2017 European Cross Country Championships

2017 European Cross Country Championships
Organisers	EAA
Edition	24th
Date	10 December
Host city	Šamorín, Slovakia
Venue	Šamorín x-bionic sphere
Events	7
Distances	10.18 km – Men 8.23 km – Women 6.28 km – Mixed relay 8.23 km – U23 men 6.28 km – U23 women 6.28 km – Junior men 4.18 km – Junior women
Participation	624 athletes from 37 nations
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The 2017 European Cross Country Championships was the 24th edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was hosted in Šamorín, Slovakia.^[1]

Medal summary[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Senior men	Kaan Kigen Özbilen (TUR)	29:45	Adel Mechaal (ESP)	29:54	Andrew Butchart (GBR)	30:00
U23 men	Jimmy Gressier (FRA)	24:35	Hugo Hay (FRA)	24:37	Yemaneberhan Crippa (ITA)	24:42
Junior men	Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)	18:39	(TUR)	18:41	Louis Gilavert (FRA)	18:45
Senior women	Yasemin Can (TUR)	26:48	Meraf Bahta (SWE)	27:03	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal (NOR)	27:04
U23 women	Alina Reh (GER)	20:22	Konstanze Klosterhalfen (GER)	20:25	Jessica Judd (GBR)	20:45
Junior women	(GBR)	13:48	Lili Anna Tóth (HUN)	13:59	(GER)	14:03
Senior men team	Turkey (TUR) Kaan Kigen Özbilen Aras Kaya Polat Kemboi Arıkan	17 pts	Spain (ESP) Adel Mechaal Daniel Mateo Ayad Lamdassem	20 pts	Great Britain (GBR) Andrew Butchart Ben Connor Tom Lancashire	35 pts
U23 men team	France (FRA) Jimmy Gressier Hugo Hay	7 pts	Belgium (BEL) Robin Hendrix	26 pts	Great Britain (GBR) Patrick Dever	41 pts
Junior men team	Spain (ESP) Ignacio Fontes	20 pts	France (FRA) Louis Gilavert	27 pts	Turkey (TUR)	49 pts
Senior women team	Great Britain (GBR) Charlotte Taylor Emelia Gorecka Gemma Steel	23 pts	Romania (ROU) Roxana Bârcă Ancuța Bobocel Cristina Simion	31 pts	Turkey (TUR) Yasemin Can Özlem Kaya Esma Aydemir	54 pts
U23 women team	Great Britain (GBR) Jessica Judd Amy-Eloise Neale	12 pts	Germany (GER) Alina Reh Konstanze Klosterhalfen	15 pts	Turkey (TUR)	46 pts
Junior women team	Great Britain (GBR)	21 pts	Italy (ITA) Nadia Battocletti	33 pts	Spain (ESP) Lucía Rodríguez	47 pts
Mixed relay	Great Britain (GBR) Melissa Courtney Sarah McDonald	18:24	Czech Republic (CZE) Simona Vrzalová Filip Sasínek Kristiina Mäki Jakub Holuša	18:25	Spain (ESP) Solange Pereira Esther Guerrero	18:26

Race results[]

Senior men[]

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Kaan Kigen Özbilen	Turkey	29:45
	Adel Mechaal	Spain	29:54
	Andrew Butchart	Great Britain	30:00
4	Hassan Chahdi	France	30:01
5	Soufiane Bouchikhi	Belgium	30:04
6	Ben Connor	Great Britain	30:08
7	Aras Kaya	Turkey	30:14
8	Daniel Mateo	Spain	30:16
9	Polat Kemboi Arıkan	Turkey	30:17
10	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain	30:18
11	Henrik Ingebrigtsen	Norway	30:19
12	Richard Ringer	Germany	30:24
13		Belgium	30:25
14	Javier Guerra	Spain	30:29
15		Ireland	30:43
16		Portugal	30:44
17	Lorenzo Dini	Italy	30:44
18	Djilali Bedrani	France	30:44
19	Hugh Armstrong	Ireland	30:46
20	Samuel Barata	Portugal	30:46

Team race

Rank	Team	Points
	Turkey Kaan Kigen Özbilen, Aras Kaya, Polat Kemboi Arıkan	1+7+9=17
	Spain Adel Mechaal, Daniel Mateo, Ayad Lamdassem	2+8+10=20
	Great Britain Andrew Butchart, Ben Connor, Tom Lancashire	3+6+26=35
4	France Hassan Chahdi, Djilali Bedrani, Benjamin Choquert	4+18+34=56

Senior women[]

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Yasemin Can	Turkey	26:48
	Meraf Bahta	Sweden	27:03
	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway	27:04
4	Roxana Bârcă	Romania	27:21
5	Elena Burkard	Germany	27:21
6	Charlotte Taylor	Great Britain	27:23
7	Fabienne Schlumpf	Switzerland	27:24
8	Emelia Gorecka	Great Britain	27:34
9	Gemma Steel	Great Britain	27:41
10	Steph Twell	Great Britain	27:43
11	Ancuța Bobocel	Romania	27:46
12	Fionnuala McCormack	Ireland	27:48
13	Trihas Gebre	Spain	27:53
14	Viktoriya Kalyuzhna	Ukraine	27:54
15	Lily Partridge	Great Britain	27:55
16	Cristina Simion	Romania	27:58
17		Spain	27:59
18	Sara Catarina Ribeiro	Portugal	28:00
19	Maria Larsson	Sweden	28:05
20	Marta Pen	Portugal	28:12

Team race

Rank	Team	Points
	Great Britain Charlotte Taylor, Emelia Gorecka, Gemma Steel	6+8+9=23
	Romania Roxana Bârcă, Ancuța Bobocel, Cristina Simion	4+11+16=31
	Turkey Yasemin Can, Özlem Kaya, Esma Aydemir	1+26+27=54
4	Portugal Sara Catarina Ribeiro, Marta Pen, Inês Monteiro	18+20+22=60

Senior mixed relay[]

Rank	Team	Time (m:s)
	Great Britain Melissa Courtney, , Sarah McDonald,	18:24
	Czech Republic Simona Vrzalová, Filip Sasínek, Kristiina Mäki, Jakub Holuša	18:25
	Spain Solange Pereira, , Esther Guerrero, Jesús Gómez	18:26
4	Sweden , Emil Blomberg, Hanna Hermansson,	19:02
5	France , , Maëva Danois, Samir Dahmani	19:04
6	Italy Elena Bellò, Mohad Abdikadar Sheik Ali, ,	19:10
7	Germany Diana Sujew, , , Marius Probst	19:10
8	Turkey , , , Levent Ateş	19:14
9	Ukraine , , ,	19:26
10	Denmark , , ,	19:36
11	Slovakia , , , Jozef Repčík	20:31

Under-23 men[]

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Jimmy Gressier	France	24:35
	Hugo Hay	France	24:37
	Yemaneberhan Crippa	Italy	24:42
4		France	24:43
5	Carlos Mayo	Spain	24:46
6		Belgium	24:47
7	Alexis Miellet	France	24:47
8	Topi Raitanen	Finland	24:47
9	Robin Hendrix	Belgium	24:48
10		Turkey	24:49
11		Belgium	24:49
12		Great Britain	24:50
13		Great Britain	24:52
14		Belgium	24:58
15		France	25:02

Team race

Rank	Team	Points
	France Jimmy Gressier, Hugo Hay,	1+2+4=7
	Belgium , Robin Hendrix,	6+9+11=26
	Great Britain , , Patrick Dever	12+13+16=41
4	Spain Carlos Mayo, ,	5+17+23=45

Under-23 women[]

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Alina Reh	Germany	20:22
	Konstanze Klosterhalfen	Germany	20:25
	Jessica Judd	Great Britain	20:45
4	Amy-Eloise Neale	Great Britain	20:59
5		Great Britain	21:02
6		Sweden	21:09
7	Anna Emilie Møller	Denmark	21:14
8		Poland	21:18
9		Great Britain	21:26
10		Great Britain	21:26
11		Turkey	21:27
12		Germany	21:28
13		Great Britain	21:29
14		Ukraine	21:32
15	Emma Oudiou	France	21:34

Team race

Rank	Team	Points
	Great Britain Jessica Judd, Amy-Eloise Neale,	3+4+5=12
	Germany Alina Reh, Konstanze Klosterhalfen,	1+2+12=15
	Turkey , ,	11+16+19=46
4	Sweden , ,	6+21+25=52

Junior men[]

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	18:39
		Turkey	18:41
	Louis Gilavert	France	18:45
4		France	18:47
5		Spain	18:48
6	Adrian Garcea	Romania	18:48
7		Spain	18:49
8	Ignacio Fontes	Spain	18:50
9		Spain	18:50
10		Germany	18:50
11		Belgium	18:51
12		Romania	18:52
13		Spain	18:54
14		Great Britain	18:57
15		Denmark	19:01

Team race

Rank	Team	Points
	Spain , , Ignacio Fontes	5+7+8=20
	France Louis Gilavert, ,	3+4+20=27
	Turkey , ,	2+21+26=49
4	Belgium , ,	11+16+24=51

Junior women[]

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
		Great Britain	13:48
		Hungary	13:59
		Germany	14:03
4		Netherlands	14:05
5	Nadia Battocletti	Italy	14:07
6		Italy	14:07
7	Mathilde Sénéchal	France	14:08
8	Alberte Kjær Pedersen	Denmark	14:09
9		Great Britain	14:15
10		Ireland	14:15
11		Great Britain	14:16
12		Great Britain	14:17
13		Spain	14:17
14		Belarus	14:17
15	Lucía Rodríguez	Spain	14:18

Team race

Rank	Team	Points
	Great Britain , ,	1+9+11=21
	Italy Nadia Battocletti, , , ,	5+6+22=33
	Spain , Lucía Rodríguez,	13+15+19=47
4	France Mathilde Sénéchal, ,	7+23+30=60

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	5	0	4	9
2	Turkey (TUR)	3	1	3	7
3	France (FRA)	2	2	1	5
4	Spain (ESP)	1	2	2	5
5	Germany (GER)	1	2	1	4
6	Norway (NOR)	1	0	1	2
7	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
8	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
Totals (12 nations)		13	13	13	39

References[]

Results

• Senior Men. European Athletics. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
• Senior Women. European Athletics. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
• Senior Mixed relay. European Athletics. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
• Under-23 Men. European Athletics. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
• Under-23 Women. European Athletics. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
• Under-20 Men. European Athletics. Retrieved 2017-12-15.
• Under-20 Women. European Athletics. Retrieved 2017-12-15.

External links[]

• Official website Archived 16 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine