(SPO) TURKEY RANKS FOURTH IN MEDITERRANEAN GAMES WITH 65 MEDALS.PESCARA Pescara, city (1991 pop. 122,236), capital of Pescara prov., in Abruzzi, central Italy, on the Adriatic Sea at the mouth of the Pescara River. It is a fishing port and a seaside resort. Cement, textiles, machinery, and processed food are produced there. , Jul Jul abbr (= July) → jul Jul abbr (= July) → juil Jul written abbr Jul July. 6, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- Turkey ranked the fourth at the end of the 16th Mediterranean Games The Mediterranean Games are a multi-sport games held every four years for nations bordering the Mediterranean Sea. The idea was proposed at the 1948 Summer Olympics by Muhammed Taher Pasha, chairman of the Egyptian Olympic Committee, and they were first held in 1951. in Pescara, Italy Italy (ĭt`əlē), Ital. Italia, officially Italian Republic, republic (2005 est. pop. 58,103,000), 116,303 sq mi (301,225 sq km), S Europe. , after Turkish athletes won a total of 20 gold, 19 silver and 26 bronze medals. Turkey finished the games with 65 medals. Host country Italy topped the country ranking with 176 medals. France followed Italy with 140 medals and Spain ranked the third with 83 medals. Turkey competed in the games with younger athletes this year, a senior Turkish official said after the games. "We came here with a younger squad this year but we have achieved the same success with previous games held in Spain (in 2005). Because we had taken there (Spain) our athletes who could win medals. But we came here with a younger team, however, Turkey had a fairly good performance," said Yunus Akgul, Director-General of Sports and Youth. Below is a list of country ranking at the end of 2009 Mediterranean Games. Countries Gold Silver Bronze TOTAL -------------------------------------------------------------- 1- Italy 64 49 63 176 2- France 48 53 39 140 3- Spain 28 21 34 83 4- Turkey 20 19 26 65 5- Greece 19 14 31 64 6- Tunisia 13 11 13 37 7- Egypt 11 10 13 34 8- Serbia 9 13 13 35 9- Slovenia 7 9 10 26 10-Morocco 6 9 6 21 11-Croatia 5 12 11 28 12-Greek Cypriot Adm. 3 4 1 8 13-Albania 2 4 0 6 14-Algeria 2 3 12 17 15-Syria 2 3 7 12 16-Montenegro 2 2 3 7 17-San Marino 1 3 2 6 18-Libya 1 0 6 7 19-Bosnia-Herzegovina 0 3 5 8 20-Malta 0 1 0 1 Monaco 0 1 0 1 ------------------------------------------------------------- Total 243 244 295 782 (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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