Balkan Race Walking Championships Explained

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 (20 km)

class=unsortable	Edition	Year	Venue	Country	Date	Senior men's winner	Time	Senior women's winner	Time	Team winner
1st			Yugoslavia			1:22:06		1:32:16
2nd			Bulgaria			1:22:40		1:35:12
3rd			Romania			1:21:51		1:28:58
4th			Greece			1:25:48		1:35:35
5th			Turkey			1:22:31		1:30:46
6th			Romania			1:23:10		1:33:14
7th			Romania	12 April^[6]		1:26:59		1:34:37
8th			Romania			1:23:21.20		1:29:56.30
9th			Romania			1:23:29.30		1:37.26
10th			Romania			1:22:31		1:33:38
11th			Romania			1:28:50		1:35:17
12th			Turkey			1:28:42		1:39:17
13th			Bulgaria			1:26.31		1:34.56
14th			Turkey			1:27:30		1:39:36
15th			Greece			1:31:32		1:38:29
16th			Greece			1:26:40		1:34:00
17th			Serbia			1:26:27		1:39:01
18th			Greece			1:24:40		1:34:55
19th			Ukraine	14 March^[7]		1:20:46		1:30:22
20th			Turkey	27 March^[8]		1:24:20		1:30:12
21st			Greece	3 April^[9]		1:30:24		1:38:01
22nd			Turkey	9 April^[10]		1:25:38		1:29:56

References

Winners list

Results . Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
Balkan Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-06.

External links

Official website of Balkan Athletics

Notes and References

http://www.balkan-athletics.eu/results/Balkan%20Race%20Walking%20Championships/18th%20Balkan%20Race%20Walking%20Championships%202019%20Alexandroupolis,%20GRE/Results%20BRWCH%20Alexandroupolis%202019.pdf 18th BALKAN RACE WALKING CHAMPIONSHIPS Alexandroupolis/GREECE 20 April 2019
http://www.balkan-athletics.eu/results/Balkan%20Race%20Walking%20Championships/18th%20Balkan%20Race%20Walking%20Championships%202019%20Alexandroupolis,%20GRE/Team%20Results%20BRWC%202019.pdf 18th BALKAN RACE WALKING CHAMPIONSHIPS Alexandroupolis/GREECE 20 April 2019 Team Results
http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/bg.htm Balkan Championships
http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/bi.htm Balkan Indoor Championships
http://www.balkan-athletics.eu/results.php Results
https://www.european-athletics.org/files/Council%202007/balkanwch2008.pdf 2008 Balkan Race Walking Championships
http://www.balkan-athletics.eu/results/Balkan%20Race%20Walking%20Championships/19th%20Balkan%20Race%20Walking%20Championships%202020%20Ivano-Frankivsk,%20UKR/Results%20BRWCH%202020.pdf 2020 Balkan Race Walking Championships
News: 27/03/2021 Antalya (TUR): Balkan Championships - Great results of Meryem Bekmez. marciadalmondo.com. 27 March 2021. 4 April 2021.
News: 21st Balkan Race Walking Championships 2022 Athens, GRE. balkan-athletics.eu. 3 April 2022. 10 April 2023. 7 August 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220807201954/http://www.balkan-athletics.eu/results/Balkan%20Race%20Walking%20Championships/21st%20Balkan%20Race%20Walking%20Championships%202022%20Athens,%20GRE/21st%20Balkan%20Race%20Walking%20Championships%202022%20Athens,%20GRE.pdf. dead.
News: Balkan Race Walking Championships. worldathletics.org. 9 April 2023. 10 April 2023.