The Balkan Race Walking Championships is an annual racewalking competition between athletes from member nations of Balkan Athletics. The championships features six individual races: senior men's and women's 20 kilometres race walks, men's and women's under-20 10 kilometres race walks, an under-18 boys' 10 km walk, and an under-18 girls' 5 kilometres race walk. Each individual race also has a national team component with points awarded based on finishing time, which are then totalled to form an overall team score for the championships.
Balkan racewalking competitions originated in the main Balkan Athletics Championships. A men's 20 km walk was first held in 1961 and a women's 10 km walk was introduced in 1988 (later increased to a 20 km race in 2001). One-off indoor walks were also held at the Balkan Indoor Athletics Championships in 1994. The Balkan championships for racewalking were first held separately from the main championships in 2000, though Balkan Athletics starting their official numbering of a discrete Balkan Race Walking Championships from 2002 onwards.
List of winners (20 km)
| Edition | Year | Venue | Country | Date | Senior men's winner | Time | Senior women's winner | Time | Team winner |
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| 1st | 2002 | Vlasotince | Yugoslavia |  Silviu Casandra (ROM) |
1:22:06 |  Nevena Mineva-Dimitrova (BUL) |
1:32:16 | — | |
| 2nd | 2003 | Ruse | Bulgaria |  Predrag Filipović (SCG) |
1:22:40 | Veronica Budileanu (ROM) |
1:35:12 | — | |
| 3rd | 2004 | Reșița | Romania | Costică Bălan (ROM) |
1:21:51 |  Athina Papayianni (GRE) |
1:28:58 | — | |
| 4th | 2005 | Preveza | Greece | Silviu Casandra (ROM) |
1:25:48 | Evangelia Xinou (GRE) |
1:35:35 | — | |
| 5th | 2006 | Istanbul | Turkey | Predrag Filipović (SCG) |
1:22:31 | Ana Maria Groza (ROM) |
1:30:46 | — | |
| 6th | 2007 | Galați | Romania |  Recep Çelik (TUR) |
1:23:10 | Alina Olaru (ROM) |
1:33:14 | — | |
| 7th | 2008 | Bucharest | Romania | 12 April |  Predrag Filipović (SRB) |
1:26:59 | Veronica Budileanu (ROM) |
1:34:37 | — |
| 8th | 2009 | Bucharest | Romania | Dragoș Neacșu (ROM) |
1:23:21.20 | Ana Maria Groza (ROM) |
1:29:56.30 | — | |
| 9th | 2010 | Bucharest | Romania | Silviu Casandra (ROM) |
1:23:29.30 | Ana Veronica Rodean (ROM) |
1:37.26 | — | |
| 10th | 2011 | Bucharest | Romania | Recep Çelik (TUR) |
1:22:31 | Claudia Ștef (ROM) |
1:33:38 | — | |
| 11th | 2012 | Bucharest | Romania | Predrag Filipović (SRB) |
1:28:50 | Ana Veronica Rodean (ROM) |
1:35:17 | — | |
| 12th | 2013 | Ayvalık | Turkey | Vladimir Savanović (SRB) |
1:28:42 | Adriana Georgiana Enache (ROM) |
1:39:17 | Turkey
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| 13th | 2014 | Balchik | Bulgaria | Vladimir Savanović (SRB) |
1:26.31 | Despina Zapounidou (GRE) |
1:34.56 | Romania
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| 14th | 2015 | Ayvalık | Turkey | Şahin Şenoduncu (TUR) |
1:27:30 | Andreea Arsine (ROM) |
1:39:36 | Turkey
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| 15th | 2016 | Florina | Greece | Adrian Dragomir (ROM) |
1:31:32 | Panayiota Tsinopoulou (GRE) |
1:38:29 | Turkey
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| 16th | 2017 | Florina | Greece | Alexandros Papamichail (GRE) |
1:26:40 | Antigoni Drisbioti (GRE) |
1:34:00 | Romania
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| 17th | 2018 | Zrenjanin | Serbia |  Dmytro Sobchuk (UKR) |
1:26:27 | Panayiota Tsinopoulou (GRE) |
1:39:01 | Turkey
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| 18th | 2019 | Alexandroupoli | Greece | Alexandros Papamichail (GRE) |
1:24:40 | Panayiota Tsinopoulou (GRE) |
1:34:55 | Greece
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| 19th | 2020 | Ivano-Frankivsk | Ukraine | 14 March | Eduard Zabuzhenko (UKR) |
1:20:46 | Mariia Sakharuk (UKR) |
1:30:22 | Greece
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| 20th | 2021 | Antalya | Turkey | 27 March | Sahin Senoduncu (TUR) |
1:24:20 | Ayşe Tekdal (TUR) |
1:30:12 | Turkey
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| 21st | 2022 | Athens | Greece | 3 April | Narcis Mihăilă (ROU) |
1:30:24 | Ayşe Tekdal (TUR) |
1:38:01 | Turkey
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| 22nd | 2023 | Antalya | Turkey | 9 April | Mazlum Demir (TUR) |
1:25:38 | Antigoni Drisbioti (GRE) |
1:29:56 | Greece
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References
- 18th BALKAN RACE WALKING CHAMPIONSHIPS Alexandroupolis/GREECE 20 April 2019. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- 18th BALKAN RACE WALKING CHAMPIONSHIPS Alexandroupolis/GREECE 20 April 2019 Team Results. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- ^ Balkan Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- Balkan Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- Results Archived 2022-10-30 at the Wayback Machine. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- 2008 Balkan Race Walking Championships. European Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
- 2020 Balkan Race Walking Championships. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
- "27/03/2021 Antalya (TUR): Balkan Championships - Great results of Meryem Bekmez". marciadalmondo.com. 27 March 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- "21st Balkan Race Walking Championships 2022 Athens, GRE" (PDF). balkan-athletics.eu. 3 April 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
- "Balkan Race Walking Championships". worldathletics.org. 9 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
- Winners list
- Results Archived 2022-10-30 at the Wayback Machine. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
- Balkan Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
External links
- Official website of Balkan Athletics
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