2018 Balkan Athletics Championships
The 2018 Balkan Athletics Championships was the 73rd edition of the annual track and field competition for athletes from the Balkans, organised by Balkan Athletics. It was held at Beroe Stadium in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria on 20 and 21 July. It was the fourth time that the city hosted the competition, following the 1985, 2011 and 2013 editions.
| 2018 Balkan Athletics Championships | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 20–21 July |
| Host city | Stara Zagora, Bulgaria |
| Venue | Beroe Stadium |
 | |
| Level | Senior |
| Type | Outdoor |
← 2017 2019 → | |
Two championship records were broken: Paraskevi Papachristou of Greece set a women's triple jump mark of 14.60 m (+ 1.7 m/s), while Serbia's Marija Vučenović set a women's javelin throw best of 60.60 m. Bulgaria's Inna Eftimova took a women's sprint double in the 100 metres and 200 metres. Florina Pierdevară of Romania was runner-up in both women's middle-distance running events and Bulgarian horizontal jumper Gabriela Petrova also won two individual silvers. Romania was the most successful nation at the competition, topping the medal table with 23 medals (nine of them gold), and were closely followed by Greece on 22 medals and eight golds.[1]
Results
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres Wind: -1.5 m/s |
 | 10.36 |  | 10.37 |  | 10.42 |
| 200 metres Wind: -1.5 m/s |
| 20.87 | | 20.88 | | 20.92 |
| 400 metres |  | 46.13 | | 46.37 | | 46.44 |
| 800 metres |  | 1:47.51 |  | 1:48.29 | | 1:48.31 |
| 1500 metres |  | 3:43.36 |  | 3:44.55 | | 3:44.95 |
| 5000 metres | | 14:26.07 |  | 14:32.22 | | 14:32.73 |
| 110 m hurdles | | 13.63 |  | 14.22 | | 14.30 |
| 400 m hurdles | | 51.05 | | 51.15 |  | 51.90 |
| 3000 m s'chase | | 8:45.50 | | 8:55.85 | | 9:01.44 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Costin Homiuc Alexandru Terpezan Ioan Melnicescu Petre Rezmiveș | 39.48 | Efthimios Stergioulis Ioannis Nifadopoulos Panayiotis Trivyzas Konstadinos Douvalidis | 39.84 |  Asaf Malka Dayan Aviv Imri Persiado Gal Arad | 40.29 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Abdullah Tütünci Yavuz Can Ahmet Kasap Batuhan Altıntaş | 3:07.17 | Cristian Radu Constantin Andonii David Nastase Robert Parge | 3:08.29 | Mateo Parlov Hrvoje Čukman David Šalamon Mateo Kovačić | 3:09.04 |
| High jump | | 2.24 m | | 2.21 m SB | | 2.21 m |
| Pole vault | | 5.30 m | | 5.10 m | | 5.00 m |
| Long jump | | 8.17 m | | 7.70 m SB | | 7.70 m |
| Triple jump | | 16.67 m | | 16.56 m SB | | 16.16 m |
| Shot put | | 20.19 m | | 20.12 m | | 19.72 m |
| Discus throw | | 63.76 m |  | 62.87 m |  | 61.88 m |
| Hammer throw | | 76.21 m | | 74.93 m |  | 72.30 m |
| Javelin throw | | 76.80 m | | 75.92 m | | 73.53 m |
| Decathlon | | 7658 pts | | 7336 pts | | 7165 pts |
Women
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres Wind: -1.5 |
| 11.45 | | 11.53 | | 11.55 |
| 200 metres Wind: -1.0 |
| 23.11 | | 23.57 | | 23.70 |
| 400 metres | | 51.29 | | 52.26 | | 52.96 |
| 800 metres | | 2:04.65 | | 2:09.01 |  | 2:09.47 |
| 1500 metres | | 4:20.81 | | 4:22.94 | | 4:25.56 |
| 5000 metres | | 16:41.80 | | 16:44.79 | | 16:46.18 |
| 100 m hurdles Wind: -0.6 |
| 12.93 | | 13.04 | | 13.17 |
| 400 m hurdles | | 56.69 PB | | 58.05 | | 59.33 |
| 3000 m s'chase | | 10:05.89 | | 10:11.78 | | 11:18.83 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Grigoría-Emmanouéla Keramidá Elisavet Pesiridou Ekaterini Sarri Korina Politi | 45.43 | Ana Maria Rosianu Ioana Teodora Gheorghe Roxana Maria Ene Marina Andreea Baboi | 45.55 | Viktoriya Georgieva Radostina Stoyanova Karin Okolie Inna Eftimova| | 45.62 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Cristina Daniela Balan Camelia Florina Gal Sanda Belgyan Bianca Răzor | 3:33.56 | Elpida Karkalatou Despina Mourta Evangelia Zigori Anna Vasiliou | 3:33.89 | Zorana Barjaktarović Tamara Salaški Bojana Kaličanin Maja Ćirić | 3:34.64 |
| High jump | | 1.95 m | | 1.84 m | | 1.84 m PB |
| Pole vault | | 4.00 m | | 3.80 m | | 3.80 m |
| Long jump | | 6.59 m | | 6.48 m | | 6.48 m |
| Triple jump | | 14.74 m w | | 14.34 m | | 13.55 m PB |
| Shot put | | 18.95 m PB | | 17.36 m | | 15.51 m |
| Discus throw | | 60.19 m | | 58.76 m | | 51.46 m |
| Hammer throw | | 71.36 m | | 68.88 m | | 68.48 m |
| Javelin throw | | 60.60 m CR PB | | 57.37 m | | 52.24 m |
| Heptathlon | | 4990 pts | | 4789 pts | | 4593 pts |
Medal table
* Host nation (Bulgaria)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 9 | 8 | 6 | 23 |
| 2 | | 8 | 9 | 5 | 22 |
| 3 | | 8 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| 4 | | 5 | 6 | 8 | 19 |
| 5 | | 5 | 5 | 7 | 17 |
| 6 | | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 11 | | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 12 | | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 16 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 nations) | 42 | 42 | 42 | 126 | |
References
- Balkan Championships 2018 Medal Table. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- Results. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
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