2022 European Cross Country Championships

The 2022 European Cross Country Championships was the 28th edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was held on 11 December 2022 in La Mandria Park near Turin, Italy.[1]

2022 European Cross Country Championships
OrganisersEAA
Edition28th
Date11 December
Host cityVenaria Reale, Turin, Italy Italy
VenueLa Mandria Park
Events7
Distances9,572 m – Men
7,662 m – Women
7,662 m – U23 men
5,722 m – U23 women
5,722 m – U20 men
3,812 m – U20 women
5,722 m – Mixed relay
Participation623 athletes from
40 nations
Official websiteEAA
FIDAL
External, official videos
via YouTube
video icon Senior Men’s Race
video icon Senior Women’s Race
video icon U23 Men’s Race
video icon U23 Women’s Race
video icon U20 Men’s Race
video icon U20 Women’s Race
video icon Mixed relay

Italy became the first country to have staged the European Cross Country Championships on four occasions after previous editions in Ferrara in 1998, San Giorgio su Legnano in 2006 and Chia in 2016. Initially Turin received the right to host the event in 2021.[2] However, due to the coronavirus pandemic and cancellation of the 2020 championship, which was supposed to be staged by Dublin, the organizers of the Turin championship agreed to hold them in Italy in 2022, so that the 2021 event could be hosted by the Irish city.[3]

The looped course featured a steep 300 metre uphill and downhill section and a 50 metre-long indoor section through the carriage pavilion of La Mandria Castle (it:Castello della Mandria), part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997, on each long lap.[4]

Norwegians Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal successfully defended their men's and women's senior titles from Fingal-Dublin 2021 respectively. It was Ingebrigtsen's sixth consecutive European cross country title after four victories at under-20 level.[5] Grøvdal earned her ninth individual medal, an unsurpassed record by a female athlete in the meet history; it was her third gold after U20 success in 2009.[6]

Great Britain's Charles Hicks and Italy's Nadia Battocletti successfully defended their men's and women's U23 titles respectively. For Battocletti it was a fourth consecutive continental cross country victory.[7]

Great Britain and Northern Ireland topped the medal table with 10 medals, including five golds.

Medal summary

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual
Senior men   Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR) 29:33   Emile Cairess (GBR) 29:42   Isaac Kimeli (BEL) 29:45
Senior women   Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal (NOR) 26:25   Konstanze Klosterhalfen (GER) 26:29   Alina Reh (GER) 27:19
U23 men   Charles Hicks (GBR) 23:40   Zak Mahamed (GBR) 23:48   Valentin Bresc (FRA) 23:58
U23 women   Nadia Battocletti (ITA) 19:55   Megan Keith (GBR) 20:08   Alexandra Millard (GBR) 20:27
U20 men   Will Barnicoat (GBR) 17:40   Nick Griggs (IRL) 17:41   Dean Casey (IRL) 17:46
U20 women   María Forero (ESP) 13:04   Ingeborg Østgård (NOR) 13:07   Ilona Mononen (FIN) 13:08
Team
Senior men's team   France (FRA)
Bastien Augusto
Yann Schrub
Morhad Amdouni
Valentin Gondouin
Youssef Mekdafou
Donovan Christien
24 pts
(6+7+11)
  Italy (ITA)
Yemaneberhan Crippa
Yohanes Chiappinelli
Osama Zoghlami
Nekagenet Crippa
Pasquale Selvarolo
25 pts
(4+8+13)
  Spain (ESP)
Mohamed Katir
Abdessamad Oukhelfen
Carlos Mayo
Roberto Aláiz
Nassim Hassaous
Sergio Paniagua
36 pts
(9+10+17)
Senior women's team   Germany (GER)
Konstanze Klosterhalfen
Alina Reh
Hanna Klein
Miriam Dattke
Caterina Granz
9 pts
(2+3+4)
  Great Britain (GBR)
Jessica Warner-Judd
Abbie Donnelly
Poppy Tank
Jessica Gibbon
Cari Hughes
Amy-Eloise Markovc
30 pts
(8+9+13)
  Ireland (IRL)
Eilish Flanagan
Roisin Flanagan
Mary Mulhare
Ann-Marie McGlynn
Aoibhe Richardson
Michelle Finn
50 pts
(11+12+27)
U23 men's team   Great Britain (GBR)
Charles Hicks
Zak Mahamed
Matthew Stonier
Rory Leonard
Joseph Wigfield
Tomer Tarragano
11 pts
(1+2+8)
  France (FRA)
Valentin Bresc
Étienne Daguinos
Antoine Senard
Luc Le Baron
Pierre Bordeau
Téo Rubens Banini
14 pts
(3+4+7)
  Ireland (IRL)
Efrem Gidey
Keelan Kilrehill
Shay McEvoy
Darragh McElhinney
Jamie Battle
Thomas McStay
29 pts
(5+9+15)
U23 women's team   Great Britain (GBR)
Megan Keith
Alexandra Millard
Grace Carson
Eloise Walker
Alice Goodall
Yasmin Marghini
10 pts
(2+3+5)
  Italy (ITA)
Nadia Battocletti
Aurora Bado
Giovanna Selva
Anna Arnaudo
Sara Nestola
Ludovica Cavalli
31 pts
(1+14+16)
  France (FRA)
Manon Trapp
Floriane Quesada
Flavie Renouard
Eugénie Lorain
Anaëlle Guillonnet
Léatitia Croissant
38 pts
(6+15+17)
U20 men's team   Great Britain (GBR)
Will Barnicoat
Sam Mills
Luke Birdseye
Edward Bird
Johnny Livingstone
Jacob Deacon
10 pts
(1+4+5)
  Ireland (IRL)
Nick Griggs
Dean Casey
Sean McGinley
Callum Morgan
Jonas Stafford
Mark Hanrahan
17 pts
(2+3+12)
  Spain (ESP)
Jaime Migallon
Mario Monreal
David Cantero
Aleix Vives
Eric Lore
30 pts
(6+8+16)
U20 women's team   Spain (ESP)
María Forero
Iraia Mendia
Antía Castro
María Viciosa
Marta Serrano
Ines Docampo
21 pts
(1+9+11)
  Turkey (TUR)
Ayça Fidanoğlu
Edibe Yağız
Pelinsu Şahin
Sıla Ata
25 pts
(7+8+10)
  Germany (GER)
Kira Weis
Lisa Merkel
Sofia Benfares
Carolina Schafer
Johanna Pulte
33 pts
(6+13+14)
Relay
Mixed relay   Italy (ITA)
Pietro Arese
Federica Del Buono
Yassin Bouih
Gaia Sabbatini
17:23   Spain (ESP)
Jesús Gómez
Solange Andreia Pereira
Adrián Ben
Rosalía Tarraga
17:24   France (FRA)
Romain Mornet
Charlotte Mouchet
Azeddine Habz
Anaïs Bourgoin
17:31
  • Note: Athletes in italics did not score for the team result.

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Italy)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Great Britain (GBR)54110
2  Italy (ITA)*2204
3  Spain (ESP)2125
4  Norway (NOR)2103
5  France (FRA)1135
6  Germany (GER)1124
7  Ireland (IRL)0235
8  Turkey (TUR)0101
9  Belgium (BEL)0011
  Finland (FIN)0011
Totals (10 entries)13131339

Results

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Senior men

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Senior women

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U23 men

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Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
  Charles Hicks   United Kingdom 23:40
  Zakariya Mahamed   United Kingdom 23:48
  Valentin Bresc   France 23:58
4 Etienne Daguinos   France 24:04
5 Efrem Gidey   Ireland 24:05
6 Adisu Guadia   Israel 24:06
7 Antoine Senard   France 24:10
8 Matthew Stonier   United Kingdom 24:11
9 Keelan Kirlehill   Israel 24:13
10 Magnus Tuv Myhre   Norway 24:14
11 Rory Leonard   United Kingdom 24:15
12 Derebe Ayele   Israel 24:18
13 Joseph Wigfield   United Kingdom 24:19
14 Marco Fontana Granotto   Italy 24:22
15 Shay McEvoy   Ireland 24:22
16 Miguel Moreira   Portugal 24:33
17 Luc Le Baron   France 24:43
18 Adam Maijo   Spain 24:44
19 Andrii Atamaniuk   Ukraine 24:45
20 Tim Verbaandert   Netherlands 24:45
21 Job Ijtsma   Netherlands 24:45
22 Ramazan Baştuğ   Turkey 24:47
23 Yorick van de Kerkhove   Belgium 24:48
24 Eemil Helander   Finland 24:49
25 Luca Alfieri   Italy 24:50
26 Darragh McElhinney   Ireland 24:51
27 Pierre Bordeau   France 24:52
28 Arnaud Collard   France 24:54
29 Rayan Vanderpoorten   Belgium 24:54
30 Enrico Vecchi   Italy 24:56
31 Aarón Las Heras   Spain 24:59
32 Marco Vanderpoorten   Belgium 24:59
33 Pol Oriach   Spain 25:00
34 Jonathan Carmin   Israel 25:01
35 Mikołaj Czeronek   Poland 25:01
36 Miguel Ángel Martínez   Spain 25:02
37 Tomer Tarragano   United Kingdom 25:04
38 Francesco Guerra   Italy 25:05
39 Adria Ceballos   Spain 25:07
40 Vid Botolin   Slovenia 25:07
41 Tim Aßmann   Germany 25:08
42 Téo Rubens Banini   France 25:09
43 Jesse Fokkenrood   Netherlands 25:10
44 Rúben Amaral   Portugal 25:11
45 Marcel Tobler   Austria 25:12
46 Giedrius Valinčius   Lithuania 25:17
47 Etson Barros   Portugal 25:24
48 Miguel Baidal   Spain 25:25
49 Zemenu Muchie   Israel 25:27
50 Mika Kotiranta   Finland 25:34
51 Paul Specht   Germany 25:34
52 Assaf Harari   Israel 25:34
53 Dereje Chekole   Israel 25:35
54 Pedro Amaro   Portugal 25:37
55 Jamie Battle   Spain 25:37
56 Markus Kirk Kjeldsen   Denmark 25:46
57 Léo Lädermann   Switzerland 25:46
58 Sebastian Frey   Austria 25:48
59 Mateusz Gos   Poland 25:50
60 Riccardo Martellato   Italy 25:54
61 Alain Cavagna   Italy 25:54
62 Andreas Bock Bjørnsen   Denmark 26:02
63 Thomas McStay   Ireland 26:06
64 Florian Bremm   Germany 26:08
65 Julian Großkopf   Germany 26:08
66 Nikolaos Stamoulis   Greece 26:11
67 Michal Staník   Slovakia 26:12
68 Aleksander Wiącek   Poland 26:20
69 Kalev Hõlpus   Estonia 26:20
70 Panagiotis Petroulakis   Greece 26:39
71 Benedikt Brem   Germany 26:43
72 Vasyl Sabunyak   Ukraine 26:44
73 Gil Weicherding   Luxembourg 26:47
74 Andriy Krakovetskyy   Ukraine 26:54
75 Jonathan Hedemann Makwarth   Denmark 27:02
76 Athanasios Ligonis   Greece 27:10
77 Leonid Vandevski   North Macedonia 27:26
78 David Borg   Malta 28:32

References

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  1. ^ "European Cross Country Championships 2022 – Final Results" (PDF). European Athletics. 2022-12-13. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-12-15. Retrieved 2022-12-13.
  2. ^ "Turin and Jerusalem awarded major events in 2021 and 2022". European Athletics. 2019-11-12. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
  3. ^ "Dublin and Turin to stage SPAR European Cross Country Championships in 2021 and 2022". European Athletics. 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
  4. ^ Turnbull, Simon (8 December 2022). "Preview | Can anyone dethrone Ingebrigtsen in the shadow of La Mandria Castle?". European Athletics. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  5. ^ Turnbull, Simon (2022-12-11). "Report | Ingebrigtsen is a man for all seasons as he triumphs again". European Athletics. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
  6. ^ Minshull, Phil (2022-12-11). "Report | Grøvdal shows her technical strength to retain her title". European Athletics. Retrieved 2022-12-11.
  7. ^ Turnbull, Simon (2022-12-11). "Report | Battocletti and Hicks reign again in the U23 races in La Mandria Park". European Athletics. Retrieved 2022-12-11.