2022 European Cross Country Championships

2022 European Cross Country Championships
Organisers	EAA
Edition	28th
Date	11 December
Host city	Venaria Reale, Turin, Italy
Venue	La Mandria Park
Events	7
Distances	9,572 m – Men 7,662 m – Women 7,662 m – U23 men 5,722 m – U23 women 5,722 m – U20 men 3,812 m – U20 women 5,722 m – Mixed relay
Participation	623 athletes from 40 nations
Official website	EAA FIDAL
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External, official videos
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Senior Men’s Race
Senior Women’s Race
U23 Men’s Race
U23 Women’s Race
U20 Men’s Race
U20 Women’s Race
Mixed relay

The 2022 European Cross Country Championships was the 28th edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was held on 11 December 2022 in La Mandria Park near Turin, Italy.^[1]

Italy became the first country to have staged the European Cross Country Championships on four occasions after previous editions in Ferrara in 1998, San Giorgio su Legnano in 2006 and Chia in 2016. Initially Turin received the right to host the event in 2021.^[2] However, due to the coronavirus pandemic and cancellation of the 2020 championship, which was supposed to be staged by Dublin, the organizers of the Turin championship agreed to hold them in Italy in 2022, so that the 2021 event could be hosted by the Irish city.^[3]

The looped course featured a steep 300 metre uphill and downhill section and a 50 metre-long indoor section through the carriage pavilion of La Mandria Castle (it:Castello della Mandria), part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, on each long lap.^[4]

Norwegians Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal successfully defended their men's and women's senior titles from Fingal-Dublin 2021 respectively. It was Ingebrigtsen's sixth consecutive European cross country title after four victories at under-20 level.^[5] Grøvdal earned her ninth individual medal, an unsurpassed record by a female athlete in the meet history; it was her third gold after U20 success in 2009.^[6]

Great Britain's Charles Hicks and Italy's Nadia Battocletti successfully defended their men's and women's U23 titles respectively. For Battocletti it was a fourth consecutive continental cross country victory.^[7]

Great Britain and Northern Ireland topped the medal table with 10 medals, including five golds.

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Senior men	Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)	29:33	Emile Cairess (GBR)	29:42	Isaac Kimeli (BEL)	29:45
Senior women	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal (NOR)	26:25	Konstanze Klosterhalfen (GER)	26:29	Alina Reh (GER)	27:19
U23 men	Charles Hicks (GBR)	23:40	Zak Mahamed (GBR)	23:48	Valentin Bresc (FRA)	23:58
U23 women	Nadia Battocletti (ITA)	19:55	Megan Keith (GBR)	20:08	Alexandra Millard (GBR)	20:27
U20 men	Will Barnicoat (GBR)	17:40	Nick Griggs (IRL)	17:41	Dean Casey (IRL)	17:46
U20 women	María Forero (ESP)	13:04	Ingeborg Østgård (NOR)	13:07	Ilona Mononen (FIN)	13:08
Team
Senior men's team	France (FRA) Bastien Augusto Yann Schrub Morhad Amdouni Valentin Gondouin Youssef Mekdafou Donovan Christien	24 pts (6+7+11)	Italy (ITA) Yemaneberhan Crippa Yohanes Chiappinelli Osama Zoghlami Nekagenet Crippa Pasquale Selvarolo	25 pts (4+8+13)	Spain (ESP) Mohamed Katir Abdessamad Oukhelfen Carlos Mayo Roberto Aláiz Nassim Hassaous Sergio Paniagua	36 pts (9+10+17)
Senior women's team	Germany (GER) Konstanze Klosterhalfen Alina Reh Hanna Klein Miriam Dattke Caterina Granz	9 pts (2+3+4)	Great Britain (GBR) Jessica Warner-Judd Abbie Donnelly Poppy Tank Jessica Gibbon Cari Hughes Amy-Eloise Markovc	30 pts (8+9+13)	Ireland (IRL) Eilish Flanagan Roisin Flanagan Mary Mulhare Ann-Marie McGlynn Aoibhe Richardson Michelle Finn	50 pts (11+12+27)
U23 men's team	Great Britain (GBR) Charles Hicks Zak Mahamed Matthew Stonier Rory Leonard Joseph Wigfield Tomer Tarragano	11 pts (1+2+8)	France (FRA) Valentin Bresc Étienne Daguinos Antoine Senard Luc Le Baron Pierre Bordeau Téo Rubens Banini	14 pts (3+4+7)	Ireland (IRL) Efrem Gidey Keelan Kilrehill Shay McEvoy Darragh McElhinney Jamie Battle Thomas McStay	29 pts (5+9+15)
U23 women's team	Great Britain (GBR) Megan Keith Alexandra Millard Grace Carson Eloise Walker Alice Goodall Yasmin Marghini	10 pts (2+3+5)	Italy (ITA) Nadia Battocletti Aurora Bado Giovanna Selva Anna Arnaudo Sara Nestola Ludovica Cavalli	31 pts (1+14+16)	France (FRA) Manon Trapp Floriane Quesada Flavie Renouard Eugénie Lorain Anaëlle Guillonnet Léatitia Croissant	38 pts (6+15+17)
U20 men's team	Great Britain (GBR) Will Barnicoat Sam Mills Luke Birdseye Edward Bird Johnny Livingstone Jacob Deacon	10 pts (1+4+5)	Ireland (IRL) Nick Griggs Dean Casey Sean McGinley Callum Morgan Jonas Stafford Mark Hanrahan	17 pts (2+3+12)	Spain (ESP) Jaime Migallon Mario Monreal David Cantero Aleix Vives Eric Lore	30 pts (6+8+16)
U20 women's team	Spain (ESP) María Forero Iraia Mendia Antía Castro María Viciosa Marta Serrano Ines Docampo	21 pts (1+9+11)	Turkey (TUR) Ayça Fidanoğlu Edibe Yağız Pelinsu Şahin Sıla Ata	25 pts (7+8+10)	Germany (GER) Kira Weis Lisa Merkel Sofia Benfares Carolina Schafer Johanna Pulte	33 pts (6+13+14)
Relay
Mixed relay	Italy (ITA) Pietro Arese Federica Del Buono Yassin Bouih Gaia Sabbatini	17:23	Spain (ESP) Jesús Gómez Solange Andreia Pereira Adrián Ben Rosalía Tarraga	17:24	France (FRA) Romain Mornet Charlotte Mouchet Azeddine Habz Anaïs Bourgoin	17:31

• Note: Athletes in italics did not score for the team result.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	5	4	1	10
2	Italy (ITA)*	2	2	0	4
3	Spain (ESP)	2	1	2	5
4	Norway (NOR)	2	1	0	3
5	France (FRA)	1	1	3	5
6	Germany (GER)	1	1	2	4
7	Ireland (IRL)	0	2	3	5
8	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
9	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		13	13	13	39

Results

Senior men

Individual race Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s) Jakob Ingebrigtsen  Norway 29:33 Emile Cairess  United Kingdom 29:42 Isaac Kimeli  Belgium 29:45 4 Yemaneberhan Crippa  Italy 29:47 5 Filimon Abraham  Germany 29:49 6 Bastien Augusto  France 29:52 7 Yann Schrub  France 29:52 8 Yohanes Chiappinelli  Italy 30:03 9 Mohamed Katir  Spain 30:06 10 Abdessamad Oukhelfen  Spain 30:08 11 Morhad Amdouni  France 30:12 12 Mahamed Mahamed  United Kingdom 30:18 13 Osama Zoghlami  Italy 30:20 14 John Heymans  Belgium 30:21 15 Peter Lynch  Ireland 30:23 16 Davor Aaron Bienenfeld  Germany 30:25 17 Carlos Mayo  Spain 30:27 18 Roberto Aláiz  Spain 30:30 19 Michael Somers  Belgium 30:32 20 Valentin Gondouin  France 30:36 21 Narve Gilje Nordås  Norway 30:40 22 Nekagenet Crippa  Italy 30:40 23 Henrik Ingebrigtsen  Norway 30:44 24 Mike Foppen  Netherlands 30:44 25 Nassim Hassaous  Spain 30:44 26 Samuel Fitwi Sibhatu  Germany 30:46 27 Hiko Tonosa Haso  Ireland 30:48 28 Emil Danielsson  Sweden 30:49 29 Andreas Vojta  Austria 30:49 30 Brian Fay  Ireland 30:50 31 Mikkel Dahl-Jessen  Denmark 30:50 32 Hugo Milner  United Kingdom 30:50 33 Barry Keane  Ireland 30:52 34 Sergio Paniagua  Spain 30:54 35 Robin Hendrix  Belgium 30:58 36 Cormac Dalton  Ireland 31:01 37 Ellis Cross  United Kingdom 31:05 38 Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed  ART 31:12 39 Max Peter Bejmer  Sweden 31:12 40 Peter Ďurec  Slovakia 31:13 41 Jáchym Kovář  Czech Republic 31:15 42 Ben Connor  United Kingdom 31:16 43 Youssef Mekdafou  France 31:17 44 Jack Rowe  United Kingdom 31:19 45 Mohammad Reza  Sweden 31:22 46 Pasquale Selvarolo  Italy 31:23 47 Leonid Latsepov  Estonia 31:24 48 Jonas Gertsen  Denmark 31:31 49 Seyd Taha Ghafari  ART 31:34 50 Stan Niesten  Netherlands 31:37 51 Tachlowini Gabriyesos  ART 31:38 52 Ersin Tekal  Turkey 31:46 53 Elzan Bibić  Serbia 31:50 54 Filmon Tesfu  Netherlands 31:51 55 Hlynur Andrésson  Iceland 31:53 56 Jurjen Polderman  Netherlands 31:54 57 Patrick Karl  Germany 31:56 58 Marios Anagnostou  Greece 32:02 59 Donovan Christien  France 32:05 60 Per Svela  Norway 32:15 61 Fouad Idbafdil  ART 32:19 62 Kaur Kivistik  Estonia 32:29 63 Karel Hussar  Estonia 32:32 64 Sezgin Ataç  Turkey 32:32 65 Ștefan Iulius Gavril  Romania 32:42 66 Dmytro Siruk  Ukraine 32:46 67 Pierre Murchan  Ireland 32:52 68 Tesfay Felfele  ART 32:58 69 Luke Micallef  Malta 32:58 70 Jan Kokalj  Slovenia 33:47 71 Bob Bertemes  Luxembourg 34:55 72 Arnold Rogers  Gibraltar 36:05 73 Charel Weicherding  Luxembourg 36:12 74 Lorenzo Bugli  San Marino 36:34 75 Richard Blagg  Gibraltar 37:44 76 Ilir Këllezi  Albania 38:16 77 Sonny Folcheri  Monaco 39:04 78 Robert Matto  Gibraltar 39:50 79 Leon Gordon  Gibraltar 40:03 80 Maurice Turnock  Gibraltar 42:15 — Filip Ingebrigtsen  Norway DNF — Nahuel Carabaña  Andorra DNF — Sam Parsons  Germany DNF

Team race Rank Team Points  France Bastien Augusto Yann Schruub Morhad Amdouni Valentin Gondouin Youssef Mekdafou Donovan Christien 24 pts (6+7+11)  Italy Yemaneberhan Crippa Yohanes Chiappinelli Osama Zoghlami Nekagenet Crippa Pasquale Selvarolo 25 pts (4+8+13)  Spain Mohamed Katir Abdessamad Oukhelfen Carlos Mayo Roberto Aláiz Nassim Hassaous Sergio Paniagua 36 pts (9+10+17) 4  Belgium Isaac Kimeli John Heymans Michael Somers Robin Hendrix 36 pts (3+14+19) 5  Norway Jakob Ingebrigtsen Narve Gilje Nordås Henrik Ingebrigtsen Per Svela Filip Ingebrigtsen 45 pts (1+21+23) 6  Great Britain Emile Cairess Mahamed Mahamed Hugo Milner Ellis Cross Ben Connor Jack Rowe 46 pts (2+12+32) 7  Germany Filimon Abraham Davor Aaron Bienenfeld Samuel Fitwi Sibhatu Patrick Karl Sam Parsons 47 pts (5+16+26) 8  Ireland Peter Lynch Hiko Tonosa Haso Brian Fay Barry Keane Cormac Dalton Pierre Murchan 72 pts (15+27+30) 9  Sweden Emil Danielsson Max Peter Bejmer Mohammad Reza 112 pts (28+39+45) 10  Netherlands Mike Foppen Stan Niesten Filmon Tesfu Jurjen Polderman 128 pts (24+50+54) 11  Estonia Leonid Latsepov Kaur Kivistik Karel Hussar 172 pts (47+62+63) 12  Gibraltar Arnold Rogers Richard Blagg Robert Matto Leon Gordon Maurice Turnock 225 pts (72+75+78)

Senior women

Individual race Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s) Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal  Norway 26:25 Konstanze Klosterhalfen  Germany 26:29 Alina Reh  Germany 27:19 4 Hanna Klein  Germany 27:19 5 Selamawit Teferi  Israel 27:20 6 Miriam Dattke  Germany 27:22 7 Samrawit Mengsteab  Sweden 27:27 8 Jessica Warner-Judd  United Kingdom 27:27 9 Abbie Donnelly  United Kingdom 27:28 10 Veerle Bakker  Netherlands 27:34 11 Eilish Flanagan  Ireland 27:38 12 Roisin Flanagan  Ireland 27:38 13 Poppy Tank  United Kingdom 27:44 14 Jessica Gibbon  United Kingdom 27:44 15 Irene Sánchez-Escribano  Spain 27:46 16 Marie Bouchard  France 27:49 17 Águeda Marqués  Spain 27:56 18 Silke Jonkman  Netherlands 27:58 19 Sarah Lahti  Sweden 28:05 20 Caterina Granz  Germany 28:10 21 Nicole Svetlana Reina  Italy 28:11 22 Carl Hughes  United Kingdom 28:16 23 Naima Ait Alibou  Spain 28:16 24 Isabel Barreiro  Spain 28:18 25 Cecile Jarousseau  France 28:19 26 Amy-Eloise Markovc  United Kingdom 28:20 27 Mary Mulhare  Ireland 28:32 28 Carolina Robles  Spain 28:32 29 Claudia Prisecaru  Romania 28:37 30 Alice Mitard  France 28:38 31 Ann-Marie McGlynn  Ireland 28:40 32 Gaia Colli  Italy 28:41 33 Mélanie Allier  France 28:45 34 Hanne Verbruggen  Belgium 28:46 35 Lisa Rooms  Belgium 28:54 36 Johanna Peiponen  Finland 28:55 37 Sabina Jarzabek  Poland 28:55 38 Emine Hatun Mechaal  Turkey 28:57 39 Sarah Madeleine  France 29:02 40 Militsa Mircheva  Bulgaria 29:02 41 Marta García  Spain 29:05 42 Özlem Kaya  Turkey 29:05 43 Carolien Millenaar  Denmark 29:06 44 Nanna Bové  Denmark 29:09 45 Sara Christiansson  Sweden 29:12 46 Aoibhe Richardson  Ireland 29:13 47 Karawan Halabi  Israel 29:18 48 Juliane Hvid  Denmark 29:22 49 Eline Dalemans  Belgium 29:25 50 Federica Zanne  Italy 29:31 51 Anastasia Denisova  Sweden 29:32 52 Hadar Ophir Forer  Israel 29:36 53 Annie Saugstrup  Denmark 29:46 54 Laura Maasik  Estonia 29:48 55 Michelle Finn  Ireland 29:57 56 Lilla Böhm  Sweden 29:59 57 Anja Fink  Slovenia 30:01 58 Maryna Nemchenko  Sweden 30:06 59 Sophie Tonneau  France 30:22 60 Cristina Molteni  Italy 30:46 61 Ismini Panagiotopoulou  Greece 31:10 62 Eirini Tsoupaki  Greece 32:00 63 Maria Gorette Subano  Italy 32:46 — Yasemin Can  Turkey DNF — Michela Moretton  Italy DNF — Sara Schou Kristensen  Denmark DNF — Evgenia Papadimatou  Greece DNF — Camilla Richardsson  Finland DNS

Team race Rank Team Points  Germany Konstanze Klosterhalfen Alina Reh Hanna Klein Miriam Dattke Caterina Granz 9 pts (2+3+4)  Great Britain Jessica Warner-Judd Abbie Donnelly Poppy Tank Jessica Gibbon Cari Hughes Amy-Eloise Markovc 30 pts (8+9+13)  Ireland Eilish Flanagan Roisin Flanagan Mary Mulhare Ann-Marie McGlynn Aoibhe Richardson Michelle Finn 50 pts (11+12+27) 4  Spain Irene Sánchez-Escribano Águeda Marqués Naima Ait Alibou Isabel Barreiro Carolina Robles Marta García 55 pts (15+17+23) 5  France Marie Bouchard Cecile Jarousseau Alice Mitard Mélanie Allier Sarah Madeleine Sophie Tonneau 71 pts (16+25+30) 6  Sweden Samrawit Mensteab Sarah Lahti Sara Christiansson Anastasia Denisova 71 pts (7+19+45) 7  Italy Nicole Svetlana Reina Gaia Colli Federica Zanne Cristina Molteni Maria Gorette Subano Michela Moretton 103 pts (21+32+50) 8  Israel Selamawit Teferi Karawan Halabi Hadar Ophir Forer 104 pts (5+47+52) 9  Belgium Hanne Verbruggen Lisa Rooms Eline Dalemans 118 pts (34+35+49) 10  Denmark Carolien Millenaar Nanna Bové Juliane Hvid Annie Saugstrup Sara Schou Kristensen 135 pts (43+44+48)

U23 men

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Charles Hicks	United Kingdom	23:40
	Zakariya Mahamed	United Kingdom	23:48
	Valentin Bresc	France	23:58
4	Etienne Daguinos	France	24:04
5	Efrem Gidey	Ireland	24:05
6	Adisu Guadia	Israel	24:06
7	Antoine Senard	France	24:10
8	Matthew Stonier	United Kingdom	24:11
9	Keelan Kirlehill	Israel	24:13
10	Magnus Tuv Myhre	Norway	24:14
11	Rory Leonard	United Kingdom	24:15
12	Derebe Ayele	Israel	24:18
13	Joseph Wigfield	United Kingdom	24:19
14	Marco Fontana Granotto	Italy	24:22
15	Shay McEvoy	Ireland	24:22
16	Miguel Moreira	Portugal	24:33
17	Luc Le Baron	France	24:43
18	Adam Maijo	Spain	24:44
19	Andrii Atamaniuk	Ukraine	24:45
20	Tim Verbaandert	Netherlands	24:45
21	Job Ijtsma	Netherlands	24:45
22	Ramazan Baştuğ	Turkey	24:47
23	Yorick van de Kerkhove	Belgium	24:48
24	Eemil Helander	Finland	24:49
25	Luca Alfieri	Italy	24:50
26	Darragh McElhinney	Ireland	24:51
27	Pierre Bordeau	France	24:52
28	Arnaud Collard	France	24:54
29	Rayan Vanderpoorten	Belgium	24:54
30	Enrico Vecchi	Italy	24:56
31	Aarón Las Heras	Spain	24:59
32	Marco Vanderpoorten	Belgium	24:59
33	Pol Oriach	Spain	25:00
34	Jonathan Carmin	Israel	25:01
35	Mikołaj Czeronek	Poland	25:01
36	Miguel Ángel Martínez	Spain	25:02
37	Tomer Tarragano	United Kingdom	25:04
38	Francesco Guerra	Italy	25:05
39	Adria Ceballos	Spain	25:07
40	Vid Botolin	Slovenia	25:07
41	Tim Aßmann	Germany	25:08
42	Téo Rubens Banini	France	25:09
43	Jesse Fokkenrood	Netherlands	25:10
44	Rúben Amaral	Portugal	25:11
45	Marcel Tobler	Austria	25:12
46	Giedrius Valinčius	Lithuania	25:17
47	Etson Barros	Portugal	25:24
48	Miguel Baidal	Spain	25:25
49	Zemenu Muchie	Israel	25:27
50	Mika Kotiranta	Finland	25:34
51	Paul Specht	Germany	25:34
52	Assaf Harari	Israel	25:34
53	Dereje Chekole	Israel	25:35
54	Pedro Amaro	Portugal	25:37
55	Jamie Battle	Spain	25:37
56	Markus Kirk Kjeldsen	Denmark	25:46
57	Léo Lädermann	Switzerland	25:46
58	Sebastian Frey	Austria	25:48
59	Mateusz Gos	Poland	25:50
60	Riccardo Martellato	Italy	25:54
61	Alain Cavagna	Italy	25:54
62	Andreas Bock Bjørnsen	Denmark	26:02
63	Thomas McStay	Ireland	26:06
64	Florian Bremm	Germany	26:08
65	Julian Großkopf	Germany	26:08
66	Nikolaos Stamoulis	Greece	26:11
67	Michal Staník	Slovakia	26:12
68	Aleksander Wiącek	Poland	26:20
69	Kalev Hõlpus	Estonia	26:20
70	Panagiotis Petroulakis	Greece	26:39
71	Benedikt Brem	Germany	26:43
72	Vasyl Sabunyak	Ukraine	26:44
73	Gil Weicherding	Luxembourg	26:47
74	Andriy Krakovetskyy	Ukraine	26:54
75	Jonathan Hedemann Makwarth	Denmark	27:02
76	Athanasios Ligonis	Greece	27:10
77	Leonid Vandevski	North Macedonia	27:26
78	David Borg	Malta	28:32

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