2013 Balkan Athletics Championships

2013 Balkan Athletics Championships
Dates	27–28 July
Host city	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Venue	Beroe Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	40
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The 2013 Balkan Athletics Championships was the 66th 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 27 and 28 July. Romania topped the medal table with eleven gold medals among a total haul of 26. The host nation Bulgaria had the second highest number of gold medals, with nine in a total of 21, while Turkey had the second highest medal total with 23. Turkey won the men's side of the competition while Romania won the women's side.

Amela Terzić of Serbia was the only athlete to win multiple individual events, taking the women's 1500 metres and 3000 metres titles. Bulgaria's Ivet Lalova and Romania's Adelina Pastor took gold for their countries in both individual and relay events over 100 metres and 400 metres, respectively. The other multiple individual medallists were Turkey's (twice runner-up behind Terzić), sprint and hurdles medalist Vania Stambolova.

Results[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Denis Dimitrov (BUL)	10.32	(GRE)	10.54	(TUR)	10.56
200 metres	(BUL)	20.79	(GRE)	21.50	(CRO)	21.58
400 metres	Yavuz Can (TUR)	46.66	Mateo Ružić (CRO)	47.38	(ROM)	48.06
800 metres	(GRE)	1:49.93	(ROM)	1:50.70	Amel Tuka (BIH)	1:50.76
1500 metres	Ioan Zaizan (ROM)	3:44.60	Goran Nava (SRB)	3:44.89	(TUR)	3:45.19
3000 metres	(SRB)	8:12.36 PB	(TUR)	8:13.53 PB	(ROM)	8:13.73 PB
5000 metres	(CRO)	14:36.96	Mirko Petrović (SRB)	14:38.02	(TUR)	14:39.65 PB
3000 m s'chase	Mitko Tsenov (BUL)	8:46.69	Halil Akkaş (TUR)	8:55.33	(ROM)	9:00.89
110 m hurdles	Konstadinos Douvalidis (GRE)	13.44	(BUL)	13.93	(GRE)	13.93
400 m hurdles	Emir Bekrić (SRB)	48.96	(MDA)	51.49	(ROM)	51.63
4 × 100 m relay	Romania (ROM)	40.03	Bulgaria (BUL) Denis Dimitrov	40.23	Croatia (CRO)	40.28
4 × 400 m relay	Croatia (CRO) Željko Vincek Mateo Ružić	3:08.66	Serbia (SRB) Miloš Raović Emir Bekrić	3:10.63	Turkey (TUR) Batuhan Altıntaş	3:11.99
High jump	Mihai Donisan (ROM)	2.31 m PB	Viktor Ninov (BUL)	2.24 m	(ROM)	2.15 m
Pole vault	(GRE)	5.40 m	Ivan Horvat (CRO)	5.20 m	Dimitrios Patsoukakis (GRE)	5.20 m
Long jump	Alper Kulaksız (TUR)	7.86 m w	(BUL)	7.79 m	(CRO)	7.75 m
Triple jump	Marian Oprea (ROM)	17.24 m	Zlatozar Atanasov (BUL)	16.65 m	(TUR)	16.51 m PB
Shot put	Georgi Ivanov (BUL)	20.71 m	Asmir Kolašinac (SRB)	20.59 m	Michalis Stamatogiannis (GRE)	19.02 m
Discus throw	(TUR)	63.01 m	Sergiu Ursu (ROM)	62.78 m	Andrei Gag (ROM)	57.47 m
Hammer throw	Serghei Marghiev (MDA)	73.77 m	Özkan Baltacı (TUR)	70.41 m PB	(CRO)	69.59 m
Javelin throw	Dejan Mileusnić (BIH)	76.34 m	(GRE)	71.30 m	(TUR)	69.10 m

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Ivet Lalova (BUL)	11.15	(GRE)	11.73 PB	(ROM)	11.90
200 metres	(GRE)	23.68	(BUL)	23.91	(ROM)	24.07
400 metres	Adelina Pastor (ROM)	52.76	Olesea Cojuhari (MDA)	53.01	Vania Stambolova (BUL)	53.70
800 metres	(ROM)	2:05.60	Teodora Kolarova (BUL)	2:05.62	(GRE)	2:08.78
1500 metres	Amela Terzić (SRB)	4:16.27	(TUR)	4:16.68 PB	(BIH)	4:17.43 PB
3000 metres	Amela Terzić (SRB)	9:18.60	(TUR)	9:22.12 PB	Slađana Perunović (MNE)	9:24.69 NR
5000 metres	Roxana Bârcă (ROM)	15:40.61	Sonja Stolić (SRB)	16:30.48	(TUR)	16:31.21
3000 m s'chase	Silvia Danekova (BUL)	9:43.81	Türkan Erişmiş (TUR)	10:04.77	(GRE)	10:06.38
100 m hurdles	(GRE)	13.55	(CRO)	13.68	(ROM)	13.78
400 m hurdles	Vania Stambolova (BUL)	56.21	Sanda Belgyan (ROM)	58.13 PB	Özge Akın (TUR)	59.55
4 × 100 metres relay	Bulgaria (BUL) Ivet Lalova	45.41	Turkey (TUR) Aksel Gürcan Demirtaş Birsen Engin Sema Apak	46.19	Croatia (CRO) Ivana Lončarek	46.63
4 × 400 metres relay	Romania (ROM) Adelina Pastor Bianca Răzor	3:29.13	Croatia (CRO)	3:38.49	Turkey (TUR) Özge Akın Sema Apak Birsen Engin	3:38.97
High jump	Antonia Stergiou (GRE)	1.95 m	Mirela Demireva (BUL)	1.92 m	Ana Šimić (CRO)	1.88 m
Pole vault	(GRE)	4.45 m PB=	(SRB)	4.00 m	Buse Arıkazan (TUR)	3.80 m
Long jump	Ivana Španović (SRB)	6.76 m	Cristina Sandu (ROM)	6.51 m	Alina Rotaru (ROM)	6.50 m
Triple jump	Carmen Toma (ROM)	14.56w m	Gabriela Petrova (BUL)	13.92 m PB	Gita Dodova (BUL)	13.67 m
Shot put	Radoslava Mavrodieva (BUL)	18.08 m	Emel Dereli (TUR)	16.02 m	(GRE)	15.21 m
Discus throw	Nicoleta Grasu (ROM)	56.05 m	Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou (GRE)	53.81 m	Elçin Kaya (TUR)	50.80 m
Hammer throw	Bianca Perie (ROM)	68.76 m	(GRE)	60.63 m	(TUR)	59.29 m
Javelin throw	Tatjana Jelača (SRB)	56.54 m	(ROM)	55.43 m	(BUL)	47.93 m

Medal table[]

1	Romania (ROM)	11	5	10	26
2	Bulgaria (BUL)	9	9	3	21
3	Greece (GRE)	7	6	6	19
4	Serbia (SRB)	6	6	0	12
5	Turkey (TUR)	3	8	12	23
6	Croatia (HRV)	2	4	6	12
7	Moldova (MDA)	1	2	0	3
8	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	1	0	2	3
9	Montenegro (MNE)	0	0	1	1

References[]

• BalkanC Stara Zagora BUL 27 – 28 July 2013. tilastopaja.org . Retrieved 2020-10-22.
• 2013 Balkan Senior Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-10-22.