2017 European Cross Country Championships

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] As of the 2017 edition, the first three athletes from each nation counted towards the team standings, rather than the top four of previous years.[2]

2017 European Cross Country Championships
OrganisersEAA
Edition24th
Date10 December
Host cityŠamorín, Slovakia
VenueŠamorín x-bionic sphere
Events7
Distances10.18 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
Participation624 athletes from
37 nations

Medal summary

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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   Ramazan Barbaros (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   Harriet Knowles-Jones (GBR) 13:48   Lili Anna Tóth (HUN) 13:59   Miriam Dattke (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
Emmanuel Roudolff Lévisse
7 pts   Belgium (BEL)
Simon Debognies
Robin Hendrix
Michael Somers
26 pts   Great Britain (GBR)
Mahamed Mahamed
Chris Olley
Patrick Dever
41 pts
Junior men team   Spain (ESP)
Miguel González
Annasse Mahboub
Ignacio Fontes
20 pts   France (FRA)
Louis Gilavert
Yani Khelaf
Ilyes Boum
27 pts   Turkey (TUR)
Ramazan Barbaros
Abdurrahman Gediklioglu
Ömer Amaçtan
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
Amy Griffiths
12 pts   Germany (GER)
Alina Reh
Konstanze Klosterhalfen
Anna Gehring
15 pts   Turkey (TUR)
Emine Hatun Tuna
Büsra Nur Koku
Yayla Kiliç
46 pts
Junior women team   Great Britain (GBR)
Harriet Knowles-Jones
Cari Hughes
Khahisa Mhlanga
21 pts   Italy (ITA)
Nadia Battocletti
Francesca Tommasi
Elisa Cherubini
33 pts   Spain (ESP)
Marta García
Lucía Rodríguez
Carla Gallardo
47 pts
Mixed relay   Great Britain (GBR)
Melissa Courtney
Cameron Boyek
Sarah McDonald
Tom Marshall
18:24   Czech Republic (CZE)
Simona Vrzalová
Filip Sasínek
Kristiina Mäki
Jakub Holuša
18:25   Spain (ESP)
Solange Pereira
Víctor Ruiz
Esther Guerrero
Jesús Gómez
18:26

Race results

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Senior men

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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 Lander Tijtgat   Belgium 30:25
14 Javier Guerra   Spain 30:29
15 Sean Tobin   Ireland 30:43
16 Rui Pinto   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

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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 Nuria Lugueros   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

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Rank Team Time (m:s)
    Great Britain
Melissa Courtney, Cameron Boyek, Sarah McDonald, Tom Marshall
18:24
    Czech Republic
Simona Vrzalová, Filip Sasínek, Kristiina Mäki, Jakub Holuša
18:25
    Spain
Solange Pereira, Víctor Ruiz, Esther Guerrero, Jesús Gómez
18:26
4   Sweden
Linn Nilsson, Emil Blomberg, Hanna Hermansson, Daniel Lundgren
19:02
5   France
Élodie Normand, Martin Casse, Maëva Danois, Samir Dahmani
19:04
6   Italy
Elena Bellò, Mohad Abdikadar Sheik Ali, Chiara Casolari, Lorenzo Pilati
19:10
7   Germany
Diana Sujew, Maximilian Thorwirth, Denise Krebs, Marius Probst
19:10
8   Turkey
Sebahat Akpinar, Ramazan Özdemir, Emina Tuna, Levent Ateş
19:14
9   Ukraine
Nataliya Batrak, Yuriy Kyshchenko, Lyubov Sukhovirska, Volodymyr Kyts
19:26
10   Denmark
Line Kalstrup Schulz, Nick Jensen, Laura Møller, Jacob Ilbjerg Stengaard
19:36
11   Slovakia
Kristína Hegedüsová, Jozef Pelikán, Katarina Belová, Jozef Repčík
20:31

Under-23 men

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Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
  Jimmy Gressier   France 24:35
  Hugo Hay   France 24:37
  Yemaneberhan Crippa   Italy 24:42
4 Emmanuel Roudolff Lévisse   France 24:43
5 Carlos Mayo   Spain 24:46
6 Simon Debognies   Belgium 24:47
7 Alexis Miellet   France 24:47
8 Topi Raitanen   Finland 24:47
9 Robin Hendrix   Belgium 24:48
10 Süleyman Bekmezci   Turkey 24:49
11 Michael Somers   Belgium 24:49
12 Mahamed Mahamed   Great Britain 24:50
13 Chris Olley   Great Britain 24:52
14 Dorian Boulvin   Belgium 24:58
15 Mohamed-Amine El Bouajaji   France 25:02
Team race
Rank Team Points
    France
Jimmy Gressier, Hugo Hay, Emmanuel Roudolff Lévisse
1+2+4=7
    Belgium
Simon Debognies, Robin Hendrix, Michael Somers
6+9+11=26
    Great Britain
Mahamed Mahamed, Chris Olley, Patrick Dever
12+13+16=41
4   Spain
Carlos Mayo, Sergio Paniagua, Yago Rojo
5+17+23=45

Under-23 women

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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 Amy Griffiths   Great Britain 21:02
6 Isabelle Brauer   Sweden 21:09
7 Anna Emilie Møller   Denmark 21:14
8 Weronika Pyzik   Poland 21:18
9 Mhairi Maclennan   Great Britain 21:26
10 Phoebe Law   Great Britain 21:26
11 Emine Tuna   Turkey 21:27
12 Anna Gehring   Germany 21:28
13 Philippa Bowden   Great Britain 21:29
14 Valeriya Zinenko   Ukraine 21:32
15 Emma Oudiou   France 21:34
Team race
Rank Team Points
    Great Britain
Jessica Judd, Amy-Eloise Neale, Amy Griffiths
3+4+5=12
    Germany
Alina Reh, Konstanze Klosterhalfen, Anna Gehring
1+2+12=15
    Turkey
Emine Tuna, Büsra Koku, Yayla Kiliç
11+16+19=46
4   Sweden
Isabelle Brauer, Sara Christiansson, Isabella Andersson
6+21+25=52

Junior men

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Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
  Jakob Ingebrigtsen   Norway 18:39
  Ramazan Barbaros   Turkey 18:41
  Louis Gilavert   France 18:45
4 Yani Khelaf   France 18:47
5 Miguel González   Spain 18:48
6 Adrian Garcea   Romania 18:48
7 Annasse Mahboub   Spain 18:49
8 Ignacio Fontes   Spain 18:50
9 Mario García   Spain 18:50
10 Markus Görger   Germany 18:50
11 Tim van de Velde   Belgium 18:51
12 Dorin Andrei Rusu   Romania 18:52
13 Tariku Novales   Spain 18:54
14 Matthew Willis   Great Britain 18:57
15 Andreas Holst Lindgreen   Denmark 19:01
Team race
Rank Team Points
    Spain
Miguel González, Annasse Mahboub, Ignacio Fontes
5+7+8=20
    France
Louis Gilavert, Yani Khelaf, Ilyes Boum
3+4+20=27
    Turkey
Ramazan Barbaros, Abdurrahman Gediklioglu, Ömer Amaçtan
2+21+26=49
4   Belgium
Tim van de Velde, Dries De Smet, John Heymans
11+16+24=51

Junior women

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Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
  Harriet Knowles-Jones   Great Britain 13:48
  Lili Tóth   Hungary 13:59
  Miriam Dattke   Germany 14:03
4 Jasmijn Lau   Netherlands 14:05
5 Nadia Battocletti   Italy 14:07
6 Francesca Tommasi   Italy 14:07
7 Mathilde Sénéchal   France 14:08
8 Alberte Kjær Pedersen   Denmark 14:09
9 Cari Hughes   Great Britain 14:15
10 Sophie Murphy   Ireland 14:15
11 Khahisa Mhlanga   Great Britain 14:16
12 Niamh Brown   Great Britain 14:17
13 Marta García   Spain 14:17
14 Tatsiana Shabanava   Belarus 14:17
15 Lucía Rodríguez   Spain 14:18
Team race
Rank Team Points
    Great Britain
Harriet Knowles-Jones, Cari Hughes, Khahisa Mhlanga
1+9+11=21
    Italy
Nadia Battocletti, Francesca Tommasi, Elisa Cherubini, Micol Majori, Laura De Marco
5+6+22=33
    Spain
Marta García, Lucía Rodríguez, Carla Gallardo
13+15+19=47
4   France
Mathilde Sénéchal, Alexa Lemitre, Julie Lejarraga
7+23+30=60

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Great Britain (GBR)5049
2  Turkey (TUR)3137
3  France (FRA)2215
4  Spain (ESP)1225
5  Germany (GER)1214
6  Norway (NOR)1012
7  Italy (ITA)0112
8  Belgium (BEL)0101
  Czech Republic (CZE)0101
  Hungary (HUN)0101
  Romania (ROU)0101
  Sweden (SWE)0101
Totals (12 entries)13131339

References

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  1. ^ Team Manual. 2017 European Cross Country Championships. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Britain land five golds to come out on top at the European Cross Country Championships". Athletics Weekly. 10 December 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
Results
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