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17th Mediterranean Games Highlights

Italy is all alone atop medal count list with 109 medals at 17th Mediterranean Games in Turkey's Mersin province.

25.06.2013 - Update : 25.06.2013
17th Mediterranean Games Highlights

MERSIN

Italy sits atop the list of medal-winning countries with 39 gold, 33 silver and 33 bronze, while Turkey ranks second with 19 gold, 21 silver and 16 bronze as the fifth day events continue at 2013 Mediterranean Games on Tuesday.

Below are the lists of medal-winning Mediterranean littoral states and the number of medals they won:

The Overall Medal Count by Country

Country
Gold

Silver

Bronze
Total
   Italy 39 33 33 105
   Turkey 19 21 16 56
   France 13 15 25 53
   Spain 13 15 19 47
   Egypt 13 6 12 31
   Greece 7 6 13 26
   Serbia 6 7 4 17
   Slovenia 6 6 5 17
   Tunisia 5 14 13 32
   Croatia 2 3 5 10
   Morocco 2 1 5 8
   Albania 2 1 3 6
   Montenegro 1 0 1 2
   Bosnia & Herzegovina 0 1 1 2
   Algeria 0 0 4 4
   Greek Cypriot Administration 0 0 2 2
   Lebanon 0 0 2 2
   San Marino 0 0 1 1
Total Medal Count 421

 

Archery - Medals

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
 Italy 2 1 3 6
 Spain 1 3 0 4
 Egypt 1 0 0 1
 France 0 0 1 1

 

Fencing - Medals

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
 Italy 4 1 3 8
 France 2 2 1 5
 Tunisia 0 2 2 4
 Egypt 0 1 1 2
 Spain 0 0 2 2
 Greece 0 0 1 1
 Turkey 0 0 1 1
 Serbia 0 0 1 1

 

Gymnastics Artistic-  Medals

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
 Italy 5 2 5 12
 Spain 3 5 2 10
 Greece 2 1 1 4
 France 1 3 3 7
 Turkey 1 1 1 3
 Slovenia 1 0 0 1
 Egypt 1 0 0 1
 Croatia 0 2 0 2
 Tunisia 0 0 2 2

 

Judo - Medals

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
 Slovenia 3 4 1 8
 France 2 1 5 8
 Turkey 2 1 4 7
 Spain 2 1 0 3
 Serbia 1 1 0 2
 Morocco 1 0 3 4
 Montenegro 1 0 1 2
 Croatia 1 0 1 2
 Egypt 1 0 0 1
 Italy 0 4 4 8
 Tunisia 0 1 3 4
 Bosnia & Herzegovina 0 1 1 2
 Algeria 0 0 3 3
 Lebanon 0 0 1 1
 Greece 0 0 1 1

 

Rowing -  Medals

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
 Italy 4 2 1 7
 Greece 2 1 1 4
 Serbia 1 2 0 3
 Turkey 0 2 0 2
 Slovenia 0 0 1 1
 Croatia 0 0 1 1
 Greek Cypriot Administration 0 0 1 1
 Egypt 0 0 1 1
 Spain 0 0 1 1

 

Shooting - Medals

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
 Italy 4 1 0 5
 Spain 1 1 0 2
 France 1 0 2 3
 Serbia 0 2 1 3
 Turkey 0 2 0 2
 Croatia 0 0 1 1
 Slovenia 0 0 1 1
 San Marino 0 0 1 1

 

Swimming - Medals

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
 Italy 16 18 9 43
 Serbia 4 0 0 4
 Spain 3 4 7 14
 France 3 3 4 10
 Greece 2 3 5 10
 Tunisia 2 3 1 6
 Slovenia 2 2 1 5
 Croatia 1 0 0 1
 Egypt 1 0 0 1
 Turkey 0 2 6 8

 

Teakwondo - Medals

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
 Spain 3 0 2 5
 Turkey 2 2 4 8
 France 1 1 2 4
 Morocco 1 1 1 3
 Egypt 1 0 1 2
 Italy 0 1 2 3
 Serbia 0 1 1 2
 Tunisia 0 1 0 1
 Greece 0 1 0 1
 Greek Cypriot Administration 0 0 1 1
 Lebanon 0 0 1 1
 Slovenia 0 0 1 1

 

Weightlifting - Medals

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
 Egypt 7 3 5 15
 Turkey 6 7 0 13
 Tunisia 3 5 2 10
 Italy 2 2 1 5
 Albania 2 1 3 6
 France 0 1 4 5
 Spain 0 1 3 4
 Greece 0 0 2 2

 


        Wrestling -  Medals

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
 Turkey 8 4 0 12
 France 2 2 3 7
 Egypt 1 2 4 7
 Italy 1 1 3 5
 Greece 1 0 2 3
 Tunisia 0 2 3 5
 Croatia 0 1 2 3
 Serbia 0 1 1 2
 Spain 0 0 2 2
 Algeria 0 0 1 1
 Morocco 0 0 1 1

 

Water Ski - Medals

Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
 France 1 2 0 3
 Italy 1 0 2 3

 

Three games record were broken in swimming finals.

Egyptian Farida Osman, broke a record, and won with 26.15 in women's 50 meters butterfly.

Serbian Ivan Lendje, who also broke a record, got gold with 23.50 in men's 50 meters butterfly.

Italian Elena Gemo clinched gold medal with 1.01.57 in women's backstroke by breaking a record. 

Turkey could not win any medals in swimming on the fourth day.

 

Turkey triumphed 3-0 over Slovenia in women's volleyball tournament Group A.

Meanwhile, Italya defeated Croatia as 3-0 in a Group B game.

Boxing

Three of four Turkish boxers advanced to final in the semi-final boxing matches.

Ferhat Pehlivan in 49 kg, Adem Kilicci in 75 kg and Fatih Keles in 64 kg advanced to final.

 

Men's olympic trap shooting

Italian Massimo Fabbrizi won the gold medal in men's olympic trap shooting on Monday.

Italian Giovanni Pellielo, defeated by Fabbrizi, got the silver medal while Croatian Giovanni Cernogoraz won the bronze.

 

-Women's 10 meters air rifle shooting 

Italian Petra Zublasing won gold medal in women's 10 meters air rifle shooting with 207,4 points.

Serbian Ivana Maksimovic won silver medal with 207 points while French Emile Evesque got bronze.

 

Turkey's Elif Jale Yesilirmak, Yasemin Adar and Hafize Sahin won gold medal on Monday's women's freestyle wrestling.

Elif Jale Yesilirmak clinched gold in women's 63 kg freestyle wrestling.

Yesilirmak was followed by Italian Maria Diana with silver and Spanish Irene Garcia and Greek Agoro Papavasileiou with bronze.

 

-Women's 72 kg freestyle wrestling

Turkish Yasemin Adar won the gold medal in women's 72 kg freestyle wrestling on Monday.

Egypt's Nadia Ahmad got the silver, whereas Spanish Auroa Fajardo won bronze in the same category.

Women's 59 kg freestyle wrestling

Turkish Hafize Sahin got gold medal by winning all of four games in women's 59 kg freestyle wrestling.

Egyptian Haiat Youssef won silver while Tunisian Hela Riabi got bronze.

 

Egypt's Farida Osman broke records with 25.15 degree and won the gold medal in women's 50 meters butterfly on Monday.

French Anna Santamans clocked 26.52 and won silver while Italian Silvia Di Pietro won bronze.

Men's 50 meters butterfly

Serbian Ivan Lendjer broke records by clocking 23.50 and won gold in men's 50 meters butterfly.

Lendjer was followed by Italian Piero Codia with 23.67 and Spaniard Jose Canizares with 23.92 in the same category.

 

Men's 100 meters backstroke swimming finals

Italy's Matteo Millli won the gold in 55.12 on Monday in men's 100 meters backstroke finals.

French Benjamin Stasiulis clocked 55.14 and won the silver, whereas Spanish Juan Segura Gutierrez clinched bronze with 55.57.

Women's 100 meters backstroke finals 

Italian Elena Gemo won gold with 1.01.57 by breaking the records while Greek Theodora Drakou got silver with 1.01.75.

Italy's  Margherita Panziera got bronze with 1.01.86 in the same category.

Men's 200 meters freestyle

Serbian Velimir Stjepanovic clinched the gold medal with 1.47.00 on Monday.

Stjepanovic was followed by Tunisian Oussama Mellouli with silver and French Simon Guerin with bronze.

 

Egypt's Farida Osman broke records with 25.15 degree and won the gold medal in women's 50 meters butterfly on Monday.

French Anna Santamans clocked 26.52 and won silver while Italian Silvia Di Pietro won bronze.

Men's 50 meters butterfly

Serbian Ivan Lendjer broke records by clocking 23.50 and won gold in men's 50 meters butterfly.

Lendjer was followed by Italian Piero Codia with 23.67 and Spaniard Jose Canizares with 23.92 in the same category.

Men's 100 meters backstroke swimming finals

Italy's Matteo Millli won the gold in 55.12 on Monday in men's 100 meters backstroke finals.

French Benjamin Stasiulis clocked 55.14 and won the silver, whereas Spanish Juan Segura Gutierrez clinched bronze with 55.57.

Women's 100 meters backstroke finals 

Italian Elena Gemo won gold with 1.01.57 by breaking the records while Greek Theodora Drakou got silver with 1.01.75.

Italy's  Margherita Panziera got bronze with 1.01.86 in the same category.

Men's 200 meters freestyle

Serbian Velimir Stjepanovic clinched the gold medal with 1.47.00 on Monday.

Stjepanovic was followed by Tunisian Oussama Mellouli with silver and French Simon Guerin with bronze.

 

Turkey triumphed 30-29 over Serbia in men's handball tournament Group A on Monday.

At the games, Slovenia defeated Spain as 20-17 while Tunisia defeated Macedonia as 31-22 in women' s handball tournament Group B.

Women's 51 kg freestyle wrestling finals 

Turkey's wrestler Burcu Kepic won the silver medal in women's 51 kg final of freestyle wrestling category while French Melanie Lesaffre won gold.

Greek Evdoxia Pavlidou and Egyptian Mona Elbasyouny got bronze in the same category.

Women's 48 kg freestyle wrestling

Italian Silvia Felice won gold medal, as crowned champion, on Monday's women's 48 kg freestyle wrestling category while Turkey's Sumeyye Sezer got the silver.

Archery

Spanish Antonio Fernandez won the gold medal in men's and Italian Guendalina Sartori won gold in women's individual in archery.

 

Ferhat Arican of Turkey, ranked the third, won Turkey's first medal in the category of parallel finals.

France's Kevin Antoniotti won gold in the same category.

Italian De Memme clinched the gold medal with 1.59.65 on Monday's women's 200 meter freestyle swimming.

Slovenian Mojca Sagmeister finished the event in 2.00.96 to win the silver medal while Italy's Diletta Carliwho won the bronze.

Italy's Vanessa Ferrari clinched the gold medal with 13.166 points on Monday's women's artistic gymnastics floor category.

French Valentine Sabatou finished the event in 13.200 to win the silver.

Spain's Nestor Abad Sanjuan got gold with 14.833 in men's artistic gymnastics vault category while Italian Paolo Principi got silver with 14.583.

 

Egytpian weight lifter Esmat Ahmad dominated the women's 69 kg weightlifting final competition at Mersin Mediterranean Games, winning 2 gold with her dazzling performance in both snatch and clean in 106 kg & jerk in 126 kg events.

Tunisian Ghada Hassine won silver in 105 kg, Spanish Sheila Ramos Gonzalez won bronze in 95 kg, where Turkish Sumeyye Kentli placed 4th in snatch and clean&jerk.

Ahmad, equalized the record of Egyptian Abir Khalil in MedGames' 106 kg snatch and clean, breaking also the record of Egyptian Nahaia Mohamed in 125 kg jerk.

 

 Italy's Giorgia Campana clinched the gold medal with 14.533 points on Monday's artistic gymnastics balance beam category.

Campana was followed by Greek Vasiliki Millousi with silver medal at 14.200 points and Italian Vanessa Ferrari with bronze at 14.166 points.

 

Semi finals and classification matches in football will be played on Tuesday.

Morocco triumphed 2-1 over Turkey in men's football tournament Group A on Saturday. 

At 21.45 Tuesday, Turkey will play against Tunisia, the winner of Group B.

Ranking the third in Group B, Italy's opponent will be Bosnia-Herzegovina which came in 4th in Group A. 

Albania and Macedonia will also play Tuesday to win classification matches.

The other semi final will be between Morocco, the winner of Group A, and Libya, the runner-up in Group B.

 

Egypt's weightlifter Tarek Abdelazim won the gold medal in men's 85kg on Monday. 

With 203kg in clean and jerk, Abdelazim broke the games record which was previously held by Turkey's Mehmet Yilmaz with 202kg. 

Turkey's Nezir Sagir won silver with 193 kg in clean and jerk while Greece's Theodoros Lakovidis got bronze with 190 kg. 

In snatch as well, Abdelazim won the gold with 157 kg and followed by France's Gilovanni Bardis with silver and Greece's Lakovidis with bronze. 

 

 Eleftherios Petrounias of Greece won Monday the gold medal with his 15,700 points in artistic gymnastics men's rings finals.

Turkey's Ibrahim Colak came second and got silver with 15,133 points, winning the first ever medal in the field of artistic gymnastics men's rings finals in the history of Turkey at Mediterranean Games.

Spain's Javier Gomez followed his Greek and Turkish opponents and won bronze with 14,866 points. 

 

Turkish judoists won two gold, one silver and four bronze medals at the 17th Mediterranean Games, increasing the number of medals in judo events to ten since 2009 MedGames held in Italy. 

Head of Judo Federation Fatih Uysal said Monday, Turkey doubled the number of judo medals since 2009.

"We had won three bronze medals at 2009 Mediterranean Games.[...] The main target from now on is 2016 games. Our sportsmen and women are doing well and other nationals are also very good at judo some of whom are French, Spanish, Italian and Slovenian," Uysal added. 

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