Athletics: Balkaniad broadcast live online on www.fra.ro

Photo credit: (c) Cristian NISTOR / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

For the first time since their inception, the Balkan Athletics Championships can be watched live online, on the official website of the Romanian Athletics Federation (FRA), www.fra.ro, the 73rd edition, also the first time when all 15 member states of the Association of the Balkan Athletic Federations are participating, taking place in Pitesti on Saturday and Sunday.

The opening ceremony that began at 17.00 with a rendition of the new anthem of the Romanian Athletics Federation, composed by Marcel Pavel and Mihai Alexandru, saw speeches delivered to the over 500 athletes and 6,000 spectators by Minister of Youth and Sport Gabriela Szabo, FRA chairman Sandu Ion, Pitesti Mayor Tudor Pendiuc, and Dobromir Karamarinov, chairman of the Association of the Balkan Athletic Federations (ABAF).

The stadium's stands are host to several guests of honor, former Olympic champions in athletics, true personalities of Romanian sport, such as Iolanda Balas-Soter, Constantina Dita, Maricica Puica, Anisoara Cusmir-Stanciu, and Violeta Beclea-Szekely.

Hosted for the eighth time in Romania in its 85 years of existence, the Balkan Athletics Championships are taking place on Saturday and Sunday in Pitesti, being, at the same time, one last rehearsal for elite Balkan athletes before the European Championships in Zurich that are set to take place between August 12-17. AGERPRES

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