# Athletics at the 1959 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 1959 Mediterranean Games were held in Beirut, Lebanon.

## Results
### Track

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Abdoulaye Seye (FRA) | 10.3 GR | Paul Genevay (FRA) | 10.6 | Alain David (FRA) | 10.6 |
| 200 metres | Paul Genevay (FRA) | 20.9 GR | Nikolaos Georgopoulos (GRE) | 21.5 | Bernard Cahen (FRA) | 21.8 |
| 400 metres | Viktor Šnajder (YUG) | 47.1 GR | Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab | 48.3 | Vassilios Sillis (GRE) | 48.7 |
| 800 metres | Pierre-Yvon Lenoir (FRA) | 1:55.4 | Tomás Barris (ESP) | 1:55.8 | Evangelos Depastas (GRE) | 1:56.1 |
| 1500 metres | Tomás Barris (ESP) | 3:50.6 | Jean Clausse (FRA) | 3:51.8 | Evangelos Depastas (GRE) | 3:52.6 |
| 5000 metres | Robert Bogey (FRA) | 14:31.0 | Luis García (ESP) | 14:32.6 | Carlos Perez (ESP) | 14:45.0 |
| 10,000 metres | Hamoud Ameur (FRA) | 30:19.2 GR | Mohamed Saïd (MAR) | 30:22.4 | Luis García (ESP) | 30:24.2 |
| Marathon | Bakir Benaïssa (MAR) | 2:24:14.8 GR | Miguel Navarro (ESP) | 2:27:27.8 | Mahmoud Abdelkrim (UAR) | 2:35:03.4 |
| 110 metres hurdles | Georgios Marsellos (GRE) | 14.5 GR | Marcel Duriez (FRA) | 14.5 | Emilio Campra (ESP) | 15.4 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Fahir Özgüden (TUR) | 53.4 | Mongi Zarrouki (TUN) | 54.1 | Abdel Mohamed Abdallah (EGY) | 54.4 |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Georgios Papavasileiou (GRE) | 9:04.0 GR | Manuel Alonso (ESP) | 9:06.2 | Franc Hafner (YUG) | 9:09.6 |
| 4 x 100 metres relay | France Bernard Cahen Alain David Paul Genevay Ali Brakchi | 41.5 | Greece Ioannis Komitoudis Constantin Lolos Leonidas Kormalis Nikolaos Georgopoulos | 41.7 | Spain Emilio Campra José Luis Martínez Jesús Rancaño José Luis Albarran | 42.2 |
| 4 x 400 metres relay | Greece Leonidas Kormalis Konstantinos Moragiemos Nikolaos Georgopoulos Vassilios Sillis | 3:15.0 | France Paul Genevay Jean-Pierre Goudeau Jean Bertozzi Pierre-Yvon Lenoir | 3:15.4 | United Arab Republic Farouk Tadros Rachoui Abdel Moneim Abdallah Hassan Ahmed Ragab | 3:17.6 |
| 20 km walk | Pierre Attane (FRA) | 1:43:16.6 | Stavros Hatzilaios (GRE) | 1:50:18.6 | not assigned | not assigned |

### Field

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| High jump | Maurice Fournier (FRA) | 1.99 m | Çetin Şahiner (TUR) | 1.96 m | Michel Hermann (FRA) | 1.90 m |
| Long jump | Ali Brakchi (FRA) | 7.59 m GR | Dimos Manglaras (GRE) | 7.44 m | Manuel González (ESP) | 7.24 m |
| Pole vault | Rigas Efstathiadis (GRE) | 4.10 m | Fernando Adarraga (ESP) | 3.80 m | Farid Hanna (UAR) | 3.80 m |
| Triple jump | Éric Battista (FRA) | 15.82 m GR | Marc Rabémila (FRA) | 15.47 m | Mahmoud Atef Abdel Fattah (UAR) | 15.04 m |
| Shot put | Georgios Tsakanikas (GRE) | 16.97 m GR | Antonios Kounadis (GRE) | 15.12 m | Chebel Hassan Farag (UAR) | 14.95 m |
| Discus throw | Antonios Kounadis (GRE) | 55.02 m GR | Dako Radošević (YUG) | 54.01 m | Georgios Tsakanikas (GRE) | 47.88 m |
| Hammer throw | Krešimir Račić (YUG) | 62.26 m GR | Frangiskos Politis (GRE) | 55.44 m | Andreas Kouvelogiannis (GRE) | 53.31 m |
| Javelin throw | Léon Syrovatski (FRA) | 74.10 m GR | Božidar Miletić (YUG) | 73.80 m | Myron Anyfantakis (GRE) | 68.80 m |
| Decathlon | Jože Brodnik (YUG) | 6581 pts GR | Georgios Marsellos (GRE) | 5908 pts | Mohamed Saïd Zaki (UAR) | 5816 pts |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | France | 11 | 5 | 3 | 19 |
| 2 | Greece | 6 | 7 | 6 | 19 |
| 3 | Yugoslavia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 4 | Spain | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 |
| 5 | Morocco | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | Turkey | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | United Arab Republic | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 8 | Tunisia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 23 | 23 | 22 | 68 |

## Participating nations

* France (20)
* Greece (24)
* Lebanon (21)
* Morocco (6)
* Spain (13)
* Tunisia (5)
* Turkey (8)
* United Arab Republic (28)
* Yugoslavia (6)