2015 Balkan Athletics Championships

The 2015 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 Stadionul Nicolae Dobrin in Pitești, Romania on 1 and 2 August. The host nation Romania won the most medals at the competition, with 28, and the Turkey won the most gold medals, at 10. The competition was originally scheduled to take place in Serres, Greece, but the venue was changed due to a lack of funding, in the context of the Greek government-debt crisis.

2015 Balkan Athletics Championships
Dates1–2 August
Host cityPitești, Romania
VenueStadionul Nicolae Dobrin
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events40
Records set3 championship records
2014
2016


On the men's side, three championship records were broken. Jak Ali Harvey of Turkey ran a record of 10.11 seconds to win the 100 metres, Slovenia's Robert Renner cleared 5.65 m to win the pole vault in a Slovenian record, and Andrei Gag set a championship and Romanian record of 20.96 m to win the shot put. The highlight performance of the women's competition was a championship record of 9:33.41 minutes by Silvia Danekova in the 3000 metres steeplechase, which was also a Bulgarian national record.

Results

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Jak Ali Harvey (TUR)10.11 CR  Cătălin Cîmpeanu (ROM)10.37  Ioannis Nyfadopoulos (GRE)10.46
200 metres  Ramil Guliyev (TUR)20.59  Cătălin Cîmpeanu (ROM)21.24  İzzet Safer (TUR)21.34
400 metres  Luka Janežič (SLO)46.39  Batuhan Altıntaş (TUR)46.73  Yavuz Can (TUR)46.85
800 metres  Žan Rudolf (SLO)1:50.10  Dušan Babić (BIH)1:50.99  Cristian Vorovenci (ROU)1:51.01
1500 metres  Konstadínos Nakópoulos (GRE)3:48.82  Ioan Zaizan (ROU)3:48.92  Levent Ateş (TUR)3:49.16
5000 metres  Dino Bošnjak (CRO)14:12.20 PB  Yolo Nikolov (BUL)14:18.63  Cihat Ulus (TUR)14:20.92
100 m hurdles  Milan Trajkovic (CYP)14.23  Mustafa Güneş (TUR)14.27  Cosmin Dumitrache (ROU)14.57
400 m hurdles  Yasmani Copello (TUR)50.19  Attila Csongor Nagy (ROM)51.29  Filip Pestić (CRO)52.25
3000 m s'chase  Mitko Tsenov (BUL)8:29.73  Nicolai Gorbusco (MDA)8:41.36 PB  Osman Junuzović (BIH)8:50.76 PB
4 × 100 m relay  Turkey
Yiğitcan Hekimoğlu
Ramil Guliyev
İzzet Safer
Jak Ali Harvey
39.35  Romania
Ioan Pițigoi
Cătălin Cîmpeanu
Ionuț Neagoe
Daniel Robert
39.67  Greece
Panayiótis Andreádis
Victor Kremidas
Ioannis Nyfantopoulos
Panayiótis Trivizas
40.29
4 × 400 m relay  Turkey
Halit Kılıç
Yavuz Can
Yasmani Copello
Batuhan Altıntaş
3:06.55  Croatia
Hrvoje Čukman
Željko Vincek
Mateo Kovačić
Mateo Ružić
3:07.62  Romania
Adrian Drăgan
Sebastian Ursachi
Zeno Moraru
Cristian Radu
3:10.38
High jump  Dimitrios Chondrokoukis (CYP)2.24 m  Tihomir Ivanov (BUL)2.24 m  Konstadinos Baniotis (GRE)2.24 m
Pole vault  Robert Renner (SLO)5.65 m CR NR  Ivan Horvat (CRO)5.50 m  Andrei Răzvan Deliu (ROU)5.20 m PB
Long jump  Louis Tsatoumas (GRE)7.90 m  Denis Eradiri (BUL)7.72 m  Valentin Toboc (ROU)7.66 m
Triple jump  Georgi Tsonov (BUL)17.01 m  Dimitrios Baltadouros (GRE)16.60 m PB  Rumen Dimitrov (BUL)16.56 m
Shot put  Andrei Gag (ROU)20.96 m CR NR  Asmir Kolašinac (SRB)20.64 m  Georgi Ivanov (BUL)19.93 m
Discus throw  Filip Mihaljević (CRO)60.74 m  Alin Alexandru Firfirică (ROU)59.18 m  Tadej Hribar (SLO)54.44 m
Hammer throw  Eşref Apak (TUR)76.82 m  Serghei Marghiev (MDA)75.83 m  Mihail Anastasakis (GRE)71.74 m
Javelin throw  Vedran Samac (SRB)77.92 m  Paraskevás Batzávalis (GRE)76.72 m  Dejan Mileusnić (BIH)74.56 m
Decathlon  Mihail Dudaš (SRB)7720 pts  Panayiotis Mantis (GRE)6898 pts  Dragan Pešić (MNE)6497 pts

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Maja Mihalinec (SLO)11.34 PB  Ramona Papaioannou (CYP)11.43  Inna Eftimova (BUL)11.51
200 metres  Maria Belimpasaki (GRE)23.23  Ramona Papaioannou (CYP)23.25  Maja Mihalinec (SLO)23.28
400 metres  Bianca Răzor (ROU)52.26  Irini Vasiliou (GRE)53.58 PB  Kristina Dudek (CRO)53.98
800 metres  Florina Pierdevară (ROM)2:03.14  Luiza Gega (ALB)2:03.45  Mihaela Roxana Nunu (ROM)2:07.25
1500 metres  Luiza Gega (ALB)4:08.74  Songül Konak (TUR)4:16.09 PB  Florina Pierdevară (ROM)4:18.69
5000 metres  Esma Aydemir (TUR)15:51.27 PB  Ancuța Bobocel (ROM)15:56.00 PB  Silvia Danekova (BUL)16:03.64 PB
110 m hurdles  Andrea Ivančević (CRO)13.00  Elisavet Pesiridou (GRE)13.48  Ivana Lončarek (CRO)13.65
400 m hurdles  Elif Yıldırım (TUR)57.73  Angela Moroșanu (ROM)57.88  Sanda Belgyan (ROM)59.48
3000 m s'chase  Silvia Danekova (BUL)9:33.41 CR NR  Maruša Mišmaš (SLO)10:03.83  Elena Adelina Panaet (ROM)10:06.36
4 × 100 m relay  Croatia
Ivana Lončarek
Lucija Pokos
Kristina Dudek
Mateja Jambrović
45.71  Romania
Ana Maria Roșianu
Andreea Ogrăzeanu
Andreea Grecu
Anamaria Ioniță
45.74  Serbia
Zorana Barjaktarević
Maja Ćirić
Katarina Sirmić
Milana Tirnanić
45.87
4 × 400 m relay  Romania
Sanda Belgyan
Florina Pierdevară
Anamaria Ioniță
Bianca Răzor
3:33.07  Croatia
Mateja Jambrović
Kristina Dudek
Dora Filipović
Anita Banović
3:36.07  Serbia
Katarina Sirmić
Maja Ćirić
Bojana Kalicanin
Tamara Salaški
3:37.90
High jump  Mirela Demireva (BUL)1.91 m  Venelina Veneva-Mateeva (BUL)1.87 m  Marija Vuković (MNE)1.87 m
Pole vault  Tina Šutej (SLO)4.20 m  Loréla-Anastasía Mánou (GRE)4.20 m  Lavinia Gabriela Bulov (ROU)3.90 m
Long jump  Florentina Marincu (ROU)6.65 m  Haido Alexouli (GRE)6.29 m  Milena Mitkova (BUL)6.16 m
Triple jump  Petia Dacheva (BUL)13.67 m  Cristina Bujin (ROM)13.64 m  Elena Panțuroiu (ROM)13.62 m
Shot put  Emel Dereli (TUR)17.39 m  Radoslava Mavrodieva (BUL)16.85 m  Andreea Huzum-Vitan (ROU)15.52 m
Discus throw  Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou (GRE)54.87 m  Veronika Domjan (SLO)53.74 m  Natalia Stratulat (MDA)52.82 m
Hammer throw  Zalina Marghieva (MDA)73.97 m  Kıvılcım Kaya (TUR)71.04 m PB  Marina Marghieva (MDA)69.38 m
Javelin throw  Martina Ratej (SLO)59.19 m  Marija Vučenović (SRB)53.91 m  Nicoleta Anghelescu (ROU)51.18 m
Heptathlon  Serpil Koçak (TUR)5119 pts  Stylani Tzikanoula (GRE)4982 pts  Mladena Petrusic (BIH)4831 pts PB
  • Israel's Maayan Furman-Shahaf cleared 1.87 m in the women's high jump but was not included in the medals tally as her country was not a member of Balkan Athletics.

Medal table

1 Turkey104418
2 Slovenia62210
3 Romania5101328
4 Bulgaria55616
5 Greece48416
6 Croatia4329
9 Serbia2226
8 Cyprus22-4
9 Moldova1225
10 Albania11-2
11 Bosnia and Herzegovina-134
12 Montenegro-112
Total404040120

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