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.

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. 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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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