Swimming at the 1979 Mediterranean Games

The swimming competition at the 1979 Mediterranean Games was held in Split, Yugoslavia.

Swimming at the 1979 Mediterranean Games
Location	Split, Yugoslavia

Medallists

Men's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Marcello Guarducci Italy	51.58	David López-Zubero Spain	51.77	René Écuyer France	51.93
200 m freestyle	David López-Zubero Spain	1:53.58	Borut Petrič Yugoslavia	1:53.76	Marcello Guarducci Italy	1:53.81
400 m freestyle	Borut Petrič Yugoslavia	3:58.86	Giorgio Quadri Italy	4:01.00	Paolo Revelli Italy	4:03.08
1500 m freestyle	Borut Petrič Yugoslavia	15:50.47	Giovanni Nagni Italy	15:51.72	Rafael Escalas Spain	15:51.74
100 m backstroke	Frédéric Delcourt France	59.93	Stefano Bellon Italy	1:00.10	Daniele Cerabino Italy	1:00.28
200 m backstroke	Stefano Bellon Italy	2:06.98	Frédéric Delcourt France	2:07.35	Daniele Cerabino Italy	2:08.83
100 m breaststroke	Olivier Borios France	1:07.23	Davide Peloso Italy	1:07.41	Sandro Vettore Italy	1:07.67
200 m breaststroke	Cezare Fabbri Italy	2:25.53	Olivier Borios France	2:27.08	Massimo Trevisan Italy	2:29.24
100 m butterfly	David López-Zubero Spain	56.38	Fabrizio Rampazzo Italy	56.82	Xavier Savin France	57.04
200 m butterfly	Fabio Bracaglia Italy	2:04.48	Borut Petrič Yugoslavia	2:04.75	Massimo Armellini Italy	2:04.95
400 m medley	Borut Petrič Yugoslavia	4:35.50	Giovanni Franceschi Italy	4:40.98	Maurizio Divano Italy	4:41.36
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Italy Paolo Revelli Giorgio Quadri Fabrizio Rampazzo Marcello Guarducci	7:36.70	France	7:41.51	Spain	7:52.96
4 × 100 m medley relay	Italy Stefano Bellon Davide Peloso Fabrizio Rampazzo Marcello Guarducci	3:53.18	France	3:55.19	Spain	3:57.57

Women's events

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Natalia Más Spain	59.28	Manuela Dalla Valle Italy	59.88	Cristina Ponteprimo Italy	1:00.17
200 m freestyle	Natalia Más Spain	2:04.32	Roberta Felotti Italy	2:04.96	Anne Vial France	2:06.57
400 m freestyle	Roberta Felotti Italy	4:18.94	Natalia Más Spain	4:22.25	Fulvia Cornella Italy	4:27.70
800 m freestyle	Roberta Felotti Italy	8:51.01	Sofia Dara Greece	9:00.61	Giuditta Pandini Italy	9:01.01
100 m backstroke	Michèle Ricaud France	1:05.82	Manuela Carosi Italy	1:06.30	Laura Foralosso Italy	1:06.82
200 m backstroke	Michèle Ricaud France	2:19.80	Daniela Ferrini Italy	2:24.31	Manuela Carosi Italy	2:24.99
100 m breaststroke	Carlotta Tagnin Italy	1:13.85	Sabrina Seminatore Italy	1:14.54	Annick de Susini France	1:15.19
200 m breaststroke	Annick de Susini France	2:40.95	Carlotta Tagnin Italy	2:41.56	Catherine Poirot France	2:41.84
100 m butterfly	Cinzia Savi Scarponi Italy	1:02.96	Sophie Falandry France	1:04.92	Cristina Quintarelli Italy	1:06.29
200 m butterfly	Cinzia Savi Scarponi Italy	2:16.96	Sophie Falandry France	2:19.20	Cinzia Rampazzo Italy	2:19.34
400 m medley	Cinzia Savi Scarponi Italy	5:02.45	Véronique Plat France	5:07.70	Vesna Šeparović Yugoslavia	5:11.94
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Italy Cinzia Savi Scarponi Cristina Ponteprimo Roberta Felotti Manuela Dalla Valle	3:58.89	France	4:00.57	Spain	4:00.60
4 × 100 m medley relay	Italy Manuela Carosi Carlotta Tagnin Cinzia Savi Scarponi Manuela Dalla Valle	4:24.19	France	4:24.91	Spain	4:34.02

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Yugoslavia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy	14	12	15	41
2	France	5	9	5	19
3	Spain	4	2	5	11
4	Yugoslavia*	3	2	1	6
5	Greece	0	1	0	1
Totals (5 entries)		26	26	26	78

References

• Complete 1979 Mediterranean report released by the International Mediterranean Games Committee