2018 Balkan Athletics Championships Explained

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.

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

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		39.48		39.84		40.29
4 × 400 metres relay		3:07.17		3:08.29		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

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		58.05		59.33
3000 m s'chase		10:05.89		10:11.78		11:18.83
4 × 100 metres relay		45.43		45.55	Viktoriya Georgieva Radostina Stoyanova Karin Okolie Inna Eftimova		45.62
4 × 400 metres relay		3:33.56		3:33.89		3:34.64
High jump		1.95 m		1.84 m		1.84 m
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		14.34 m		13.55 m
Shot put		18.95 m		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		57.37 m		52.24 m
Heptathlon		4990 pts		4789 pts		4593 pts

Medal table

References

• Results. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.

Notes and References

1. http://www.balkan-athletics.eu/results/Balkan%20Senior%20Champioinships/71st%20Balkan%20Senior%20Championships%202018%20Stara%20Zagora%20BUL/BCH%20Stara%20Zagora%202018%20Medal%20Table.pdf Balkan Championships 2018 Medal Table