2022 European Cross Country Championships Explained

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]

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, 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

Individual
Senior men		29:33		29:42		29:45
Senior women		26:25		26:29		27:19
U23 men		23:40		23:48		23:58
U23 women		19:55		20:08		20:27
U20 men		17:40		17:41		17:46
U20 women		13:04		13:07		13:08
Team
Senior men's team	Bastien Augusto Yann Schrub Morhad Amdouni Valentin Gondouin Youssef Mekdafou Donovan Christien	24 pts (6+7+11)	Yemaneberhan Crippa Yohanes Chiappinelli Osama Zoghlami Nekagenet Crippa Pasquale Selvarolo	25 pts (4+8+13)	Mohamed Katir Abdessamad Oukhelfen Carlos Mayo Roberto Aláiz Nassim Hassaous Sergio Paniagua	36 pts (9+10+17)
Senior women's team	Konstanze Klosterhalfen Alina Reh Hanna Klein Miriam Dattke Caterina Granz	9 pts (2+3+4)	Jessica Warner-Judd Abbie Donnelly Poppy Tank Jessica Gibbon Cari Hughes Amy-Eloise Markovc	30 pts (8+9+13)	Eilish Flanagan Roisin Flanagan Mary Mulhare Ann-Marie McGlynn Aoibhe Richardson Michelle Finn	50 pts (11+12+27)
U23 men's team	Charles Hicks Zak Mahamed Matthew Stonier Rory Leonard Joseph Wigfield Tomer Tarragano	11 pts (1+2+8)	Valentin Bresc Étienne Daguinos Antoine Senard Luc Le Baron Pierre Bordeau Téo Rubens Banini	14 pts (3+4+7)	Efrem Gidey Keelan Kilrehill Shay McEvoy Darragh McElhinney Jamie Battle Thomas McStay	29 pts (5+9+15)
U23 women's team	Megan Keith Alexandra Millard Grace Carson Eloise Walker Alice Goodall Yasmin Marghini	10 pts (2+3+5)	Nadia Battocletti Aurora Bado Giovanna Selva Anna Arnaudo Sara Nestola Ludovica Cavalli	31 pts (1+14+16)	Manon Trapp Floriane Quesada Flavie Renouard Eugénie Lorain Anaëlle Guillonnet Léatitia Croissant	38 pts (6+15+17)
U20 men's team	Will Barnicoat Sam Mills Luke Birdseye Edward Bird Johnny Livingstone Jacob Deacon	10 pts (1+4+5)	Nick Griggs Dean Casey Sean McGinley Callum Morgan Jonas Stafford Mark Hanrahan	17 pts (2+3+12)	Jaime Migallon Mario Monreal David Cantero Aleix Vives Eric Lore	30 pts (6+8+16)
U20 women's team	María Forero Iraia Mendia Antía Castro María Viciosa Marta Serrano Ines Docampo	21 pts (1+9+11)	Ayça Fidanoğlu Edibe Yağız Pelinsu Şahin Sıla Ata	25 pts (7+8+10)	Kira Weis Lisa Merkel Sofia Benfares Carolina Schafer Johanna Pulte	33 pts (6+13+14)
Relay
Mixed relay	Pietro Arese Federica Del Buono Yassin Bouih Gaia Sabbatini	17:23	Jesús Gómez Solange Andreia Pereira Adrián Ben Rosalía Tarraga	17:24	Romain Mornet Charlotte Mouchet Azeddine Habz Anaïs Bourgoin	17:31

• Note: Athletes in italics did not score for the team result.

Results

Senior men

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
			29:33
			29:42
			29:45
4			29:47
5			29:49
6			29:52
7			29:52
8			30:03
9			30:06
10			30:08
11			30:12
12			30:18
13			30:20
14			30:21
15			30:23
16			30:25
17			30:27
18			30:30
19			30:32
20			30:36
21			30:40
22			30:40
23			30:44
24			30:44
25			30:44
26			30:46
27	Hiko Tonosa Haso		30:48
28			30:49
29			30:49
30			30:50
31			30:50
32			30:50
33			30:52
34			30:54
35			30:58
36			31:01
37			31:05
38			31:12
39			31:12
40			31:13
41			31:15
42			31:16
43			31:17
44			31:19
45			31:22
46			31:23
47			31:24
48			31:31
49			31:34
50			31:37
51			31:38
52			31:46
53			31:50
54			31:51
55			31:53
56			31:54
57			31:56
58			32:02
59			32:05
60			32:15
61			32:19
62			32:29
63			32:32
64			32:32
65			32:42
66			32:46
67			32:52
68			32:58
69			32:58
70			33:47
71			34:55
72			36:05
73			36:12
74			36:34
75			37:44
76			38:16
77			39:04
78			39:50
79			40:03
80			42:15
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Team race

Rank	Team	Points
	align=left	Bastien Augusto Yann Schruub Morhad Amdouni Valentin Gondouin Youssef Mekdafou Donovan Christien	24 pts (6+7+11)
	align=left	Yemaneberhan Crippa Yohanes Chiappinelli Osama Zoghlami Nekagenet Crippa Pasquale Selvarolo	25 pts (4+8+13)
	align=left	Mohamed Katir Abdessamad Oukhelfen Carlos Mayo Roberto Aláiz Nassim Hassaous Sergio Paniagua	36 pts (9+10+17)
4	align=left	Isaac Kimeli John Heymans Michael Somers Robin Hendrix	36 pts (3+14+19)
5	align=left	Jakob Ingebrigtsen Narve Gilje Nordås Henrik Ingebrigtsen Per Svela Filip Ingebrigtsen	45 pts (1+21+23)
6	align=left	Emile Cairess Mahamed Mahamed Hugo Milner Ellis Cross Ben Connor Jack Rowe	46 pts (2+12+32)
7	align=left	Filimon Abraham Davor Aaron Bienenfeld Samuel Fitwi Sibhatu Patrick Karl Sam Parsons	47 pts (5+16+26)
8	align=left	Peter Lynch Hiko Tonosa Haso Brian Fay Barry Keane Cormac Dalton Pierre Murchan	72 pts (15+27+30)
9	align=left		112 pts (28+39+45)
10	align=left	Mike Foppen Stan Niesten Filmon Tesfu Jurjen Polderman	128 pts (24+50+54)
11	align=left		172 pts (47+62+63)
12	align=left	Arnold Rogers Richard Blagg Robert Matto Leon Gordon Maurice Turnock	225 pts (72+75+78)

Senior women

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
			26:25
			26:29
			27:19
4			27:19
5			27:20
6			27:22
7			27:27
8			27:27
9			27:28
10			27:34
11			27:38
12			27:38
13			27:44
14			27:44
15			27:46
16			27:49
17			27:56
18			27:58
19			28:05
20			28:10
21			28:11
22			28:16
23			28:16
24			28:18
25			28:19
26			28:20
27			28:32
28			28:32
29			28:37
30			28:38
31			28:40
32			28:41
33			28:45
34			28:46
35			28:54
36			28:55
37			28:55
38			28:57
39			29:02
40			29:02
41			29:05
42			29:05
43			29:06
44			29:09
45			29:12
46			29:13
47			29:18
48			29:22
49			29:25
50			29:31
51			29:32
52			29:36
53			29:46
54			29:48
55			29:57
56			29:59
57			30:01
58			30:06
59			30:22
60			30:46
61			31:10
62			32:00
63			32:46
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Team race

Rank	Team	Points
	align=left	Konstanze Klosterhalfen Alina Reh Hanna Klein Miriam Dattke Caterina Granz	9 pts (2+3+4)
	align=left	Jessica Warner-Judd Abbie Donnelly Poppy Tank Jessica Gibbon Cari Hughes Amy-Eloise Markovc	30 pts (8+9+13)
	align=left	Eilish Flanagan Roisin Flanagan Mary Mulhare Ann-Marie McGlynn Aoibhe Richardson Michelle Finn	50 pts (11+12+27)
4	align=left	Irene Sánchez-Escribano Águeda Marqués Naima Ait Alibou Isabel Barreiro Carolina Robles Marta García	55 pts (15+17+23)
5	align=left	Marie Bouchard Cecile Jarousseau Alice Mitard Mélanie Allier Sarah Madeleine Sophie Tonneau	71 pts (16+25+30)
6	align=left	Samrawit Mensteab Sarah Lahti Sara Christiansson Anastasia Denisova	71 pts (7+19+45)
7	align=left	Nicole Svetlana Reina Gaia Colli Federica Zanne Cristina Molteni Maria Gorette Subano Michela Moretton	103 pts (21+32+50)
8	align=left		104 pts (5+47+52)
9	align=left		118 pts (34+35+49)
10	align=left	Carolien Millenaar Nanna Bové Juliane Hvid Annie Saugstrup Sara Schou Kristensen	135 pts (43+44+48)

U23 men

+Individual race
Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
			23:40
			23:48
			23:58
4			24:04
5			24:05
6			24:06
7			24:10
8			24:11
9			24:13
10			24:14
11			24:15
12			24:18
13			24:19
14			24:22
15			24:22
16			24:33
17			24:43
18			24:44
19			24:45
20			24:45
21			24:45
22			24:47
23			24:48
24			24:49
25			24:50
26			24:51
27			24:52
28			24:54
29			24:54
30			24:56
31			24:59
32			24:59
33			25:00
34			25:01
35			25:01
36			25:02
37			25:04
38			25:05
39			25:07
40			25:07
41			25:08
42			25:09
43			25:10
44			25:11
45			25:12
46			25:17
47			25:24
48			25:25
49			25:27
50			25:34
51			25:34
52			25:34
53			25:35
54			25:37
55			25:37
56			25:46
57			25:46
58			25:48
59			25:50
60			25:54
61			25:54
62			26:02
63			26:06
64			26:08
65			26:08
66			26:11
67			26:12
68			26:20
69			26:20
70			26:39
71			26:43
72			26:44
73			26:47
74			26:54
75			27:02
76			27:10
77			27:26
78			28:32

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2022-12-13 . European Cross Country Championships 2022 – Final Results . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221215115553/https://directus.european-athletics.com/downloads/f1a95f23-9c09-4146-b98c-44008807cd4c/Results%20Book%20EXCH2022%20Piemonte-La%20Mandria%20Park_version%203.0.pdf . 2022-12-15 . 2022-12-13 . European Athletics.
2. Web site: 2019-11-12 . Turin and Jerusalem awarded major events in 2021 and 2022 . 2022-12-11 . . en.
3. Web site: 2020-11-12 . Dublin and Turin to stage SPAR European Cross Country Championships in 2021 and 2022 . 2022-12-11 . . en.
4. Web site: Turnbull . Simon . 8 December 2022 . Preview Can anyone dethrone Ingebrigtsen in the shadow of La Mandria Castle? . 11 December 2022 . . en.
5. Web site: Turnbull . Simon . 2022-12-11 . Report Ingebrigtsen is a man for all seasons as he triumphs again . 2022-12-11 . . en.
6. Web site: Minshull . Phil . 2022-12-11 . Report Grøvdal shows her technical strength to retain her title . 2022-12-11 . . en.
7. Web site: Turnbull . Simon . 2022-12-11 . Report Battocletti and Hicks reign again in the U23 races in La Mandria Park . 2022-12-11 . . en.