The Balkan Athletics Championships or Balkan Games () is a regional

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competition held between nations from the

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and organized by Balkan Athletics. The first games were held in

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in 1929, and the most recent were being held in Craiova,

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, in

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Organization

The Games of 1929 were unofficial, and organized by the

Hellenic Amateur Athletic Association The Hellenic Athletics Federation (Greek: ; abbreviated SEGAS) is Greece's governing body for amateur sport. SEGAS was created in 1897 and has been the principal organiser of many international sporting competitions held in Greece. The associati ...

(SEGAS). They became formalized after 1930 and have been held regularly since, with the exception of the 1940–1953 period due to the

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and post-war turmoil. In 1946 and 1947, unofficial Games were organized, under the name Balkan and Central European Games, which

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and

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(1947) also participated.BALKAN GAMES/CHAMPIONSHIPS
/ref> SEGAS were also central to the creation of the Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships in 1994 – a sister indoor event to the main outdoor competition.

Nations

* (from 1929) * (from 1929) * (from 1929) * (from 1931) * (from 1946) * (from 1992) * (from 1992) * (from 1992) * (from 1992) * (from 1992) * (from 2006) * (from 2006) * (from 2013) * (from 2014) * (from 2014) * (from 2015) * (from 2016) * (from 2016) * (from 2016) * (from 2017) * (from 2018)

Former nations

* 23 px

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 ...

(1929-1940) * 25 px

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, commonly referred to as SFR Yugoslavia or simply as Yugoslavia, was a country in Central and Southeast Europe. It emerged in 1945, following World War II, and lasted until 1992, with the breakup of Yu ...

(1953-1990) * 25 px Serbia and Montenegro (1992-2005)

Editions

All time medal table

from 1930 to 2019.

Championships records

Men

Women

1940 athlete naming

The 1940 shot put champion was listed as Arat Ararat from Turkey. The birth name of this athlete was Sokratis Ioannidis, a Greek Orthodox born in Istanbul. Due to political friction between Turkey and Greece at that time, the Turks decided it would be more politically correct to change his name to Arat Ararat. This was the name he was known by in the athletic circles.

References

External links

BALKAN GAMES/CHAMPIONSHIPSBalkan Athletics
{{Records in athletics Athletics competitions in Europe Recurring sporting events established in 1929 Association of Balkan Athletics Federations competitions Festivals established in 1929