The Balkan Marathon Championships is an annual road running competition over the marathon distance (42.195 km) between athletes from member nations of Balkan Athletics.
It was a men's competition exclusively until 1990, when a women's race was also added.
The venue varies each year and the championship is usually contested within an independently organised marathon in a city in the Balkans.
[4] Turkey is historically the most successful nation in the men's race, followed by Greece, while Serbia has produced the most female winners.
Individually, Franjo Škrinjar of Yugoslavia has won the most titles with six and Serbia's Olivera Jevtić has the title of most successful woman with four wins.