Balkan Race Walking Championships

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The Balkan Race Walking Championships is an annual racewalking competition between athletes from member nations of Balkan Athletics. The championships features six individual races: senior men's and women's 20 kilometres race walks, men's and women's under-20 10 kilometres race walks, an under-18 boys' 10 km walk, and an under-18 girls' 5 kilometres race walk. [1] Each individual race also has a national team component with points awarded based on finishing time, which are then totalled to form an overall team score for the championships. [2]

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Balkan racewalking competitions originated in the main Balkan Athletics Championships. A men's 20 km walk was first held in 1961 and a women's 10 km walk was introduced in 1988 (later increased to a 20 km race in 2001). [3] One-off indoor walks were also held at the Balkan Indoor Athletics Championships in 1994. [4] The Balkan championships for racewalking were first held separately from the main championships in 2000, [3] though Balkan Athletics starting their official numbering of a discrete Balkan Race Walking Championships from 2002 onwards. [5]

List of winners (20 km)

EditionYearVenueCountryDateSenior men's winnerTimeSenior women's winnerTimeTeam winner
1st 2002 Vlasotince YugoslaviaFlag of Romania.svg  Silviu Casandra  (ROM)1:22:06Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Nevena Mineva-Dimitrova  (BUL)1:32:16—
2nd 2003 Ruse BulgariaFlag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg  Predrag Filipović  (SCG)1:22:40Flag of Romania.svg  Veronica Budileanu  (ROM)1:35:12—
3rd 2004 Reșița RomaniaFlag of Romania.svg  Costică Bălan  (ROM)1:21:51Flag of Greece.svg  Athina Papayianni  (GRE)1:28:58—
4th 2005 Preveza GreeceFlag of Romania.svg  Silviu Casandra  (ROM)1:25:48Flag of Greece.svg  Evangelia Xinou  (GRE)1:35:35—
5th 2006 Istanbul TurkeyFlag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg  Predrag Filipović  (SCG)1:22:31Flag of Romania.svg  Ana Maria Groza  (ROM)1:30:46—
6th 2007 Galați RomaniaFlag of Turkey.svg  Recep Çelik  (TUR)1:23:10Flag of Romania.svg  Alina Olaru  (ROM)1:33:14—
7th 2008 Bucharest Romania12 April [6] Flag of Serbia.svg  Predrag Filipović  (SRB)1:26:59Flag of Romania.svg  Veronica Budileanu  (ROM)1:34:37—
8th 2009 Bucharest RomaniaFlag of Romania.svg  Dragoș Neacșu  (ROM)1:23:21.20Flag of Romania.svg  Ana Maria Groza  (ROM)1:29:56.30—
9th 2010 Bucharest RomaniaFlag of Romania.svg  Silviu Casandra  (ROM)1:23:29.30Flag of Romania.svg  Ana Veronica Rodean  (ROM)1:37.26—
10th 2011 Bucharest RomaniaFlag of Turkey.svg  Recep Çelik  (TUR)1:22:31Flag of Romania.svg  Claudia Ștef  (ROM)1:33:38—
11th 2012 Bucharest RomaniaFlag of Serbia.svg  Predrag Filipović  (SRB)1:28:50Flag of Romania.svg  Ana Veronica Rodean  (ROM)1:35:17—
12th 2013 Ayvalık TurkeyFlag of Serbia.svg  Vladimir Savanović  (SRB)1:28:42Flag of Romania.svg  Adriana Georgiana Enache  (ROM)1:39:17Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
13th 2014 Balchik BulgariaFlag of Serbia.svg  Vladimir Savanović  (SRB)1:26.31Flag of Greece.svg  Despina Zapounidou  (GRE)1:34.56Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
14th 2015 Ayvalık TurkeyFlag of Turkey.svg  Şahin Şenoduncu  (TUR)1:27:30Flag of Romania.svg  Andreea Arsine  (ROM)1:39:36Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
15th 2016 Florina GreeceFlag of Romania.svg  Adrian Dragomir  (ROM)1:31:32Flag of Greece.svg  Panayiota Tsinopoulou  (GRE)1:38:29Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
16th 2017 Florina GreeceFlag of Greece.svg  Alexandros Papamichail  (GRE)1:26:40Flag of Greece.svg  Antigoni Drisbioti  (GRE)1:34:00Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
17th 2018 Zrenjanin SerbiaFlag of Ukraine.svg  Dmytro Sobchuk  (UKR)1:26:27Flag of Greece.svg  Panayiota Tsinopoulou  (GRE)1:39:01Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
18th 2019 Alexandroupoli GreeceFlag of Greece.svg  Alexandros Papamichail  (GRE)1:24:40Flag of Greece.svg  Panayiota Tsinopoulou  (GRE)1:34:55Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
19th 2020 Ivano-Frankivsk Ukraine14 March [7] Flag of Ukraine.svg  Eduard Zabuzhenko  (UKR)1:20:46Flag of Ukraine.svg  Mariia Sakharuk  (UKR)1:30:22Flag of Greece.svg  Greece
20th 2021 Antalya Turkey27 March [8] Flag of Turkey.svg  Sahin Senoduncu  (TUR)1:24:20Flag of Turkey.svg  Ayşe Tekdal  (TUR)1:30:12Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
21st 2022 Athens Greece3 April [9] Flag of Romania.svg  Narcis Mihăilă  (ROU)1:30:24Flag of Turkey.svg  Ayşe Tekdal  (TUR)1:38:01Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey
22nd 2023 Antalya Turkey9 April [10] Flag of Turkey.svg  Mazlum Demir  (TUR)1:25:38Flag of Greece.svg  Antigoni Drisbioti  (GRE)1:29:56Flag of Greece.svg  Greece

References

  1. ↑ 18th BALKAN RACE WALKING CHAMPIONSHIPS Alexandroupolis/GREECE 20 April 2019. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  2. ↑ 18th BALKAN RACE WALKING CHAMPIONSHIPS Alexandroupolis/GREECE 20 April 2019 Team Results. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  3. 1 2 Balkan Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  4. ↑ Balkan Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  5. ↑ Results Archived 2022-10-30 at the Wayback Machine . Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  6. ↑ 2008 Balkan Race Walking Championships. European Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  7. ↑ 2020 Balkan Race Walking Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  8. ↑ "27/03/2021 Antalya (TUR): Balkan Championships - Great results of Meryem Bekmez". marciadalmondo.com. 27 March 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  9. ↑ "21st Balkan Race Walking Championships 2022 Athens, GRE" (PDF). balkan-athletics.eu. 3 April 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  10. ↑ "Balkan Race Walking Championships". worldathletics.org. 9 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
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