At the 1993 Mediterranean Games, the athletics events were held in Narbonne, Languedoc-Roussillon, France from 17–24 June 1993. A total of 36 events were contested, of which 20 by male and 16 by female athletes.

The host nation France easily topped the medal table, taking 15 gold medals and 38 medals overall (over a third of the total). Italy was the next most successful nation, with six golds among its 16 medals. Greece and Morocco was third and fourth, respectively, each having won four gold medals. Of the thirteen nations who entered athletes into the tournament, only Albania and Cyprus did not reach the medal table.^[1]

The event programme was reduced for the 1993 games: the women's 4×400 metres relay and the men's hammer throw, decathlon and 20 kilometres walk competitions were not held that year. The women's marathon was contested for the first time, while the women's 3000 metres was held for the last time (later being replaced by the 5000 metres event).^[2]

Noureddine Morceli won the men's 1500 metres in a time of 3:29.20 minutes – the second fastest time at that point, after his own world record.^[3] He was one of eight athletes to break a Mediterranean Games record at the 1993 edition. Zid Abou Hamed set both a games and Syrian national record in the men's 400 metres hurdles. The marathon races saw Davide Milesi and Helena Javornik establish new bests. Greek runner Alexandros Terzian broke the men's 100 metres record, while a new best of 6256 points for the heptathlon was set by Nathalie Teppe (also the javelin throw gold medallist).^[2]

The competition was part of the buildup to the 1993 World Championships in Athletics. Morceli and Fermín Cacho repeated their Mediterranean 1–2 in the men's 1500 m, but reigning women's Olympic champion Hassiba Boulmerka (800 m winner and 1500 m runner-up in Narbonne) was relegated to the bronze medal in her final. The Mediterranean and Olympic champion in the 10,000 metres, Khalid Skah, was out of the medal in the world 5000 m final.^[4]

The event saw future Olympic champions Konstantinos Kenteris, Jean Galfione and Ghada Shouaa get their first senior outdoor medals. Brigita Bukovec went on to an Olympic silver in 1996 after her 100 metres hurdles win in Narbonne, while Nezha Bidouane defended her Mediterranean 400 m hurdles title and would later become a double world champion in the event.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +1.4 m/s)	Alexandros Terzian (GRE)	10.20	Jean-Charles Trouabal (FRA)	10.24	Daniel Sangouma (FRA)	10.35
200 metres (wind: -1.8 m/s)	Daniel Sangouma (FRA)	20.76	Alexandros Terzian (GRE)	20.87	Mohamed El Kandoussi (MAR)	21.04
400 metres	Konstantinos Kenteris (GRE)	45.70	Jean-Louis Rapnouil (FRA)	45.91	Benyounés Lahlou (MAR)	45.91
800 metres	Mahjoub Haïda (MAR)	1:48.70	Fotis Deligiannis (GRE)	1:49.03	Réda Abdenouz (ALG)	1:49.45
1500 metres	Noureddine Morceli (ALG)	3:29.20 GR	Fermín Cacho (ESP)	3:32.43	Rachid El Basir (MAR)	3:37.30
5000 metres	Thierry Pantel (FRA)	13:39.04	Aïssa Belaout (ALG)	13:41.65	Mohammed Mourhit (MAR)	13:50.12
10,000 metres	Khalid Skah (MAR)	28:46.38	Hammou Boutayeb (MAR)	28:49.94	Vincenzo Modica (ITA)	28:55.97
110 metres hurdles	Dan Philibert (FRA)	13.62	Stelios Bisbas (GRE)	13.67	Mustapha Sdad (MAR)	13.80
400 metres hurdles	Zid Abou Hamed (SYR)	49.09 GR, NR	Giorgio Frinolli (ITA)	49.51	Fadhel Khayati (TUN)	49.94
3000 metres steeplechase	Abdelaziz Sahere (MAR)	8:25.74	Azzedine Brahmi (ALG)	8:28.87	Thierry Brusseau (FRA)	8:33.27
4×100 metres relay	France (FRA) Max Morinière Daniel Sangouma Jean-Charles Trouabal Bruno Marie-Rose	38.96	Greece (GRE) Alexandros Yenovelis Georgios Panagiotopoulos Alexios Alexopoulos Alexandros Terzian	39.26	Spain (ESP) Luis Turón Pedro Pablo Nolet Jordi Mayoral José Rivas	39.90
4×400 metres relay	France (FRA) André Jaffory Pierre-Marie Hilaire Stéphane Diagana Jean-Louis Rapnouil	3:02.99 GR	Morocco (MAR) Ali Dahane Abdellah Boukraa Abdelkader El Boukhari Benyounés Lahlou	3:04.79	Italy (ITA) Maurizio Federici Vito Petrella Gianrico Boncompagni Alessandro Aimar	3:05.11
Marathon	Davide Milesi (ITA)	2:18:42 GR	Cihangir Demirel (TUR)	2:18:43	Marco Toini (ITA)	2:18:59
High jump	Jean-Charles Gicquel (FRA)	2.26 m	Gustavo Becker (ESP)	2.23 m	Miha Prijon (SLO)	2.23 m
Pole vault	Stavros Tsitouras (GRE)	5.55 m	Thierry Vigneron (FRA)	5.50 m	Jean Galfione (FRA)	5.35 m
Long jump	Spyridon Vasdekis (GRE)	8.03 m (w)	Georgios Zabetakis (GRE)	7.91 m	Serge Hélan (FRA)	7.89 m (w)
Triple jump	Pierre Camara (FRA)	17.03 m	Georges Sainte-Rose (FRA)	17.00 m (w)	Lotfi Khaïda (ALG)	16.88 m (w)
Shot put	Paolo Dal Soglio (ITA)	20.22 m	Alessandro Andrei (ITA)	19.37 m	Dimitrios Koutsoukis (GRE)	18.83 m
Discus throw	Luciano Zerbini (ITA)	60.90 m	Jean Pons (FRA)	57.58 m	Jean-Claude Retel (FRA)	57.22 m
Javelin throw	Ivan Mustapić (CRO)	79.46 m GR	Fabio De Gaspari (ITA)	77.18 m	Konstadinos Gatsioudis (GRE)	77.00 m

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.8 m/s)	Magali Simioneck (FRA)	11.39	Odiah Sidibé (FRA)	11.49	Ekaterini Koffa (GRE)	11.71
200 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s)	Maguy Nestoret (FRA)	23.42	Valérie Jean-Charles (FRA)	23.45	Donatella Dal Bianco (ITA)	24.12
400 metres	Elsa Devassoigne (FRA)	52.44	Francine Landre (FRA)	52.95	Francesca Carbone (ITA)	53.78
800 metres	Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG)	2:03.86	Fabia Trabaldo (ITA)	2:04.05	Amaia Andrés (ESP)	2:05.16
1500 metres	Frédérique Quentin (FRA)	4:11.09	Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG)	4:11.09	Farida Fatès (FRA)	4:12.60
3000 metres	Valentina Tauceri (ITA)	9:00.10	Annette Sergent-Palluy (FRA)	9:02.96	Julia Vaquero (ESP)	9:04.99
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.8 m/s)	Brigita Bukovec (SLO)	13.10	Cécile Cinélu (FRA)	13.17	Patricia Girard (FRA)	13.19
400 metres hurdles	Nezha Bidouane (MAR)	56.09	Nadia Zétouani (MAR)	57.04	Carole Nelson (FRA)	57.45
4×100 metres relay	France (FRA) Patricia Girard Odiah Sidibé Maguy Nestoret Valérie Jean-Charles	43.55	Italy (ITA) Elisabetta Birolini Giuseppina Perlino Annarita Balzani Laura Ardissone	45.62	Spain (ESP) Ana Barrenechea Carmen García Patricia Morales Mireia Ruiz	45.93
Marathon	Helena Javornik (SLO)	2:42:58 GR	Marie-Hélène Ohier (FRA)	2:43:26	Sylviane Geffray (FRA)	2:43:40
High jump	Britta Bilač (SLO)	1.92 m	Nathalie Lefebvre (FRA)	1.87 m	María Mar Martínez (ESP)	1.84 m
Long jump	Corinne Hérigault (FRA)	6.54 m (w)	Ksenija Predikaka (SLO)	6.51 m (w)	Silvija Babić (CRO)	6.45 m (w)
Shot put	Agnese Maffeis (ITA)	17.04 m	Nataša Erjavec (SLO)	16.88 m	Margarita Ramos (ESP)	16.86 m
Discus throw	Agnese Maffeis (ITA)	57.16 m	Ekaterini Voggoli (GRE)	56.10 m	Monia Kari (TUN)	55.38 m
Javelin throw	Nathalie Teppe (FRA)	60.90 m	Nadine Auzeil (FRA)	59.68 m	Renata Strašek (SLO)	59.04 m
Heptathlon	Nathalie Teppe (FRA)	6256 pts GR	Ghada Shouaa (SYR)	6168 pts	Odile Lesage (FRA)	5888 pts

Medal table

  *   Host nation (France)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France*	15	13	10	38
2	Italy	6	5	5	16
3	Greece	4	6	3	13
4	Morocco	4	3	5	12
5	Slovenia	3	2	2	7
6	Algeria	2	3	2	7
7	Syria	1	1	0	2
8	Croatia	1	0	1	2
9	Spain	0	2	6	8
10	Turkey	0	1	0	1
11	Tunisia	0	0	2	2
Totals (11 entries)		36	36	36	108

Participation

Thirteen of the nineteen nations participating at the games entered athletes into the athletics competition.^[1]