Balkan Race Walking Championships
The Balkan Race Walking Championships is an annual racewalking competition between athletes from member nations of Balkan Athletics. The championships features six individual races: senior men's and women's 20 kilometres race walks, men's and women's under-20 10 kilometres race walks, an under-18 boys' 10 km walk, and an under-18 girls' 5 kilometres race walk.[1] Each individual race also has a national team component with points awarded based on finishing time, which are then totalled to form an overall team score for the championships.[2]
Balkan racewalking competitions originated in the main Balkan Athletics Championships. A men's 20 km walk was first held in 1961 and a women's 10 km walk was introduced in 1988 (later increased to a 20 km race in 2001).[3] One-off indoor walks were also held at the Balkan Indoor Athletics Championships in 1994.[4] The Balkan championships for racewalking were first held separately from the main championships in 2000,[3] though Balkan Athletics starting their official numbering of a discrete Balkan Race Walking Championships from 2002 onwards.[5]
List of winners
Edition | Year | Venue | Country | Date | Senior men's winner | Time | Senior women's winner | Time | Team winner |
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1st | 2002 | Vlasotince | Yugoslavia | 1:22:06 | 1:32:16 | N/A | |||
2nd | 2003 | Ruse | Bulgaria | 1:22:40 | 1:35:12 | N/A | |||
3rd | 2004 | Reșița | Romania | 1:21:51 | 1:28:58 | N/A | |||
4th | 2005 | Preveza | Greece | 1:25:48 | 1:35:35 | N/A | |||
5th | 2006 | Istanbul | Turkey | 1:22:31 | 1:30:46 | N/A | |||
6th | 2007 | Galați | Romania | 1:23:10 | 1:33:14 | N/A | |||
7th | 2008 | Bucharest | Romania | 12 April[6] | 1:26:59 | 1:34:37 | N/A | ||
8th | 2009 | Bucharest | Romania | 1:23:21.20 | 1:29:56.30 | N/A | |||
9th | 2010 | Bucharest | Romania | 1:23:29.30 | 1:37.26 | N/A | |||
10th | 2011 | Bucharest | Romania | 1:22:31 | 1:33:38 | N/A | |||
11th | 2012 | Bucharest | Romania | 1:28:50 | 1:35:17 | N/A | |||
12th | 2013 | Ayvalık | Turkey | 1:28:42 | 1:39:17 | ||||
13th | 2014 | Balchik | Bulgaria | 1:26.31 | 1:34.56 | ||||
14th | 2015 | Ayvalık | Turkey | 1:27:30 | 1:39:36 | ||||
15th | 2016 | Florina | Greece | 1:31:32 | 1:38:29 | ||||
16th | 2017 | Florina | Greece | 1:26:40 | 1:34:00 | ||||
17th | 2018 | Zrenjanin | Serbia | 1:26:27 | 1:39:01 | ||||
18th | 2019 | Alexandroupoli | Greece | 1:24:40 | 1:34:55 | ||||
19th | 2020 | Ivano-Frankivsk | Ukraine | 14 March[7] | 1:20:46 | 1:30:22 | |||
References
- 18th BALKAN RACE WALKING CHAMPIONSHIPS Alexandroupolis/GREECE 20 April 2019. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- 18th BALKAN RACE WALKING CHAMPIONSHIPS Alexandroupolis/GREECE 20 April 2019 Team Results. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- Balkan Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- Balkan Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- Results. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- 2008 Balkan Race Walking Championships. European Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
- 2020 Balkan Race Walking Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
- Winners list
- Results. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
- Balkan Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
External links
- Official website of Balkan Athletics