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.Balkan Championships 2019 Medal Table. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
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 100 metres 10.48 10.58 10.66200 metres 20.50 21.07 21.43400 metres 46.84 47.37 47.68800 metres 1:50.13 1:50.33 1:50.481500 metres 3:46.00 3:46.54 3:47.065000 metres 14:51.17 14:52.01 14:53.12100 m hurdles 14.18 14.22 14.22400 m hurdles 50.71 51.12 51.533000 m s'chase 8:39.35 8:47.97 8:54.974 × 100 m relayStanislav KovalenkoIhor BodrovSerhiy Smelyk 40.40Efthimios StergioulisAlexandru TerpezanMarian Valentin TanaseDaniel Mihai Robert Budin 41.48Nikola BrdarAleksandar NovakovićMilan VidovićHajrudin Vejzović 43.574 × 400 m relayAkın ÖzyürekYavuz CanBatuhan Altıntaşİlyas Çanakçı 3:5.85David NastaseVlad DulcescuMihai Cristian PislaruRobert Parge 3:12.43Mateo ParlovIvan KatićJakov VukovićMateo Ružić 3:14.62High jump 2.27 m 2.23 m 2.15 mPole vault 5.66 m 5.45 m 5.31 mLong jump 7.89 m 7.88 m 7.88 mTriple jump 17.03 m = 16.42 m 16.37 mShot put 20.71 m 20.58 m 20.30 mDiscus throw 63.67 m 62.93 m 59.32 mHammer throw 76.67 m 75.32 m 74.52 mJavelin throw 77.90 m 73.84 m 72.16 mDecathlon 7134 pts 7104 pts 6555 pts
Women 100 metres 11.23 11.25 11.56200 metres 22.45 22.97 23.16 400 metres 51.75 51.77 52.57800 metres 2:07.25 2:07.61 2:08.471500 metres 4:17.29 4:19.75 4:20.005000 metres 16:36.45 16:46.39 17:05.02110 m hurdles 13.11 13.28 13.34400 m hurdles 56.45 57.59 58.203000 m s'chase 9:54.28 10:37.53 10:59.704 × 100 m relayGal KadmonDiana VaismanOlga LenskayIlana Dorfman 45.00Camelia GalIoana Teodora GheorgheRoxana Maria EneMarina Andreea Baboi 46.05Not awarded4 × 400 m relayCamelia GalMirela LavricSanda BelgyanAndrea Miklós 3:39.52Nadezhda RachevaPolina TodorovaGabriela GeorgievaKristina Borukova 3:47.83Not awardedHigh jump 1.91 m 1.80 m 1.80 mPole vault 4.35 m 4.28 m 4.01 mLong jump 6.42 m 6.41 m 6.37 mTriple jump 14.24 m 13.89 m 13.81 mShot put 17.53 m 17.51 m 16.81 mDiscus throw 57.47 m 52.49 m 51.10 mHammer throw 71.33 m 69.96 m 69.04 mJavelin throw 57.21 m 55.48 m 46.40 mHeptathlon 6042 pts 5497 pts 4967 pts
Medal table
References
Results Balkan Senior Championships Pravets BUL. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-11-16.