Athletics at the 1959 Mediterranean Games
Dates	19–23 October
Host city	Beirut
Venue	Camille Chamoun Stadium
Events	23
Participation	131 athletes from 9 nations
← 1955 Barcelona 1963 Naples → 1959 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 1959 Mediterranean Games were held in Beirut, Lebanon.^[1]

Results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		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

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		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
	Turkey	1	1	0	2
7	United Arab Republic	0	1	7	8
8	Tunisia	0	1	0	1
Totals (8 entries)		23	23	22	68

Participating nations