2019 Balkan Athletics Championships

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2019 Balkan Athletics Championships
Dates2–3 September
Host city Pravets, Bulgaria
Venue Pravets Sports Complex
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events40
Participation19 nations
Records set3 championship records


The 2019 Balkan Athletics Championships was the 74th edition of the annual track and field competition for athletes from the Balkans, organised by Balkan Athletics. It was held at the Pravets Sports Complex in Pravets, Bulgaria on 2 and 3 September. It was the first time that the city hosted the competition.

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Three championship records were broken: both 200 metres records were improved (the men's by Ukraine's Serhiy Smelyk in 20.50 seconds, and the women's by Bulgarian Ivet Lalova-Collio, who ran 22.45 seconds), while Greek men's pole vaulter Emmanouil Karalis cleared a record height of 5.66 m. Lalova-Collio won a sprint double in the women's 100 metres and 200 m while Smelyk won golds for Ukraine in the 200 m and 4 × 100 metres relay. Ukraine was the most successful nation at the competition, topping the medal table with 18 medals (nine of them gold). Romania also won 18 medals, though only five golds. Greece, Turkey and host nation Bulgaria all won five or more gold medals. [1]

Romanian men's throwers Andrei Gag and Alin Alexandru Firfirică successfully defended their titles. In women's jumps Mirela Demireva (high jump), Buse Arıkazan (pole vault) and Paraskevi Papachristou (triple jump) all repeated their victories from 2018. Serbia's Teodora Simović (5000 m) was the sole individual to retain a track title while her compatriot Marija Vučenović took her third straight javelin throw title.

Results

Men

EventGoldSilverBronze
100 metresFlag of Turkey.svg  Emre Zafer Barnes  (TUR)10.48Flag of Serbia.svg  Aleksa Kijanovic  [ de ] (SRB)10.58Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Antonio Ivanov  (BUL)10.66
200 metresFlag of Ukraine.svg  Serhiy Smelyk  (UKR)20.50 CR Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Antonio Ivanov  (BUL)21.07Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ihor Bodrov  (UKR)21.43
400 metresFlag of Ukraine.svg  Danylo Danylenko  (UKR)46.84Flag of Georgia.svg  Mindia Endeladze  (GEO)47.37Flag of Turkey.svg  Oğuz Akgül  (TUR)47.68
800 metresFlag of Ukraine.svg  Oleh Myronets  (UKR)1:50.13Flag of Kosovo.svg  Musa Hajdari  (KOS)1:50.33Flag of Greece.svg  Christos Kotitsas  (GRE)1:50.48
1500 metresFlag of Armenia.svg  Yervand Mkrtchyan  (ARM)3:46.00Flag of Kosovo.svg  Musa Hajdari  (KOS)3:46.54Flag of Albania.svg  David Nikolli  (ALB)3:47.06
5000 metresFlag of Romania.svg  Ilie Alexandru Corneschi  (ROU)14:51.17Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Yolo Nikolov  (BUL)14:52.01Flag of Turkey.svg  Ayetullah Aslanhan  (TUR)14:53.12
100 m hurdlesFlag of Ukraine.svg  Artem Shamatryn  (UKR)14.18Flag of Romania.svg  Cosmin Ilie Dumitrache  (ROU)14.22Flag of Serbia.svg  Luka Trgovčević  [ de ] (SRB)14.22
400 m hurdlesFlag of Ukraine.svg  Denys Nechyporenko  (UKR)50.71Flag of Ukraine.svg  Dmytro Romaniuk  (UKR)51.12Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Rusmir Malkočević  (BIH)51.53
3000 m s'chaseFlag of Turkey.svg  Aras Kaya  (TUR)8:39.35Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Osman Junuzović  (BIH)8:47.97Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Mitko Tsenov  (BUL)8:54.97
4 × 100 m relayFlag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
Erik Kostrytsia  [ de ]
Stanislav Kovalenko
Ihor Bodrov
Serhiy Smelyk
40.40Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
Efthimios Stergioulis
Alexandru Terpezan
Marian Valentin Tanase
Daniel Mihai Robert Budin
41.48Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nikola Brdar
Aleksandar Novaković
Milan Vidović
Hajrudin Vejzović
43.57
4 × 400 m relayFlag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
Akın Özyürek
Yavuz Can
Batuhan Altıntaş
İlyas Çanakçı
3:5.85Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
David Nastase
Vlad Dulcescu
Mihai Cristian Pislaru
Robert Parge
3:12.43Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia
Mateo Parlov
Ivan Katić
Jakov Vuković
Mateo Ružić
3:14.62
High jumpFlag of Bulgaria.svg  Tihomir Ivanov  (BUL)2.27 mFlag of Turkey.svg  Alperen Acet  (TUR)2.23 mFlag of Ukraine.svg  Vadym Kravchuk  (UKR)2.15 m
Pole vaultFlag of Greece.svg  Emmanouil Karalis  (GRE)5.66 m CR Flag of Greece.svg  Thodoris Chrysanthopoulos  (GRE)5.45 mFlag of Croatia.svg  Dario Prekl  (CRO)5.31 m
Long jumpFlag of Ukraine.svg  Yaroslav Isachenkov  (UKR)7.89 mFlag of Greece.svg  Miltiádis Tedóglou  (GRE)7.88 mFlag of Serbia.svg  Lazar Anić  (SRB)7.88 m
Triple jumpFlag of Bulgaria.svg  Georgi Tsonov  (BUL)17.03 m PB=Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Momchil Karailiev  (BUL)16.42 mFlag of Turkey.svg  Can Özüpek  (TUR)16.37 m
Shot putFlag of Romania.svg  Andrei Gag  (ROU)20.71 mFlag of Serbia.svg  Armin Sinančević  (SRB)20.58 mFlag of Romania.svg  Andrei Toader  (ROU)20.30 m
Discus throwFlag of Romania.svg  Alin Firfirică  (ROU)63.67 mFlag of Montenegro.svg  Danijel Furtula  (MNE)62.93 mFlag of Ukraine.svg  Mykyta Nesterenko  (UKR)59.32 m
Hammer throwFlag of Greece.svg  Christos Frantzeskakis  (GRE)76.67 mFlag of Greece.svg  Mihail Anastasakis  (GRE)75.32 mFlag of Ukraine.svg  Hlib Piskunov  (UKR)74.52 m
Javelin throwFlag of Romania.svg  Alexandru Novac  (ROU)77.90 mFlag of Bulgaria.svg  Mark Slavov  (BUL)73.84 mFlag of Moldova.svg  Denis Picus  (MDA)72.16 m
DecathlonFlag of Cyprus.svg  Elvis Kryoukov  (CYP)7134 ptsFlag of Serbia.svg  Aleksandar Grnović  (SRB)7104 ptsFlag of Romania.svg  Roman Razvan George  (ROU)6555 pts

Women

EventGoldSilverBronze
100 metresFlag of Bulgaria.svg  Ivet Lalova-Collio  (BUL)11.23Flag of Israel.svg  Diana Vaisman  (ISR)11.25 NR Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Inna Eftimova  (BUL)11.56
200 metresFlag of Bulgaria.svg  Ivet Lalova-Collio  (BUL)22.45 CR Flag of Cyprus.svg  Eléni Artymatá  (CYP)22.97Flag of Greece.svg  Rafaéla Spanoudáki-Chatziríga  (GRE)23.16 PB
400 metresFlag of Greece.svg  Irini Vasiliou  (GRE)51.75 PB Flag of Cyprus.svg  Eléni Artymatá  (CYP)51.77Flag of Romania.svg  Andrea Miklós  (ROU)52.57
800 metresFlag of Slovenia.svg Jerneja Smonkar (SLO)2:07.25Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Jelena Gajić  (BIH)2:07.61Flag of Cyprus.svg  Natalia Evangelidou  (CYP)2:08.47
1500 metresFlag of Cyprus.svg  Natalia Evangelidou  (CYP)4:17.29Flag of Romania.svg  Florina Pierdevară  (ROU)4:19.75Flag of Ukraine.svg  Anna Mishchenko  (UKR)4:20.00
5000 metresFlag of Serbia.svg  Teodora Simović  (SRB)16:36.45Flag of Turkey.svg  Yayla Kılıç  (TUR)16:46.39Flag of Slovenia.svg  Neja Kršina  (SLO)17:05.02
110 m hurdlesFlag of Greece.svg  Elisavet Pesiridou  (GRE)13.11Flag of Ukraine.svg  Hanna Chubkovtsova  (UKR)13.28Flag of Ukraine.svg  Oksana Shkurat  (UKR)13.34
400 m hurdlesFlag of Ukraine.svg  Mariia Mykolenko  (UKR)56.45Flag of Ukraine.svg  Olena Kolesničenko  (UKR)57.59Flag of Turkey.svg  Emel Şanli  (TUR)58.20
3000 m s'chaseFlag of Turkey.svg  Özlem Kaya  (TUR)9:54.28Flag of Greece.svg  Isavela Kotsacheili  (GRE)10:37.53Flag of Cyprus.svg  Chrystalla Hadjipolydorou  (CYP)10:59.70
4 × 100 m relayFlag of Israel.svg  Israel
Gal Kadmon
Diana Vaisman
Olga Lenskay
Ilana Dorfman
45.00Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
Camelia Gal
Ioana Teodora Gheorghe
Roxana Maria Ene
Marina Andreea Baboi
46.05Not awarded
4 × 400 m relayFlag of Romania.svg  Romania
Camelia Gal
Mirela Lavric
Sanda Belgyan
Andrea Miklós
3:39.52Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria
Nadezhda Racheva
Polina Todorova
Gabriela Georgieva
Kristina Borukova
3:47.83Not awarded
High jumpFlag of Bulgaria.svg  Mirela Demireva  (BUL)1.91 mFlag of Romania.svg  Ligia-Damaris Bara  (ROU)1.80 mFlag of Montenegro.svg  Marija Vuković  (MNE)1.80 m
Pole vaultFlag of Turkey.svg  Buse Arıkazan  (TUR)4.35 mFlag of Greece.svg  Eleni Claudia Polak  (GRE)4.28 mFlag of Israel.svg  Naama Bernstein  (ISR)4.01 m
Long jumpFlag of Serbia.svg  Milica Gardašević  (SRB)6.42 mFlag of Greece.svg  Efthymia Kolokytha  (GRE)6.41 mFlag of Romania.svg  Florentina Iusco  (ROU)6.37 m
Triple jumpFlag of Greece.svg  Paraskevi Papachristou  (GRE)14.24 mFlag of Bulgaria.svg  Aleksandra Nacheva  (BUL)13.89 mFlag of Romania.svg  Elena Panțuroiu  (ROU)13.81 m
Shot putFlag of Moldova.svg  Dimitriana Surdu  (MDA)17.53 mFlag of Ukraine.svg  Olha Holodna  (UKR)17.51 mFlag of Bulgaria.svg  Radoslava Mavrodieva  (BUL)16.81 m
Discus throwFlag of Turkey.svg  Özlem Becerek  (TUR)57.47 mFlag of Montenegro.svg  Kristina Rakočević  (MNE)52.49 mFlag of Slovenia.svg  Veronika Domjan  (SLO)51.10 m
Hammer throwFlag of Greece.svg  Stamatia Scarvelis  (GRE)71.33 mFlag of Romania.svg  Bianca Florentina Ghelber  (ROU)69.96 mFlag of Turkey.svg  Kıvılcım Kaya  (TUR)69.04 m
Javelin throwFlag of Serbia.svg  Marija Vučenović  (SRB)57.21 mFlag of Turkey.svg  Selena Durna  (TUR)55.48 mFlag of Bulgaria.svg  Mihaela Petkova  (BUL)46.40 m
HeptathlonFlag of Ukraine.svg  Alina Shukh  (UKR)6042 ptsFlag of Romania.svg  Beatrice Puiu  (ROU)5497 ptsFlag of Bulgaria.svg  Iva Aleksandrova  (BUL)4967 pts

Medal table

1Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 94518
2Flag of Greece.svg  Greece 66214
3Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey 63716
4Flag of Romania.svg  Romania 58518
5Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria 56617
6Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 4329
7Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus 2226
8Flag of Israel.svg  Israel 1113
9Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia 11-2
10Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia 1-23
-Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 1-23
12Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova 1-12
13Flag of Kosovo.svg  Kosovo -3-3
14Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina -224
15Flag of Montenegro.svg  Montenegro -213
16Flag of Georgia.svg  Georgia -1-1
17Flag of Albania.svg  Albania --22
Total424240124

References

  1. Balkan Championships 2019 Medal Table. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
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