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Wrestling at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
Dates	June 1997
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The wrestling tournament at the 1997 Mediterranean Games was held in Bari, Italy.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey	8	3	2	13
2	Greece	3	3	3	9
3	France	1	3	1	5
4	Italy	1	2	2	5
5	Syria	1	1	2	4
6	FR Yugoslavia	1	0	1	2
7	Croatia	0	1	1	2
8	Albania	0	1	0	1
	Cyprus	0	1	0	1
10	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		15	15	15	45

Medalists

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg	Mevlana Kulaç  Turkey	David Legrand  France	Yassin Al Orabi  Syria
58 kg	Harun Doğan  Turkey	Konstantinos Kesanidis  Greece	Mohamed Amine Benhamadi  Algeria
63 kg	Giovanni Schillaci  Italy	Arout Parsekian  Cyprus	Muharrem Demireğen  Turkey
69 kg	Yüksel Şanlı  Turkey	Ahmad Al-Aosta  Syria	Salvatore Rinella  Italy
76 kg	Kamil Kocaağaoğlu  Turkey	Lazaros Loizidis  Greece	Angelo Camarda  Italy
97 kg	Aftantil Xanthopoulos  Greece	Ndue Njebza  Albania	William Rombouts  France
125 kg	Zekeriya Güçlü  Turkey	Mario Miketek  Croatia	Anastasios Symeonidis  Greece

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg	Khaled Al-Faraj  Syria	Francesco Costantino  Italy	Ercan Yıldız  Turkey
58 kg	Efstathios Theodosiadis  Greece	Ergüder Bekişdamat  Turkey	Zakaria Al Nached  Syria
63 kg	Mehmet Akif Pirim  Turkey	Thierry Bastien  France	Aristidis Rubenian  Greece
69 kg	Nandor Sabo  Yugoslavia	Mecnun Güler  Turkey	Rade Bačič  Slovenia
76 kg	Yvon Riemer  France	Dimitrios Avramis  Greece	Karam Gaber  Egypt
85 kg	Hamza Yerlikaya  Turkey	Philippe Nagy  France	Aleksandar Jovančević  Yugoslavia
97 kg	Hakkı Başar  Turkey	Giuseppe Giunta  Italy	Konstantinos Thanos  Greece
125 kg	Anastasios Sofianidis  Greece	Şaban Donat  Turkey	Stipe Damjanović  Croatia

References

• 1997 Mediterranean Games report at the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (CIJM) website
• List of Olympians who won medals at the Mediterranean Games at Olympedia.org

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