2019 Balkan Athletics Championships

International athletics championship event

2019 Balkan Athletics Championships

Dates| 2–3 September
Host city| Pravets, Bulgaria
Venue| Pravets Sports Complex
Level| Senior
Type| Outdoor
Events| 40
Participation| 19 nations
Records set| 3 championship records

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Balkan Athletics Championships

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.

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

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### Men

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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

### Women

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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

## Medal table

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1 |  Ukraine | 9 | 4 | 5 | 18

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2 |  Greece | 6 | 6 | 2 | 14
3 |  Turkey | 6 | 3 | 7 | 16
4 |  Romania | 5 | 8 | 5 | 18
5 |  Bulgaria | 5 | 6 | 6 | 17
6 |  Serbia | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9
7 |  Cyprus | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6
8 |  Israel | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3
9 |  Armenia | 1 | 1 | - | 2
10 |  Croatia | 1 | - | 2 | 3
- |  Slovenia | 1 | - | 2 | 3
12 |  Moldova | 1 | - | 1 | 2
13 |  Kosovo | - | 3 | - | 3
14 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 2 | 2 | 4
15 |  Montenegro | - | 2 | 1 | 3
16 |  Georgia | - | 1 | - | 1
17 |  Albania | - | - | 2 | 2
Total | 42 | 42 | 40 | 124

## References

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

Results

* Balkan Senior Championships Pravets BUL. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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