Turkey's
Nora Guner wins women's 100m
AP
12 September 2001 - Tunis - Turkey won gold in the shortest women's races on the opening day of athletics at the Mediterranean Games on Tuesday.
Nora Guner ran a blistering 10.98 seconds in the 100-meter heats, then took gold in the final with a much slower time of 11.25.
Guner and Manuela Levorato pulled away from the start and ran neck-to-neck to the finish line, where the Turk just pipped the Italian. Levorato was also credited with a time of 11.25 and took silver. Greece's Effrosyni Patsou won bronze in 11.45. Guner wrapped herself in a Turkish flag and kissed the ground once the photo-finish result gave her victory.
Aristotelis Gkavelis of Greece edged Italy's Maurizio Checcucci in the men's 100, winning just one-hundredth of a second ahead in 10.14. The bronze went to Anninos Marcoullides of Cyprus in 10.21.
In the women's 400-meter hurdles gold went to Sylvanie Morandais of France, who set a time of 57.02. Moroccan world champion Nezha Bidouane had been expected to race but didn't show up for the heats.
Greece finished the day with three gold medals in athletics with Periklis Iakovakis winning the men's 400 hurdles and Areti Ampatzi capturing the women's discus with a throw of 61.42 metres.
Fabrizio Donato leaped 17.05 meters in the men's triple jump to give Italy its second gold of the day. Algeria's Mohamed Khaldi captured the men's 5,000 in a slow 14:06.30.
Spaniard Dana Cervantes took the women's pole vault at 4.10 while Elodie Olivares claimed a second French track gold by winning the women's 3,000 steeplechase in 9:44.68.
Results
Women
100m (+1,6 m/s)
1. Nora
Guner (Tur) 11.25
2. Manuela Levorato (Ita) 11.25
3. Effrosyni Patsou (Grè) 11.45
400m hurdles
1. Sylvanie Morandais (Fra) 57.02
2. Monika
Niederstaaetter (Ita) 57.22
3. Meta Macus (Slo) 57.51
3000 m steeple
1. Elodie
Olivares (Fra) 9:44.68
2. Laurence Duquenoy (Fra) 10:05.90
3. Hana Chaoucha (Tun) 10:15.31
Discus
1. Areti Ampatzi (Grè) 61,42 m
2. Agnese Maffeis (Ita) 57,38
3. Monia Kari (Tun) 56,44
Pole vault
1. Dana Cervantes (Esp) 4,10
2. Thaléia Iakopvidou (Grè) 4,00
3. Céline Poissonnier (Fra) 3,90
Men
100m (+2,5 m/s):
1.
Aristoleis Gkavelas (Grè) 10.14
2. Maurizio Cecchucci(Ita) 10.15
3. Annimos Marcoullides (Chy) 10.21
400m hurdles
1. Periklis Iakovakis (Grè) 50.21
2. Darko Juricic (Cro) 50.35
3. Laurent Ottoz (Ita) 50.75
5000m
1. Mohammed Khaldi (Alg) 14:06.30
2. Mohamed Amyn (Mar) 14:06.73
3. Ricard Fernandez (Esp) 14:07.20
Triple jump
1. Fabrizio Donato (Ita) 17,05 m
2.
Sébastien Pincemail (Fra) 16,58
3. Raoul Chapado
(Esp) 16,41
