Balkan Half Marathon Championships
The Balkan Half Marathon Championships is an annual international competition over the half marathon between athletes from the Balkans. Organised by the Association of the Balkan Athletics Federations, it was inaugurated in 2012. It is one of two road running championships for the region, alongside the Balkan Marathon Championships.[1]
The championships features races for both men and women. National team competitions are held within the individual races, with each nation's score being the total of the finishing positions of their best three athletes.
Editions
| Edition | Year | Venue | Country | Date | Men's winner | Time (m:s) | Women's winner | Time (m:s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 2012 | Kavarna | Bulgaria | 1 September |  Gheorghita Vitalie (MDA)
|
1:10.48[2] |  Slađana Perunović (MNE)
|
1:22.41[3] |
| 2nd | 2013 | Oradea | Romania | 15 September |  Nicolae Soare (ROM)
|
1:04:26 |  Olivera Jevtić (SRB)
|
1:14:39[4] |
| 3rd | 2014 | Durrës | Albania | 6 April |  Muzaffer Bajram (TUR)
|
1:04:53[5] | Slađana Perunović (MNE)
|
1:15:27[6] |
| 4th | 2015 | Apatin | Serbia | 18 October | Demir Medeni (TUR)
|
1:06:55 | Buyukbezgin Burcu (TUR)
|
1:17:51[7] |
| 5th | 2016 | Podgorica | Montenegro | 30 October | Bekir Karayel (TUR)
|
1:07:46 | Olivera Jevtić (SRB)
|
1:12:25[8] |
| 6th | 2017 | Pristina | Kosovo | 14 May | Kaya Serkan (TUR)
|
1:07:43 | Yildiz Şeyma (TUR)
|
1:18:32[9] |
| 7th | 2018 | Sarajevo | Bosnia | 16 September | Aykut Tasdemir (TUR)
|
1:08:01 | Olivera Jevtić (SRB)
|
1:14:46[10] |
| 8th | 2019 | Kiev | Ukraine | 7 April |  Roman Romanenko (UKR)
|
1:04:36[11] | Darya Mykhaylova (UKR)
|
1:11:50[12] |
References
- ^ Balkan Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- ^ 2012 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Men Archived 2015-04-07 at the Wayback Machine. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- ^ 2012 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Women Archived 2015-04-07 at the Wayback Machine. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- ^ 2013 Balkan Half Marathon Championships Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- ^ 2014 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Men. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- ^ 2014 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Women. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- ^ 2015 Balkan Half Marathon Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- ^ 2016 Balkan Half Marathon Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- ^ 2017 Balkan Half Marathon Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- ^ 2018 Balkan Half Marathon Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- ^ 2019 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Men. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- ^ 2019 Balkan Half Marathon Championships - Women. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
External links
- Official website for Balkan Athletics