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Regional Regional championships · since 1930

1953 Balkan Athletics Championship

Athens, Greece 28–29 Jun 1953

events: 21
medals awarded: 63
nations on the podium: 3
world records: 0

Podiums

Sprints

100m

1

Milovan Jovancic 11.0

2

Muzaffer Selvi 11.1

3

Petar Pecelj 11.2

Sprints

200m

1

Stefanos Petrakis 22.6

2

Milovan Jovancic 22.7

3

Petar Pecelj 22.7

Sprints

400m

1

Vassilios Syllis CR 48.8

2

Zvonko Sabolovic 49.6

3

Miloje Grujic 50.1

Middle & long

800m

1

Ekrem Kocak CR 1:53.9

2

Evangelos Depastas 1:54.4

3

Dragutin Hocevar 1:54.4

Middle & long

1500m

1

Cahit Onel CR 3:54.5

2

Ekrem Kocak 3:56.3

3

Velisa Mugosa 3:57.0

Middle & long

5000m

1

Zdravko Ceraj CR 14:50.6

2

Osman Cosgül 14:50.8

3

Velimir Ilic 15:04.3

Middle & long

10,000m

1

Osman Cosgül CR 31:45.6

2

Svetislav Jovanovic 31:56.8

3

Djordje Stefanovic (1921) 32:19.8

Road

Marathon

1

Franjo Skrinjar 3:09:46

2

Haydar Erturan 3:13:40

3

Dimitrios Dervenis 3:15:27

Middle & long

3000m steeplechase

1

Petar Segedin CR 9:17.7

2

Dragutin Stritof 9:27.9

3

Mustafa Ozcan (1926) 9:31.5

Hurdles

110m hurdles

1

Stanko Lorger 15.3

2

Mustafa Batman 15.7

3

Ioannis Kabadellis 15.7

Hurdles

400m hurdles

1

Stamatis Smirniotis 54.2

2

Svetislav Cipcic 55.6

3

Fotis Kosmas 55.7

Jumps

High jump

1

Iakovos Biskinis (1932) 1.88

2

Mihajlo Dimitrijevic 1.84

3

Andreas Hatzivasiliou 1.84

Jumps

Pole vault

1

Rigas Efstathiadis CR= 4.10

2

Georgios Roubanis CR= 4.10

3

Milan Milakov 3.90

Jumps

Long jump

1

Rade Radovanovic 6.91

2

Dimitrios Spyropoulos (1932) 6.83

3

Novica Milicevic 6.77

Jumps

Triple jump

1

Rade Radovanovic CR 14.58

2

Vasilios Skalerakis 14.55

3

Anastasios Dodos 14.44

Throws

Shot put

1

Petar Sarcevic CRNR 16.15

2

Kostadinos Yataganas 15.04

3

Mihajlo Jelesijevic 14.25

Throws

Discus throw

1

Kostadinos Yataganas 49.00

2

Vitomir Krivokapic 48.65

3

Darko Krnjajic 46.78

Throws

Hammer throw

1

Ivan Gubijan CR 55.19

2

Aleksandar Berec 49.36

3

Petros Papageorgiou (1926) 47.22

Throws

Javelin throw

1

Branko Dangubic 61.98

2

Branislav Stankovic 58.27

3

Halil Ziraman 58.14

Relays

4x100m

1

Greece

Michail Tsolakis Dimitrios Spyropoulos (1932) Nikolaos Georgopoulos Stefanos Petrakis

42.8

2

Yugoslavia SR

Milovan Jovancic Aleksandar Benjak Vjekoslav Madjarevic Petar Pecelj

42.9

3

Turkey

Aydin Onur Murat Ersin Seyfi Alanya Muzaffer Selvi

NR 43.2

Relays

4x400m

1

Greece

Evangelos Depastas Vasilios Kalaitzis Leonidas Kormalis Vassilios Syllis

3:28.0

2

Yugoslavia SR

Bojidar Radulovic Josip Visnjic Igor Zupancic Miloje Grujic

3:29.0

3

Turkey

Dogan Acarbay Fahir Ozgüden Cahit Onel Ekrem Kocak

3:42.8

Medal table

3 nations · 63 medals

#	Nation				Total	Share
1	Yugoslavia SR JUG	10	11	11	32
2	Greece GRE	8	5	6	19
3	Turkey TUR	3	5	4	12

Records set

11 CR

CR Vassilios Syllis 400m · Men 48.8
CR Ekrem Kocak 800m · Men 1:53.9
CR Cahit Onel 1500m · Men 3:54.5
CR Zdravko Ceraj 5000m · Men 14:50.6
CR Osman Cosgül 10,000m · Men 31:45.6
CR Petar Segedin 3000m steeplechase · Men 9:17.7
CR= Rigas Efstathiadis Pole vault · Men 4.10
CR= Georgios Roubanis Pole vault · Men 4.10
CR Rade Radovanovic Triple jump · Men 14.58
CR Petar Sarcevic Shot put · Men 16.15
CR Ivan Gubijan Hammer throw · Men 55.19

About this edition

General team rankings
JUG 184, GRE 150, TUR 121
Points distribution by events: 6-5-4-3-2-1 (Top 6 places - every team contested with two athletes)