The 1971 Mediterranean Games, officially known as the VI Mediterranean Games, and commonly known as Izmir 1971, were the 6th

Mediterranean Games The Mediterranean Games is a multi-sport event organised by the International Committee of Mediterranean Games (CIJM). It is held every four years among athletes from countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea in Africa, Asia and Europe. The fir ...

. The Games were held in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

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, from 6 to 17 October 1971, where 1,362 athletes (1,235 men and 127 women) from 15

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participated. There were a total of 137 medal events from 17 different

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Participating nations

* (38) * (109) * (50) * (159) * (162) * (2) * (36) * (11) * (76) * (148) * (108) * (83) * (219) * (161)

Participating nations

Sports

Medal table

References

See also