Balkan Athletics Championships

The Balkan Athletics Championships or Balkan Games is a regional athletics competition held between nations from the Balkans and organized by Balkan Athletics. The first games were held in Athens in 1929,[1] and the most recent were being held in Cluj Napoca (Romania) in 2020.[2][3]

Balkan Athletics Championships
Greek: Βαλκανικοί Αγώνες
Poster of the first Balkan Games (1929)
First event1929
Occur everyyear (except 1941–1952, 1987, 1991, 1993 and 1995)
Last event2018
Next event2019
PurposeAthletics event for nations of the Balkans
WebsiteOfficial website

Organization

The Games of 1929 were unofficial, and organized by the Hellenic Amateur Athletic Association (SEGAS). They became formalized after 1930 and have been held regularly since, with the exception of the 1940–1953 period due to the Second World War and post-war turmoil. In 1946 and 1947, unofficial Games were organized, under the name Balkan and Central European Games, in which Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary (1947) also participated.[4]

SEGAS were also central to the creation of the Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships in 1994 – a sister indoor event to the main outdoor competition.

Nations

Editions
Number Year Host City Country Events
[5]1929Athens Greece
11930Athens Greece
21931Athens Greece
31932Athens Greece
41933Athens Greece
51934Zagreb Yugoslavia
61935Istanbul Turkey
71936Athens Greece
81937Bucharest Romania
91938Belgrade Yugoslavia
101939Athens Greece
111940Istanbul Turkey
[5]1946Tirana Albania
[5]1947Bucharest Romania
121953Athens Greece
131954Belgrade Yugoslavia
141955Istanbul Turkey
151956Belgrade Yugoslavia
161957Athens Greece
171958Sofia Bulgaria
181959Bucharest Romania
191960Athens Greece
201961Belgrade Yugoslavia
211962Ankara Turkey
221963Sofia Bulgaria
231964Bucharest Romania
241965Piraeus Greece
251966Sarajevo Yugoslavia
261967Istanbul Turkey
271968Piraeus Greece
281969Sofia Bulgaria
291970Bucharest Romania
301971Zagreb Yugoslavia
311972Izmir Turkey
321973Piraeus Greece
331974Sofia Bulgaria
341975Bucharest Romania
351976Celje Yugoslavia
361977Ankara Turkey
371978Thessaloniki Greece
381979Piraeus Greece
391980Sofia Bulgaria
401981Sarajevo Yugoslavia
411982Bucharest Romania
421983Izmir Turkey
431984Athens Greece
441985Stara Zagora Bulgaria
451986Ljubljana Yugoslavia
461988Ankara Turkey
471989Serres Greece
481990Istanbul Turkey
491992Sofia Bulgaria
501994Trikala Greece
Number Year Host City Country Events
511996Niš FR Yugoslavia
521997Athens Greece
531998Belgrade FR Yugoslavia
541999Istanbul Turkey
552000Kavala Greece
562001Trikala Greece
572002Bucharest Romania
582003Thiva Greece
592004Istanbul Turkey
602005Novi Sad Serbia and Montenegro
612006Athens Greece
622007Plovdiv Bulgaria
632008Bar Montenegro
642009Izmir Turkey
652010Larisa Greece
662011Stara Zagora Bulgaria
672012Alexandroupoli Greece
682013Stara Zagora Bulgaria
692014Pitești Romania
702015Pitești Romania
712016Pitești Romania
722017Novi Pazar Serbia
732018Stara Zagora Bulgaria42
742019Pravets Bulgaria
752020Cluj Napoca Romania

All time medal table

from 1930 to 2019.

Championships records

Men
Event Record Athlete Nationality Date Championships Place Ref
100 m 10.11 (+0.5 m/s) Jak Ali Harvey  Turkey 1 August 2015 2015 Championships Pitești, Romania
200 m 20.50 (-0.6 m/s) Sergii Smelyk  Ukraine 3 September 2019 2019 Championships Pravets, Bulgaria [6]
400 m 45.54 Željko Knapić  Yugoslavia 1979 Athens
800 m 1:45.73 Luciano Sušanj  Yugoslavia 2 August 1974 Sofia
1 500 m 3:40.40 Petre Lupan  Romania 5 August 1972 Izmir
5 000 m 13:42.43 Michalis Kousis  Greece 1978 Thessaloniki
110 m hurdles 13.52 (-0.5 m/s) Zhivko Videnov  Bulgaria 25 August 2002 Bucharest
400 m hurdles 49.36 Athanasios Kalogiannis  Greece 17 July 1998 Ankara
3000 m steeplechase 8:22.77 Florin Ionescu  Romania 28 June 1997 Athens
High jump 2.31 m Sorin Matei  Romania 16 July 1988 Ankara
Pole vault 5.66 m Emmanouil Karalis  Greece 3 September 2019 2019 Championships Pravets, Bulgaria [7]
Long jump 8.18 m NWI Konstadínos Koukodímos  Greece 4 July 1992 Sofia
Triple jump 17.24 m Marian Oprea  Romania 13 July 2003
28 July 2013		 Thebes, Greece
Stara Zagora
Shot put 20.96 m Andrei Gag  Romania 2 August 2015 2015 Championships Pitești, Romania
Discus throw 65.44 m Ion Zamfirache  Romania 15 August 1982 Bucharest
Javelin throw 83.60 m Andrian Mardare Moldova} 20 September 2020 2020 Championships Cluj-Napoca, Romania [8]
Hammer throw 79.16 m Aléxandros Papadimitríou  Greece 12 July 2003 Thebes, Greece
Decathlon 7995 pts Saša Karan  Yugoslavia 1990 Istanbul
4 × 100 m relay 39.22  Bulgaria 1985 Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
4 × 400 m relay 3:03.94  Yugoslavia 17 July 1988 Ankara

Women
Event Record Athlete Nationality Date Place Championships Ref
100 m 10.96 (+0.8 m/s) Ivet Lalova  Bulgaria 2 July 2011 Sliven
200 m 22.45 (+1.2 m/s) Ivet Lalova-Collio  Bulgaria 3 September 2019 2019 Championships Pravets, Bulgaria [9]
400 m 50.98 Jelica Pavličić  Yugoslavia 3 August 1974 Sofia
800 m 1:56.42 Paula Ivan  Romania 16 July 1988 Ankara
1500 m 4:04.56 Corina Dumbrăvean  Romania 24 July 2005 Novi Sad
5000 m 15:27.33 Iulia Olteanu  Romania 1997 Athens
100 m hurdles 12.26 Yordanka Donkova  Bulgaria 7 September 1986 Ljubljana
400 m hurdles 54.23 Vania Stambolova  Bulgaria 2 July 2011 Sliven
3000 m steeplechase 9:33.41 Silvia Danekova  Bulgaria 1 August 2015 2015 Championships Pitești, Romania
High jump 2.01 m Stefka Kostadinova  Bulgaria 6 September 1986 Ljubljana
Pole vault 4.45 m Nikoléta Kiriakopoúlou  Greece 19 July 2008 Argos Orestiko
Long jump 7.14 m (+1.2 m/s) Mirela Dulgheru  Romania 5 July 1992 Sofia
Triple jump 14.60 m (+1.7 m/s) Paraskevi Papachristou  Greece 20 July 2018 2018 Championships Stara Zagora, Bulgaria [10]
Shot put 21.11 m Verzhinia Veselinova  Bulgaria 14 June 1980 Sofia
Discus throw 70.20 m Daniela Costian  Romania 17 July 1988 Ankara
Hammer throw 73.97 m Zalina Marghieva  Moldova 2 August 2015 2015 Championships Pitești, Romania
Javelin throw 60.60 m Marija Vučenović  Serbia 20 July 2018 2018 Championships Stara Zagora, Bulgaria [11]
Heptathlon 6304 pts Emilia Dimitrova  Bulgaria 7 September 1986 Ljubljana
4 × 100 m relay 42.89  Bulgaria 1988 Ankara
4 × 400 m relay 3:27.39  Romania 1985 Stara Zagora

1940 athlete naming

The 1940 shot put champion was listed as Arat Ararat from Turkey. The birth name of this athlete was Sokratis Ioannidis, a Greek Orthodox born in Istanbul. Due to political friction between Turkey and Greece at that time, the Turks decided it would be more politically correct to change his name to Arat Ararat. This was the name he was known by in the athletic circles.

References
  1. Balkan Games - Philately
  2. Balkan Games - website
  3. 58th Balkan Games – Report
  4. BALKAN GAMES/CHAMPIONSHIPS
  5. Unofficial Games
  6. "200m Results" (PDF). balkan-athletics.eu. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  7. "Pole Vault Results" (PDF). balkan-athletics.eu. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  8. Jon Mulkeen (20 September 2020). "Mardare highlights Balkan Championships with record-breaking throw". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  9. "200m Results" (PDF). balkan-athletics.eu. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  10. "Triple Jump Results" (PDF). balkan-athletics.eu. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  11. "Javelin Throw Results" (PDF). balkan-athletics.eu. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.

See also
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