2018 Balkan Athletics Championships

2018 Balkan Athletics Championships
Dates	20–21 July
Host city	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
Venue	Beroe Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
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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[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres Wind: -1.5 m/s	(GRE)	10.36	Denis Dimitrov (BUL)	10.37	(ROU)	10.42
200 metres Wind: -1.5 m/s	(GRE)	20.87	(ROU)	20.88	Denis Dimitrov (BUL)	20.92
400 metres	Batuhan Altıntaş (TUR)	46.13	Yavuz Can (TUR)	46.37	(ROU)	46.44
800 metres	(CRO)	1:47.51	Musa Hajdari (KOS)	1:48.29	(ROU)	1:48.31
1500 metres	Elzan Bibić (SRB)	3:43.36	(ARM)	3:44.55	Andreas Dimitrakis (GRE)	3:44.95
5000 metres	(ROU)	14:26.07	(ALB)	14:32.22	Sezgin Ataç (TUR)	14:32.73
110 m hurdles	Konstadinos Douvalidis (GRE)	13.63	(UKR)	14.22	(TUR)	14.30
400 m hurdles	Emir Bekrić (SRB)	51.05	(CRO)	51.15	(BIH)	51.90
3000 m s'chase	Mitko Tsenov (BUL)	8:45.50	(TUR)	8:55.85	(BUL)	9:01.44
4 × 100 metres relay	Romania	39.48	Greece Konstadinos Douvalidis	39.84	Israel	40.29
4 × 400 metres relay	Turkey Yavuz Can Batuhan Altıntaş	3:07.17	Romania	3:08.29	Croatia	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	(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	(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	(ROU)	75.92 m	(BUL)	73.53 m
Decathlon	Darko Pešić (MNE)	7658 pts	Alexis Spyridonidis (GRE)	7336 pts	(SRB)	7165 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres Wind: -1.5	Inna Eftimova (BUL)	11.45	Diana Weissman (ISR)	11.53	(CYP)	11.55
200 metres Wind: -1.0	Inna Eftimova (BUL)	23.11	(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	(GRE)	2:04.65	Florina Pierdevară (ROU)	2:09.01	Jerneja Smonkar (SLO)	2:09.47
1500 metres	(ROU)	4:20.81	Florina Pierdevară (ROU)	4:22.94	(TUR)	4:25.56
5000 metres	Teodora Simović (SRB)	16:41.80	(TUR)	16:44.79	(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	(TUR)	58.05	(TUR)	59.33
3000 m s'chase	(ROU)	10:05.89	(TUR)	10:11.78	(CRO)	11:18.83
4 × 100 metres relay	Greece Elisavet Pesiridou	45.43	Romania	45.55	Bulgaria Karin Okolie Inna Eftimova|	45.62
4 × 400 metres relay	Romania Sanda Belgyan Bianca Răzor	3:33.56	Greece	3:33.89	Serbia Tamara Salaški Maja Ćirić	3:34.64
High jump	Mirela Demireva (BUL)	1.95 m	(UKR)	1.84 m	(TUR)	1.84 m PB
Pole vault	Buse Arıkazan (TUR)	4.00 m	(CRO)	3.80 m	(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	(CRO)	13.55 m PB
Shot put	Radoslava Mavrodieva (BUL)	18.95 m PB	Dimitriana Surdu (MDA)	17.36 m	(GRE)	15.51 m
Discus throw	Dragana Tomašević (SRB)	60.19 m	Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou (GRE)	58.76 m	(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	(ROU)	52.24 m
Heptathlon	(BIH)	4990 pts	(BUL)	4789 pts	(MNE)	4593 pts

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Bulgaria)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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 nations)		42	42	42	126

References[]

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