# Athletics at the 1959 Mediterranean Games – Results

These are the partial results of the athletics competition at the 1959 Mediterranean Games taking place between 19 and 23 October in Beirut, Lebanon.

## Results
### 100 meters

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Abdoulaye Seye | France | 10.9 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Ioannis Komitoudis | Greece | 10.9 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | José Luis Albarran | Spain | 11.2 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Aydin Onur | Turkey | 11.5 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Tadros Farouk | United Arab Republic | 11.7 | |
| 1 | 2 | Paul Genevay | France | 10.5 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Nikolaos Georgopoulos | Greece | 10.7 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab | United Arab Republic | 10.9 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Bougaib M'Rak | Morocco | 11.2 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Mounir Maasri | Lebanon | 11.8 | |
| 1 | 3 | Alain David | France | 10.6 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Abdulai Soliman Taisir | United Arab Republic | 10.9 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Constantin Lolos | Greece | 11.2 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Mounir Zeitoun | Lebanon | 11.5 | Q |
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Paul Genevay | France | 10.5 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Abdulai Soliman Taisir | United Arab Republic | 10.8 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Ioannis Komitoudis | Greece | 10.9 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | José Luis Albarran | Spain | 11.0 | |
| 5 | 1 | Constantin Lolos | Greece | 11.3 | |
| 6 | 1 | Mounir Zeitoun | Lebanon | ??.? | |
| 1 | 2 | Abdoulaye Seye | France | 10.5 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Alain David | France | 10.6 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Nikolaos Georgopoulos | Greece | 10.6 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab | United Arab Republic | 11.2 | |
| 5 | 2 | Bougaib M'Rak | Morocco | 11.3 | |
| 6 | 2 | Aydin Onur | Turkey | ??.? | |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Abdoulaye Seye | France | 10.3 | GR |
| | Paul Genevay | France | 10.6 | |
| | Alain David | France | 10.8 | |
| 4 | Nikolaos Georgopoulos | Greece | 11.0 | |
| 5 | Abdulai Soliman Taisir | United Arab Republic | 11.0 | |
| 6 | Ioannis Komitoudis | Greece | 11.0 | |

### 200 meters

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Nikolaos Georgopoulos | Greece | 21.6 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Ioannis Komitoudis | Greece | 22.2 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | José Luis Albarran | Spain | 22.4 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Bougaib M'Rak | Morocco | 22.6 | |
| 5 | 1 | Tadros Farouk | United Arab Republic | 23.1 | |
| | 1 | Abdoulaye Seye | France | DNS | |
| 1 | 2 | Paul Genevay | France | 20.8 | Q, GR, =NR |
| 2 | 2 | Bernard Cahen | France | 21.1 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Leonidas Kormalis | Greece | 22.3 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Abdulai Soliman Taisir | United Arab Republic | 22.6 | |
| 5 | 2 | Zein El Abdin Youssef | United Arab Republic | 22.9 | |
| 6 | 2 | Mounir Zeitoun | Lebanon | 23.6 | |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Paul Genevay | France | 20.9 |
| | Nikolaos Georgopoulos | Greece | 21.5 |
| | Bernard Cahen | France | 21.8 |
| 4 | Leonidas Kormalis | Greece | 22.1 |
| 5 | Ioannis Komitoudis | Greece | 22.1 |
| 6 | José Luis Albarran | Spain | 22.4 |

### 400 meters

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Viktor Šnajder | Yugoslavia | 48.8 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Jean-Pierre Goudeau | France | 49.2 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Jesús Rancaño | Spain | 49.9 | |
| 4 | 1 | Abdel Moneim Abdallah | United Arab Republic | 50.0 | |
| 5 | 1 | Saleh Nasser | Lebanon | 55.0 | |
| 1 | 2 | Jean Bertozzi | France | 49.5 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | José Luis Martínez | Spain | 49.7 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Tadros Farouk | United Arab Republic | 50.4 | |
| 4 | 2 | Garo Kazandijan | Lebanon | 54.3 | |
| 1 | 3 | Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab | United Arab Republic | 49.1 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Vassilios Sillis | Greece | 50.2 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Fahir Özgüden | Turkey | 51.7 | |
| 4 | 3 | Michel Tawil | Lebanon | 54.0 | |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Viktor Šnajder | Yugoslavia | 47.1 | GR |
| | Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab | United Arab Republic | 48.3 | |
| | Vassilios Sillis | Greece | 48.7 | |
| 4 | Jean-Pierre Goudeau | France | 49.1 | |
| 5 | Jean Bertozzi | France | 49.2 | |
| 6 | José Luis Martínez | Spain | 49.5 | |

### 800 meters

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Pierre-Yvon Lenoir | France | 1:54.1 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Elías Reguero | Spain | 1:54.9 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Konstantinos Moragiemos | Greece | 1:54.9 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Abdeslem Dargouth | Tunisia | 1:55.5 | |
| 5 | 1 | Mohamed Abdul Magd Omar | United Arab Republic | 1:58.5 | |
| 1 | 2 | Tomás Barris | Spain | 1:54.5 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Evangelos Depastas | Greece | 1:54.5 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Muharrem Dalkılıç | Turkey | 1:55.2 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Mohamed Radouan Raghoan | United Arab Republic | 1:56.0 | |
| 5 | 2 | Mohamed Reguib | Morocco | 2:05.0 | |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Pierre-Yvon Lenoir | France | 1:55.4 |
| | Tomás Barris | Spain | 1:55.8 |
| | Evangelos Depastas | Greece | 1:56.1 |
| 4 | Konstantinos Moragiemos | Greece | 1:56.7 |
| 5 | Elías Reguero | Spain | 1:57.5 |
| | Muharrem Dalkılıç | Turkey | DNF |

### 1500 meters

22 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Tomás Barris | Spain | 3:50.6 |
| | Jean Clausse | France | 3:51.8 |
| | Evangelos Depastas | Greece | 3:52.6 |
| 4 | Muharrem Dalkılıç | Turkey | 3:53.4 |
| 5 | Abdeslem Dargouth | Tunisia | 3:59.2 |
| 6 | Mohamed Abdul Magd Omar | United Arab Republic | 4:00.1 |
| 7 | Samir Nassar | Lebanon | ?:??.? |

### 5000 meters

21 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Robert Bogey | France | 14:31.0 |
| | Luis García | Spain | 14:32.6 |
| | Carlos Pérez | Spain | 14:45.0 |
| 4 | Salah Beddiaf | France | 14:47.6 |
| 5 | Said Ben Mohamed Gerouani | Morocco | 15:05.2 |
| 6 | Ahmed Ben Salem Boughalem | Tunisia | 15:12.0 |
| 7 | Mahmoud Saleh Al-Rachidi | United Arab Republic | 15:12.8 |
| 8 | Fathi Atta Khalifa | United Arab Republic | 15:13.2 |
| 9 | Şükrü Şaban | Turkey | 15:23.2 |
| 10 | Fevzi Pakel | Turkey | 15:35.4 |
| 11 | Spyros Kontos | Greece | 15:37.8 |
| 12 | Ahmed Dali Labibi | Tunisia | 16:01.4 |
| 13 | Moussa Aly El Hajje | Lebanon | 16:21.6 |

### 10,000 meters

19 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Hamoud Ameur | France | 30:19.2 |
| | Saïd Ben Mohamed Gerouani | Morocco | 30:22.4 |
| | Luis García | Spain | 30:24.2 |
| 4 | Carlos Pérez | Spain | 30:41.4 |
| 5 | Salah Beddiaf | France | 30:42.6 |
| 6 | Bachir Benaïssa | Morocco | 31:18.4 |
| 7 | Georgios Papavasileiou | Greece | 31:24.0 |
| 8 | Fathi Atta Khalifa | United Arab Republic | 31:34.6 |
| 9 | Ahmed Ben Salem Boughalem | Tunisia | 31:57.4 |
| 10 | Şükrü Şaban | Turkey | 32:02.0 |
| 11 | Mahmoud Saleh Al-Rachidi | United Arab Republic | 32:02.2 |
| 12 | Spyros Kontos | Greece | 32:02.2 |
| 13 | Ahmed Dali Labibi | Tunisia | 32:24.2 |
| 14 | Moussa Aly El Hajje | Lebanon | 35:02.0 |

### Marathon

22 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Bakir Benaïssa | Morocco | 2:24:15 | GR |
| | Miguel Navarro | Spain | 2:27:28 | NR |
| | Mahmoud Abdelkrim | United Arab Republic | 2:35:04 | |
| 4 | Farag Salem Farag | United Arab Republic | 2:35:25 | |
| 5 | Ahmet Aytar | Turkey | 2:39:18 | |
| 6 | Ali Hamed Ahmed | United Arab Republic | 2:40:15 | |
| 7 | Aydar Erturan | Turkey | 2:40:15 | |
| 8 | Mohamed El Outa | Lebanon | 3:25:00 | |

### 110 meters hurdles

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Georgios Marsellos | Greece | 14.8 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Abdel Mohamed Abdallah | United Arab Republic | 14.9 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Maurice Fournier | France | 15.6 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Kheir El Dine Rameh | Lebanon | 16.2 | |
| 1 | 2 | Marcel Duriez | France | 14.4 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Emilio Campra | Spain | 14.9 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Dimitrios Skourtis | Greece | 15.4 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Ahmed Atef Abdallah | United Arab Republic | 15.4 | |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Georgios Marsellos | Greece | 14.5 | GR |
| | Marcel Duriez | France | 14.5 | |
| | Emilio Campra | Spain | 15.4 | |
| 4 | Abdel Mohamed Abdallah | United Arab Republic | 15.4 | |
| 5 | Maurice Fournier | France | 15.5 | |
| 6 | Dimitrios Skourtis | Greece | 15.8 | |

### 400 meters hurdles

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Fahir Özgüden | Turkey | 55.0 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Abdel Mohamed Abdallah | United Arab Republic | 55.4 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Alexandros Froussios | Greece | 55.4 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Bernardino Lombao | Spain | 55.6 | |
| 5 | 1 | Michel Tawil | Lebanon | 58.7 | |
| 1 | 2 | Dimitrios Skourtis | Greece | 55.4 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Mohamed Darwiche Zaki | United Arab Republic | 55.5 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Mongi Soussi Zarrouki | Tunisia | 55.6 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Mohamed Zouaki | Morocco | 57.9 | |
| 5 | 2 | Saleh Nasser | Lebanon | 1:02.1 | |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Fahir Özgüden | Turkey | 53.4 |
| | Mongi Soussi Zarrouki | Tunisia | 54.1 |
| | Abdel Mohamed Abdallah | United Arab Republic | 54.4 |
| 4 | Mohamed Darwiche Zaki | United Arab Republic | 54.9 |
| 5 | Dimitrios Skourtis | Greece | 55.0 |
| 6 | Alexandros Froussios | Greece | 58.8 |

### 3000 meters steeplechase

22 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Georgios Papavasileiou | Greece | 9:04.0 | GR |
| | Manuel Alonso | Spain | 9:06.2 | |
| | Franc Hafner | Yugoslavia | 9:09.6 | |
| 4 | Hamoud Ameur | France | 9:11.6 | |

### 4 × 100 meters relay

21 October
| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
| | 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 | NR |
| 4 | United Arab Republic | Mohamed Saïd Zaki, Hassan El Din Ahmed Ragab, Zein El Abdin Youssef, Taissir Abdulai Suleiman | 43.4 | |
| 5 | Lebanon | M. Nasrallah, Fouad Nasrallah, Abdul Halim Karakallah, Mounir Zeitoun | 45.5 | |

### 4 × 400 meters relay

22 October
| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time |
| | 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 El Din Ahmed Ragab | 3:17.6 |
| 4 | Spain | Bernardino Lombao, José Luis Martínez, Jesús Rancaño, Elias Requero | 3:17.6 |
| 5 | Morocco | Ben Taber, Bougaib M'Rak, Mohamed Reguib, Said | 3:25.1 |

### 20 kilometers walk

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Pierre Attane | France | 1:43:17 | |
| | Stavros Hatzilaios | Greece | 1:50:19 | |

### High jump

20 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Maurice Fournier | France | 1.99 |
| | Çetin Şahiner | Turkey | 1.96 |
| | Michel Hermann | France | 1.90 |
| 4 | Marc Rabémila | France | 1.90 |
| 5 | Sylvain Bitan | Tunisia | 1.90 |
| 6 | Ioannis Koinis | Greece | 1.85 |
| 7 | Sami El Ahmar | Lebanon | 1.85 |
| 8 | Hassan Nassif | United Arab Republic | 1.80 |

### Pole vault

22 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Rigas Efstathiadis | Greece | 4.10 |
| | Fernando Adarraga | Spain | 3.80 |
| | Farid Hanna | United Arab Republic | 3.80 |
| 4 | Mohamed Saïd Zaki | United Arab Republic | 3.70 |
| 5 | Ahmed Adam | Lebanon | 3.50 |
| 6 | Abdul Halim Karakallah | Lebanon | 3.40 |

### Long jump

21 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Ali Brakchi | France | 7.59 |
| | Dimosthenis Magglaras | Greece | 7.44 |
| | Manuel González | Spain | 7.24 |
| 4 | Teymurlenk Shukri | United Arab Republic | 7.06 |
| 5 | Aristidis Kazantzidis | Greece | 7.02 |
| 6 | Éric Battista | France | 6.80 |
| 7 | Michel Hermann | France | 6.33 |
| 8 | Fouad Nasrallah | Lebanon | 6.09 |

### Triple jump

19 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Éric Battista | France | 15.82 |
| | Marc Rabémila | France | 15.47 |
| | Mahmoud Atef Abdel Fattah | United Arab Republic | 15.04 |
| 4 | Konstantinos Sfikas | Greece | 14.69 |
| 5 | Hassan Mohamed Sourour | United Arab Republic | 14.43 |
| 6 | Abbas El Masri | Lebanon | 12.76 |

### Shot put

21 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Georgios Tsakanikas | Greece | 16.97 |
| | Antonios Kounadis | Greece | 15.12 |
| | Chebel Hassan Farag | United Arab Republic | 14.95 |
| 4 | Salem El Djirs | Lebanon | 14.36 |
| 5 | Mohamed Ali Abdul Oneim | United Arab Republic | 13.91 |

### Discus throw

20 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Antonios Kounadis | Greece | 55.02 |
| | Dako Radošević | Yugoslavia | 54.01 |
| | Giorgios Tsakanikas | Greece | 47.88 |
| 4 | Dimitrios Karaflas | Greece | 45.88 |
| 5 | Chebel Hassan Farag | United Arab Republic | 45.71 |
| 6 | Afif Boutros | Lebanon | 42.04 |
| 7 | Abadallah Haffez | United Arab Republic | 40.24 |
| 8 | Iskandar Saker | Lebanon | 39.53 |

### Hammer throw

19 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Krešimir Račić | Yugoslavia | 62.26 |
| | Frangiskos Politis | Greece | 55.44 |
| | Andreas Kouvelogiannis | Greece | 53.31 |
| 4 | Michel Skaff | Lebanon | 40.42 |
| 5 | Fabel El Hadji | Lebanon | 36.98 |

### Javelin throw

22 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Léon Syrovatski | France | 74.10 |
| | Božidar Miletić | Yugoslavia | 73.80 |
| | Myron Anifantakis | Greece | 68.80 |
| 4 | Mahmod Mohamed Mahmoud | United Arab Republic | 63.53 |
| 5 | Mohamed Atef Ismail | United Arab Republic | 58.00 |
| 6 | Afif Boutros | Lebanon | 52.97 |
| 7 | Elie Makhoul | Lebanon | 50.88 |

### Decathlon

17–18 October
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | 100m | LJ | SP | HJ | 400m | 110m H | DT | PV | JT | 1500m | Points |
| | Jože Brodnik | Yugoslavia | 11.5 | 6.43 | 13.19 | 1.70 | 52.0 | 15.6 | 39.00 | 3.95 | 64.08 | 4:46.8 | 6581 |
| | Georgios Marsellos | Greece | 11.3 | 6.79 | 11.42 | 1.87 | 54.8 | 14.7 | 35.07 | 3.20 | 46.08 | 5:11.1 | 5908 |
| | Mohamed Saïd Zaki | United Arab Republic | 11.1 | 6.68 | 11.47 | 1.65 | 50.4 | 16.6 | 36.65 | 3.70 | 45.50 | 5:04.6 | 5816 |
| 4 | Aydin Onur | Turkey | 10.9 | 6.65 | 11.50 | 1.60 | 53.6 | 18.6 | 32.66 | 3.80 | 40.25 | 4:47.0 | 5357 |
| | Abdallah Habrachi | United Arab Republic | 12.2 | 6.39 | 9.18 | 1.65 | 54.8 | ? | – | – | – | – | DNF |