# 2019 Balkan Athletics Championships

The 2019 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 the Pravets Sports Complex in Pravets, Bulgaria on 2 and 3 September. It was the first time that the city hosted the competition.
Three championship records were broken: both 200 metres records were improved (the men's by Ukraine's Serhiy Smelyk in 20.50 seconds, and the women's by Bulgarian Ivet Lalova-Collio, who ran 22.45 seconds), while Greek men's pole vaulter Emmanouil Karalis cleared a record height of 5.66 m. Lalova-Collio won a sprint double in the women's 100 metres and 200 m while Smelyk won golds for Ukraine in the 200 m and 4 × 100 metres relay. Ukraine was the most successful nation at the competition, topping the medal table with 18 medals (nine of them gold). Romania also won 18 medals, though only five golds. Greece, Turkey and host nation Bulgaria all won five or more gold medals.
Romanian men's throwers Andrei Gag and Alin Alexandru Firfirică successfully defended their titles. In women's jumps Mirela Demireva (high jump), Buse Arıkazan (pole vault) and Paraskevi Papachristou (triple jump) all repeated their victories from 2018. Serbia's Teodora Simović (5000 m) was the sole individual to retain a track title while her compatriot Marija Vučenović took her third straight javelin throw title.

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Emre Zafer Barnes (TUR) | 10.48 | Aleksa Kijanovic [de] (SRB) | 10.58 | Antonio Ivanov (BUL) | 10.66 |
| 200 metres | Serhiy Smelyk (UKR) | 20.50 CR | Antonio Ivanov (BUL) | 21.07 | Ihor Bodrov (UKR) | 21.43 |
| 400 metres | Danylo Danylenko (UKR) | 46.84 | Mindia Endeladze (GEO) | 47.37 | Oğuz Akgül (TUR) | 47.68 |
| 800 metres | Oleh Myronets (UKR) | 1:50.13 | Musa Hajdari (KOS) | 1:50.33 | Christos Kotitsas (GRE) | 1:50.48 |
| 1500 metres | Yervand Mkrtchyan (ARM) | 3:46.00 | Musa Hajdari (KOS) | 3:46.54 | David Nikolli (ALB) | 3:47.06 |
| 5000 metres | Ilie Alexandru Corneschi (ROU) | 14:51.17 | Yolo Nikolov (BUL) | 14:52.01 | Ayetullah Aslanhan (TUR) | 14:53.12 |
| 100 m hurdles | Artem Shamatryn (UKR) | 14.18 | Cosmin Ilie Dumitrache (ROU) | 14.22 | Luka Trgovčević [de] (SRB) | 14.22 |
| 400 m hurdles | Denys Nechyporenko (UKR) | 50.71 | Dmytro Romaniuk (UKR) | 51.12 | Rusmir Malkočević (BIH) | 51.53 |
| 3000 m s'chase | Aras Kaya (TUR) | 8:39.35 | Osman Junuzović (BIH) | 8:47.97 | Mitko Tsenov (BUL) | 8:54.97 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Ukraine Erik Kostrytsia [de] Stanislav Kovalenko Ihor Bodrov Serhiy Smelyk | 40.40 | Romania Efthimios Stergioulis Alexandru Terpezan Marian Valentin Tanase Daniel Mihai Robert Budin | 41.48 | Bosnia and Herzegovina Nikola Brdar Aleksandar Novaković Milan Vidović Hajrudin Vejzović | 43.57 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Turkey Akın Özyürek Yavuz Can Batuhan Altıntaş İlyas Çanakçı [de] | 3:5.85 | Romania David Nastase Vlad Dulcescu Mihai Cristian Pislaru Robert Parge | 3:12.43 | Croatia Mateo Parlov Ivan Katić Jakov Vuković Mateo Ružić | 3:14.62 |
| High jump | Tihomir Ivanov (BUL) | 2.27 m | Alperen Acet (TUR) | 2.23 m | Vadym Kravchuk (UKR) | 2.15 m |
| Pole vault | Emmanouil Karalis (GRE) | 5.66 m CR | Thodoris Chrysanthopoulos (GRE) | 5.45 m | Dario Prekl (CRO) | 5.31 m |
| Long jump | Yaroslav Isachenkov (UKR) | 7.89 m | Miltiádis Tedóglou (GRE) | 7.88 m | Lazar Anić (SRB) | 7.88 m |
| Triple jump | Georgi Tsonov (BUL) | 17.03 m PB= | Momchil Karailiev (BUL) | 16.42 m | Can Özüpek (TUR) | 16.37 m |
| Shot put | Andrei Gag (ROU) | 20.71 m | Armin Sinančević (SRB) | 20.58 m | Andrei Toader (ROU) | 20.30 m |
| Discus throw | Alin Firfirică (ROU) | 63.67 m | Danijel Furtula (MNE) | 62.93 m | Mykyta Nesterenko (UKR) | 59.32 m |
| Hammer throw | Christos Frantzeskakis (GRE) | 76.67 m | Mihail Anastasakis (GRE) | 75.32 m | Hlib Piskunov (UKR) | 74.52 m |
| Javelin throw | Alexandru Novac (ROU) | 77.90 m | Mark Slavov (BUL) | 73.84 m | Denis Picus (MDA) | 72.16 m |
| Decathlon | Elvis Kryoukov (CYP) | 7134 pts | Aleksandar Grnović (SRB) | 7104 pts | Roman Razvan George (ROU) | 6555 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Ivet Lalova-Collio (BUL) | 11.23 | Diana Vaisman (ISR) | 11.25 NR | Inna Eftimova (BUL) | 11.56 |
| 200 metres | Ivet Lalova-Collio (BUL) | 22.45 CR | Eléni Artymatá (CYP) | 22.97 | Rafaéla Spanoudáki-Chatziríga (GRE) | 23.16 PB |
| 400 metres | Irini Vasiliou (GRE) | 51.75 PB | Eléni Artymatá (CYP) | 51.77 | Andrea Miklós (ROU) | 52.57 |
| 800 metres | Jerneja Smonkar (SLO) | 2:07.25 | Jelena Gajić (BIH) | 2:07.61 | Natalia Evangelidou (CYP) | 2:08.47 |
| 1500 metres | Natalia Evangelidou (CYP) | 4:17.29 | Florina Pierdevară (ROU) | 4:19.75 | Anna Mishchenko (UKR) | 4:20.00 |
| 5000 metres | Teodora Simović (SRB) | 16:36.45 | Yayla Kılıç (TUR) | 16:46.39 | Neja Kršina (SLO) | 17:05.02 |
| 110 m hurdles | Elisavet Pesiridou (GRE) | 13.11 | Hanna Chubkovtsova (UKR) | 13.28 | Oksana Shkurat (UKR) | 13.34 |
| 400 m hurdles | Mariia Mykolenko (UKR) | 56.45 | Olena Kolesničenko (UKR) | 57.59 | Emel Şanli (TUR) | 58.20 |
| 3000 m s'chase | Özlem Kaya (TUR) | 9:54.28 | Isavela Kotsacheili (GRE) | 10:37.53 | Chrystalla Hadjipolydorou (CYP) | 10:59.70 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Israel Gal Kadmon Diana Vaisman Olga Lenskay Ilana Dorfman | 45.00 | Romania Camelia Gal Ioana Teodora Gheorghe Roxana Maria Ene Marina Andreea Baboi | 46.05 | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Romania Camelia Gal Mirela Lavric Sanda Belgyan Andrea Miklós | 3:39.52 | Bulgaria Nadezhda Racheva Polina Todorova Gabriela Georgieva Kristina Borukova | 3:47.83 | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| High jump | Mirela Demireva (BUL) | 1.91 m | Ligia-Damaris Bara (ROU) | 1.80 m | Marija Vuković (MNE) | 1.80 m |
| Pole vault | Buse Arıkazan (TUR) | 4.35 m | Eleni Claudia Polak (GRE) | 4.28 m | Naama Bernstein (ISR) | 4.01 m |
| Long jump | Milica Gardašević (SRB) | 6.42 m | Efthymia Kolokytha (GRE) | 6.41 m | Florentina Iusco (ROU) | 6.37 m |
| Triple jump | Paraskevi Papachristou (GRE) | 14.24 m | Aleksandra Nacheva (BUL) | 13.89 m | Elena Panțuroiu (ROU) | 13.81 m |
| Shot put | Dimitriana Surdu (MDA) | 17.53 m | Olha Holodna (UKR) | 17.51 m | Radoslava Mavrodieva (BUL) | 16.81 m |
| Discus throw | Özlem Becerek (TUR) | 57.47 m | Kristina Rakočević (MNE) | 52.49 m | Veronika Domjan (SLO) | 51.10 m |
| Hammer throw | Stamatia Scarvelis (GRE) | 71.33 m | Bianca Florentina Ghelber (ROU) | 69.96 m | Kıvılcım Kaya (TUR) | 69.04 m |
| Javelin throw | Marija Vučenović (SRB) | 57.21 m | Selena Durna (TUR) | 55.48 m | Mihaela Petkova (BUL) | 46.40 m |
| Heptathlon | Alina Shukh (UKR) | 6042 pts | Beatrice Puiu (ROU) | 5497 pts | Iva Aleksandrova (BUL) | 4967 pts |

## Medal table

| 1 | Ukraine | 9 | 4 | 5 | 18 |
| 2 | Greece | 6 | 6 | 2 | 14 |
| 3 | Turkey | 6 | 3 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | Romania | 5 | 8 | 5 | 18 |
| 5 | Bulgaria | 5 | 6 | 6 | 17 |
| 6 | Serbia | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 7 | Cyprus | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 8 | Israel | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Armenia | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
| 10 | Croatia | 1 | - | 2 | 3 |
| - | Slovenia | 1 | - | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | Moldova | 1 | - | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Kosovo | - | 3 | - | 3 |
| 14 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 15 | Montenegro | - | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 16 | Georgia | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| 17 | Albania | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Total | Total | 42 | 42 | 40 | 124 |