page_title: Athletics at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
section_title: Medal table
hierarchical_section_title: Athletics at the 1997 Mediterranean Games / Medal table
caption_attribution_description: Српски / srpski: Оливера Јевтић на дочеку у родном Ужицу, након повратка из Гетеборга у Шведској, где је освојила сребрну медаљу у маратону на Европском првенству у августу 2006. English: Olivera Jevtić in her hometown Užice upon her arrival from Goeteborg, Sweden, where she won European Championship marathon silver medal.
context_page_description: At the 1997 Mediterranean Games, the athletics events were held at the Stadio San Nicola in Bari, Italy from 15–19 June 1997. A total of forty-three events were contested, of which 23 by male and 20 by female athletes. A total of 24 Games records were broken or equalled during the competition.
  The host country, Italy, topped the medal table with twelve gold medals and a total haul of 36 medals – by far the largest. France was the second most successful nation with ten golds and 23 medals, while Greece with seven golds and 19 overall. Morocco, Algeria, Spain and Slovenia also featured prominently on the podiums. Fourteen nations had medal winning athletes in the competition.
  Greece won both the 100 metres titles through Angelos Pavlakakis and Ekaterini Thanou, both of whom ran meet record times. Christine Arron won the women's 200 metres and 4×100 metres relay for France. Morocco's Nezha Bidouane took the women's 400 metres hurdles title, an event in which she would later win at the 1997 World Championships.
context_section_description:  Host nation (Italy)
caption: A 19-year-old Olivera Jevtić was one of two Yugoslavian medallists.
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