# Athletics at the 1971 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 1971 Mediterranean Games were held in İzmir, Turkey.

## Results
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: +0.1 m/s) | Vasilis Papageorgopoulos (GRE) | 10.4 | Mohamed Belkhodja (TUN) | 10.7 | Ivica Karasi (YUG) | 10.7 |
| 200 metres (wind: +0.1 m/s) | Pietro Mennea (ITA) | 20.7 GR | Ivica Karasi (YUG) | 21.2 | Predrag Križan (YUG) | 21.4 |
| 400 metres | Kyriakos Onisiforou (GRE) | 46.9 GR | Giacomo Puosi (ITA) | 47.1 | Luciano Sušanj (YUG) | 47.2 |
| 800 metres | Mansour Guettaya (TUN) | 1:47.6 GR | Jože Međimurec (YUG) | 1:48.1 | Azzedine Azzouzi (ALG) | 1:48.2 |
| 1500 metres | Mansour Guettaya (TUN) | 3:46.5 GR | Franco Arese (ITA) | 3:47.6 | Mehmet Tümkan (TUR) | 3:48.8 |
| 5000 metres | Javier Álvarez (ESP) | 13:37.2 GR | Mohammed Gammoudi (TUN) | 13:40.8 | Jadour Haddou (MAR) | 13:44.0 |
| 10,000 metres | Javier Álvarez (ESP) | 28:52.2 GR | Mariano Haro (ESP) | 28:54.4 | Giuseppe Cindolo (ITA) | 28:59.0 |
| Marathon | Gian Battista Bassi (ITA) | 2:23:33 | Hüseyin Aktaş (TUR) | 2:24.14 | İsmail Akçay (TUR) | 2:28.35 |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.3 m/s) | Guy Drut (FRA) | 13.7 GR | Sergio Liani (ITA) | 14.2 | Efstratios Vassiliou (GRE) | 14.2 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Stavros Tziortzis (GRE) | 51.0 GR | Manuel Soriano (ESP) | 51.2 | Francisco Suárez (ESP) | 51.4 |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Jean-Paul Villain (FRA) | 8:30.0 GR | Spyridon Kondossoros (GRE) | 8:35.4 | Umberto Risi (ITA) | 8:40.8 |
| 4x100 metres relay | Italy Ennio Preatoni Pasqualino Abeti Vincenzo Guerini Pietro Mennea | 39.7 GR | Yugoslavia Ivan Karasi Predrag Križan Miro Kocuvan Luciano Sušanj | 40.5 | Morocco Moulay Ahmed Hasnaoui Omar Ghizlat Omar Chokmane Mohamed El Kheir | 41.1 |
| 4x400 metres relay | Italy Sergio Bello Daniele Giovanardi Lorenzo Cellerino Giacomo Puosi | 3:07.5 GR | Yugoslavia Ivan Karasi Miro Kocuvan Jože Međimurec Luciano Sušanj | 3:08.1 | Morocco Moulay Ahmed Hasnaoui Omar Ghizlat Salah Fettouh Omar Chokmane | 3:08.4 |
| 20 km walk | Pasquale Busca (ITA) | 1:36:55 GR | Victor Campos (ESP) | 1:41:11 | Agustin Jorba (ESP) | 1:47:03 |
| 50 km walk | Abdon Pamich (ITA) | 4:21:21 GR | Vittorio Visini (ITA) | 4:29:19 | Hasan Oz (TUR) | 4:54:06 |
| High jump | Gian Marco Schivo (ITA) | 2.11 m | Ioannis Koussoulas (GRE) | 2.11 m | Dimitrios Patronis (GRE) | 2.08 m |
| Pole vault | Christos Papanikolaou (GRE) | 5.20 m GR | Ignacio Sola (ESP) | 4.70 m | Théodoros Tongas (GRE) | 4.50 m |
| Long jump | Jack Pani (FRA) | 7.90 m GR | Miljenko Rak (YUG) | 7.78 m | Mariano Perez (ESP) | 7.40 m |
| Triple jump | Milan Spasojević (YUG) | 16.18 m | Apostolos Kathiniotis (GRE) | 15.84 m | Jésus Bartholomé (ESP) | 15.68 m |
| Shot put | Nagui Asaad (EGY) | 20.19 m GR | Lahcen Samsam Akka (MAR) | 18.85 m | Yves Brouzet (FRA) | 18.69 m |
| Discus throw | Silvano Simeon (ITA) | 57.64 m GR | Nagui Asaad (EGY) | 54.72 m | Marian Gredelj (YUG) | 54.32 m |
| Hammer throw | Georgios Georgiadis (GRE) | 68.76 m GR | Mario Vecchiato (ITA) | 67.64 m | Srećko Štiglić (YUG) | 66.28 m |
| Javelin throw | Renzo Cramerotti (ITA) | 78.04 m GR | Recep Kalender (TUR) | 61.34 m | Ali Aydin (TUR) | 59.80 m |
| Decathlon | Vassilios Sevastis (GRE) | 7222 pts GR | Rafael Cano (ESP) | 7072 pts | Pedro Pablo Fernandez (ESP) | 6934 pts |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Cecilia Molinari (ITA) | 11.9 | Nicole Pani (FRA) | 12.0 | Michèle Beugnet (FRA) | 12.1 |
| 400 metres | Colette Besson (FRA) | 53.0 | Donata Govoni (ITA) | 54.4 | Josefina Salgado (ESP) | 56.0 |
| 800 metres | Vera Nikolić (YUG) | 2:02.2 | Donata Govoni (ITA) | 2:04.9 | Colette Besson (FRA) | 2:07.2 |
| 1500 metres | Vera Nikolić (YUG) | 4:20.3 | Paola Pigni (ITA) | 4:22.6 | Đurđica Rajher (YUG) | 4:23.0 |
| 100 metres hurdles | Milena Leskovac (YUG) | 14.0 | Ileana Ongar (ITA) | 14.1 | Đurđa Fočić (YUG) | 14.5 |
| 4x100 metres relay | Italy Maddalena Grassano Laura Nappi Ileana Ongar Cecilia Molinari | 45.6 | France Colette Besson Michèle Beugnet Nicole Pani Odette Ducas | 45.6 | Yugoslavia Đurđa Fočić Milena Leskovac Breda Babošek Vera Nikolić | 48.4 |
| High jump | Snežana Hrepevnik (YUG) | 1.77 m GR | Sara Simeoni (ITA) | 1.74 m | Breda Babošek (YUG) | 1.74 m |
| Discus throw | Roberta Grottini (ITA) | 48.90 m | Maria Stella Masocco (ITA) | 47.44 m | Despina Kafenidou (GRE) | 46.06 m |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Turkey)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Italy | 12 | 11 | 2 | 25 |
| 2 | Greece | 6 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| 3 | Yugoslavia | 5 | 5 | 9 | 19 |
| 4 | France | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | Spain | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 |
| 6 | Tunisia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | Egypt | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Turkey* | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 9 | Morocco | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 10 | Algeria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 32 | 32 | 32 | 96 |