Athletics at the 1979 Mediterranean Games – Results explained

These are the partial results of the athletics competition at the 1979 Mediterranean Games taking place between 23 and 28 September 1979 in Split, Yugoslavia.^[1] ^[2]

Men's results

100 meters

Heats – 23 September^[3]
Wind:
Heat 1: +3.6 m/s, Heat 2: +0.5 m/s

Rank	Heat	Time	Notes
1	2	10.15	Q, GR^[4]
2	1	10.33	Q^[5]
3	1	10.52	Q
4	1	10.53	Q
5	1	10.59	Q
6	2	10.62	Q
7	2	10.64	Q
8	2	10.66	Q
9	1	10.74	^[6]
10	1	10.77
11	2	10.82
12	2	10.93
13	1	11.18

Final – 24 September
Wind:
-0.6 m/s

Rank	Lane	Time
	3	10.24
	4	10.47
	2	10.56
4	5	10.70
5	7	10.73
6	8	10.74
7	1	10.79
8	6	10.90

200 meters

Heats – 25 September^[7]
Wind:
Heat 1: ? m/s, Heat 2: +1.7 m/s

Rank	Heat	Time	Notes
1	1	20.85	Q
2	1	21.04	Q
3	1	21.25	Q
4	1	21.26	Q
1	2	21.08	Q
2	2	21.64	Q
3	2	21.76	Q
4	2	22.82	Q

Final – 27 September

Wind: +0.7 m/s

Rank	Lane	Time
	4	20.74
	3	21.02
	7	21.14
4	1	21.14
5	6	21.25
6	8	21.52
7	5	21.63
	2

400 meters

Heats – 23 September^[3]

Rank	Heat	Name	Time	Notes
1	1		46.68	Q^[8]
2	1		46.81	Q
3	1		47.02	Q
4	1		47.09	Q
5	1		47.29
6	2		50.19	Q
7	2		50.51	Q
8	2		50.57	Q
9	1	Darmanin	52.25
10	2		53.09	Q

Final – 25 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			45.89
			46.11
			46.24
4			46.42
5			46.80
6			46.87
7			47.00
8			47.59

800 meters

Heats – 23 September

Rank	Heat	Time	Notes
1	1	1:48.9	Q
2	1	1:49.3	Q
3	1	1:49.6	Q
4	1	1:49.7	Q
5	1	1:50.0
6	1	1:50.38
1	2	1:51.60	Q
2	2	1:51.8	Q
3	2	1:52.1	Q
4	2	1:52.17	Q
5	2	1:52.3

Final – 25 September

Rank	Time	Notes
	1:45.20	GR
	1:46.38
	1:46.66
4	1.46.8
5	1:47.37
6	1:47.79
7	1:48.2
8	1:50.3

1500 meters

Rank	Time	Notes
	3:41.00	GR
	3:41.22
	3:41.40
	3:42.08
	3:42.3
	3:42.7
	3:43.0
	3:44.0
	3:44.3	^[9]
10	3:45.1
11	3:50.41
12	3:50.9

5000 meters

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			13:45.11
			13:47.24
			13:57.55
4			14:06.6
5			14:07.19
6			14:10.6
7			14:16.0
8			14:23.6

10,000 meters

23 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			28:33.08
			28:39.06
			28:59.72
4			29:17.3
5			29:38.7
6			29:55.4
7			29:56.6

Marathon

28 September
The results are unofficial as the distance was 41.3 km, thus shorter than the required 42.195 kilometres.^[10]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			2:06:53*
			2:07:15*
			2:10:11*
			2:11:18*
			2:12:33*
			2:13:56*
			2:14:15*
			2:14:15*
			2:14:50*
10

110 meters hurdles

28 September
Wind: -1.2 m/s^[11]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			13.85
			13.88
			13.92
4			14.05
5			14.09
6			14.14
7			14.33
8			15.05

400 meters hurdles

24 September

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
	3	49.70	GR
	6	50.85
	1	50.90
4	5	51.18
5	3	51.40
6	8	51.41
7	7	52.98

3000 meters steeplechase

27 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			8:24.19
			8:25.75
			8:27.26
4			8:32.59
5			8:33.97
6			8:39.9
7			8:40.6
8			8:55.9
9			8:59.9

4 × 100 meters relay

28 September

Rank	Time	Notes
	39.27	GR
	39.98
	40.53
4	41.12
5	41.33

4 × 400 meters relay

28 September

Rank	Time	Notes
	3:03.67	GR
	3:04.33
	3:04.61
4	3:11.2

20 kilometers walk

24 September

Rank	Time	Notes
	1:23:51	GR
	1:24:18
	1:24:56
4	1:25:31
5	1:28:59
6	1:30:09
7	1:34:56
8	1:37:05

High jump

28 September

Rank	Result	Notes
	2.26	GR
	2.26
	2.20
4	2.20
5	2.17
6	2.17
7	2.17
8	2.14
9	2.14

Pole vault

27 September

Rank	4.80	5.00	5.10	5.20	5.30	5.45	5.50	Result	Notes
					o	xxx		5.30	GR
	–	–	xxo	–	xxo	–	xxx	5.30
	o	o	o	xxx				5.10
4								5.00
5								4.80

Long jump

27 September

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	8.09	8.01	8.04	7.89	8.21	8.10	8.21	GR^[12]
	7.63	8.04	7.68	7.77	x	x	8.04
							7.62
4							7.59
5							7.51
6							7.29
7							7.10

Triple jump

27 September

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
							16.90	GR
							16.55
							16.55
4							16.50
5							16.37
6	x	15.77	15.44	16.18	16.16	16.35	16.35
7							15.65
8							15.44

Shot put

24 September

Rank	Result	Notes
	20.58	GR
	19.70
	19.13
4	18.93
5	18.46
6	17.91
7	17.20
8	15.00

Discus throw

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
			57.96
			56.06
			55.06
4			54.84
5			53.38
6			52.90
7			46.12

Hammer throw

25 September

Rank	Result	Notes
	69.92	GR
	69.42
	68.56
4	63.56
5	61.94

Javelin throw

Rank	Result	Notes
	81.08	GR
	78.42
	76.72
4	74.44
5	65.52

Decathlon

24–25 September^[13]

Rank	100m	LJ	SP	HJ	400m	110m H	DT	PV	JT	1500m	Points	Notes
	11.35	7.30	14.17	2.09	49.85	15.46	41.32	4.15	63.30	4:44.2	7744	GR
	11.30	6.90	13.39	1.86	49.50	16.08	41.58	3.70	64.06	4:33.7	7345
	11.56	7.30	13.44	1.97	51.30	15.36	41.60	3.30	57.30	4:24.3	7327
4	11.72	6.64	13.52	1.89	52.31	15.76	39.60	4.30	57.62	4:40.2	7135
5	11.81	6.55	12.92	1.86	53.17	16.60	34.22	3.40	55.18	4:39.00	6548
6	11.52	7.19	11.07	1.89	52.64	17.32	33.82	4.00	44.34	4:54.8	6522
	11.29	7.26	13.56	2.01	53.03	15.34	39.84

Women's results

100 meters

Heats – 24 September
Wind:
Heat 1: +0.6 m/s, Heat 2: ? m/s

Rank	Heat	Time	Notes
1	2	11.79	Q
1	1	11.80	Q
2	2	11.92	Q
4	1	12.22	q

Final – 24 September
Wind:
-1.0 m/s

Rank	Time	Notes
	11.48	GR
	11.66
	11.67
4	11.71
5	11.97
6	12.13
7	12.23
8	12.26

200 meters

27 September
Wind:
+1.2 m/s

Rank	Lane	Time
	2	23.26
	4	23.37
	1	24.03
4	3	24.64
5	8	24.64
6	7	24.97
	6

400 meters

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			52.96
			54.57
			54.93
4			56.75

800 meters

25 September

Rank	Time	Notes
	2:01.78	GR
	2:03.73
	2:04.03
4	2:07.2
5	2:08.6
6	2:09.4
7	2:11.7

1500 meters

28 September

Rank	Time	Notes
	4:06.71	GR
	4:07.07
	4:10.60
4	4:15.4
5	4:16.5
6	4:16.8
7	4:17.5
8	4:18.3

100 meters hurdles

Wind: -3.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			13.87
			14.33
			14.65
4			14.73
5			14.81
6			14.97

4 × 100 meters relay

28 September

Rank	Lane	Time	Notes
	3	44.58	GR
	1	45.32
	2	46.17
4	4	46.23

4 × 400 meters relay

28 September

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
			3:38.91
			3:56.84

High jump

25 September

Rank	1.60	1.70	1.75	1.81	1.84	1.90	1.95	1.98	2.02	Result	Notes
	–	–	–	–	o	o	o	xo	xxx	1.98	GR^[14]
										1.81
										1.75
4										1.75
5										1.70
6										1.70
7										1.60

Long jump

24 September

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
							6.32	GR
							6.20
	5.85	5.77	x	6.06	5.74	6.03	6.06
4							6.04
5							5.89
6							5.72
7							5.69

Shot put

Rank	Result	Notes
	16.80	GR
	16.69
	16.17
4	15.34
5	15.07

Discus throw

23 September

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	44.56	49.06	52.92	x	51.12	51.46	52.92	GR^[15]
							49.24
							48.82
4							45.88
5	40.34	43.26	43.04	x	x	41.36	43.26
6							42.54
7							42.34

Javelin throw

Rank	Result	Notes
	57.96	GR
	57.06
	54.50
4	52.00
5	50.92
6	45.62

Pentathlon

^[16]

Rank	100m H	SP	HJ	LJ	800m	Points	Notes
	13.69	13.13	1.78	6.10	2:20.0	4424	^[17]
	14.39	13.68	1.72	5.58	2:21.1	4180
	14.44	10.54	1.72	5.91	2:26.0	3994
4	15.10	9.50	1.80	5.75	2:28.6	3862
5	15.14	8.38	1.74	5.76	2:17.8	3852	NR

Notes and References

http://www.cijm.org.gr/images/stories/pdf/JM1979.pdf Results
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6419718b/f26.item.zoom L'Athletisme
News: Day 1 results . 25 November 2020 . . 24 September 1979 . 37 . Spanish.
https://digilander.libero.it/Mennea/Stagionali/WRL/1979/100.htm 100 m year list
Web site: Annuario dell'ATLETICA 2010. 2010-05-01. 2020-10-31. 484. 2021-08-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20210828003321/http://asdpedaggio-castiglionetorinese.com/files/annuario-fidal.pdf. dead.
https://www.rfea.es/historia/seleccion/al_mediterraneo_actuaciones.pdf Spanish results
News: Day 2 results . 25 November 2020 . . 26 September 1979 . 24 . Spanish.
News: Mennea continua a volare: 10"15 . 4 November 2020 . . 24 September 1979 . 23 . Italian.
Web site: French results . 2020-06-27 . 2020-06-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200623131942/http://cdm.athle.com/upload/ssites/001059/jeux%20mediterraneens/annee26092018.pdf . dead .
Web site: ARRS results . 5 December 2018.
https://digilander.libero.it/Mennea/Stagionali/WRL/1979/110h.htm 110 m hurdles year list
News: Medalla de plata para Ramón y de bronce para Oriol . 25 November 2020 . . 28 September 1979 . 21 . Spanish.
https://www.decathlon2000.com/upload/file/pdf/rpt10M1979.pdf Decathlon results
News: Poca gloria aporto la segunda sesión atletica . 25 November 2020 . . 26 September 1979 . 21 . Spanish.
News: Aburrimiento enla apertura del atletismo . 25 November 2020 . . 24 September 1979 . 13 . Spanish.
Web site: Spanish combined events records . 2020-12-10 . 2020-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200328113444/https://www.rfea.es/records/libro_recordsESP_AL/21_mujeres_combinadas.pdf . dead .
http://gilles.follereau.pagesperso-orange.fr/Bilan/grdchamp.htm French combined events results