2016 European Cross Country Championships

The 2016 European Cross Country Championships was the 23rd edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was hosted in Chia, Italy.[1]

2016 European Cross Country Championships
OrganisersEAA
Edition23rd
Date11 December
Host cityChia, Italy
Events6
Distances9.94 km – Men
7.97 km – Women
7.97 km – U23 men
6 km – U23 women
6 km – Junior men
4.06 km – Junior women

Aras Kaya won the men's senior title, making it three straight victories for Turkey in that event, following in the footsteps of fellow Kenyan-Turkish runners Polat Kemboi Arıkan and Ali Kaya. Yasemin Can, became Turkey's first senior women's winner and also led her nation to the team title. Great Britain were the most successful in the team races, claiming the senior men's, under-23 women's and junior women's titles; the country reached the podium in all categories.[2]

The 2016 edition saw increased Kenyan dominance at the competition, with the top two runners in both senior races being Kenyan-born, as well as the men's under-23 winner.[3]

Race results

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Senior men

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Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
  Aras Kaya   Turkey 27:39
  Polat Kemboi Arıkan   Turkey 27:42
  Callum Hawkins   Great Britain 27:49
4 Andrew Butchart   Great Britain 28:01
5 Andy Vernon   Great Britain 28:11
6 Ilias Fifa   Spain 28:19
7 Ayad Lamdassem   Spain 28:22
8 Adel Mechaal   Spain 28:26
9 Marouan Razine   Italy 28:27
10 Kaan Kigen Özbilen   Turkey 28:30
11 Antonio Abadía   Spain 28:33
12 Abdi Hakin Ulad   Denmark 28:37
13 Sondre Nordstad Moen   Norway 28:46
14 Soufiane Bouchikhi   Belgium 28:47
15 Marco Najibe Salami   Italy 28:48
16 Ben Connor   Great Britain 28:51
17 Morhad Amdouni   France 28:55
18 Dewi Griffiths   Great Britain 29:00
19 Djilali Bedrani   France 29:01
20 Stefano La Rosa   Italy 29:01
Team race
Rank Team Points
    Great Britain
Callum Hawkins, Andrew Butchart, Andy Vernon, Ben Connor
3+4+5+16=28
    Spain
Ilias Fifa, Ayad Lamdassem, Adel Mechaal, Antonio Abadía
6+7+8+11=32
    Turkey
Aras Kaya, Polat Kemboi Arıkan, Kaan Kigen Özbilen, Alper Demir
1+2+10+25=38
4   France
Morhad Amdouni, Djilali Bedrani, Timothée Bommier, Abdellatif Meftah
17+19+21+22=79

Senior women

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Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
  Yasemin Can   Turkey 24:46
  Meryem Akda   Turkey 24:56
  Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal   Norway 25:26
4 Ancuța Bobocel   Romania 25:27
5 Fionnuala McCormack   Ireland 25:28
6 Steph Twell   Great Britain 25:40
7 Trihas Gebre   Spain 25:41
8 Fabienne Schlumpf   Switzerland 25:46
9 Liv Westphal   France 25:47
10 Elizeba Cherono   Netherlands 25:57
11 Roxana Bârcă   Romania 26:01
12 Gemma Steel   Great Britain 26:06
13 Özlem Kaya   Turkey 26:12
14 Charlotta Fougberg   Sweden 26:12
15 Eva Vrabcová-Nývltová   Czech Republic 26:13
16 Katrina Wootton   Great Britain 26:16
17 Pippa Woolven   Great Britain 26:20
18 Carla Salomé Rocha   Portugal 26:32
19 Sevilay Eytemis   Turkey 26:32
20 Fabienne Amrhein   Germany 26:33
Team race
Rank Team Points
    Turkey
Yasemin Can, Meryem Akda, Özlem Kaya, Sevilay Eytemis
1+2+13+19=35
    Great Britain
Steph Twell, Gemma Steel, Katrina Wootton, Pippa Woolven
6+12+16+17=51
    Romania
Ancuța Bobocel, Roxana Bârcă, Cristina Negru, Paula Todoran
4+11+27+37=79
4   France
Liv Westphal, Aurore Guerin, Samira Mezeghrane, Sophie Duarte
9+26+32+34=101

Under-23 men

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Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
  Isaac Kimeli   Belgium 22:48
  Carlos Mayo   Spain 22:53
  Yemaneberhan Crippa   Italy 22:54
4 Amanal Petros   Germany 23:01
5 Jonny Davies   Great Britain 23:01
6 Napoleon Solomon   Sweden 23:03
7 Jesus Ramon   Spain 23:08
8 Simon Debognies   Belgium 23:14
9 Samuele Dini   Italy 23:15
10 Dieter Kersten   Belgium 23:16
11 Said Ettaqy   Italy 23:16
12 Lorenzo Dini   Italy 23:18
13 Alex George   Great Britain 23:19
14 Emmenuel Roudolff Levisse   France 23:22
15 Ellis Cross   Great Britain 23:32
Team race
Rank Team Points
    Italy
Yemaneberhan Crippa, Samuele Dini, Said Ettaqy, Lorenzo Dini, Yassin Bouih, Italo Quazzola
3+9+11+12=35
    Belgium
Isaac Kimeli, Simon Debognies, Dieter Kersten, Steven Casteele
1+8+10+34=53
    Great Britain
Jonny Davies, Alex George, Ellis Cross, Alex Short
5+13+15+25=58
4   Spain
Carlos Mayo, Jesus Ramos, Mohamed Jelloul, El Madhi Lahoufi
2+7+16+39=64

Under-23 women

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Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
  Sofia Ennaoui   Poland 19:21
  Anna Gehring   Germany 19:24
  Alice Wright   Great Britain 19:42
4 Charlotte Taylor   Great Britain 19:44
5 Katarzyna Rutkowska   Poland 19:49
6 Caterina Granz   Germany 19:50
7 Rebecca Murray   Great Britain 19:52
8 Viktoriya Kalyuzhna   Ukraine 19:54
9 Carolin Kirtzel   Germany 19:54
10 Christine Santi   Italy 19:59
11 Tuğba Güvenç   Turkey 20:01
12 Jessica Judd   Great Britain 20:06
13 Valeriya Zinenko   Ukraine 20:10
14 Silvia Oggioni   Italy 20:12
15 Johanna Geyer-Carles   France 20:15
Team race
Rank Team Points
    Great Britain
Alice Wright, Charlotte Taylor, Rebecca Murray, Jessica Judd
3+4+7+12=26
    Germany
Anna Gehring, Caterina Granz, Carolin Kirtzel, Maya Rehberg
2+6+9+16=33
    Italy
Christine Santi, Silvia Oggioni, Roberta Ciappini, Costanza Martinetti, Giulia Mattioli, Alice Rita Cocco
10+14+19+24=67
4   Ukraine
Viktoriya Kalyuzhna, Valeriya Zinenko, Nataliya Strebkova, Maryna Nemchenko
8+13+17+31=69

Junior men

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Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
  Jakob Ingebrigtsen   Norway 17:06
  Yohanes Chiappinelli   Italy 17:14
  Mahamed Mahamed   Great Britain 17:16
4 Jimmy Gressier   France 17:19
5 Mohammed-Amine El Bouajaji   France 17:20
6 Jack O'Leary   Ireland 17:21
7 Hugo Hay   France 17:30
8 Adrian Ben   Spain 17:30
9 Miguel González   Spain 17:34
10 Abderrazak Charik   France 17:34
11 Alexander Yee   Great Britain 17:35
12 Jordi Torrents   Spain 17:37
13 Annasse Mahboub El Hamdouini   Spain 17:38
14 Josh Kerr   Great Britain 17:38
15 Paulos Surafel   Great Britain 17:42
Team race
Rank Team Points
    France
Jimmy Gressier, Mohamed-Amine El Bouajaji, Hugo Hay, Abderrazak Charik
4+5+7+10=26
    Spain
Adrian Ben, Miguel González, Jordi Terrents, Annasse Mahboub El Hamdouini
8+9+12+13=42
    Great Britain
Mahamed Mahamed, Alexander Yee, Josh Kerr, Paulos Surafel
3+11+14+15=43
4   Italy
Yohanes Chiappinelli, Sergiy Polikarpenko, Ahmed Ouhda, Ademe Cuneo
2+22+33+34=91

Junior women

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Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
  Konstanze Klosterhalfen   Germany 12:26
  Anna Emilie Møller   Denmark 12:43
  Harriet Knowles-Jones   Great Britain 12:52
4 Alina Reh   Germany 12:53
5 Jasmijn Lau   Netherlands 12:57
6 Delia Sclabas   Switzerland 12:58
7 Lucia Rodríguez   Spain 13:06
8 Cécile Lejeune   France 13:12
9 Amelia Quirk   Great Britain 13:12
10 Victoria Weir   Great Britain 13:16
11 Gemma Holloway   Great Britain 13:32
12 Stine Wangberg   Norway 13:24
13 Veerle Bakker   Netherlands 13:25
14 Francesca Tommasi   Italy 13:25
15 Lara Alemanni   Switzerland 13:26
Team race
Rank Team Points
    Great Britain
Harriet Knowles-Jones, Amelia Quirk, Victoria Weir, Gemma Holloway
3+9+10+11=33
    Germany
Konstanze Klosterhalfen, Alina Reh, Lisa Oed, Miriam Dattke
1+4+18+34=57
    Netherlands
Jasmijn Lau, Veerle Bakker, Merel van der Marel, Jasmijn Bakker
5+13+23+30=71
4   France
Cécile Lejeune, Leila Hadji, Mathilde Senechal, Perle Maunoury
8+16+29+36=89

Medal table

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Key
  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Turkey (TUR)3216
2  Great Britain (GBR)31610
3  Germany (GER)1304
4  Italy (ITA)*1124
5  Belgium (BEL)1102
6  Norway (NOR)1012
7  France (FRA)1001
  Poland (POL)1001
9  Spain (ESP)0303
10  Denmark (DEN)0101
11  Netherlands (NED)0011
  Romania (ROM)0011
Totals (12 entries)12121236

References

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  1. ^ Media Guide. 2016 European Cross Country Championships. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  2. ^ Mulkeen, Jon (11 December 2016). Kaya and Can lead Turkish 1–2 finishes at European Cross Country Championships. IAAF. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
  3. ^ European Cross Country Championships: Callum Hawkins bronze helps GB secure team gold. BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 January 2017.
Results [1]
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