1996 European Cross Country Championships

The 3rd European Cross Country Championships were held at Charleroi in Belgium on 15 December 1996. Jon Brown took the title in the men's competition and Sara Wedlund won the women's race.

Results[]

Men individual 9.65 km[]

Pos.	Runners	Time
	Jon Brown	32:37
	Paulo Guerra	33:12
	Mustapha Essaïd	33:19
4.	Carsten Jørgensen	33:20
5.	Eduardo Henriques	33:28
6.	Umberto Pusterla	33:36
7.	Vincent Rousseau	33:42
8.		33:42
9.	Vítor Almeida	33:43
10.	Andrea Arlati	33:44
11.	José Regalo	33:54
12.	Alejandro Gómez	27:17

100 runners finished.

Men teams[]

Pos.	Team	Points
	Portugal Paulo Guerra Eduardo Henriques Vítor Almeida José Regalo	27 2 5 9 11
	France Mustapha Essaïd Mohamed Ezzher	47 3 8 17 19
	Belgium Vincent Rousseau	59 7 14 15 23
4.	Italy Umberto Pusterla Andrea Arlati Michele Gamba Gabriele de Nard	62 6 10 22 24
5.	United Kingdom Jonathan Brown Andrew Pearson	76 1 16 27 32
6.	Spain Alejandro Gomez Antonio Serrano José Manuel Martinez	86 12 18 21 35
7.	Russia	124
8.	Ireland	138

Total 24 teams

Women individual 4.55 km[]

Pos.	Runners	Time
	Sara Wedlund	17:04
	Julia Vaquero	17:14
	Annemari Sandell	17:19
4.	Elene Fidatov	17:24
5.	Albertina Dias	17:29
6.	Claudia Lokar	17:35
7.	Yanna Oubouhou	17:36
8.	Hayley Haining	17:37
9.		17:39
10.		17:41
11.		17:42
12.		17:46

Iulia Negura from Romania finished first (16:58), but was disqualified because of doping violation.^[1] 73 runners finished.

Women teams[]

Pos.	Team	Points
	France Yanna Oubouhou	27 7 9 11
	United Kingdom Hayley Haining Andrea Whitcombe Suzanne Rigg	39 8 14 17
	Belgium Veronique Collard Lieve Slegers	43 10 15 18
4.	Sweden Sara Wedlund	45 1 16 28
5.	Germany Claudia Lokar Petra Wassiluk Sonja Krolik	64 6 23 35
6.	Romania Elena Fidatov Nuta Olaru	66 4 26 36
7.	Ireland	71
8.	Spain	71

Total 19 teams

References[]

External links[]

• Database containing all results between 1994–2007