# 2022 Balkan Athletics Championships

The 2022 Balkan Athletics Championships was the 75th edition of the annual track and field competition for athletes from the Balkans, organised by Balkan Athletics. It was held on 18 and 19 June at the Nicolae Mărășescu Athletics Stadium in Craiova, Romania.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: -0.4 m/s) | Kayhan Özer (TUR) | 10.31 | Ioannis Nyfantopoulos (GRE) | 10.37 | Ertan Özkan (TUR) | 10.44 |
| 200 metres | Boško Kijanović (SRB) | 20.94 | Blessing Afrifah (ISR) | 20.98 | Panayiotis Trivizas (GRE) | 21.05 |
| 400 metres | Mihai Sorin Dringo (ROU) | 45.79 | Oleksandr Pohorilko (UKR) | 45.86 | Boško Kijanović (SRB) | 45.98 |
| 800 metres | Jan Vukovič (SLO) | 1:47.94 | Hristos Kotitsas (GRE) | 1:48.36 | Salih Teksöz (TUR) | 1:48.51 PB |
| 1500 metres | Yervand Mkrtchyan (ARM) | 3:41.89 | Marino Bloudek (CRO) | 3:42.55 | Kevin Kamenschak (AUT) | 3:43.03 |
| 3000 metres | Ramazan Barbaros (TUR) | 8:12.60 | Dino Bošnjak (CRO) | 8:13.69 | Ömer Amaçtan (TUR) | 8:14.40 |
| 5000 metres | Dino Bošnjak (CRO) | 13:50.85 | Dario Ivanovski (MKD) | 13:56.59 | Sezgin Ataç (TUR) | 13:58.76 |
| 110 metres hurdles | Mikdat Sevler (TUR) | 13.80 | Luka Trgovčević (SRB) | 14.00 | Alin Ionuţ Anton (ROU) | 14.17 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Niklas Strohmayer-Dangl (AUT) | 50.72 | Stjepan Jan Cik (CRO) | 51.06 | Adam Yakobi (ISR) | 51.56 |
| 3000 metres Steeplechase | Hilal Yego (TUR) | 8:43.24 | Bruno Belčić (CRO) | 8:57.03 | Georgios Stamoulis (GRE) | 9:00.39 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Romania Petre Rezmives Alin Ionuţ Anton Ionut Andrei Neagoe Marian Valentin Tanase | 39.50 | Serbia Strahinja Jovančević Boško Kijanović Stefan Kaljuš Aleksa Kijanović | 39.85 | Greece Konstantinos Zikos Nikolaos Ebeoglou Panayiotis Trivizas Vasilios Mirianthopoulos | 39.86 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Ukraine Oleksiy Pozdnyakov Danylo Danylenko Mykyta Barabanov Oleksandr Pohorilko | 3:05.96 | Turkey Oğuzhan Kaya Oğuz Akgül Salih Teksöz Kubilay Ençü | 3:08.48 | Slovenia Jure Grkman Lovro Mesec Košir Gregor Grahovac Rok Ferlan | 3:08.96 |
| High jump | Tihomir Ivanov (BUL) | 2.21 | Vadym Kravchuk (UKR) | 2.21 | Adonios Merlos [fr] (GRE) | 2.18 |
| Pole vault | Robert Renner (SLO) | 5.61 | Ivan Horvat (CRO) | 5.30 | Petros Hatziou (GRE) | 5.30 |
| Long jump | Gabriel Bitan (ROU) | 8.07 | Valentin Toboc (ROU) | 8.03 | Filip Pravdica (CRO) | 8.00 |
| Triple jump | Nikolaos Andrikopoulos (GRE) | 16.29 | Artem Konovalenko (UKR) | 16.04 | Andreas Pantazis (GRE) | 16.00 |
| Shot put | Andrei Toader (ROU) | 20.75 | Alperen Karahan (TUR) | 20.20 | Giorgi Mujaridze (GEO) | 19.76 |
| Discus Throw | Alin Firfirică (ROU) | 64.95 | Mykyta Nesterenko (UKR) | 61.97 | Apostolos Parellis (CYP) | 61.58 |
| Hammer Throw | Myhaylo Havrylyuk (UKR) | 75.49 | Serghei Marghiev (MDA) | 75.24 | Özkan Baltacı (TUR) | 74.24 |
| Javelin Throw | Alexandru Novac (ROU) | 83.01 | Dimitrios Tsitsos (GRE) | 77.51 | Denis Adrian Both (ROU) | 76.47 |
| Decathlon | Aris-Nikolaos Peristeris (GRE) | 7887 | Ariel Attias (ISR) | 7163 | Dragan Pešić (MNE) | 7010 |
| WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) |||||| |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: -0.7 m/s) | Diana Vaisman (ISR) | 11.34 | Rafailia Spanoudaki-Hatziriga (GRE) | 11.53 | Milana Tirnanić (SRB) | 11.70 |
| 200 metres | Rafailia Spanoudaki-Chatziriga (GRE) | 23.55 | Olivia Fotopoulou (CYP) | 23.62 | Magdalena Lindner (AUT) | 24.11 |
| 400 metres | Susanne Walli (AUT) | 52.49 | Büşra Yıldırım (TUR) | 52.88 | Mirela Lavric (ROU) | 53.20 |
| 800 metres | Claudia Bobocea (ROU) | 2:01.84 | Anita Horvat (SLO) | 2:02.05 | Ekaterina Guliyev (TUR) | 2:02.38 |
| 1500 metres | Şilan Ayyıldız (TUR) | 4:17.27 | Maria Claudia Florea (ROU) | 4:17.81 | Lenuta Simiuc (ROU) | 4:18.17 |
| 3000 metres | Emine Hatun Tuna (TUR) | 9:30.97 | Fatma Arik (TUR) | 9:33.10 | Greza Bakraqi (KOS) | 9:33.74 |
| 5000 metres | Luiza Gega (ALB) | 15:16.47 CR NR | Yayla Kiliç (TUR) | 15:55.24 | Thalia Charalambous (CYP) | 16:27.44 |
| 100 metres hurdles | Anais Karagianni (GRE) | 13.15 | Anja Lukić (SRB) | 13.29 | Elisavet Pesiridou (GRE) | 13.29 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Agata Zupin (SLO) | 57.05 | Lena Pressler (AUT) | 57.45 | Dimitra Gnafaki (GRE) | 57.50 |
| 3000 metres Steeplechase | Luiza Gega (ALB) | 9:17.89 CR | Claudia Prisecaru (ROU) | 9:51.26 | Ruken Tek (TUR) | 9:51.48 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Greece Dimitra Tsoukala Elisavet Pesiridou Alana Bern Rafailia Spanoudaki-Hatziriga | 44.56 | Austria Johanna Plank Susanne Walli Viktoria Willhuber Magdalena Lindner | 44.72 | Israel Nitzan Asas Diana Vaisman Allina Drottman Eden Finkelstein | 45.20 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Greece Despina Mourta Maria-Myrta Argyrou Anna Kiafa Andrianna Ferra | 3:34.29 | Croatia Klara Koščak Nina Vuković Ida Šimunčić Veronika Drljačić | 3:39.83 | Romania Rebeca Daria Ciocan Lenuta Simiuc Sanda Belgyan Mirela Lavric | 3:40.40 |
| High jump | Daniela Stanciu (ROU) | 1.93 | Mirela Demireva (BUL) | 1.93 | Lia Apostolovski (SLO) | 1.90 |
| Pole vault | Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou (GRE) | 4.50 | Eleni-Klaoudia Polak (GRE) | 4.50 | Buse Arıkazan (TUR) | 4.30 |
| Long jump | Ivana Vuleta (SRB) | 6.83w | Florentina Costina Iusco (ROU) | 6.55 | Filippa Fotopoulou (CYP) | 6.54w |
| Triple jump | Ivana Vuleta (SRB) | 14.24 | Tuğba Danışmaz (TUR) | 14.07 | Elena Andreea Taloș (ROU) | 13.84 |
| Shot put | Olha Golodna (UKR) | 16.78 | Sopo Shatirishvili (GEO) | 16.14 | Aysel Yılmaz (TUR) | 15.76 |
| Discus Throw | Dragana Tomašević (SRB) | 58.16 | Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou (GRE) | 57.99 | Androniki Lada (CYP) | 53.75 |
| Hammer Throw | Stamatia Skarvelis (GRE) | 71.08 | Iryna Klymets (UKR) | 70.41 | Zalina Marghieva (MDA) | 68.66 |
| Javelin Throw | Adriana Vilagoš (SRB) | 60.51 | Hanna Hatsko (UKR) | 57.93 | Esra Türkmen (TUR) | 57.14 |
| Heptathlon | Yuliya Loban (UKR) | 5681 | Beatrice Puiu (ROU) | 5311 | Sofia Ifantidou (GRE) | 5218 |
| WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) |||||| |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Romania)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Greece | 9 | 6 | 9 | 24 |
| 2 | Romania* | 8 | 5 | 6 | 19 |
| 3 | Turkey | 6 | 6 | 10 | 22 |
| 4 | Serbia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| 5 | Ukraine | 4 | 6 | 0 | 10 |
| 6 | Slovenia | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 7 | Austria | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 8 | Albania | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Croatia | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
| 10 | Israel | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 11 | Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Armenia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Cyprus | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 14 | Georgia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | Moldova | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | North Macedonia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Kosovo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Montenegro | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (18 entries) | Totals (18 entries) | 44 | 43 | 42 | 129 |