Balkan Cross Country Championships

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The Balkan Cross Country Championships is an annual international competition in cross country running between athletes from the Balkans. Organised by the Association of the Balkan Athletics Federations, it traces its history back to 1940 and has been held every year since 1958 (with the exception of 2010).

The championships features two races: a ten-kilometre (6.2-mile) race for men and an eight-kilometre (5-mile) race for women. The distances of the races have varied over the lifetime of the event. Originally the men's race was a 10 km race, but this changed to a 12 km (7.5 miles) race during the period from 1977 to 2008. The women's race began with a 2 km distance, increasing to 4 km in 1977, then 6 km from 1998 to 2008. National team competitions are held within the individual races, with each nation's score being the total of the finishing positions of their best three athletes.[1]

The first edition in 1940 was a men's only competition ( of Yugoslavia was the inaugural winner). A 15-year gap followed after the onset of World War II and the regional event was reborn in 1955. A two-year gap followed, but the 1958 edition, where Yugoslavia's Olympic medallist and International Cross Country champion Franjo Mihalić was victorious, marked the full establishment of the competition; the Balkan championship was contested annually thereafter. A women's race was held for the first time the following year and of Turkey became the first women's champion.[1]

It is one of three major Balkan regional championships for the sport of athletics, alongside the two annual track and field events – the Balkan Games and the Balkan Indoor Athletics Championships.[2][3]

Past winners[]

Edition Year Men's winner Time (m:s) Women's winner Time (m:s)
1st 1940   (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) 24:40.4 Not held
2nd 1955  Drago Štritof (YUG) 31:21.6 Not held
3rd 1958  Franjo Mihalić (YUG) 31:33.8 Not held
4th 1959   (GRE) 31:58.8   (TUR) 7:04.6
5th 1960  Constantin Grecescu (ROM) 31:11.0   (TUR) 6:33
6th 1961  Constantin Grecescu (ROM) 32:34.0  Florica Grecescu (ROM) 7:04.4
7th 1962  Constantin Grecescu (ROM) 31:02.4   (TUR) 6:31.8
8th 1963  Muharrem Dalkılıç (TUR) 29:54.4  Florica Grecescu (ROM) 5:19.6
9th 1964  Andrei Barabaș (ROM) 30:25.8  Florica Grecescu (ROM) 6:40.8
10th 1965   (TUR) 30:37.6   (BUL) 6:34.6
11th 1966   (ROM) 30:02   (BUL) 6:19
12th 1967  Zoltan Vamoș (ROM) 29:58.6  Vera Nikolić (YUG) 6:23.8
13th 1968  Mikhail Zhelev (BUL) 28:52.6   (ROM) 7:28.2
14th 1969  Danijel Korica (YUG) 30:05.0   (YUG) 6:21.8
15th 1970  Danijel Korica (YUG) 30:13.6   (YUG) 6:21.4
16th 1971  Danijel Korica (YUG) 29:51.0   (YUG) 6:10.2
17th 1972  Danijel Korica (YUG) 29:43.6   (YUG) 6:15.2
18th 1973   (ROM) 28:37.8  Totka Petrova (BUL) 6:11.2
19th 1974  Peter Svet (YUG) 31:55.4  Totka Petrova (BUL) 6:35.2
20th 1975   (YUG) 31:12.6  Natalia Andrei (ROM) 6:12.2
21st 1976  Mehmet Yurdadön (TUR) 31:27.0  Natalia Marasescu-Betini (ROM) 6:38.1
22nd 1977  Ilie Floroiu (ROM) 36:46.4  Natalia Marasescu-Betini (ROM) 13:10.0
23rd 1978  Mehmet Yurdadön (TUR) 35:03.8  Fița Lovin (ROM) 13:01.4
24th 1979  Ilie Floroiu (ROM) 36:48.4  Maricica Puică (ROM) 13:31.2
25th 1980  Ilie Floroiu (ROM) 37:35  Fița Lovin (ROM) 13:50
26th 1981   (GRE) 35:03.4  Maricica Puică (ROM) 12:37.7
27th 1982  Mehmet Yurdadön (TUR) 35:47.8  Maricica Puică (ROM) 12:59.8
28th 1983  Mehmet Yurdadön (TUR) 38:45.6  Fița Lovin (ROM) 14:36.2
29th 1984   (ROM) 37:09.4  Maricica Puică (ROM) 13:26.8
30th 1985   (ROM) 36:55.6  Mariana Chirila (ROM) 13:20.7
31st 1986  Evgeni Ignatov (BUL) 38:46.3  Elena Fidatov (ROM) 13:42.4
32nd 1987  Evgeni Ignatov (BUL) 35:42.6  Paula Ilie-Ivan (ROM) 12:21.0
33rd 1988   (YUG) 36:04.0  Violeta Beclea-Szekely (ROM) 12:55.2
34th 1989  Evgeni Ignatov (BUL) 36:33.3   (ROM) 13:23.6
35th 1990  Goran Raičević (YUG) 32:32.6  Elena Fidatov (ROM) 13:05
36th 1991   (TUR) 36:37.1   (ROM) 12:21.4
37th 1992  Goran Raičević (FR Yugoslavia) 34:08.0  Daniela Bran (ROM) 12:37.7
38th 1993  Zeki Öztürk (TUR) 36:08.1   (GRE) 13:01.4
39th 1994  Goran Raičević (FR Yugoslavia) 35:30.0   (ROM) 12:43.5
40th 1995   (ROM) 36:09.2  Stela Olteanu (ROM) 13:11.0
41st 1996   (ROM) 38:06  Nuța Olaru (ROM) 14:11.6
42nd 1997   (ROM) 35:23.3  Olivera Jevtić (FR Yugoslavia) 12:54.8
43rd 1998   (FR Yugoslavia) 36:03.7  Olivera Jevtić (FR Yugoslavia) 19:18.8
44th 1999   (ROM) 34:50  Olivera Jevtić (FR Yugoslavia) 18:52
45th 2000   (FR Yugoslavia) 34:46  Olivera Jevtić (FR Yugoslavia) 19:42
46th 2001  Panagiotis Kharamis (GRE) 35:49.2  Maria Cristina Grosu-Mazilu (ROM) 19:03.7
47th 2002   (FR Yugoslavia) 34:20  Olivera Jevtić (FR Yugoslavia) 19:51
48th 2003   (GRE) ?  Sonja Stolić (SCG) ?
49th 2004  Mirko Petrović (SRB) 36:24  Olivera Jevtić (SRB) 19:31
50th 2005   (TUR) 40:38  Cristina Casandra (ROM) 22:22
51st 2006  Abdil Ceylan (TUR) 38:51  Cristina Casandra (ROM) 21:11
52nd 2007  Marius Ionescu (ROM) 37:27  Sonja Stolić (SRB) 20:32
53rd 2008  Mirko Petrović (SRB) 36:15  Sonja Stolić (SRB) 18:30
54th 2009   (TUR) 31:37.7  Konstantina Kefala (GRE) 28:28.9
— 2010 Not held
55th 2011  Mirko Petrović (SRB) 30:39  Olivera Jevtić (SRB) 27:45
56th 2012  Bekir Karayel (TUR) 28:59  Ancuța Bobocel (ROM) 26:47
57th 2013  Marius Ionescu (ROM) 31:09  Sonja Stolić (SRB) 28:00
58th 2014   (TUR) 28:23  Özlem Kaya (TUR) 26:16
59th 2015   (TUR) 31:17  Ancuța Bobocel (ROM) 27:42
60th 2016   (TUR) 30:11  Ancuța Bobocel (ROM) 27:05
61st 2017   (TUR) 33:41  Roxana Bârcă (ROM) 30:11
62nd 2018   (TUR) 29:25  Paula Todoran (ROM) 26:35
63rd 2019   (ISR) 30:25   (UKR) 27:34

Participating countries[]

Present[]

  1.  Albania
  2.  Armenia
  3.  Bosnia and Herzegovina
  4.  Bulgaria
  5.  Croatia
  6.  Greece
  7.  North Macedonia
  8.  Moldova
  9.  Montenegro
  10.  Romania
  11.  Serbia
  12.  Turkey

Other Member[]

  1.  Azerbaijan
  2.  Georgia
  3.  Cyprus
  4.  Israel
  5.  Kosovo
  6.  San Marino
  7.  Slovenia
  8.  Ukraine

http://www.balkan-athletics.eu/members.php

Former[]

  1.  Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1940)
  2.  Yugoslavia (1943–1992)
  3.  FR Yugoslavia (1992–2003)
  4.  Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006)

References[]

  1. ^ a b Karamata, Ozren & Gasparovic, Juraj (2013-05-06). Balkan Crosscountry Championships. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2013-09-22.
  2. ^ Balkan Games/Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-09-22.
  3. ^ Balkan Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-09-22.

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