Athletics at the 1971 Mediterranean Games
Dates	12 – 17 October
Host city	İzmir
Venue	Atatürk Stadium
Events	24 + 8
Participation	12 nations
← 1967 Tunis 1975 Algiers → 1971 Mediterranean Games

Athletics at the 1971 Mediterranean Games were held in İzmir, Turkey.^[1]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.1 m/s)	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos (GRE)	10.4	Mohamed Belkhodja (TUN)	10.7	Ivica Karasi (YUG)	10.7
200 metres (wind: +0.1 m/s)	Pietro Mennea (ITA)	20.7 GR	Ivica Karasi (YUG)	21.2	Predrag Križan (YUG)	21.4
400 metres	Kyriakos Onisiforou (GRE)	46.9 GR	Giacomo Puosi (ITA)	47.1	Luciano Sušanj (YUG)	47.2
800 metres	Mansour Guettaya (TUN)	1:47.6 GR	Jože Međimurec (YUG)	1:48.1	Azzedine Azzouzi (ALG)	1:48.2
1500 metres	Mansour Guettaya (TUN)	3:46.5 GR	Franco Arese (ITA)	3:47.6	Mehmet Tümkan (TUR)	3:48.8
5000 metres	Javier Álvarez (ESP)	13:37.2 GR	Mohammed Gammoudi (TUN)	13:40.8	Jadour Haddou (MAR)	13:44.0
10,000 metres	Javier Álvarez (ESP)	28:52.2 GR	Mariano Haro (ESP)	28:54.4	Giuseppe Cindolo (ITA)	28:59.0
Marathon	Gian Battista Bassi (ITA)	2:23:33	Hüseyin Aktaş (TUR)	2:24.14	İsmail Akçay (TUR)	2:28.35
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.3 m/s)	Guy Drut (FRA)	13.7 GR	Sergio Liani (ITA)	14.2	Efstratios Vassiliou (GRE)	14.2
400 metres hurdles	Stavros Tziortzis (GRE)	51.0 GR	Manuel Soriano (ESP)	51.2	Francisco Suárez (ESP)	51.4
3000 m steeplechase	Jean-Paul Villain (FRA)	8:30.0 GR	Spyridon Kondossoros (GRE)	8:35.4	Umberto Risi (ITA)	8:40.8
4x100 metres relay	Italy Ennio Preatoni Pasqualino Abeti Vincenzo Guerini Pietro Mennea	39.7 GR	Yugoslavia Ivan Karasi Predrag Križan Miro Kocuvan Luciano Sušanj	40.5	Morocco Moulay Ahmed Hasnaoui Omar Ghizlat Omar Chokmane Mohamed El Kheir	41.1
4x400 metres relay	Italy Sergio Bello Daniele Giovanardi Lorenzo Cellerino Giacomo Puosi	3:07.5 GR	Yugoslavia Ivan Karasi Miro Kocuvan Jože Međimurec Luciano Sušanj	3:08.1	Morocco Moulay Ahmed Hasnaoui Omar Ghizlat Salah Fettouh Omar Chokmane	3:08.4
20 km walk	Pasquale Busca (ITA)	1:36:55 GR	Victor Campos (ESP)	1:41:11	Agustin Jorba (ESP)	1:47:03
50 km walk	Abdon Pamich (ITA)	4:21:21 GR	Vittorio Visini (ITA)	4:29:19	Hasan Oz (TUR)	4:54:06
High jump	Gian Marco Schivo (ITA)	2.11 m	Ioannis Koussoulas (GRE)	2.11 m	Dimitrios Patronis (GRE)	2.08 m
Pole vault	Christos Papanikolaou (GRE)	5.20 m GR	Ignacio Sola (ESP)	4.70 m	Théodoros Tongas (GRE)	4.50 m
Long jump	Jack Pani (FRA)	7.90 m GR	Miljenko Rak (YUG)	7.78 m	Mariano Perez (ESP)	7.40 m
Triple jump	Milan Spasojević (YUG)	16.18 m	Apostolos Kathiniotis (GRE)	15.84 m	Jésus Bartholomé (ESP)	15.68 m
Shot put	Nagui Asaad (EGY)	20.19 m GR	Lahcen Samsam Akka (MAR)	18.85 m	Yves Brouzet (FRA)	18.69 m
Discus throw	Silvano Simeon (ITA)	57.64 m GR	Nagui Asaad (EGY)	54.72 m	Marian Gredelj (YUG)	54.32 m
Hammer throw	Georgios Georgiadis (GRE)	68.76 m GR	Mario Vecchiato (ITA)	67.64 m	Srećko Štiglić (YUG)	66.28 m
Javelin throw	Renzo Cramerotti (ITA)	78.04 m GR	Recep Kalender (TUR)	61.34 m	Ali Aydin (TUR)	59.80 m
Decathlon	Vassilios Sevastis (GRE)	7222 pts GR	Rafael Cano (ESP)	7072 pts	Pedro Pablo Fernandez (ESP)	6934 pts

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Cecilia Molinari (ITA)	11.9	Nicole Pani (FRA)	12.0	Michèle Beugnet (FRA)	12.1
400 metres	Colette Besson (FRA)	53.0	Donata Govoni (ITA)	54.4	Josefina Salgado (ESP)	56.0
800 metres	Vera Nikolić (YUG)	2:02.2	Donata Govoni (ITA)	2:04.9	Colette Besson (FRA)	2:07.2
1500 metres	Vera Nikolić (YUG)	4:20.3	Paola Pigni (ITA)	4:22.6	Đurđica Rajher (YUG)	4:23.0
100 metres hurdles	Milena Leskovac (YUG)	14.0	Ileana Ongar (ITA)	14.1	Đurđa Fočić (YUG)	14.5
4x100 metres relay	Italy Maddalena Grassano Laura Nappi Ileana Ongar Cecilia Molinari	45.6	France Colette Besson Michèle Beugnet Nicole Pani Odette Ducas	45.6	Yugoslavia Đurđa Fočić Milena Leskovac Breda Babošek Vera Nikolić	48.4
High jump	Snežana Hrepevnik (YUG)	1.77 m GR	Sara Simeoni (ITA)	1.74 m	Breda Babošek (YUG)	1.74 m
Discus throw	Roberta Grottini (ITA)	48.90 m	Maria Stella Masocco (ITA)	47.44 m	Despina Kafenidou (GRE)	46.06 m

  *   Host nation (Turkey)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	12	11	2	25
2	Greece	6	3	4	13
3	Yugoslavia	5	5	9	19
4	France	4	2	3	9
5	Spain	2	5	6	13
6	Tunisia	2	2	0	4
7	Egypt	1	1	0	2
8	Turkey*	0	2	4	6
9	Morocco	0	1	3	4
10	Algeria	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		32	32	32	96

• Complete 1971 Mediterranean Games Standings.
• Mediterranean Games – Past Medallists. GBR Athletics.