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{{Infobox Athletics Championships
|Name = Athletics at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
|Logo = Panorámica del Estadio de los juegos mediterráneos.jpg
|Size = 300
|Colour = 
|Optional caption = 
|Host city = [[Almeria]], [[Spain]]
|Dates = 29 June to 2 July 2005
|Stadium = [[Estadio de los Juegos Mediterráneos|Mediterraneo Stadium]]
|Nations participating = 20
|Athletes participating = 432
|Events = 47
|Records set = 9
|Previous = [[Athletics at the 2001 Mediterranean Games|2001 Radès]]
|Next = [[Athletics at the 2009 Mediterranean Games|2009 Pescara]]
|Games = [[2005 Mediterranean Games]]
}}
The '''[[Athletics (sport)|athletics competition]] at the [[2005 Mediterranean Games]]''' was held in the [[Estadio de los Juegos Mediterráneos|Mediterraneo Stadium]] in [[Almería, Spain]] from 29 June to 2 July 2005. [[France at the 2005 Mediterranean Games|France]] topped the medal tally with 10 golds and 30 medals overall, with host nation [[Italy at the 2005 Mediterranean Games|Italy]] coming in second with 9 golds and 26 medals overall.

A total of 47 events were contested, with 24 contested by male athletes and 23 contested by female athletes. The 3000 metres steeplechase and 1500 metres wheelchair (males only), and the 800 metres wheelchair (females only) were the only events that were not held for both genders. The 2005 Games also marked the replacement of the marathon event with the half marathon.

==Medal summary==
{{further|Athletics at the 2005 Mediterranean Games – Results}}

===Men's events===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
|-
|[[100 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Matic Osovnikar]]|SLO}}||10.35
|{{flagathlete|[[Lueyi Dovy]]|FRA}}||10.40
|{{flagathlete|[[Marco Torrieri]]|ITA}}||10.46
|-
|[[200 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Matic Osovnikar]]|SLO}}||20.75
|{{flagathlete|[[Alessandro Attene]]|ITA}}||20.97
|{{flagathlete|[[Josip Šoprek]]|CRO}}||21.02
|-
|[[400 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Sofiane Labidi]]|TUN}}||45.60
|{{flagathlete|[[Željko Vincek]]|CRO}}||45.90
|{{flagathlete|[[Ridha Ghali]]|TUN}}||45.95
|-
|[[800 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Antonio Manuel Reina|Antonio Reina]]|ESP}}||1:47.03
|{{flagathlete|[[Eugenio Barrios]]|ESP}}||1:47.36
|{{flagathlete|[[Amine Laâlou]]|MAR}}||1:47.58
|-
|[[1500 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Arturo Casado]]|ESP}}||3:45.61
|{{flagathlete|[[Adil Kaouch]]|MAR}}||3:45.78
|{{flagathlete|[[Christian Obrist]]|ITA}}||3:45.88
|-
|[[5000 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Ali Saïdi-Sief]]|ALG}}||13:29.94
|{{flagathlete|[[Hicham Bellani]]|MAR}}||13:30.35
|{{flagathlete|[[Khoudir Aggoune]]|ALG}}||13:30.54
|-
|[[10,000 metres|10000 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Mohammed Amyn]]|MAR}}||29:13.05
|{{flagathlete|[[Carles Castillejo]]|ESP}}||29:13.91
|{{flagathlete|[[El Hassan Lahssini]]|FRA}}||29:15.86
|-
|[[Half Marathon]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Saïd Belhout]]|ALG}}||1:05:01
|{{flagathlete|[[Abdelkebir Lamachi]]|MAR}}||1:05:05
|{{flagathlete|[[José Manuel Martínez (athlete)|José Manuel Martínez]]|ESP}}||1:05:12
|-
|[[3000 metres steeplechase|3000 m steeplechase]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Brahim Boulami]]|MAR}}||8:15.15 '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Antonio David Jiménez]]|ESP}}||8:24.47
|{{flagathlete|[[Gaël Pencreach]]|FRA}}||8:25.82
|-
|[[110 metres hurdles|110 m hurdles]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Felipe Vivancos]]|ESP}}||13.53 '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Andrea Giaconi]]|ITA}}||13.69
|{{flagathlete|[[Jurica Grabušić]]|CRO}}||13.73
|-
|[[400 metres hurdles|400 m hurdles]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Gianni Carabelli]]|ITA}}||49.32
|{{flagathlete|[[Laurent Ottoz]]|ITA}}||49.41
|{{flagathlete|[[Platon Gavelas]]|GRE}}||49.99
|-
|[[Relay race|4 × 100 m relay]]
| {{ITA}}<br/>[[Luca Verdecchia]]<br/>[[Alessandro Attene]]<br/>[[Massimiliano Donati]]<br/>[[Marco Torrieri]]||39.13
| {{FRA}}<br/>[[Frédéric Krantz]]<br/>[[Ydrissa M'Barke]]<br/>[[Christophe Cheval]]<br/>[[Jimmy Melfort]]||39.49
| {{SLO}}<br/>[[Matjaž Borovina]]<br/>[[Matic Osovnikar]]<br/>[[Boštjan Fridrih]]<br/>[[Jan Žumer]]||39.57
|-
|[[Relay race|4 × 400 m relay]]
| {{ESP}}<br/>[[David Canal]]<br/>[[David Testa]]<br/>[[Eugenio Barrios]]<br/>[[Antonio Manuel Reina|Antonio Reina]]||3:03.65
| {{FRA}}<br/>[[Abderrahim El Haouzy]]<br/>[[Ahmed Douhou]]<br/>[[Remi Wallard]]<br/>[[Richard Maunier]]||3:04.84
| {{TUN}}<br/>[[Ridha Ghali]]<br/>[[Laroussi Titi]]<br/>[[Kamel Tabbal]]<br/>[[Sofiane Labidi]]||3:06.13
|-
|[[20 kilometres race walk|20 km walk]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Paquillo Fernández]]|ESP}}||1:22:45 '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Juan Manuel Molina]]|ESP}}||1:24:11
|{{flagathlete|[[Michele Didoni]]|ITA}}||1:26:06
|-
|[[High jump]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Kyriakos Ioannou]]|CYP}}||2.24 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Ioannis Constantinou]]|CYP}}||2.21 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Grégory Gabella]]|FRA}}||2.21 m
|-
|[[Pole vault]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Konstantinos Filippidis]]|GRE}}||5.60 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Pierre-Charles Peuf]]|FRA}}||5.55 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Jérôme Clavier]]|FRA}}||5.55 m
|-
|[[Long jump]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Salim Sdiri]]|FRA}}||8.05 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Issam Nima]]|ALG}}||7.92 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Asterios Nousios]]|GRE}}||7.91 m
|-
|[[Triple jump]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Hristos Meletoglou]]|GRE}}||17.09 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Tarik Bouguetaïb]]|MAR}}||17.00 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Sébastien Pincemail]]|FRA}}||16.73 m
|-
|[[Shot put]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Edis Elkasević]]|CRO}}||20.26 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez|Manuel Martínez]]|ESP}}||19.97 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Hamza Alić]]|BIH}}||19.49 m
|-
|[[Discus Throw|Discus]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Mario Pestano]]|ESP}}||63.96 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Igor Primc]]|SLO}}||59.27 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Ercüment Olgundeniz]]|TUR}}||54.90 m
|-
|[[Hammer Throw|Hammer]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Eşref Apak]]|TUR}}||77.88 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Alexandros Papadimitriou]]|GRE}}||75.57 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Nicolas Figère]]|FRA}}||75.30 m
|-
|[[Javelin Throw|Javelin]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Vitolio Tipotio]]|FRA}}||75.20 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Francesco Pignata]]|ITA}}||74.51 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Firas Al-Mohammed]]|SYR}}||73.49 m
|-
|[[Decathlon]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Romain Barras]]|FRA}}||8127 pts
|{{flagathlete|[[Rudy Bourguignon]]|FRA}}||7886 pts
|{{flagathlete|[[Hamdi Dhouibi]]|TUN}}||7847 pts
|-
|[[1500 metres|1500 m wheelchair]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Éric Teurnier]]|FRA}}||3:23.71
|{{flagathlete|[[Roger Puigbò]]|ESP}}||3:24.16
|{{flagathlete|[[Maamar Rachif]]|ALG}}||3:27.28
|}

===Women's events===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
|-
|[[100 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Véronique Mang]]|FRA}}||11.44
|{{flagathlete|[[Sylviane Félix]]|FRA}}||11.46
|{{flagathlete|[[Kristina Žumer]]|SLO}}||11.63
|-
|[[200 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Alenka Bikar]]|SLO}}||23.65
|{{flagathlete|[[Lina Jacques-Sébastien]]|FRA}}||23.75
|{{flagathlete|[[Fabé Dia]]|FRA}}||23.78
|-
|[[400 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Dimitra Dova]]|GRE}}||52.67
|{{flagathlete|[[Phara Anacharsis]]|FRA}}||52.70
|{{flagathlete|[[Klodiana Shala]]|ALB}}||53.23 '''NR'''
|-
|[[800 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Laetitia Valdonado]]|FRA}}||2:01:71
|{{flagathlete|[[Élisabeth Grousselle]]|FRA}}||2:02:47
|{{flagathlete|[[Binnaz Uslu]]|TUR}}||2:02:68
|-
|[[1500 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Fatma Lanouar]]|TUN}}||4:10.77
|{{flagathlete|[[Sonja Stolić]]|SCG}}||4:10:92
|{{flagathlete|[[Nuria Fernández]]|ESP}}||4:11:20
|-
|[[5000 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Margaret Maury]]|FRA}}||15:22.59
|{{flagathlete|[[Asmae Leghzaoui]]|MAR}}||15:23.30
|{{flagathlete|[[Silvia Weissteiner]]|ITA}}||15:28.50
|-
|[[10,000 metres|10000 metres]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Souad Aït Salem]]|ALG}}||32:55.48
|{{flagathlete|[[Asmae Leghzaoui]]|MAR}}||32:59.24
|{{flagathlete|[[Olivera Jevtić]]|SCG}}||33:30.4
|-
|[[Half Marathon]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Zhor El Kamch]]|MAR}}||1:13:50
|{{flagathlete|[[Rosaria Console]]|ITA}}||1:15:40
|{{flagathlete|[[Olivera Jevtić]]|SCG}}||1:16:32
|-
|[[100 metres hurdles|100 m hurdles]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Glory Alozie]]|ESP}}||12.90
|{{flagathlete|[[Adrianna Lamalle]]|FRA}}||12.99
|{{flagathlete|[[Flora Redoumi]]|GRE}}||13.16
|-
|[[400 metres hurdles|400 m hurdles]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Benedetta Ceccarelli]]|ITA}}||55.76
|{{flagathlete|[[Cora Olivero]]|ESP}}||55.85
|{{flagathlete|[[Monika Niederstätter]]|ITA}}||56.39
|-
|[[Relay race|4 × 100 m relay]]
| {{FRA}}<br/>[[Véronique Mang]]<br/>[[Lina Jacques-Sébastien]]<br/>[[Fabé Dia]]<br/>[[Carima Louami]]||43.75
| {{ESP}}<br/>[[Carme Blay]]<br/>[[Belén Recio]]<br/>[[Cristina Sanz]]<br/>[[Glory Alozie]]||44.47
| {{ITA}}<br/>[[Elena Sordelli]]<br/>[[Daniela Bellanova]]<br/>[[Manuela Grillo]]<br/>[[Doris Tomasini]]||45.18
|-
|[[Relay race|4 × 400 m relay]]
| {{ESP}}<br/>[[Julia Alba]]<br/>[[Belén Recio]]<br/>[[Cora Olivero]]<br/>[[Mayte Martínez]]||3:31.45
| {{FRA}}<br/>[[Phara Anacharsis]]<br/>[[Laetitia Valdonado]]<br/>[[Olivia Abderrhamanne]]<br/>[[Élisabeth Grousselle]]||3:31.86
| {{TUR}}<br/>[[Özge Akın|Özge Gürler]]<br/>[[Birsen Bekgöz]]<br/>[[Binnaz Uslu]]<br/>[[Pınar Saka]]||3:40.75
|-
|[[20 kilometres race walk|20 km walk]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Elisa Rigaudo]]|ITA}}||1:32:44 '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[María Vasco]]|ESP}}||1:34:28
|{{flagathlete|[[Beatriz Pascual]]|ESP}}||1:36:27
|-
|[[High jump]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Ruth Beitia]]|ESP}}||1.95 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Melanie Skotnik]]|FRA}}||1.95 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Marta Mendía]]|ESP}}||1.89 m
|-
|[[Pole vault]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Vanessa Boslak]]|FRA}}||4.40 m '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Anna Fitídou]]|CYP}}||4.25 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Afroditi Skafida]]|GRE}}||4.15 m
|-
|[[Long jump]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Fiona May]]|ITA}}||6.64 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Niurka Montalvo]]|ESP}}||6.55 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Concepción Montaner]]|ESP}}||6.49 m
|-
|[[Triple jump]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Baya Rahouli]]|ALG}}||14.98 m '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Carlota Castrejana]]|ESP}}||14.60 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Hrysopiyi Devetzi]]|GRE}}||14.33 m
|-
|[[Shot put]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Cristiana Checchi]]|ITA}}||18.59 m '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Laurence Manfredi]]|FRA}}||17.47 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Chiara Rosa]]|ITA}}||17.34 m
|-
|[[Discus Throw|Discus]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Dragana Tomašević]]|SCG}}||62.10 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Laura Bordignon]]|ITA}}||57.98 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Vera Begić]]|CRO}}||56.53 m
|-
|[[Hammer Throw|Hammer]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Ester Balassini]]|ITA}}||71.17 m '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Clarissa Claretti]]|ITA}}||69.24 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Alexandra Papageorgiou]]|GRE}}||67.13 m
|-
|[[Javelin Throw|Javelin]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Aggeliki Tsiolakoudi]]|GRE}}||62.61 m '''GR'''
|{{flagathlete|[[Zahra Bani]]|ITA}}||62.36 m
|{{flagathlete|[[Mercedes Chilla]]|ESP}}||57.69 m
|-
|[[Heptathlon]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Marie Collonvillé]]|FRA}}||6017 pts
|{{flagathlete|[[Argyro Strataki]]|GRE}}||5943 pts
|{{flagathlete|[[Anzhela Atroshchenko]]|TUR}}||5870 pts
|-
|[[800 metres|800 m wheelchair]]
|{{flagathlete|[[Samira Berri]]|TUN}}||2:00.16
|{{flagathlete|[[Messaouda Sifi]]|TUN}}||2:02.58
|{{flagathlete|[[Christina Sanna]]|ITA}}||2:07.42
|}

==Medal table==
{| class=wikitable style="border:1px solid #AAAAAA;font-size:90%"
|- bgcolor="#EFEFEF"
! width=50 | Place
! width=200 | Nation
! width=50 | {{gold1}}
! width=50 | {{silver2}}
! width=50 | {{bronze3}}
! width=50 | Total
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 1
| align="left" | {{flaglink|FRA|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 10
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 13
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 7
| 30
|- align="center" style="background-color:#ccccff"
| 2
| align="left" | {{flaglink|ESP|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 9
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 11
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 6
| 26
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 3
| align="left" | {{flaglink|ITA|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 7
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 8
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 8
| 23
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 4
| align="left" | {{flaglink|GRE|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 4
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 2
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 6
| 12
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 5
| align="left" | {{flaglink|ALG|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 4
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 1
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 2
| 7
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 6
| align="left" | {{flaglink|MAR|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 3
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 6
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 1
| 10
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 7
| align="left" | {{flaglink|TUN|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 3
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 1
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 3
| 7
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 8
| align="left" | {{flaglink|SLO|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 3
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 1
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 2
| 6
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 9
| align="left" | {{flaglink|CYP|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 1
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 2
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 0
| 3
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 10
| align="left" | {{flaglink|CRO|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 1
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 1
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 3
| 5
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 11
| align="left" | {{flaglink|SCG|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 1
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 1
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 2
| 4
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| 12
| align="left" | {{flaglink|TUR|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 1
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 0
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 4
| 5
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| rowspan="3" valign="center"| 13
| align="left" | {{flaglink|ALB|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 0
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 1
| 1
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| align="left" | {{flaglink|BIH|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 0
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 1
| 1
|- align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
| align="left" | {{flaglink|SYR|at the 2005 Mediterranean Games}}
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | 0
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | 0
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | 1
| 1
|- align="center" 
| colspan="2" bgcolor=D3D3D3| '''Total'''
| style="background:#F7F6A8;" | '''47'''
| style="background:#DCE5E5;" | '''47'''
| style="background:#FFDAB9;" | '''47'''
| bgcolor=D3D3D3|'''141'''
|}

==Participating nations==
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
*{{ALB}} (1)
*{{ALG}} (17)
*{{BIH}} (3)
*{{CRO}} (18)
*{{CYP}} (9)
*{{EGY}} (6)
*{{FRA}} (66)
*{{GRE}} (37)
*{{ITA}} (64)
*{{LIB}} (2)
*{{flag|Libya|1977}} (3)
*{{MLT}} (5)
*{{MON}} (2)
*{{MAR}} (34)
*{{SCG}} (10)
*{{SLO}} (19)
*{{ESP}} (102)
*{{SYR}} (2)
*{{TUR}} (20)
*{{TUN}} (12)
{{div col end}}

==References==
*[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/mg.htm gbrathletics]
*[http://juegosmediterraneos.ual.es/memoria/resultados.asp?lang='en' Results]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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