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15th Mediterranean Games - JR
Almeria, Spain, June 24-July 2, 2005
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The Mediterranean Games are held every four years for the nations in the mediterranean basin. From 1991 the games are held the year following the Olympic Games.
The games include aquatics, archery, athletics, basketball, bowls, boxing, canoe-kayak, cycling, equestrian sports, fencing, golf, gymnastics, handball, handisports, judo, karate, rowing, sailing, shooting, table tennis, tennis, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling.
The cycling events are time trial and road race for men and are open for U23 and elite riders without contract aged 19 to 29 years. Each country is entitled to take part in the road race with eight riders, and in the time trial with two.
The time trial will take place on Wednesday 29th June. A semi-urban route has been prepared, placing the start and finish in the avenue Avenida Mediterráneo. The route will pass through the University, Costacabana, and the Mediterranean Village returning by way of El Alquián, the Airport, Venta Gaspar and again the same road back from Costacabana to Almería. The route is more or less flat but exposed to winds from the sea.
The road race, this will take place on Saturday 2nd July and it will pass through the West area (Roquetas de Mar, El Ejido, Adra, Almerimar, La Mojonera, Vícar). The start and finish are located in the avenue Federico García Lorca, measuring a total of 141.9 km. It’s highest point is the Cruce de Félix, 20 km away from the finish.
In the previous games Spaniard Sergio Escobar won the time trial and and Italian Denis Bertolini the road race.
Start list
Time Trial
Start Number Name
18:30:00 31 Eladio Sanchez Prado (Spain)
18:33:00 102 Mehmet Mutlu (Turkey)
18:36:00 62 Roberto Traficante (Italy)
18:39:00 51 Panagiotis Potsakis (Greece)
18:42:00 12 Samir Kovacevic (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
18:45:00 42 Florian Morizot (France)
18:48:00 91 Aymen Ben Hassine (Tunisia)
18:51:00 32 Jesus Tendero Marcos (Spain)
18:54:00 101 Kemal Kucukbay (Turkey)
18:57:00 61 Tiziano Dall'antonia (Italy)
19:00:00 71 Wail Al Ganduz (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
19:03:00 21 Martin Cotar (Croatia)
19:06:00 52 Ioannis Tamouridis (Greece)
19:09:00 11 Elvis Jahic (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
19:12:00 41 Emilien Berges (France)
19:15:00 92 Rafaa Chtioui (Tunisia)
Road Race
Bosnia-Herzegovina Croatia
11 Vladimir Kuvalja 21 Martin Cotar
12 Elvis Jahic 22 David Demanuelle
13 Samir Kovacevic 23 Emanuel Kiserlovski
24 Robert Kiserlovski
25 Zvonimir Pokupec
Spain France
31 Unai Elorriaga Zubiaur 41 Emilien Berges
32 Francisco Gutierrez Alv. 42 Alexandre Cabrera
33 Javier Mejias Leal 43 Mathieu Ladagnous
34 Javier Moreno Bazan 44 Jean-Marc Marino
35 J. Antonio Redondo Ramos 45 Florian Morizot
36 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil 46 Mathieu Perget
37 Eladio Sanchez Prado 47 Stephane Poulhies
38 Jesus Tendero Marcos 48 Benoit Sinner
Greece Italy
51 Nikolaos Kaloudakis 61 Eros Capecchi
52 Minas Malatos 62 Tiziano Dall'antonia
53 Alexandros Mavridis 65 Fabio Sabatini
54 Panagiotis Potsakis 66 Mauro Santambrogio
55 Ioannis Tamouridis 67 Carlo Scognamiglio
56 Georgios Tentsos 68 Roberto Traficante
Libya Serbia and Montenegro
81 Wail Al Ganduz 91 Aleksandar Jugovic
92 Goran Smelcerovic
93 Dragan Spasic
94 Ivan Stevic
Tunisia Turkey
101 Aymen Ben Hassine 111 M.Mustafa Karaselek
102 Rafaa Chtioui 112 Kemal Kucukbay
113 Mustafa Maral
114 Mehmet Mutlu
115 Orhan Sahin
116 Behcet Usta
Past games
2001 Tunis (Tunisia) 1997 Bari (Italy) 1993 Languedoc (France) 1991 Athens (Greece) 1987 Latakia (Cyprus) 1983 Casablanca (Morocco) 1979 Split (Yugoslavia) 1975 Algiers (Algeria) 1971 Izmir (Turkey) 1967 Tunis (Tunisia) 1963 Naples (Italy) 1959 Beirut (Lebanon) 1955 Barcelona (Spain) 1951 Alexandria (Egypt)
