Teteven-BUL, 31.May 2009
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The second Balkan MR Championships was held in city of Teteven in the middle of Balkan Mountains.
Swen Arne Hansen, European Athletic vice president and WMRA Council members were representing the international athletic and mountain running family.
Runners from eight Balkan countries were competing in 4 standard categories: Junior women and men and senior women and men. It was a lap - up/down - course with the 4,3km long lap and 280m ascent/descent that has to be run once be the JW, twice by the JM and women and three times by the men. The course is not a technical one, but steep, demanding descent makes it hard especially for the runners that have to run it more times." The weather was excellent for running - after a rainy Saturday the race day was brilliant sunny with temperatures 20 - 25degC and low humidity.
After organizing the first Balkan Championships in 2008 Bulgarian Athletic Federation chaired by the president Dobromir Karamarinov has again done a good job - the organization was on a high level and all the participants were satisfied with traditional Bulgarian hospitality.
Third Balkan MR Champs will be organized again in Bulgaria in Sapareva Banya as a test for the staff for European MR Championships, that will take place on the same course in begin of July 2010.
Results - comment:
Ten from twelve available individual medals went to Turkey, that becomes a real MR top developed country. Turkish runners cold be found on all the top positions in both junior races, Alper Demir, European vice-champion comfortably wan JM race. Local Mihaylova Milka convincingly wan the women's race - in 2008 she run her first international race finishing European Champs on 10th place. In the men's race Erkan Kus from Turkey wan the race followed by the Romanian orienteering specialist Zinica Ionut. According to the expectations Turkish runners wan all four team gold medals.
JUNIOR WOMEN
Course: 4,3km / 280m-280m
1 Elif Karabulut 91 TUR 21:43
2 ZEYNEP Yok 92 TUR 22:02
3 YAĞ,MUR Tarnan 91 TUR 22:30
4 NIGAR Argun 91 TUR 23:01
5 MORJAN Raluca 90 ROM 23:50
WOMEN
Course: 8,6km / 560m-560m
1 Mihaylova Milka 72 BUL 45:37
2 HÜ,LYA Bastug 88 TUR 46:34
3 NILAY Esen 87 TUR 46:44
4 PANOVSKA Rumyana 66 BUL 48:10
5 SÜ,HEYLA Adiyaman 88 TUR 48:43
JUNIOR MEN
Course: 8,6km / 560m-560m
1 ALPER Demir 90 TUR 37:39
2 AYKUT Tasdemir 91 TUR 38:30
3 EMRE Karaday 91 TUR 38:50
4 TSVETANOV Tsvetan 91 BUL 41:24
5 VLADKOV Stoyan 91 BUL 42:02
MEN
Course: 12,9km / 790m-790m
1 ERKAN Kus 88 TUR 56:33
2 ZINICA Ionut 83 ROM 57:29
3 ERCAN Muslu 88 TUR 58:24
4 ERDINÇ, Ekin 88 TUR 59:47
5 MUSTAFA Shaban 78 BUL 60:18
Swen Arne Hansen, European Athletic vice president and WMRA Council members were representing the international athletic and mountain running family.
Runners from eight Balkan countries were competing in 4 standard categories: Junior women and men and senior women and men. It was a lap - up/down - course with the 4,3km long lap and 280m ascent/descent that has to be run once be the JW, twice by the JM and women and three times by the men. The course is not a technical one, but steep, demanding descent makes it hard especially for the runners that have to run it more times." The weather was excellent for running - after a rainy Saturday the race day was brilliant sunny with temperatures 20 - 25degC and low humidity.
After organizing the first Balkan Championships in 2008 Bulgarian Athletic Federation chaired by the president Dobromir Karamarinov has again done a good job - the organization was on a high level and all the participants were satisfied with traditional Bulgarian hospitality.
Third Balkan MR Champs will be organized again in Bulgaria in Sapareva Banya as a test for the staff for European MR Championships, that will take place on the same course in begin of July 2010.
Results - comment:
Ten from twelve available individual medals went to Turkey, that becomes a real MR top developed country. Turkish runners cold be found on all the top positions in both junior races, Alper Demir, European vice-champion comfortably wan JM race. Local Mihaylova Milka convincingly wan the women's race - in 2008 she run her first international race finishing European Champs on 10th place. In the men's race Erkan Kus from Turkey wan the race followed by the Romanian orienteering specialist Zinica Ionut. According to the expectations Turkish runners wan all four team gold medals.
JUNIOR WOMEN
Course: 4,3km / 280m-280m
1 Elif Karabulut 91 TUR 21:43
2 ZEYNEP Yok 92 TUR 22:02
3 YAĞ,MUR Tarnan 91 TUR 22:30
4 NIGAR Argun 91 TUR 23:01
5 MORJAN Raluca 90 ROM 23:50
WOMEN
Course: 8,6km / 560m-560m
1 Mihaylova Milka 72 BUL 45:37
2 HÜ,LYA Bastug 88 TUR 46:34
3 NILAY Esen 87 TUR 46:44
4 PANOVSKA Rumyana 66 BUL 48:10
5 SÜ,HEYLA Adiyaman 88 TUR 48:43
JUNIOR MEN
Course: 8,6km / 560m-560m
1 ALPER Demir 90 TUR 37:39
2 AYKUT Tasdemir 91 TUR 38:30
3 EMRE Karaday 91 TUR 38:50
4 TSVETANOV Tsvetan 91 BUL 41:24
5 VLADKOV Stoyan 91 BUL 42:02
MEN
Course: 12,9km / 790m-790m
1 ERKAN Kus 88 TUR 56:33
2 ZINICA Ionut 83 ROM 57:29
3 ERCAN Muslu 88 TUR 58:24
4 ERDINÇ, Ekin 88 TUR 59:47
5 MUSTAFA Shaban 78 BUL 60:18