2018 Balkan Athletics Championships

International athletics championship event

2018 Balkan Athletics Championships

Dates| 20–21 July
Host city| Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Venue| Beroe Stadium
Level| Senior
Type| Outdoor
Participation| 610 athletes from
18 nations

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Balkan Athletics Championships

The 2018 Balkan Athletics Championships was the 73rd edition of the annual track and field competition for athletes from the Balkans, organised by Balkan Athletics. It was held at Beroe Stadium in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria on 20 and 21 July. It was the fourth time that the city hosted the competition, following the 1985, 2011 and 2013 editions.

Two championship records were broken: Paraskevi Papachristou of Greece set a women's triple jump mark of 14.60 m (+ 1.7 m/s), while Serbia's Marija Vučenović set a women's javelin throw best of 60.60 m. Bulgaria's Inna Eftimova took a women's sprint double in the 100 metres and 200 metres. Florina Pierdevară of Romania was runner-up in both women's middle-distance running events and Bulgarian horizontal jumper Gabriela Petrova also won two individual silvers. Romania was the most successful nation at the competition, topping the medal table with 23 medals (nine of them gold), and were closely followed by Greece on 22 medals and eight golds.[1]

## Results[edit]

### Men[edit]

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
Wind: -1.5 m/s |  Ioannis Nifadopoulos (GRE) | 10.36  |  Denis Dimitrov (BUL) | 10.37  |  Ionut Andrei Neagoe (ROU) | 10.42
200 metres
Wind: -1.5 m/s |  Panayiotis Trivyzas (GRE) | 20.87  |  Ionut Andrei Neagoe (ROU) | 20.88  |  Denis Dimitrov (BUL) | 20.92
400 metres  |  Batuhan Altıntaş (TUR) | 46.13  |  Yavuz Can (TUR) | 46.37  |  Robert Parge (ROU) | 46.44
800 metres  |  Sven Cepuš (CRO) | 1:47.51  |  Musa Hajdari (KOS) | 1:48.29  |  Cosmin Trofin (ROU) | 1:48.31
1500 metres  |  Elzan Bibić (SRB) | 3:43.36  |  Yervand Mkrtchyan (ARM) | 3:44.55  |  Andreas Dimitrakis (GRE) | 3:44.95
5000 metres  |  Chis Laviniu Madalin (ROU) | 14:26.07  |  David Nikolli (ALB) | 14:32.22  |  Sezgin Ataç (TUR) | 14:32.73
110 m hurdles  |  Konstadinos Douvalidis (GRE) | 13.63  |  Roman Suprun (UKR) | 14.22  |  Batuhan Buğra (TUR) | 14.30
400 m hurdles  |  Emir Bekrić (SRB) | 51.05  |  Hrvoje Čukman (CRO) | 51.15  |  Rusmir Malkočević (BIH) | 51.90
3000 m s'chase  |  Mitko Tsenov (BUL) | 8:45.50  |  Turgay Bayram (TUR) | 8:55.85  |  Ivo Balabanov (BUL) | 9:01.44
4 × 100 metres relay  |  Romania
Costin Homiuc
Alexandru Terpezan
Ioan Melnicescu
Petre Rezmiveș | 39.48  |  Greece
Efthimios Stergioulis
Ioannis Nifadopoulos
Panayiotis Trivyzas
Konstadinos Douvalidis | 39.84  |  Israel
Asaf Malka
Dayan Aviv
Imri Persiado
Gal Arad | 40.29
4 × 400 metres relay  |  Turkey
Abdullah Tütünci
Yavuz Can
Ahmet Kasap
Batuhan Altıntaş | 3:07.17  |  Romania
Cristian Radu
Constantin Andonii
David Nastase
Robert Parge | 3:08.29  |  Croatia
Mateo Parlov
Hrvoje Čukman
David Šalamon
Mateo Kovačić | 3:09.04
High jump  |  Alperen Acet (TUR) | 2.24 m  |  Dmitry Kroyter (ISR) | 2.21 m SB  |  Konstadinos Baniotis (GRE) | 2.21 m
Pole vault  |  Ivan Horvat (CRO) | 5.30 m  |  Thodoris Chrysanthopoulos (GRE) | 5.10 m  |  Ersu Şaşma (TUR) | 5.00 m
Long jump  |  Miltiádis Tedóglou (GRE) | 8.17 m  |  Strahinja Jovančević (SRB) | 7.70 m SB  |  Denis Eradiri (BUL) | 7.70 m
Triple jump  |  Dimitrios Tsiamis (GRE) | 16.67 m  |  Momchil Karailiev (BUL) | 16.56 m SB  |  Georgi Tsonov (BUL) | 16.16 m
Shot put  |  Andrei Gag (ROU) | 20.19 m  |  Nikólaos Skarvélis (GRE) | 20.12 m  |  Mesud Pezer (BIH) | 19.72 m
Discus throw  |  Alin Firfirică (ROU) | 63.76 m  |  Apóstolos Paréllis (CYP) | 62.87 m  |  Danijel Furtula (MNE) | 61.88 m
Hammer throw  |  Eşref Apak (TUR) | 76.21 m  |  Mihail Anastasakis (GRE) | 74.93 m  |  Serghei Marghiev (MDA) | 72.30 m
Javelin throw  |  Vedran Samac (SRB) | 76.80 m  |  George Catalin Zaharia (ROU) | 75.92 m  |  Mark Slavov (BUL) | 73.53 m
Decathlon  |  Darko Pešić (MNE) | 7658 pts  |  Alexis Spyridonidis (GRE) | 7336 pts  |  Aleksandar Grnović (SRB) | 7165 pts

### Women[edit]

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
Wind: -1.5 |  Inna Eftimova (BUL) | 11.45  |  Diana Weissman (ISR) | 11.53  |  Olivia Fotopoulou (CYP) | 11.55
200 metres
Wind: -1.0 |  Inna Eftimova (BUL) | 23.11  |  Olivia Fotopoulou (CYP) | 23.57  |  Karin Okolie (BUL) | 23.70
400 metres  |  Eléni Artymatá (CYP) | 51.29  |  Tamara Salaški (SRB) | 52.26  |  Bianca Răzor (ROU) | 52.96
800 metres  |  Konstantina Giannopoulou (GRE) | 2:04.65  |  Florina Pierdevară (ROU) | 2:09.01  |  Jerneja Smonkar (SLO) | 2:09.47
1500 metres  |  Lenuta Petronela Simiuc (ROU) | 4:20.81  |  Florina Pierdevară (ROU) | 4:22.94  |  Damla Çelik (TUR) | 4:25.56
5000 metres  |  Teodora Simović (SRB) | 16:41.80  |  Emine Hatun Tuna (TUR) | 16:44.79  |  Sümeyye Erol (TUR) | 16:46.18
100 m hurdles
Wind: -0.6 |  Andrea Ivančević (CRO) | 12.93  |  Elisavet Pesiridou (GRE) | 13.04  |  Ivana Lončarek (CRO) | 13.17
400 m hurdles  |  Sanda Belgyan (ROU) | 56.69 PB |  Elif Gören (TUR) | 58.05  |  Emel Şanli (TUR) | 59.33
3000 m s'chase  |  Claudia Prisecaru (ROU) | 10:05.89  |  Sümeyye Erol (TUR) | 10:11.78  |  Lora Ontl (CRO) | 11:18.83
4 × 100 metres relay  |  Greece
Grigoría-Emmanouéla Keramidá
Elisavet Pesiridou
Ekaterini Sarri
Korina Politi | 45.43  |  Romania
Ana Maria Rosianu
Ioana Teodora Gheorghe
Roxana Maria Ene
Marina Andreea Baboi | 45.55  |  Bulgaria
Viktoriya Georgieva
Radostina Stoyanova
Karin Okolie
Inna Eftimova| | 45.62
4 × 400 metres relay  |  Romania
Cristina Daniela Balan
Camelia Florina Gal
Sanda Belgyan
Bianca Răzor | 3:33.56  |  Greece
Elpida Karkalatou
Despina Mourta
Evangelia Zigori
Anna Vasiliou | 3:33.89  |  Serbia
Zorana Barjaktarović
Tamara Salaški
Bojana Kaličanin
Maja Ćirić | 3:34.64
High jump  |  Mirela Demireva (BUL) | 1.95 m  |  Liliia Klintsova (UKR) | 1.84 m  |  Rümeysa Ökdem (TUR) | 1.84 m PB
Pole vault  |  Buse Arıkazan (TUR) | 4.00 m  |  Elija Valentić (CRO) | 3.80 m  |  Aikaterini Vagena (GRE) | 3.80 m
Long jump  |  Florentina Costina Iusco (ROU) | 6.59 m  |  Gabriela Petrova (BUL) | 6.48 m  |  Angela Moroșanu (ROU) | 6.48 m
Triple jump  |  Paraskevi Papachristou (GRE) | 14.74 m w |  Gabriela Petrova (BUL) | 14.34 m  |  Paola Borović (CRO) | 13.55 m PB
Shot put  |  Radoslava Mavrodieva (BUL) | 18.95 m PB |  Dimitriana Surdu (MDA) | 17.36 m  |  Statia Scarvelis (GRE) | 15.51 m
Discus throw  |  Dragana Tomašević (SRB) | 60.19 m  |  Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou (GRE) | 58.76 m  |  Estel Valeanu (ISR) | 51.46 m
Hammer throw  |  Zalina Petrivskaya (MDA) | 71.36 m  |  Bianca Perie-Ghelber (ROU) | 68.88 m  |  Stamatia Scarvelis (GRE) | 68.48 m
Javelin throw  |  Marija Vučenović (SRB) | 60.60 m CR PB |  Sofia Yfantidou (GRE) | 57.37 m  |  Florina Andreea Necşoiu (ROU) | 52.24 m
Heptathlon  |  Mladena Petrušić (BIH) | 4990 pts  |  Iva Aleksandrova (BUL) | 4789 pts  |  Ljiljana Matović (MNE) | 4593 pts

### Medal table[edit]

* Host nation (Bulgaria)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Romania (ROU)| 9| 8| 6| 23
2|  Greece (GRE)| 8| 9| 5| 22
3|  Serbia (SRB)| 8| 2| 2| 12
4|  Turkey (TUR)| 5| 6| 8| 19
5|  Bulgaria (BUL)*| 5| 5| 7| 17
6|  Croatia (CRO)| 3| 2| 5| 10
7|  Cyprus (CYP)| 1| 2| 1| 4
8|  Moldova (MDA)| 1| 1| 1| 3
9|  Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)| 1| 0| 2| 3
Montenegro (MNE)| 1| 0| 2| 3
11|  Israel (ISR)| 0| 2| 2| 4
12|  Ukraine (UKR)| 0| 2| 0| 2
13|  Albania (ALB)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Armenia (ARM)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Kosovo (KOS)| 0| 1| 0| 1
16|  Slovenia (SLO)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (16 entries)| 42| 42| 42| 126

## References[edit]

1. ^ Balkan Championships 2018 Medal Table. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.

* Results. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.

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