2021 Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	20 February
Host city	Istanbul, Turkey
Venue	Ataköy Athletics Arena
Level	Senior
Events	24
Participation	21 nations
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The 2021 Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships was the 26th edition of the annual indoor track and field competition for athletes from the Balkans, organised by Balkan Athletics. It was held on 20 February at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m	Kayhan Özer  Turkey	6.69	Oleksandr Sokolov  Ukraine	6.72	Stanislav Kovalenko  Ukraine	6.75
400 m	İlyas Çanakçı  Turkey	46.91 PB	Franko Burraj  Albania	47.00 SB	Luka Janežič  Slovenia	47.16 SB
800 m	Oleh Myronets  Ukraine	1:48.19 PB	Žan Rudolf  Slovenia	1:48.29 SB	Abedin Mujezinović  Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:49.60
1500 m	Mitko Tsenov  Bulgaria	3:45.97	Nikola Bursać  Serbia	3:46.91 SB	Yuriy Kishchenko  Ukraine	3:46.97 SB
3000 m	Dario Ivanovski  Moldova	8:03.95 SB	Cihat Ulus  Turkey	8:10.69 PB	Vid Botolin  Slovenia	8:10.76 PB
60 m hurdles	Mikdat Sevler  Turkey	7.77	Stanislav Stankov  Bulgaria	7.80	Bohdan Chornomaz  Ukraine	7.89
4 × 400 m relay	Turkey Akın Özyürek İsmail Nezir Ali Aksu Oğuzhan Kaya	3:13.70	Romania Vlad Dulcescu Mihai Dringo Cristian Voicu Denis Toma	3:16.09	Bulgaria Silyan Peshev Velin Kovalenko Alex Vassilev Yordan Gyurov	3:18.28
High jump	Tihomir Ivanov  Bulgaria	2.25 =SB	Enes Talha Şenses  Turkey	2.15	Alperen Acet  Turkey	2.10
Pole vault	Ersu Şaşma  Turkey	5.60	Vladyslav Malykhin  Ukraine	5.50 =SB	Ivan Yeryomin  Ukraine	5.40
Long jump	Izmir Smajlaj  Albania	7.91 SB	Gabriel Bitan  Romania	7.90	Marko Čeko  Croatia	7.72
Triple jump	Nazim Babayev  Azerbaijan	16.57 SB	Nikolaos Andrikopoulos  Greece	16.39 PB	Dimitrios Tsiamis  Greece	16.29
Shot put	Armin Sinančević  Serbia	20.63 SB	Mesud Pezer  Bosnia and Herzegovina	20.07	Andrei Toader  Romania	19.87

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m	Inna Eftimova  Bulgaria	7.33	Marina Baboi  Romania	7.40	Milana Tirnanić  Serbia	7.41
400 m	Andrea Miklós  Romania	51.92 PB	Anna Ryzhykova  Ukraine	52.38 PB	Anita Horvat  Slovenia	53.44 SB
800 m	Svitlana Zhulzhyk  Ukraine	2:05.84	Claudia Bobocea  Romania	2:06.05 SB	Jerneja Smonkar  Slovenia	2:06.85
1500 m	Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimšek  Slovenia	4:09.43 SB	Orysya Demyanyuk  Ukraine	4:17.19 SB	Claudia Bobocea  Romania	4:17.47 SB
3000 m	Klara Lukan  Slovenia	8:58.73 PB	Roxana Rotaru  Romania	9:10.26 SB	Burcu Subatan  Turkey	9:15.53 PB
60 m hurdles	Anamaria Nesteriuc  Romania	8.18	Hanna Plotitsyna  Ukraine	8.19	Ivana Lončarek  Croatia	8.24 SB
4 × 400 m relay	Ukraine Alina Lohvynenko Viktoriya Tkachuk Anastasiia Bryzhina Anna Ryzhykova	3:38.16	Turkey Elif Polat Nevin İnce Zeynep Kuran Emel Şanlı-Kırçın	3:41.25	Slovenia Maja Pogorevc Veronika Sadek Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimšek Anita Horvat	3:41.50 NR
High jump	Marija Vuković  Montenegro	1.90	Lia Apostolovski  Slovenia	1.85	Buse Savaşkan  Turkey	1.80
Pole vault	Yana Hladiychuk  Ukraine	4.60	Maryna Kylypko  Ukraine	4.50 SB	Mesure Tutku Yılmaz  Turkey	4.40 NR
Long jump	Ivana Španović  Serbia	6.75 SB	Filippa Fotopoulou  Cyprus	6.53 NR	Florentina Iusco  Romania	6.50 =SB
Triple jump	Tuğba Danışmaz  Turkey	13.97 NR	Neja Filipič  Slovenia	13.86	Diana Ion  Romania	13.47
Shot put	Emel Dereli  Turkey	18.13 SB	Pınar Akyol  Turkey	16.02	Andreea Huzum-Vitan  Romania	15.03 SB

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkey*	7	4	4	15
2	Ukraine	4	6	4	14
3	Bulgaria	3	1	1	5
4	Romania	2	5	5	12
5	Slovenia	2	3	5	10
6	Serbia	2	1	1	4
7	Albania	1	1	0	2
8	Azerbaijan	1	0	0	1
	Moldova	1	0	0	1
	Montenegro	1	0	0	1
11	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	1	1	2
	Greece	0	1	1	2
13	Cyprus	0	1	0	1
14	Croatia	0	0	2	2
Totals (14 entries)		24	24	24	72

Results

• 26th BALKAN INDOOR SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Men. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
• 26th BALKAN INDOOR SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Women. Balkan Athletics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
• Results. World Athletics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.

• Balkan Athletics website