The 2021

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 on 26 and 27 June at the

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Marija Vuković Marija Vuković ( cnr, Марија Вуковић; born 21 January 1992) is a Montenegrin athlete specializing in the high jump. She won Montenegro’s first ever European Athletics Championship medal with silver in the high jump at Munich 2 ...

won the women's

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

with 1.97 metres – a Montenegro national record.Lang and Vukovic both clear 1.97m for national high jump records
European Athletics (2021-06-28). Retrieved 2021-07-10.

Results

Men

Women

Medal table

References

;Results
74rd BALKAN SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2021-06-30.

External links

Balkan Athletics website
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International athletics competitions hosted by Serbia Smederevo