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European Cross Country Championships

International cross country running competition

Field	Value
name	European Cross Country Championships
image	2010 European Cross Country Championships.jpg
caption	Action from the men's race in 2010
status	active
genre	sports event
date	December
frequency	annual
location	various
first
organised	EAA

The European Cross Country Championships is an annual international cross country running competition. Organised by the European Athletic Association, it is the area championships for the region and is held in December each year. The championships was inaugurated in 1994 in Alnwick and the venue for the championships changes each year.

Unlike the World Championships for the sport, the European Cross Country Championships consists of six races in age categories, with separate senior, under-23, and junior races for both men and women. There are individual and national team medals awarded in each race. In the team competition, the top three from a team of up to six are scored.

History

The first edition of the competition featured only senior races and 180 athletes took part. Men's and women's junior (under-20) races were introduced at the third edition in 1996 and under-23 races were added to the programme in 2006.

Editions

Source:

#	Year	Host	Dates	Venue	Races
Events	Countries	Athletes	Events
Senior
1	1994	Alnwick, United Kingdom	10 December		2/4	23	180	4
2	1995	Alnwick, United Kingdom	2 December		2/4	23	186	4
3	1996	Charleroi, Belgium	15 December		2/4	25	175	4
Senior + U20
4	1997	Oeiras, Portugal	14 December		4/8	26	138	8
5	1998	Ferrara, Italy	13 December		4/8	26	139	8
6	1999	Velenje, Slovenia	12 December		4/8	27	141	8
7	2000	Malmö, Sweden	10 December		4/8	31	150	8
8	2001	Thun, Switzerland	9 December		4/8	27	155	8
9	2002	Medulin, Croatia	8 December		4/8	27	157	8
10	2003	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	14 December		4/8	27	135	8
11	2004	Heringsdorf, Germany	12 December		4/8	27	165	8
12	2005	Tilburg, Netherlands	11 December		4/8	27	164	8
Senior + U23 + U20
13	2006	San Giorgio su Legnano, Italy	10 December		6/12	21	125	12
14	2007	Toro, Spain	9 December		6/12	26	103	12
15	2008	Brussels, Belgium	14 December	Laeken Park	6/12	33	142	12
16	2009	Dublin, Ireland	13 December	Santry Demesne	6/12	30	116	12
17	2010	Albufeira, Portugal	12 December	Açoteias Cross Country Course	6/12	34	123	12
18	2011	Velenje, Slovenia	11 December		6/12	33	130	12
19	2012	Szentendre, Hungary	9 December		6/12	35	146	12
20	2013	Belgrade, Serbia	8 December		6/12	36	155	12
21	2014	Samokov, Bulgaria	14 December	Borovets	6/12	35	137	12
22	2015	Hyères-Toulon, France	13 December	Hippodrome de Hyères	6/12	32	147	12
23	2016	Chia, Italy	11 December		6/12		153	12
Senior + U23 + U20 + Mixed Relay
24	2017	Šamorín, Slovakia	10 December	Šamorín x-bionic® sphere	7/13	37	157	13
25	2018	Tilburg, Netherlands	9 December		7/13	38	555	13
26	2019	Lisbon, Portugal	8 December		7/13	40	606	13
	2020	Dublin, Ireland	13 December	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
27	2021	Dublin, Ireland	12 December	National Sports Campus	7/13	37	606	13
28	2022	Turin, Italy	11 December	La Mandria Park	7/13	40	623	13
29	2023	Brussels, Belgium	10 December	Laeken Park	7/13			13
30	2024	Antalya, Turkey	8 December		7/13
31	2025	Lagoa, Portugal	14 December		7/13
32	2026	Belgrade, Serbia	13 December		7/13
33	2027	TBA	12 December		7/13

Country and athlete figures for senior races only

Medals (1994-2024)

Source:

Consist of all individual and team events in senior, U23 and U20.

Senior

Individual

Year	Men's senior race	Women's senior race
1994	Paulo Guerra	Catherina McKiernan
1995	Paulo Guerra	Annemari Sandell
1996	Jon Brown	Sara Wedlund
1997	Carsten Jørgensen	Joalsiae Llado
1998	Serhiy Lebid	Paula Radcliffe
1999	Paulo Guerra	Anita Weyermann
2000	Paulo Guerra	Katalin Szentgyörgyi
2001	Serhiy Lebid	Yamna Belkacem
2002	Serhiy Lebid	Helena Javornik
2003	Serhiy Lebid	Paula Radcliffe
2004	Serhiy Lebid	Hayley Yelling
2005	Serhiy Lebid	Lornah Kiplagat
2006	Mo Farah	Tetyana Holovchenko
2007	Serhiy Lebid	Marta Domínguez
2008	Serhiy Lebid	Hilda Kibet
2009	Alemayehu Bezabeh	Hayley Yelling
2010	Serhiy Lebid	Jessica Augusto
2011	Atelaw Yeshetela	Fionnuala Britton
2012	Andrea Lalli	Fionnuala Britton
2013	Alemayehu Bezabeh	Sophie Duarte
2014	Polat Kemboi Arikan	Gemma Steel
2015	Ali Kaya	Sifan Hassan
2016	Aras Kaya	Yasemin Can
2017	Kaan Kigen Özbilen	Yasemin Can
2018	Filip Ingebrigtsen	Yasemin Can
2019	Robel Fsiha	Yasemin Can
2021	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Karoline Grøvdal
2022	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Karoline Grøvdal
2023	Yann Schrub	Karoline Grøvdal
2024	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Nadia Battocletti
2025	Thierry Ndikumwenayo	Nadia Battocletti

Medal table

Updated after 2019, including the team rankings for each category and the mixed relay.

#	Country	Total
1		19
2		16
3		14
4		13
5		13
6		10
7		4
8		4
9		3
10		2
11		1
12		1
13		1
14		1
15		1
16		1
17		1
18		1
	1	0
20		0
21		0
	0	1
23		0
24		0
Total (24 nations)	107	107

Under 23

Medal table

Under 20

Men

Edition	Individual	Team
1997	NED Gert-Jan Liefers	AUT Günther Weidlinger
1998	ESP Yousef El Nasri	ROM Ovidiu Tat
1999	BEL Hans Janssens	FRA Guillaume Eraud
2000	GER Wolfram Müller	GBR Christopher Thompson
2001	UKR Vasyl Matviychuk	GBR Mo Farah
2002	RUS Yevgeniy Rybakov	RUS Anatoliy Rybakov
2003	RUS Yevgeniy Rybakov	RUS Anatoliy Rybakov
2004	HUN Barnabás Bene	RUS Yevgeniy Rybakov
2005	HUN Barnabás Bene	GBR Andrew Vernon
2006	ITA Andrea Lalli	BLR Siarhei Chebiarak
2007	FRA Mourad Amdouni	FRA Florian Carvalho
2008	FRA Florian Carvalho	NOR Sondre Nordstad Moen
2009	BEL Jeroen D'Hoedt	GBR Nick Goolab
2010	ESP Abdelaziz Merzougui	SRB Nemanja Cerovac
2011	RUS Ilgizar Safiullin	GBR Richard Goodman
2012	POL Szymon Kulka	BUL Mitko Tsenov
2013	TUR Ali Kaya	BEL Isaac Kimeli
2014	ITA Yemaneberhan Crippa	ESP Carlos Mayo
2015	ITA Yemaneberhan Crippa	FRA Fabien Palcau
2016	NOR Jakob Ingebrigtsen	ITA Yohanes Chiappinelli
2017	NOR Jakob Ingebrigtsen	TUR Ramazan Barbaros
2018	NOR Jakob Ingebrigtsen	ESP Ouassim Oumaiz
2019	NOR Jakob Ingebrigtsen	TUR Ayetullah Aslanhan
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	DEN Axel Vang Christensen	NOR Abdullahi Dahir Rabi
2022	GBR Will Barnicoat	IRL Nick Griggs
2023	DEN Axel Vang Christensen	NED Niels Laros
2024	NED Niels Laros	GBR George Couttie
2025	BEL Willem Renders	ESP Oscar Gaitan

Women

Edition	Individual	Team
1997	SCG Sonja Stolić	POR Monica Rosa
1998	HUN Katalin Szentgyörgyi	POR Inês Monteiro
1999	POR Inês Monteiro	SUI Nicola Spirig
2000	POR Jessica Augusto	SUI Nicola Spirig
2001	TUR Elvan Abeylegesse	RUS Tatyana Chulakh
2002	GBR Charlotte Dale	FIN Elina Lindgren
2003	LAT Inna Poluškina	SCG Snežana Kostić
2004	TUR Binnaz Uslu	ROM Ancuţa Bobocel
2005	ROM Ancuţa Bobocel	GBR Emily Pidgeon
2006	GBR Stephanie Twell	NOR Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal
2007	GBR Stephanie Twell	POL Danuta Urbanik
2008	GBR Stephanie Twell	GBR Charlotte Purdue
2009	NOR Karoline Grøvdal	RUS Gulshat Fazlitdinova
2010	GBR Charlotte Purdue	SRB Amela Terzić
2011	GBR Emelia Gorecka	ROU Ioana Doaga
2012	SRB Amela Terzić	GBR Emelia Gorecka
2013	GBR Emelia Gorecka	POL Sofia Ennaoui
2014	TUR Emine Hatun Tuna	GBR Jessica Judd
2015	GER Konstanze Klosterhalfen	GBR Harriet Knowles-Jones
2016	GER Konstanze Klosterhalfen	DEN Anna Emilie Møller
2017	GBR Harriet Knowles-Jones	HUN Lili Tóth
2018	ITA Nadia Battocletti	SUI Delia Sclabas
2019	ITA Nadia Battocletti	SLO Klara Lukan
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	GBR Megan Keith	NOR Ingeborg Østgård
2022	ESP María Forero	NOR Ingeborg Østgård
2023	GBR Innes FitzGerald	DEN Sofia Thøgersen
2024	GBR Innes FitzGerald	GBR Jess Bailey
2025	GBR Innes FitzGerald	FRA Lucie Paturel

Medal table

References

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[http://www.european-athletics.org/18th-spar-european-cross-country-championships/10621-cross-country-vital-for-athlete-development-says-president-wirz.html Cross country vital for athlete development, says President Wirz] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-01-11 . European Athletics (2011-12-10). Retrieved 2011-12-10.)
"SPAR European Cross Country Championships | Overview | European Athletics".
"Coronavirus causes cancellation of Dublin's hosting of European Cross-Country Championships". BBC Sport.
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