Balkan Half Marathon Championships

The Balkan Half Marathon Championships is an annual international competition over the half marathon between athletes from the Balkans. Organised by the Association of the Balkan Athletics Federations, it was inaugurated in 2012. It is one of two road running championships for the region, alongside the Balkan Marathon Championships.[1]

The championships features races for both men and women. 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.

Editions

Edition Year Venue Country Date Men's winner Time (m:s) Women's winner Time (m:s)
1st 2012 Kavarna Bulgaria 1 September  Gheorghita Vitalie (MDA) 1:10.48[2]  Slađana Perunović (MNE) 1:22.41[3]
2nd 2013 Oradea Romania 15 September  Nicolae Soare (ROM) 1:04:26  Olivera Jevtić (SRB) 1:14:39[4]
3rd 2014 Durrës Albania 6 April  Muzaffer Bajram (TUR) 1:04:53[5]  Slađana Perunović (MNE) 1:15:27[6]
4th 2015 Apatin Serbia 18 October  Demir Medeni (TUR) 1:06:55  Buyukbezgin Burcu (TUR) 1:17:51[7]
5th 2016 Podgorica Montenegro 30 October  Bekir Karayel (TUR) 1:07:46  Olivera Jevtić (SRB) 1:12:25[8]
6th 2017 Pristina Kosovo 14 May  Kaya Serkan (TUR) 1:07:43  Yildiz Şeyma (TUR) 1:18:32[9]
7th 2018 Sarajevo Bosnia 16 September  Aykut Tasdemir (TUR) 1:08:01  Olivera Jevtić (SRB) 1:14:46[10]
8th 2019 Kiev Ukraine 7 April  Roman Romanenko (UKR) 1:04:36[11]  Darya Mykhaylova (UKR) 1:11:50[12]

References

  1. Balkan Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  2. 2012 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Men Archived 2015-04-07 at the Wayback Machine. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  3. 2012 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Women Archived 2015-04-07 at the Wayback Machine. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  4. 2013 Balkan Half Marathon Championships Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  5. 2014 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Men. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  6. 2014 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Women. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  7. 2015 Balkan Half Marathon Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  8. 2016 Balkan Half Marathon Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  9. 2017 Balkan Half Marathon Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  10. 2018 Balkan Half Marathon Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  11. 2019 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Men. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
  12. 2019 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Women. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
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