2018 Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships

The 2018 Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships was the 23rd edition of the annual track and field competition for athletes from the Balkans, organised by Balkan Athletics. It was held on 17 February 2018 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey.^[1]

Romania topped the medal table, winning 15 medals including 5 gold, ahead of the host nation Turkey, and Bulgaria.^[2]

Men's results[]

Track[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Emre Zafer Barnes  Turkey	6.62 NR	Greece	6.71	Konstantinos Zikos  Greece	6.72
400 metres	Romania	47.28	Yavuz Can  Turkey	47.59	Romania	48.12
800 metres	Amel Tuka  Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:49.49	Musa Hajdari  Kosovo	1:49.58	Cyprus	1:50.02
1500 metres	Amine Khadiri  Cyprus	3:53.01	Levent Ateş  Turkey	3:53.26	Armenia	3:53.28
3000 metres	Elzan Bibić  Serbia	8:08.34	Adrian Garcea  Romania	8:09.32	Bulgaria	8:10.50
60 metres hurdles	Turkey	7.91 NR	Romania	7.95	Romania	8.03
4 × 400 metres relay	Romania	3:12.46	Turkey	3:13.44	Bosnia and Herzegovina Abedin Mujezinović	3:21.24

Field[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Konstadinos Baniotis  Greece	2.22 m	Vasilios Konstantinou  Cyprus Tihomir Ivanov  Bulgaria	2.18 m	Not awarded
Pole vault	Ivan Horvat  Croatia	5.55 m	Nikandros Stylianou  Cyprus	5.25 m	Romania	5.10 m
Long jump	Izmir Smajlaj  Albania	7.80 m	Croatia	7.60 m	Croatia	7.58 m
Triple jump	Levon Aghasyan  Armenia	16.35 m	Momchil Karailiev  Bulgaria	16.27 m	Rumen Dimitrov  Bulgaria	16.21 m
Shot put	Mesud Pezer  Bosnia and Herzegovina	20.77 m	Andrei Gag  Romania	20.41 m	Nikólaos Skarvélis  Greece	20.15 m

Women's results[]

Track[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Mizgin Ay  Turkey	7.38	Inna Eftimova  Bulgaria	7.40	Diana Vaisman  Israel	7.49
400 metres	Maria Belimpasaki  Greece	53.27	Tamara Salaški  Serbia	54.72	Croatia	55.03
800 metres	Florina Pierdevară  Romania	2:05.83	Greece	2:06.04	Turkey	2:07.55
1500 metres	Amela Terzić  Serbia	4:17.64	Özlem Kaya  Turkey	4:22.48	Natalia Evangelidou  Cyprus	4:25.80
3000 metres	Luiza Gega  Albania	9:00.67	Valeriya Zhandarova  Georgia	9:16.48	Bulgaria	9:24.46
60 metres hurdles	Anamaria Nesteriuc  Romania	8.17	Ivana Lončarek  Croatia	8.17	Elisavet Pesiridou  Greece	8.21
4 × 400 metres relay	Romania Florina Pierdevară Sanda Belgyan	3:47.89	Turkey	3:51.98	Bulgaria	3:58.89

Field[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Ana Šimić  Croatia	1.92 m	Marija Vuković  Montenegro	1.89 m	Daniela Stanciu  Romania	1.86 m
Pole vault	Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou  Greece	4.50 m	Eléni-Klaoúdia Pólak  Greece	4.30 m	Buse Arıkazan  Turkey	4.10 m
Long jump	Bulgaria	6.45 m	Angela Moroșanu  Romania	6.41 m	Milica Gardašević  Serbia	6.30 m
Triple jump	Gabriela Petrova  Bulgaria	13.90 m	Elena Panțuroiu  Romania	13.63 m	Croatia	13.43 m
Shot put	Radoslava Mavrodieva  Bulgaria	17.85 m	Dimitriana Surdu  Moldova	17.56 m	Romania	15.85 m

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Romania (ROU)	5	5	5	15
2	Turkey (TUR)*	3	5	2	10
3	Bulgaria (BUL)	3	3	4	10
4	Greece (GRE)	3	3	3	9
5	Croatia (CRO)	2	2	3	7
6	Serbia (SRB)	2	1	1	4
7	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	2	0	1	3
8	Albania (ALB)	2	0	0	2
9	Cyprus (CYP)	1	2	2	5
10	Armenia (ARM)	1	0	1	2
11	Georgia (GEO)	0	1	0	1
	Kosovo (KOS)	0	1	0	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	1	0	1
	Montenegro (MNE)	0	1	0	1
15	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 nations)		24	25	23	72

References[]

External links[]

• ABAF competition website
• Men's results
• Women's results