At the 2001 Mediterranean Games

2001 Mediterranean Games

The 14th edition of the Mediterranean Games were held in Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia, from 2 to 15 September 2001. Twenty three nations competed in 23 different sporting events. France won the most gold medals in the competition while Italy had the greatest medal haul overall with 136 in...

, the athletics events were held in Tunis

Tunis

Tunis is the capital of both the Tunisian Republic and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds some 2,412,500 inhabitants....

 and Radès

Radès

Radès is a harbour city in Ben Arous Governorate, Tunisia. Situated 9 kilometres south-east of the capital Tunis, some consider it a Tunis suburb, and parts of the harbour installations of Tunis are located in Radès....

 in Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

 from 11 to 14 September 2001

2001 in athletics (track and field)

This article contains an overview of the sport of athletics, including track and field, cross country and road running, in the year 2001.The foremost competition of the season was the 2001 World Championships in Athletics in Edmonton, Canada...

. Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 topped the medal table with 9 gold medal

Gold medal

A gold medal is typically the medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture...

s and 30 medals in total, shortly followed by France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 which also had 9 golds but 23 medals overall. Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 had the next greatest medal haul and the hosts Tunisia won 9 medals, two of which were gold. A total of 10 new Games records were set during the competition.

A total of 46 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 23 by female athletes. This was the first time that the male and female event programmes had reached parity as a number of new events were introduced for women, including: 3000 metres steeplechase, pole vault

Pole vault

Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

 and hammer throw

Hammer throw

The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...

. Two women's events were modified: the javelin model was changed and the 10 km racewalk was extended to a 20 kilometres racewalk. This was also the final time that marathon

Marathon

The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

 races were held at the Mediterranean Games

Mediterranean Games

The Mediterranean Games are a multi-sport games held every four years, mainly for nations bordering the Mediterranean Sea, where Europe, Africa and Asia meet. The idea was proposed at the 1948 Summer Olympics by Muhammed Taher Pasha, chairman of the Egyptian Olympic Committee, and they were first...

 as they were replace by the half marathon

Half marathon

A half marathon is a road running event of . It is half the distance of a marathon and usually run on roads. Participation in half marathons has grown steadily recently. One of the main reasons for this is that it is a challenging distance, but does not require the same level of training that a...

 from 2005

2005 Mediterranean Games

The XVth Mediterranean Games Almería 2005, commonly known as the 2005 Mediterranean Games were the 15th Mediterranean Games. The Games were held in Almería, Spain over 10 days, from 24 June to 3 July 2005, where 3,214 athletes from 21 countries participated...

 onwards.

Records

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Men's events
Manuel Martínez	Shot put Shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....		21.03 m	GR
Diego Fortuna Diego Fortuna Diego Fortuna is a retired male discus thrower from Italy, who represented his native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics . He won the men's discus throw event at the 2001 Mediterranean Games, and set his personal best on June 24, 2000 at a meet in Ravenna.-Achievements:-References:*...	Discus throw Discus throw The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...		64.40 m	GR
Nicola Vizzoni Nicola Vizzoni Nicola Vizzoni is a male hammer thrower from Italy. He won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and ten years after at the 2010 European Athletics Championships...	Hammer throw Hammer throw The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...		78.49 m	GR
Women's events
Asmae Leghzaoui Asmae Leghzaoui Asmae Leghzaoui is a Moroccan athletics middle distance runner. She is a two-time Olympian for Morocco.In 1999, Leghzaoui made a running breakthrough by improving her 3000 metres personal best by a minute and breaking the World record for the 10K road race...	10,000 metres		31:16.94	GR
Élodie Olivarès	3000 metres steeplechase†		9:44.68	GR
Patricia Girard	100 metres hurdles 100 metres hurdles The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...		12.82	GR
Dana Cervantes	Pole vault Pole vault Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts... †		4.10	GR
Florence Ezeh Florence Ezeh Florence Edem Apefa Ezeh is a female hammer thrower from Togo, who previously represented France during her career. She set her personal best on August 9, 2002 at the European Championships in Munich. Ezeh attended the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.-Achievements:-References:...	Hammer throw Hammer throw The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown... †		64.59	GR
Claudia Coslovich Claudia Coslovich -Career:Claudia Coslovich is an Italian athlete who specializes in the javelin throw. Her personal best was 65.30 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Ljubljana. She is a member of the Slovene ethnic minority of Friuli - Venezia Giulia.-Achievements:-External links:...	Javelin throw Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon... †		62.02	GR
Erica Alfridi Erica Alfridi Erica Alfridi is an Italian race walker.-Achievements:-External links:...	20 kilometres race walk 20 kilometres race walk The 20 kilometre race walk is an Olympic athletics event that is competed by both men and women. The racewalking event is competed as a road race... †		1:36:47	GR
Key: WR — World record AR — Area record GR — Games record NR — National record

• † = New event or model

Men

100 metres Wind: 2.5 m/s		10.14w		10.15w		10.21w
200 metres		20.60		20.60		20.72
400 metres		45.56		46.33		46.87
800 metres		1:49.21		1:49.42		1:49.48
1500 metres		3:46.45		3:47.55		3:47.97
5000 metres		14:06.30		14:06.73		14:07.20
10,000 metres		28:58.97		29:00.47		29:13.36
110 metre hurdles		13.62		13.89		13.90
400 metre hurdles		50.21		50.35		50.75
3000 metre steeplechase		8:31.31		8:34.94		8:35.32
4×100 metre relay	Italy	39.14	France	39.73	Spain	40.00
4×400 metre relay	Greece	3:07.28	Algeria	3:07.50	France	3:07.87
Marathon		2:21:07		2:22:25		2:22:56
20 km walk		1:26:43		1:28:43		1:29:18
High jump		2.25 m		2.19 m		2.19 m
Pole vault		5.45 m		5.40 m		5.40 m
Long jump		8.08 m		8.07 m (w)		7.93 m (w)
Triple jump		17.05 m		16.58 m (w)		16.41 m (w)
Shot put		21.03 m GR		20.60 m		19.42 m
Discus throw		64.40 m GR		63.85 m		63.71 m
Hammer throw		78.49 m GR		76.98 m		71.52 m
Javelin throw		80.88 m		77.58 m		76.12 m
Decathlon		7773		7530		7522

Women

100 metres		11.25		11.25		11.45
200 metres Wind: 2.6 m/s		22.86 w		23.18 w		23.50 w
400 metres		52.90		52.96		53.77
800 metres		2:04.28		2:04.91		2:04.98
1500 metres		4:10.33		4:10.69		4:12.03
5000 metres		15:26.33		15:29.35		15:40.61
10,000 metres		31:16.94 GR		31:33.08		32:29.20
100 metre hurdles		12.82 GR		13.04		13.31
400 metre hurdles		57.02		57.22		57.51
3000 metres steeplechase		9:44.68 GR		10:05.90		10:18.31
4×100 metre relay	France	44.40	Italy	44.89	Greece	44.97
4×400 metre relay	France	3:34.28	Italy	3:38.90	Greece	3:42.22
Marathon		2:40:49		2:43:18		2:46:03
20 km walk		1:36:47 GR		1:36:47		1:37:14
High jump		1.90 m		1.87 m		1.87 m
Pole vault		4.10 m GR		4.00 m		3.90 m
Long jump		6.48 m		6.41 m		6.14 m
Triple jump		14.30 m (w)		13.97 m (w)		13.72 m (w)
Shot put		17.23 m		16.97 m		16.55 m
Discus throw		61.42 m		57.38 m		56.44 m
Hammer throw		64.59 m GR		64.13 m		62.87 m
Javelin throw		62.02 m GR		58.16 m		55.19 m
Heptathlon		5833 pts		5764 pts		5670 pts

Medal table

Key:

1	Italy	9	14	7	30
2	France	9	6	8	23
3	Greece	5	6	6	17
4	Algeria	5	3	1	9
5	Turkey	5	2	2	9
6	Morocco	4	5	1	10
7	Spain	4	3	8	15
8	Tunisia	2	2	5	9
9	Croatia	2	2	1	5
10	Cyprus	1	0	1	2
11		0	2	2	4
12	Slovenia	0	1	1	2
13=	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	1	1
13=	Egypt	0	0	1	1
13=	Libya	0	0	1	1
Total		46	46	46	138