One of the big bets of SEGA and its co -organizers Balkan Championship 2025 was to entice the big names of the 22 Balkan Athletics member states to come to fight in Panthessal. And indeed, judging by the names of starting lists, many athletes and many athletes with great international successes are expected to star in the city Volou.
Let’s see what are the most thorny names in the event, in addition to the big stars of the Greek track, Miltos Tentoglou, Emmanouil Karalis, Elina Genngo, Tatiana Goussin, Polynikis Emmanouilidou and everyone else.
The Serbian team brings its best led by the holder of the world title, Ivana Spanovic. In addition to its 2023 victory in Budapest, it has won two global titles in the closed and five continents in the open and in a lounge. Spanovic, who has also been reported in the triple, will have with her the 6th of the 2024 world closed, Militsa Gardasevic. In Volos is also the new big name of Serbia, the Supreme Angelina Topic, second in the European open in 2024 and closed in 2025. The men’s team stands out in the European 2022 European and finalist of the Tokyo Olympics in Sfarin.
The other countries of the former Yugoslavia also bring strong names. In Bosnia, Herzegovina stands out by Dis Metalliou in the 800m in the Amel Tuka World Championships and the 2021 Olympic Games’ finalist in the Globe, Mesoud Pezer.
In the colors of Slovenia, the “bronze” in Glasgow will compete in the World Indoor 2024 and twice finalists in a world championship, height of Lia Apostolofsky, as well as the 400s Nega Filipic, 6th in Nanjing last March.
Montenegro’s “flagship” is as usual the second of the 2022 European Championship and finalists of the 2021 Olympic Games, Maria Vukovic, while in Croatia is the album Maria Toli, who participated in the 20th World Championship final.
Romania has brought a very strong team. Among its executives is the hammer Bianca Gelber, a European champion in 2022, a finalist in the last two Olympics and in four world championships. The bronze in the 2023 world and 7th in Paris in length, Alina Rotarou, the 3rd Indoor Stopagosmo of 2016 at 4×4000 m, Andrea Miklos and the finalist of the 2024 Olympic Games in Triple, Elena Talos are three more powerful Romanians.
The men stand out in the 4th and 7th of the 2019 and 2022 World Championships and 2022 respectively, and the 2024 Olympic Games, alin Alexandrou Firfirika, as well as the European champion in Apeldorn’s shot at Apeldor, Andrei.
Head of the Bulgarian team, another European champion in the 2025 indoor track, the length of the length, Bozidar Sarabogyukov, who was 2nd a few days ago in Bergen. With him the two -time finalist of the Olympic Games (2016, 2024) at height, Tihomir Ivanov.
The 2019 world champion in the 60m with obstacles and finalists of the 2016 Olympic Games, Milan Traikovic is the big name of Cyprus and Valentina Savva with the bronze medal in the hammer at the recent European K23 Championship.
The Ukrainian team dominates the presence of two athletes with fifth place in the world championship, the invader Marina Kilipko (2021) and the hammer Irina Climets (2019).
The first violin in Moldova is the finalist in Paris on the album, Alexandra Emilianov and in Azerbaijan, Triplunist, 2019 European Champion Nazim Bagajev.
Turkey has also brought strong names with many international awards. The most famous of all is the “gold” at the 2017 World Championships and the 2018 European Ramil Guliev. He is surrounded by the height of the Paris Olympic Games, Busé Savaskan and the 4th of 2021 in Atikio, Entry Tugzsuz, the “bronze” in the 2016 European 2016 shot, Emel Derlli. With them is the recently crowned European champion K23 at 1,500m, Dilek Kotsak.
Special mention should be made of the 45 -year -old 2008 gold medalist and three times world champion in Cuba’s colors, Yisi Moreno, who will represent Albania.