2015 Balkan Athletics Championships

The 2015 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 Stadionul Nicolae Dobrin in Pitești, Romania on 1 and 2 August. The host nation Romania won the most medals at the competition, with 28, and the Turkey won the most gold medals, at 10. The competition was originally scheduled to take place in Serres, Greece, but the venue was changed due to a lack of funding, in the context of the Greek government-debt crisis.

2015 Balkan Athletics Championships
Dates1–2 August
Host cityPitești, Romania
VenueStadionul Nicolae Dobrin
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events40
Records set3 championship records


On the men's side, three championship records were broken. Jak Ali Harvey of Turkey ran a record of 10.11 seconds to win the 100 metres, Slovenia's Robert Renner cleared 5.65 m to win the pole vault in a Slovenian record, and Andrei Gag set a championship and Romanian record of 20.96 m to win the shot put. The highlight performance of the women's competition was a championship record of 9:33.41 minutes by Silvia Danekova in the 3000 metres steeplechase, which was also a Bulgarian national record.

Results

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   Jak Ali Harvey (TUR) 10.11 CR   Cătălin Cîmpeanu (ROM) 10.37   Ioannis Nyfadopoulos (GRE) 10.46
200 metres   Ramil Guliyev (TUR) 20.59   Cătălin Cîmpeanu (ROM) 21.24   İzzet Safer (TUR) 21.34
400 metres   Luka Janežič (SLO) 46.39   Batuhan Altıntaş (TUR) 46.73   Yavuz Can (TUR) 46.85
800 metres   Žan Rudolf (SLO) 1:50.10   Dušan Babić (BIH) 1:50.99   Cristian Vorovenci (ROU) 1:51.01
1500 metres   Konstadínos Nakópoulos (GRE) 3:48.82   Ioan Zaizan (ROU) 3:48.92   Levent Ateş (TUR) 3:49.16
5000 metres   Dino Bošnjak [de] (CRO) 14:12.20 PB   Yolo Nikolov (BUL) 14:18.63   Cihat Ulus (TUR) 14:20.92
110 m hurdles   Milan Trajkovic (CYP) 14.23   Mustafa Güneş (TUR) 14.27   Cosmin Dumitrache (ROU) 14.57
400 m hurdles   Yasmani Copello (TUR) 50.19   Attila Csongor Nagy (ROM) 51.29   Filip Pestić (CRO) 52.25
3000 m s'chase   Mitko Tsenov (BUL) 8:29.73   Nicolai Gorbusco (MDA) 8:41.36 PB   Osman Junuzović (BIH) 8:50.76 PB
4 × 100 m relay   Turkey
Yiğitcan Hekimoğlu
Ramil Guliyev
İzzet Safer
Jak Ali Harvey
39.35   Romania
Ioan Pițigoi
Cătălin Cîmpeanu
Ionuț Neagoe
Daniel Robert
39.67   Greece
Panayiótis Andreádis
Victor Kremidas
Ioannis Nyfantopoulos
Panayiótis Trivizas
40.29
4 × 400 m relay   Turkey
Halit Kılıç
Yavuz Can
Yasmani Copello
Batuhan Altıntaş
3:06.55   Croatia
Hrvoje Čukman
Željko Vincek
Mateo Kovačić
Mateo Ružić
3:07.62   Romania
Adrian Drăgan
Sebastian Ursachi
Zeno Moraru
Cristian Radu
3:10.38
High jump   Dimitrios Chondrokoukis (CYP) 2.24 m   Tihomir Ivanov (BUL) 2.24 m   Konstadinos Baniotis (GRE) 2.24 m
Pole vault   Robert Renner (SLO) 5.65 m CR NR   Ivan Horvat (CRO) 5.50 m   Andrei Răzvan Deliu (ROU) 5.20 m PB
Long jump   Louis Tsatoumas (GRE) 7.90 m   Denis Eradiri (BUL) 7.72 m   Valentin Toboc (ROU) 7.66 m
Triple jump   Georgi Tsonov (BUL) 17.01 m   Dimitrios Baltadouros (GRE) 16.60 m PB   Rumen Dimitrov (BUL) 16.56 m
Shot put   Andrei Gag (ROU) 20.96 m CR NR   Asmir Kolašinac (SRB) 20.64 m   Georgi Ivanov (BUL) 19.93 m
Discus throw   Filip Mihaljević (CRO) 60.74 m   Alin Alexandru Firfirică (ROU) 59.18 m   Tadej Hribar (SLO) 54.44 m
Hammer throw   Eşref Apak (TUR) 76.82 m   Serghei Marghiev (MDA) 75.83 m   Mihail Anastasakis (GRE) 71.74 m
Javelin throw   Vedran Samac (SRB) 77.92 m   Paraskevás Batzávalis (GRE) 76.72 m   Dejan Mileusnić (BIH) 74.56 m
Decathlon   Mihail Dudaš (SRB) 7720 pts   Panayiotis Mantis (GRE) 6898 pts   Dragan Pešić (MNE) 6497 pts

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   Maja Mihalinec (SLO) 11.34 PB   Ramona Papaioannou (CYP) 11.43   Inna Eftimova (BUL) 11.51
200 metres   Maria Belimpasaki (GRE) 23.23   Ramona Papaioannou (CYP) 23.25   Maja Mihalinec (SLO) 23.28
400 metres   Bianca Răzor (ROU) 52.26   Irini Vasiliou (GRE) 53.58 PB   Kristina Dudek (CRO) 53.98
800 metres   Florina Pierdevară (ROM) 2:03.14   Luiza Gega (ALB) 2:03.45   Mihaela Roxana Nunu (ROM) 2:07.25
1500 metres   Luiza Gega (ALB) 4:08.74   Songül Konak (TUR) 4:16.09 PB   Florina Pierdevară (ROM) 4:18.69
5000 metres   Esma Aydemir (TUR) 15:51.27 PB   Ancuța Bobocel (ROM) 15:56.00 PB   Silvia Danekova (BUL) 16:03.64 PB
100 m hurdles   Andrea Ivančević (CRO) 13.00   Elisavet Pesiridou (GRE) 13.48   Ivana Lončarek (CRO) 13.65
400 m hurdles   Elif Yıldırım (TUR) 57.73   Angela Moroșanu (ROM) 57.88   Sanda Belgyan (ROM) 59.48
3000 m s'chase   Silvia Danekova (BUL) 9:33.41 CR NR   Maruša Mišmaš (SLO) 10:03.83   Elena Adelina Panaet (ROM) 10:06.36
4 × 100 m relay   Croatia
Ivana Lončarek
Lucija Pokos
Kristina Dudek
Mateja Jambrović
45.71   Romania
Ana Maria Roșianu
Andreea Ogrăzeanu
Andreea Grecu
Anamaria Ioniță
45.74   Serbia
Zorana Barjaktarević
Maja Ćirić
Katarina Sirmić
Milana Tirnanić
45.87
4 × 400 m relay   Romania
Sanda Belgyan
Florina Pierdevară
Anamaria Ioniță
Bianca Răzor
3:33.07   Croatia
Mateja Jambrović
Kristina Dudek
Dora Filipović
Anita Banović
3:36.07   Serbia
Katarina Sirmić
Maja Ćirić
Bojana Kalicanin
Tamara Salaški
3:37.90
High jump   Mirela Demireva (BUL) 1.91 m   Venelina Veneva-Mateeva (BUL) 1.87 m   Marija Vuković (MNE) 1.87 m
Pole vault   Tina Šutej (SLO) 4.20 m   Loréla-Anastasía Mánou (GRE) 4.20 m   Lavinia Gabriela Bulov (ROU) 3.90 m
Long jump   Florentina Marincu (ROU) 6.65 m   Haido Alexouli (GRE) 6.29 m   Milena Mitkova (BUL) 6.16 m
Triple jump   Petia Dacheva (BUL) 13.67 m   Cristina Bujin (ROM) 13.64 m   Elena Panțuroiu (ROM) 13.62 m
Shot put   Emel Dereli (TUR) 17.39 m   Radoslava Mavrodieva (BUL) 16.85 m   Andreea Huzum-Vitan (ROU) 15.52 m
Discus throw   Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou (GRE) 54.87 m   Veronika Domjan (SLO) 53.74 m   Natalia Stratulat (MDA) 52.82 m
Hammer throw   Zalina Marghieva (MDA) 73.97 m   Kıvılcım Kaya (TUR) 71.04 m PB   Marina Marghieva (MDA) 69.38 m
Javelin throw   Martina Ratej (SLO) 59.19 m   Marija Vučenović (SRB) 53.91 m   Nicoleta Anghelescu (ROU) 51.18 m
Heptathlon   Serpil Koçak (TUR) 5119 pts   Stylani Tzikanoula (GRE) 4982 pts   Mladena Petrusic (BIH) 4831 pts PB
  • Israel's Maayan Furman-Shahaf cleared 1.87 m in the women's high jump but was not included in the medals tally as her country was not a member of Balkan Athletics.

Medal table

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1   Turkey 10 4 4 18
2   Slovenia 6 2 2 10
3   Romania 5 10 13 28
4   Bulgaria 5 5 6 16
5   Greece 4 8 4 16
6   Croatia 4 3 2 9
9   Serbia 2 2 2 6
8   Cyprus 2 2 - 4
9   Moldova 1 2 2 5
10   Albania 1 1 - 2
11   Bosnia and Herzegovina - 1 3 4
12   Montenegro - 1 1 2
Total 40 40 40 120

References

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