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{{Infobox sports competition event
| event         = Swimming
| competition   = 1959 Mediterranean Games
| image         = [[File:Swimming pictogram.svg|70px]]
| alt           = 
| caption       = 
| venue         = 
| location      = [[Beirut]], Lebanon
| dates         = 11–23 October 1959
| competitors   = 
| nations       =
| teams         = 
| previous      = [[Swimming at the 1955 Mediterranean Games|1955]]
| next          = [[Swimming at the 1963 Mediterranean Games|1963]]
}}
The '''[[Swimming (sport)|swimming competition]] at the [[1959 Mediterranean Games]]''' was held in [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]].

==Medallists==

===Men's events===
{| {{MedalistTable| width=225|labelwidth=120|columns=2}}
|-
| 100 m freestyle
|{{flagmedalist|[[Paolo Pucci]]|ITA}}|| 57.2
|{{flagmedalist|[[Janez Kocmur]]|YUG}}|| 58.2
|{{flagmedalist|[[Giorgio Perondini]]|ITA}}|| 58.4
|-
|400 m freestyle
|{{flagmedalist|[[Vlado Brinovec]]|YUG}}|| 4:44.5
|{{flagmedalist|[[Milan Jeger]]|YUG}}|| 4:44.9
|{{flagmedalist|[[Guy Montserret]]|FRA}}|| 4:47.8
|-
|1500 m freestyle
|{{flagmedalist|[[Guy Montserret]]|FRA}}|| 19:05.4
|{{flagmedalist|[[Vlado Brinovec]]|YUG}}|| 19:48.6
|{{flagmedalist|[[Zein Yahia Ahmed]]|UAR}}|| 20:03.6
|-
|100 m backstroke
|{{flagmedalist|[[Robert Christophe]]|FRA}}|| 1:04.8
|{{flagmedalist|[[Mihovil Dorčić]]|YUG}}|| 1:06.4
|{{flagmedalist|[[Christian Schollmeier]]|ITA}}|| 1:08.1
|-
|200 m breaststroke
|{{flagmedalist|[[Roberto Lazzari]]|ITA}}|| 2:48.7
|{{flagmedalist|[[Guillermo Alsina]]|ESP|1945}}|| 2:51.8
|{{flagmedalist|[[Zakaropoulos]]|GRE|old}}|| 2:55.6
|-
|200 m butterfly
|{{flagmedalist|[[Federico Dennerlein]]|ITA}}|| 2:26.7
|{{flagmedalist|[[René Pirolley]]|FRA}}|| 2:30.3
|{{flagmedalist|[[José Vicente León]]|ESP|1945}}|| 2:36.1
|-
|4 × 200 m freestyle relay
| {{ITA}} || 8:50.6
| {{YUG}} || 9:00.7
| {{FRA}} || 9:09.7
|-
|4 × 100 m medley relay
| {{ITA}} || 4:27.1
| {{FRA}} || 4:31.0
| {{YUG}} || 4:35.7
|}

==Medal table==
{{Medals table
| caption        = 
| host           = 
| flag_template  = flaglink
| event          = at the 1959 Mediterranean Games
| team           = 
| gold_ESP = 0 | silver_ESP = 1 | bronze_ESP = 1 | name_ESP = {{flaglink|ESP|at the 1959 Mediterranean Games|1945}}
| gold_FRA = 2 | silver_FRA = 2 | bronze_FRA = 2
| gold_GRE = 0 | silver_GRE = 0 | bronze_GRE = 1 | name_GRE = {{flaglink|GRE|at the 1959 Mediterranean Games|old}}
| gold_ITA = 5 | silver_ITA = 0 | bronze_ITA = 2
| gold_UAR = 0 | silver_UAR = 0 | bronze_UAR = 1
| gold_YUG = 1 | silver_YUG = 5 | bronze_YUG = 1
}}

==References==
*[http://www.cijm.org.gr/images/stories/pdf/JM1959.pdf Complete 1959 Mediterranean Games report released by the International Mediterranean Games Committee]

{{Events at 1959 Mediterranean Games}}
{{Mediterranean Games Swimming}}

[[Category:1959 in swimming|Mediterranean Games]]
[[Category:Sports at the 1959 Mediterranean Games]]
[[Category:Swimming at the Mediterranean Games|1959]]