Athletics at the 2005 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Dates	29 June to 2 July 2005
Host city	Almeria, Spain
Venue	Mediterraneo Stadium
Events	47
Participation	432 athletes from 20 nations
Records set	9
← 2001 Radès 2009 Pescara → 2005 Mediterranean Games

The athletics competition at the 2005 Mediterranean Games was held in the Mediterraneo Stadium in Almería, Spain from 29 June to 2 July 2005. France topped the medal tally with 10 golds and 30 medals overall, with host nation Italy coming in second with 9 golds and 26 medals overall.

A total of 47 events were contested, with 24 contested by male athletes and 23 contested by female athletes. The 3000 metres steeplechase and 1500 metres wheelchair (males only), and the 800 metres wheelchair (females only) were the only events that were not held for both genders. The 2005 Games also marked the replacement of the marathon event with the half marathon.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Matic Osovnikar (SLO)	10.35	Lueyi Dovy (FRA)	10.40	Marco Torrieri (ITA)	10.46
200 metres	Matic Osovnikar (SLO)	20.75	Alessandro Attene (ITA)	20.97	Josip Šoprek (CRO)	21.02
400 metres	Sofiane Labidi (TUN)	45.60	Željko Vincek (CRO)	45.90	Ridha Ghali (TUN)	45.95
800 metres	Antonio Reina (ESP)	1:47.03	Eugenio Barrios (ESP)	1:47.36	Amine Laâlou (MAR)	1:47.58
1500 metres	Arturo Casado (ESP)	3:45.61	Adil Kaouch (MAR)	3:45.78	Christian Obrist (ITA)	3:45.88
5000 metres	Ali Saïdi-Sief (ALG)	13:29.94	Hicham Bellani (MAR)	13:30.35	Khoudir Aggoune (ALG)	13:30.54
10000 metres	Mohammed Amyn (MAR)	29:13.05	Carles Castillejo (ESP)	29:13.91	El Hassan Lahssini (FRA)	29:15.86
Half Marathon	Saïd Belhout (ALG)	1:05:01	Abdelkebir Lamachi (MAR)	1:05:05	José Manuel Martínez (ESP)	1:05:12
3000 m steeplechase	Brahim Boulami (MAR)	8:15.15 GR	Antonio David Jiménez (ESP)	8:24.47	Gaël Pencreach (FRA)	8:25.82
110 m hurdles	Felipe Vivancos (ESP)	13.53 GR	Andrea Giaconi (ITA)	13.69	Jurica Grabušić (CRO)	13.73
400 m hurdles	Gianni Carabelli (ITA)	49.32	Laurent Ottoz (ITA)	49.41	Platon Gavelas (GRE)	49.99
4 × 100 m relay	Italy Luca Verdecchia Alessandro Attene Massimiliano Donati Marco Torrieri	39.13	France Frédéric Krantz Ydrissa M'Barke Christophe Cheval Jimmy Melfort	39.49	Slovenia Matjaž Borovina Matic Osovnikar Boštjan Fridrih Jan Žumer	39.57
4 × 400 m relay	Spain David Canal David Testa Eugenio Barrios Antonio Reina	3:03.65	France Abderrahim El Haouzy Ahmed Douhou Remi Wallard Richard Maunier	3:04.84	Tunisia Ridha Ghali Laroussi Titi Kamel Tabbal Sofiane Labidi	3:06.13
20 km walk	Paquillo Fernández (ESP)	1:22:45 GR	Juan Manuel Molina (ESP)	1:24:11	Michele Didoni (ITA)	1:26:06
High jump	Kyriakos Ioannou (CYP)	2.24 m	Ioannis Constantinou (CYP)	2.21 m	Grégory Gabella (FRA)	2.21 m
Pole vault	Konstantinos Filippidis (GRE)	5.60 m	Pierre-Charles Peuf (FRA)	5.55 m	Jérôme Clavier (FRA)	5.55 m
Long jump	Salim Sdiri (FRA)	8.05 m	Issam Nima (ALG)	7.92 m	Asterios Nousios (GRE)	7.91 m
Triple jump	Hristos Meletoglou (GRE)	17.09 m	Tarik Bouguetaïb (MAR)	17.00 m	Sébastien Pincemail (FRA)	16.73 m
Shot put	Edis Elkasević (CRO)	20.26 m	Manuel Martínez (ESP)	19.97 m	Hamza Alić (BIH)	19.49 m
Discus	Mario Pestano (ESP)	63.96 m	Igor Primc (SLO)	59.27 m	Ercüment Olgundeniz (TUR)	54.90 m
Hammer	Eşref Apak (TUR)	77.88 m	Alexandros Papadimitriou (GRE)	75.57 m	Nicolas Figère (FRA)	75.30 m
Javelin	Vitolio Tipotio (FRA)	75.20 m	Francesco Pignata (ITA)	74.51 m	Firas Al-Mohammed (SYR)	73.49 m
Decathlon	Romain Barras (FRA)	8127 pts	Rudy Bourguignon (FRA)	7886 pts	Hamdi Dhouibi (TUN)	7847 pts
1500 m wheelchair	Éric Teurnier (FRA)	3:23.71	Roger Puigbò (ESP)	3:24.16	Maamar Rachif (ALG)	3:27.28

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Véronique Mang (FRA)	11.44	Sylviane Félix (FRA)	11.46	Kristina Žumer (SLO)	11.63
200 metres	Alenka Bikar (SLO)	23.65	Lina Jacques-Sébastien (FRA)	23.75	Fabé Dia (FRA)	23.78
400 metres	Dimitra Dova (GRE)	52.67	Phara Anacharsis (FRA)	52.70	Klodiana Shala (ALB)	53.23 NR
800 metres	Laetitia Valdonado (FRA)	2:01:71	Élisabeth Grousselle (FRA)	2:02:47	Binnaz Uslu (TUR)	2:02:68
1500 metres	Fatma Lanouar (TUN)	4:10.77	Sonja Stolić (SCG)	4:10:92	Nuria Fernández (ESP)	4:11:20
5000 metres	Margaret Maury (FRA)	15:22.59	Asmae Leghzaoui (MAR)	15:23.30	Silvia Weissteiner (ITA)	15:28.50
10000 metres	Souad Aït Salem (ALG)	32:55.48	Asmae Leghzaoui (MAR)	32:59.24	Olivera Jevtić (SCG)	33:30.4
Half Marathon	Zhor El Kamch (MAR)	1:13:50	Rosaria Console (ITA)	1:15:40	Olivera Jevtić (SCG)	1:16:32
100 m hurdles	Glory Alozie (ESP)	12.90	Adrianna Lamalle (FRA)	12.99	Flora Redoumi (GRE)	13.16
400 m hurdles	Benedetta Ceccarelli (ITA)	55.76	Cora Olivero (ESP)	55.85	Monika Niederstätter (ITA)	56.39
4 × 100 m relay	France Véronique Mang Lina Jacques-Sébastien Fabé Dia Carima Louami	43.75	Spain Carme Blay Belén Recio Cristina Sanz Glory Alozie	44.47	Italy Elena Sordelli Daniela Bellanova Manuela Grillo Doris Tomasini	45.18
4 × 400 m relay	Spain Julia Alba Belén Recio Cora Olivero Mayte Martínez	3:31.45	France Phara Anacharsis Laetitia Valdonado Olivia Abderrhamanne Élisabeth Grousselle	3:31.86	Turkey Özge Gürler Birsen Bekgöz Binnaz Uslu Pınar Saka	3:40.75
20 km walk	Elisa Rigaudo (ITA)	1:32:44 GR	María Vasco (ESP)	1:34:28	Beatriz Pascual (ESP)	1:36:27
High jump	Ruth Beitia (ESP)	1.95 m	Melanie Skotnik (FRA)	1.95 m	Marta Mendía (ESP)	1.89 m
Pole vault	Vanessa Boslak (FRA)	4.40 m GR	Anna Fitídou (CYP)	4.25 m	Afroditi Skafida (GRE)	4.15 m
Long jump	Fiona May (ITA)	6.64 m	Niurka Montalvo (ESP)	6.55 m	Concepción Montaner (ESP)	6.49 m
Triple jump	Baya Rahouli (ALG)	14.98 m GR	Carlota Castrejana (ESP)	14.60 m	Hrysopiyi Devetzi (GRE)	14.33 m
Shot put	Cristiana Checchi (ITA)	18.59 m GR	Laurence Manfredi (FRA)	17.47 m	Chiara Rosa (ITA)	17.34 m
Discus	Dragana Tomašević (SCG)	62.10 m	Laura Bordignon (ITA)	57.98 m	Vera Begić (CRO)	56.53 m
Hammer	Ester Balassini (ITA)	71.17 m GR	Clarissa Claretti (ITA)	69.24 m	Alexandra Papageorgiou (GRE)	67.13 m
Javelin	Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi (GRE)	62.61 m GR	Zahra Bani (ITA)	62.36 m	Mercedes Chilla (ESP)	57.69 m
Heptathlon	Marie Collonvillé (FRA)	6017 pts	Argyro Strataki (GRE)	5943 pts	Anzhela Atroshchenko (TUR)	5870 pts
800 m wheelchair	Samira Berri (TUN)	2:00.16	Messaouda Sifi (TUN)	2:02.58	Christina Sanna (ITA)	2:07.42

Medal table

Place	Nation				Total
1	France	10	13	7	30
2	Spain	9	11	6	26
3	Italy	7	8	8	23
4	Greece	4	2	6	12
5	Algeria	4	1	2	7
6	Morocco	3	6	1	10
7	Tunisia	3	1	3	7
8	Slovenia	3	1	2	6
9	Cyprus	1	2	0	3
10	Croatia	1	1	3	5
11	Serbia and Montenegro	1	1	2	4
12	Turkey	1	0	4	5
13	Albania	0	0	1	1
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
	Syria	0	0	1	1
Total		47	47	47	141

Participating nations

References

• gbrathletics
• Results^{[permanent dead link]}