2019 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 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[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Emre Zafer Barnes (TUR)	10.48	[de] (SRB)	10.58	(BUL)	10.66
200 metres	Serhiy Smelyk (UKR)	20.50 CR	(BUL)	21.07	Ihor Bodrov (UKR)	21.43
400 metres	Danylo Danylenko (UKR)	46.84	(GEO)	47.37	(TUR)	47.68
800 metres	Oleh Myronets (UKR)	1:50.13	Musa Hajdari (KOS)	1:50.33	(GRE)	1:50.48
1500 metres	[no] (ARM)	3:46.00	Musa Hajdari (KOS)	3:46.54	(ALB)	3:47.06
5000 metres	(ROU)	14:51.17	(BUL)	14:52.01	(TUR)	14:53.12
100 m hurdles	Artem Shamatryn (UKR)	14.18	(ROU)	14.22	[de] (SRB)	14.22
400 m hurdles	Denys Nechyporenko (UKR)	50.71	(UKR)	51.12	(BIH)	51.53
3000 m s'chase	Aras Kaya (TUR)	8:39.35	(BIH)	8:47.97	Mitko Tsenov (BUL)	8:54.97
4 × 100 m relay	Ukraine  [de] Ihor Bodrov Serhiy Smelyk	40.40	Romania	41.48	Bosnia and Herzegovina	43.57
4 × 400 m relay	Turkey Yavuz Can Batuhan Altıntaş  [de]	3:5.85	Romania	3:12.43	Croatia Mateo Ružić	3:14.62
High jump	Tihomir Ivanov (BUL)	2.27 m	Alperen Acet (TUR)	2.23 m	(UKR)	2.15 m
Pole vault	Emmanouil Karalis (GRE)	5.66 m CR	(GRE)	5.45 m	(CRO)	5.31 m
Long jump	(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	(BUL)	73.84 m	(MDA)	72.16 m
Decathlon	(CYP)	7134 pts	(SRB)	7104 pts	(ROU)	6555 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
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	(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	(TUR)	16:46.39	(SLO)	17:05.02
110 m hurdles	Elisavet Pesiridou (GRE)	13.11	(UKR)	13.28	Oksana Shkurat (UKR)	13.34
400 m hurdles	(UKR)	56.45	Olena Kolesničenko (UKR)	57.59	(TUR)	58.20
3000 m s'chase	Özlem Kaya (TUR)	9:54.28	(GRE)	10:37.53	(CYP)	10:59.70
4 × 100 m relay	Israel Diana Vaisman	45.00	Romania	46.05	Not awarded
4 × 400 m relay	Romania Mirela Lavric Sanda Belgyan Andrea Miklós	3:39.52	Bulgaria	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	(GRE)	4.28 m	(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	Olga Golodna (UKR)	17.51 m	Radoslava Mavrodieva (BUL)	16.81 m
Discus throw	(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	(TUR)	55.48 m	(BUL)	46.40 m
Heptathlon	Alina Shukh (UKR)	6042 pts	(ROU)	5497 pts	(BUL)	4967 pts

Medal table[]

1	Ukraine	9	4	5	18
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[]

Results

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