The 2019

Balkan Athletics Championships The Balkan Athletics Championships or Balkan Games () is a regional athletics competition held between nations from the Balkans and organized by Balkan Athletics. The first games were held in Athens in 1929, and the most recent were being held in ...

was the 74th edition of the annual

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competition for athletes from the

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, organised by Balkan Athletics. It was held at the Pravets Sports Complex in

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on 2 and 3 September. It was the first time that the city hosted the competition. Three championship records were broken: both

200 metres The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightl ...

records were improved (the men's by Ukraine's

Serhiy Smelyk Serhiy Volodymyrovych Smelyk or Serhii Volodymyrovych Smelyk ( uk, Сергій Володимирович Смелик; born 19 April 1987 in Krasnodon) is a Ukrainian sprinter. He won the bronze medal in the 200 metres at the 2014 European ...

in 20.50 seconds, and the women's by Bulgarian Ivet Lalova-Collio, who ran 22.45 seconds), while Greek men's

pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...

er Emmanouil Karalis cleared a record height of 5.66 m. Lalova-Collio won a sprint double in the women's

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and 200 m while Smelyk won golds for Ukraine in the 200 m and

4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the individu ...

. 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 Mirela Krasimirova Demireva ( bg, Мирела Красимирова Демирева; born 28 September 1989) is a Bulgarian high jumper. Career Demireva did not reach the final at the 2006 World Junior Championships, but won the silver med ...

(high jump),

Buse Arıkazan Buse Arıkazan (born 8 July 1994) is a Turkish pole vaulter. She is a member of Enka SK in Istanbul. She holds national records both outdoor and indoor. She studied Exercise and Sport Science at Hacettepe University in Ankara. Early life Buse Ar ...

(pole vault) and

Paraskevi Papachristou Paraskevi "Voula" Papachristou ( gr, Παρασκευή (Βούλα) Παπαχρήστου ; born 17 April 1989) is a Greek triple jumper and long jumper. She won two gold medals at the European Athletics U23 Championships and took the third pla ...

(triple jump) all repeated their victories from

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. Serbia's Teodora Simović (5000 m) was the sole individual to retain a track title while her compatriot Marija Vučenović took her third straight

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title.

Results

Men

Women

Medal table

References

;Results
Balkan Senior Championships Pravets BUL
Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-11-16. {{2019 in athletics

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Sport in Sofia Province International athletics competitions hosted by Bulgaria