2018 European Cross Country Championships

2018 European Cross Country Championships
Organisers	EAA
Edition	25th
Date	9 December
Host city	Tilburg, Netherlands
Events	7
Distances	10.3 km – Men 8.3 km – Women 5.8 km – Mixed relay 8.3 km – U23 men 6.3 km – U23 women 6.3 km – U20 men 4.30 km – U20 women
Participation	555 athletes from 38 nations
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The 2018 European Cross Country Championships was the 25th edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was hosted in Tilburg, Netherlands.^[1]

Medal summary[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Senior men	Filip Ingebrigtsen (NOR)	28:49	Isaac Kimeli (BEL)	28:52	Aras Kaya (TUR)	28:56
U23 men	Jimmy Gressier (FRA)	23:37	(GER)	23:45	Hugo Hay (FRA)	23:48
Junior men	Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)	18:00	[es] (ESP)	18:09	Elzan Bibić (SRB)	18:11
Senior women	Yasemin Can (TUR)	26:05	Fabienne Schlumpf (SUI)	26:06	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal (NOR)	26:07
U23 women	Anna Emilie Møller (DEN)	20:34	(GER)	20:36	(POL)	20:46
Junior women	Nadia Battocletti (ITA)	13:46	Delia Sclabas (SUI)	13:47	(TUR)	13:48
Senior men's team	Turkey (TUR) Aras Kaya Kaan Kigen Özbilen Polat Kemboi Arıkan	14 pts	Great Britain (GBR) Marc Scott Kristian Jones	34 pts	Italy (ITA) Yemaneberhan Crippa Daniele Meucci Nekagenet Crippa	37 pts
U23 men's team	France (FRA) Jimmy Gressier Hugo Hay	11 pts	Great Britain (GBR) Patrick Dever	30 pts	Spain (ESP) Adrián Ben	42 pts
Junior men's team	Norway (NOR) Jakob Ingebrigtsen	28 pts	Great Britain (GBR) Jake Heyward	30 pts	Germany (GER) Mohamed Mohumed	38 pts
Senior women's team	Netherlands (NED) Susan Krumins Jip Vastenburg Maureen Koster	20 pts	Great Britain (GBR) Charlotte Arter Melissa Courtney	24 pts	Germany (GER) Elena Burkard Fabienne Amrhein Caterina Granz	50 pts
U23 women team	Germany (GER)	22 pts	Spain (ESP)	25 pts	Great Britain (GBR)	33 pts
Junior women's team	Great Britain (GBR) Amelia Quirk	23 pts	Netherlands (NED)	28 pts	Turkey (TUR)	39 pts
Mixed relay	Spain (ESP) Saúl Ordóñez Esther Guerrero Solange Pereira	16:10	France (FRA) Alexis Miellet Rénelle Lamote Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	16:12	Belarus (BLR) Siarhei Platonau	16:21

Race results[]

Senior men[]

Individual race^[2]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Filip Ingebrigtsen	Norway	28:49
	Isaac Kimeli	Belgium	28:52
	Aras Kaya	Turkey	28:56
4	Kaan Kigen Özbilen	Turkey	29:04
5	Napoleon Solomon	Sweden	29:12
6	Yemaneberhan Crippa	Italy	29:14
7	Polat Kemboi Arıkan	Turkey	29:14
8	Adel Mechaal	Spain	29:20
9	Marc Scott	Great Britain	29:21
10		Ireland	29:22
11	Daniele Meucci	Italy	29:26
12	Kristian Jones	Great Britain	29:28
13		Great Britain	29:31
14	Antonio Abadía	Spain	29:35
15	Robin Hendrix	Belgium	29:36
16	Daniel Mateo	Spain	29:40
17	Charlie Hulson	Great Britain	29:43
18	Henrik Ingebrigtsen	Norway	29:45
19	Ole Hesselbjerg	Denmark	29:46
20	Nekagenet Crippa	Italy	29:47
21		Belgium	29:47
22		Belgium	29:49
23	Florian Orth	Germany	29:49
24	Mitko Tsenov	Bulgaria	29:51
25	Hassan Chahdi	France	29:51
26	Kevin Dooney	Ireland	29:53
27	Abdi Hakin Ulad	Denmark	29:53
28	Michel Butter	Netherlands	29:54
29	Ahmed El Mazoury	Italy	29:54
30	Ross Millington	Great Britain	29:57
31	Javier Guerra	Spain	30:00
32		France	30:02
33	Adhanom Abraha	Sweden	30:03
34		Ireland	30:11
35		Portugal	30:13
36	Tom Erling Kårbø	Norway	30:16
37		Spain	30:17
38	Khalid Choukoud	Netherlands	30:18
39		Ukraine	30:19
40	Robel Fsiha	Sweden	30:21
41	Hlynur Andrésson	Iceland	30:25
42	Simon Boch	Germany	30:25
43		Norway	30:26
44	Thijs Nijhuis	Denmark	30:27
45		Portugal	30:28
46	Peter Glans	Denmark	30:30
47	Nick Goolab	Great Britain	30:31
48		Italy	30:31
49		Portugal	30:34
50	Simas Bertašius	Lithuania	30:36
51	Fernando Carro	Spain	30:37
52	Yegor Nikolayev	Russia	30:37
53		France	30:39
54		France	30:39
55		Ireland	30:41
56		Germany	30:44
57		France	30:46
58	Kaur Kivistik	Estonia	30:50
59		Russia	30:51
60	Konstantin Wedel	Germany	30:53
61		Czech Republic	30:54
62		Portugal	30:58
63		Ukraine	31:03
64	Marhu Teferi	Israel	31:05
65		Netherlands	31:06
66	Andreas Vojta	Austria	31:09
67	Mick Clohisey	Ireland	31:11
68		Estonia	31:14
69	Jacob Simonsen	Denmark	31:20
70		Turkey	31:26
71		Netherlands	31:26
72	Mikkel Dahl-Jessen	Denmark	31:32
73		Italy	31:42
74	Bohdan-Ivan Horodyskyy	Ukraine	31:48
75	Timon Theuer	Austria	31:48
76		Switzerland	31:54
77	Justinas Beržanskis	Lithuania	31:55
78		Ireland	32:08
79		Slovakia	32:12
80		Switzerland	32:17
81		Estonia	32:34
82		Switzerland	32:38
83		Ukraine	32:58
84		Albania	34:12
85		Monaco	36:03
—		Germany	DNS
—	Marouan Razine	Italy	DNF
—	David Nilsson	Sweden	DNF
—		Bulgaria	DNF

Team race^[2]

Rank	Team	Points
	Turkey Aras Kaya Kaan Kigen Özbilen Polat Kemboi Arıkan	14 (3+4+7)
	Great Britain Marc Scott Kristian Jones	34 (9+12+13)
	Italy Yemaneberhan Crippa Daniele Meucci Nekagenet Crippa Ahmed El Mazoury Marouan Razine	37 (6+11+20)
4	Belgium Isaac Kimeli Robin Hendrix	38 (2+15+21)
5	Spain Adel Mechaal Antonio Abadía Daniel Mateo	38 (8+14+16)
6	Norway	55
7	Ireland	70
8	Sweden	78
9	Denmark	90
10	France	110
11	Germany	121
12	Portugal	129
13	Netherlands	131
14	Ukraine	176
15	Estonia	207
16	Switzerland	238

Senior women[]

Individual race^[2]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Yasemin Can	Turkey	26:05
	Fabienne Schlumpf	Switzerland	26:06
	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway	26:07
4	Susan Krumins	Netherlands	26:16
5	Jip Vastenburg	Netherlands	26:45
6	Elena Burkard	Germany	26:53
7	Charlotte Arter	Great Britain	26:57
8	Melissa Courtney	Great Britain	26:59
9		Great Britain	27:02
10	Jess Piasecki	Great Britain	27:03
11	Maureen Koster	Netherlands	27:08
12	Trihas Gebre	Spain	27:16
13	Charlotta Fougberg	Sweden	27:17
14		Poland	27:20
15	Kate Avery	Great Britain	27:20
16	Liv Westphal	France	27:20
17	Marie Bouchard	France	27:21
18	Maja Alm	Denmark	27:22
19	Fabienne Amrhein	Germany	27:26
20	Verity Ockenden	Great Britain	27:30
21		Netherlands	27:30
22	Nina Lauwaert	Belgium	27:34
23	Samrawit Mengsteab	Sweden	27:39
24	Özlem Kaya	Turkey	27:41
25	Caterina Granz	Germany	27:43
26	Sara Louise Treacy	Ireland	27:46
27	Deborah Schöneborn	Germany	27:47
28	Carla Salomé Rocha	Portugal	27:48
29	Moira Stewartová	Czech Republic	27:49
30	Ancuța Bobocel	Romania	27:50
31	Hanna Klein	Germany	27:53
32	Viktoriya Kalyuzhna	Ukraine	27:54
33	Silje Fjørtoft	Norway	27:54
34	Roxana Bârcă	Romania	27:55
35		Spain	27:58
36		Belgium	27:59
37		France	28:00
38		Spain	28:02
39	Valeria Roffino	Italy	28:02
40	Militsa Mircheva	Bulgaria	28:03
41	Inês Monteiro	Portugal	28:05
42	Paula Todoran	Romania	28:07
43	Ciara Mageean	Ireland	28:08
44		Sweden	28:10
45	María José Pérez	Spain	28:11
46	Cristina Simion	Romania	28:11
47		Italy	28:12
48	Sophie Duarte	France	28:13
49	Giovanna Epis	Italy	28:15
50	Claire Perraux	France	28:19
51	Michelle Finn	Ireland	28:23
52		Ukraine	28:23
53		Ukraine	28:26
54	Hanna Vandenbussche	Belgium	28:26
55		Norway	28:32
56	Ophélie Claude-Boxberger	France	28:35
57	Ann Marie McGlynn	Ireland	28:40
58	Catarina Ribeiro	Portugal	28:42
59	Zulema Fuentes-Pila	Spain	28:45
60		Poland	28:46
61	Elena Loyo	Spain	28:47
62		Ireland	28:48
63		Turkey	28:57
64	Kerry O'Flaherty	Ireland	29:00
65		Portugal	29:01
66		Romania	29:10
67		Ukraine	29:23
68	Jill Holterman	Netherlands	29:39
69	Loreta Kančytė	Lithuania	29:48
—	Jéssica Augusto	Portugal	DNF
—	Simone Christensen Glad	Denmark	DNF
—	Sara Moreira	Portugal	DNF

Team race^[2]

Rank	Team	Points
	Netherlands Susan Krumins Jip Vastenburg Maureen Koster	20 (4+5+11)
	Great Britain Charlotte Arter Melissa Courtney	24 (7+8+9)
	Germany Elena Burkard Fabienne Amrhein Caterina Granz	50 (6+19+25)
4	France Liv Westphal Marie Bouchard	70 (16+17+37)
5	Sweden	80
6	Spain	85
7	Turkey	88
8	Norway	91
9	Romania	106
10	Belgium	112
11	Ireland	120
12	Portugal	127
13	Italy	135
14	Ukraine	137

Senior mixed relay[]

Rank	Team	Time (m:s)
	Spain Saúl Ordóñez, Esther Guerrero, , Solange Andreia Pereira	16:10
	France Alexis Miellet, Renelle Lamote, Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad,	16:12
	Belarus , , Siarhei Platonau,	16:21
4	Great Britain , Alexandra Bell, , Jessica Judd	16:24
5	Ukraine , , ,	16:30
6	Sweden Emil Blomberg, Hanna Hermansson, , Anna Silvander	16:32
7	Belgium Ismael Debjani, Elise Vanderelst, Pieter-Jan Hannes,	16:34
8	Latvia , Līga Velvere, , Agata Strausa	16:40
9	Ireland Paul Robinson, Síofra Cléirigh Büttner, John Travers, Claire Tarplee	16:40
10	Portugal , Salomé Afonso, ,	16:44
11	Italy Abdikadar Sheikh Ali, Eleonora Vandi, Ala Zoghlami, Giulia Aprile	16:51
12	Denmark , , ,	17:02

U23 men[]

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Jimmy Gressier	France	23:37
		Germany	23:45
	Hugo Hay	France	23:48
4		Ireland	23:49
5	Patrick Dever	Great Britain	24:05
6		Spain	24:05
7		France	24:06
8		Great Britain	24:07
9	Louis Gilavert	France	24:11
10	Adrian Ben	Spain	24:12
11		Netherlands	24:13
12		Italy	24:13
13		Germany	24:17
14		Belgium	24:19
15		Sweden	24:20
16	Tadesse Getahon	Israel	24:23
17		Great Britain	24:24
18		France	24:25
19		Great Britain	24:25
20		Netherlands	24:29

Team race

Rank	Team	Points
	France Jimmy Gressier, Hugo Hay,	1+3+7=11
	Great Britain Patrick Dever, ,	5+8+17=30
	Spain , Adrian Ben,	6+10+26=42
4	Germany , ,	2+13+33=48

U23 women[]

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Anna Emilie Møller	Denmark	20:34
		Germany	20:36
		Poland	20:46
4		Switzerland	20:48
5		Spain	20:57
6		Germany	20:58
7		Great Britain	21:04
8		Spain	21:04
9		Great Britain	21:05
10	Mathilde Senechal	France	21:06
11		Lithuania	21:07
12		Spain	21:13
13		Turkey	21:13
14		Germany	21:13
15	Lea Meyer	Germany	21:14
16	Eilish Flanagan	Ireland	21:17
17		Great Britain	21:19
18		Czech Republic	21:22
19		Italy	21:24
20		Switzerland	21:24

Team race

Rank	Team	Points
	Germany , ,	2+6+14=22
	Spain , ,	5+8+12=25
	Great Britain , ,	7+9+17=33
4	France Mathilde Senechal, ,	10+22+24=56

U20 men[]

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	18:00
		Spain	18:09
	Elzan Bibić	Serbia	18:11
4	Jake Heyward	Great Britain	18:16
5		Norway	18:18
6	Mohamed Mohumed	Germany	18:27
7		France	18:28
8		Turkey	18:45
9		Germany	18:47
10		France	18:47
11		Netherlands	18:47
12		Great Britain	18:48
13		Turkey	18:48
14		Great Britain	18:49
15		Belgium	18:53
16		Ireland	18:53
17		Greece	18:54
18		Ireland	19:01
19		Netherlands	19:02
20		Sweden	19:02

Team race

Rank	Team	Points
	Norway Jakob Ingebrigtsen, ,	1+5+22=28
	Great Britain Jake Heyward, ,	4+12+14=30
	Germany Mohamed Mohumed, ,	6+9+23=38
4	France , ,	7+10+24=41

U20 women[]

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Nadia Battocletti	Italy	13:46
	Delia Sclabas	Switzerland	13:47
		Turkey	13:48
4		Netherlands	13:51
5	Amelia Quirk	Great Britain	13:57
6		Spain	13:58
7		Great Britain	14:00
8		Ireland	14:01
9	Sarah Healy	Ireland	14:03
10		Netherlands	14:04
11		Great Britain	14:05
12		Switzerland	14:06
13		Great Britain	14:10
14		Netherlands	14:11
15	Mariana Machado	Portugal	14:12
16		Spain	14:12
17		Turkey	14:16
18		Italy	14:19
19		Turkey	14:22
20		Great Britain	14:22

Team race

Rank	Team	Points
	Great Britain Amelia Quirk, ,	5+7+11=23
	Netherlands , ,	4+10+14=28
	Turkey , ,	3+17+19=39
4	Switzerland Delia Sclabas, ,	2+12+26=40

References[]

External links[]

• Official website Archived 11 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine
• Official results