero (ITA)	2:43:53	Carol Galea (MLT)
B	2:21:32	El Mostafa Damaoui (MAR)	2:46:56	Lale Ozturk (TUR)

1993

G	2:18:42	Davide Milesi (ITA)	2:42:58	Helena Javornik (SLO)
S	2:18:43	Demirel Cihangir (TUR)	2:43:26	Marie-Helene Ohier (FRA)
B	2:18:59	Marco Toini (ITA)	2:43:40	Sylviane Levesque (FRA)

1991

G	2:20:26	Salah Qoquaiche (MAR)
S	2:20:54	Gianluigi Curreli (ITA)
B	2:24:52	nfn Sotiropoulos (GRE)

1987

G	2:24:13	Enrico Badessi (ITA)
S	2:25:23	Georgios Afordakos (GRE)
B	2:25:29	Ahmet Altun (TUR)

1983

G	2:22:33	Mehmet Terzi (TUR)
S	2:22:51	Ahmet Altun (TUR)
B	2:23:15	Honorato Hernandez (ESP)

1979

G	2:06:53	Mikhail Koussis (GRE)
S	2:07:15	Marco Marchei (ITA)
B	2:10:11	Mehmet Terzi (TUR)

Note: Altho this course was reported as 899 m short, it was probably more like 2 km short.

1975

G	2:24:12.8	Antonio Baños (ESP)
S	2:25:47	Paolo Accaputo (ITA)
B	---	n/a

1971

G	2:23:33	Gianbattista Bassi (ITA)
S	---	n/a
B	---	n/a

1967

G	2:21:33	Antonio Ambu (ITA)
S	2:21:46	Ismail Akcay (TUR)
B	2:23:06	Carlos Perez (ESP)

1963

G	2:26:50	Bakir benAissa (MAR)
S	---	n/a
B	---	n/a

1959

G	2:24:14.8	Bakir benAissa (MAR)
S	---	n/a
B	---	n/a

1955

G	2:50:35	Abdul Kerim (EGY)
S	---	n/a
B	---	n/a

1951

G	3:07:25	Ahmet Aytar (TUR)
S	---	n/a
B	---	n/a

Medal Count by Country

Men
       G   S   B   Score
ITA    5   4   1     28
MAR    3   2   1     22
TUR    2   3   2     21
ALG    2   0   0     10
GRE    1   1   1      9
ESP    1   0   3      8
EGY    1   0   0      5
LBA    0   0   1      1

Women
       G   S   B   Score
TUR    2   1   1     14
MAR    1   0   0      5
SLO    1   0   0      5
FRA    0   1   1      4
ITA    0   1   0      3
MLT    0   1   0      3
SER    0   0   1      1
TUN    0   0   1      1

scoring is G = 5, S = 3, B = 1

Multiple Medal Winners

Men 
10  Bakir benAissa (MAR)        G (1959) G (1963)
 6  Mehmet Terzi (TUR)          B (1979) G (1983)
 4  Ahmet Altun (TUR)           S (1983) B (1987)
 4  El Mostafa Damaoui (MAR)    B (1997) S (2001)


Women 
 8  Serap Aktas (TUR)           G (1997) S (2001)

Prize Money (ADR qualified runners only)
Prize money has not been awarded in these games.

Race Time Bias (sec/km)
Insufficient data to calculate the race time bias.

Competitive Level (1990-date)

Year     Men   Women
2001     204     n/c

Quality Performances

Men
<2:18       3
<2:19       5

Women
<2:40       1
<2:42       2
<2:44       7
<2:46       7
<2:48       9
<2:50      11

Last Updated on 11 Aug 2008

Contributor: Franco Civai (50)