Balkan Half Marathon Championships

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The Balkan Half Marathon Championships is an annual international competition over the half marathon between athletes from the Balkans. Organised by the Association of the Balkan Athletics Federations, it was inaugurated in 2012. It is one of two road running championships for the region, alongside the Balkan Marathon Championships. [1]

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The championships features races for both men and women. National team competitions are held within the individual races, with each nation's score being the total of the finishing positions of their best three athletes.

Editions

EditionYearVenueCountryDateMen's winnerTime (m:s)Women's winnerTime (m:s)
1st2012 Kavarna Bulgaria1 SeptemberFlag of Moldova.svg  Gheorghita Vitalie  (MDA)1:10.48 [2] Flag of Montenegro.svg  Slađana Perunović  (MNE)1:22.41 [3]
2nd2013 Oradea Romania15 SeptemberFlag of Romania.svg  Nicolae Soare  (ROM)1:04:26Flag of Serbia.svg  Olivera Jevtić  (SRB)1:14:39 [4]
3rd2014 Durrës Albania6 AprilFlag of Turkey.svg  Muzaffer Bajram  (TUR)1:04:53 [5] Flag of Montenegro.svg  Slađana Perunović  (MNE)1:15:27 [6]
4th2015 Apatin Serbia18 OctoberFlag of Turkey.svg  Demir Medeni  (TUR)1:06:55Flag of Turkey.svg  Buyukbezgin Burcu  (TUR)1:17:51 [7]
5th2016 Podgorica Montenegro30 OctoberFlag of Turkey.svg  Bekir Karayel  (TUR)1:07:46Flag of Serbia.svg  Olivera Jevtić  (SRB)1:12:25 [8]
6th2017 Pristina Kosovo14 MayFlag of Turkey.svg  Kaya Serkan  (TUR)1:07:43Flag of Turkey.svg  Yildiz Şeyma  (TUR)1:18:32 [9]
7th2018 Sarajevo Bosnia16 SeptemberFlag of Turkey.svg  Aykut Tasdemir  (TUR)1:08:01Flag of Serbia.svg  Olivera Jevtić  (SRB)1:14:46 [10]
8th2019 Kyiv Ukraine7 AprilFlag of Ukraine.svg  Roman Romanenko  (UKR)1:04:36 [11] Flag of Ukraine.svg  Darya Mykhaylova  (UKR)1:11:50 [12]

References

  1. Balkan Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  2. 2012 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Men Archived 2015-04-07 at the Wayback Machine . Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  3. 2012 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Women Archived 2015-04-07 at the Wayback Machine . Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  4. 2013 Balkan Half Marathon Championships Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine . Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  5. 2014 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Men. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  6. 2014 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Women. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  7. 2015 Balkan Half Marathon Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  8. 2016 Balkan Half Marathon Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  9. 2017 Balkan Half Marathon Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  10. 2018 Balkan Half Marathon Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  11. 2019 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Men. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  12. 2019 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Women. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.