Mediterranean Games Algiers 1975
Algeria organizes, from August 23 to September 6, 1975 in Algiers, the 7th Mediterranean Games, a quadrennial event which has become part of the calendars of regional sporting events.
This is the first major sporting event organized by independent Algeria which, for the occasion, and in application of its sports recovery and development program included in the first four-year plan, will inaugurate a large Olympic complex which includes, in addition to the Olympic stadium, already functional, a sports palace with 6,000 seats, an athletics stadium, a nautical center with three swimming pools including two Olympic, a series of fields for team sports and tennis, a National Sports Medicine Center and a Higher Institute of Physical Education and Sports.
This edition will see the participation of 15 nations for a total of some 3,000 athletes including 500 girls who will compete in 20 sporting disciplines. Convinced of the noble values of peace, fraternity and friendship that sport can convey, Algeria organizes, in parallel and at the same period, the Mediterranean Festival of popular dances and songs.
These two events, one sporting and the other cultural, combine in symbiosis to make Algiers the vibrant heart of the Mediterranean Basin, whose nickname “lake of peace” will be rightly and more than ever verified.
This is the first major sporting event organized by independent Algeria which, for the occasion, and in application of its sports recovery and development program included in the first four-year plan, will inaugurate a large Olympic complex which includes, in addition to the Olympic stadium, already functional, a sports palace with 6,000 seats, an athletics stadium, a nautical center with three swimming pools including two Olympic, a series of fields for team sports and tennis, a National Sports Medicine Center and a Higher Institute of Physical Education and Sports.
This edition will see the participation of 15 nations for a total of some 3,000 athletes including 500 girls who will compete in 20 sporting disciplines. Convinced of the noble values of peace, fraternity and friendship that sport can convey, Algeria organizes, in parallel and at the same period, the Mediterranean Festival of popular dances and songs.
These two events, one sporting and the other cultural, combine in symbiosis to make Algiers the vibrant heart of the Mediterranean Basin, whose nickname “lake of peace” will be rightly and more than ever verified.