European Cross Country Championships

Template:Short description Template:Template other The European Cross Country Championships is an annual international cross country running competition. Organised by the European Athletic Association, it is the area championships for the region and is held in December each year. The championships was inaugurated in 1994 in Alnwick and the venue for the championships changes each year.

Unlike the World Championships for the sport, the European Cross Country Championships consists of six races in age categories, with separate senior, under-23, and junior races for both men and women. There are individual and national team medals awarded in each race. In the team competition, the top three from a team of up to six are scored.

History

The first edition of the competition featured only senior races and 180 athletes took part. Men's and women's junior (under-20) races were introduced at the third edition in 1996 and under-23 races were added to the programme in 2006.

Editions

Source:

#	Year	Host	Dates	Venue	Races Events	Countries	Athletes[nb]	Events
Senior
1	1994	Alnwick, Template:Flagu	10 December		2/4	23	180	4
2	1995	Alnwick, Template:Flagu	2 December		2/4	23	186	4
3	1996	Charleroi, Template:Flagu	15 December		2/4	25	175	4
Senior + U20
4	1997	Oeiras, Template:Flagu	14 December		4/8	26	138	8
5	1998	Ferrara, Template:Flagu	13 December		4/8	26	139	8
6	1999	Velenje, Template:Flagu	12 December		4/8	27	141	8
7	2000	Malmö, Template:Flagu	10 December		4/8	31	150	8
8	2001	Thun, Template:Flagu	9 December		4/8	27	155	8
9	2002	Medulin, Template:Flagu	8 December		4/8	27	157	8
10	2003	Edinburgh, Template:Flagu	14 December		4/8	27	135	8
11	2004	Heringsdorf, Template:Flagu	12 December		4/8	27	165	8
12	2005	Tilburg, Template:Flagu	11 December		4/8	27	164	8
Senior + U23 + U20
13	2006	San Giorgio su Legnano, Template:Flagu	10 December		6/12	21	125	12
14	2007	Toro, Template:Flagu	9 December		6/12	26	103	12
15	2008	Brussels, Template:Flagu	14 December	Laeken Park	6/12	33	142	12
16	2009	Dublin, Template:Flagu	13 December	Santry Demesne	6/12	30	116	12
17	2010	Albufeira, Template:Flagu	12 December	Açoteias Cross Country Course	6/12	34	123	12
18	2011	Velenje, Template:Flagu	11 December		6/12	33	130	12
19	2012	Szentendre, Template:Flagu	9 December		6/12	35	146	12
20	2013	Belgrade, Template:Flagu	8 December		6/12	36	155	12
21	2014	Samokov, Template:Flagu	14 December	Borovets	6/12	35	137	12
22	2015	Hyères-Toulon, Template:Flagu	13 December	Hippodrome de Hyères	6/12	32	147	12
23	2016	Chia, Template:Flagu	11 December		6/12		153	12
Senior + U23 + U20 + Mixed Relay
24	2017	Šamorín, Template:Flagu	10 December	Šamorín x-bionic® sphere	7/13	37	157	13
25	2018	Tilburg, Template:Flagu	9 December		7/13	38	555	13
26	2019	Lisbon, Template:Flagu	8 December		7/13	40	606	13
	2020	Dublin, Template:Flagu	13 December	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
27	2021	Dublin, Template:Flagu	12 December	National Sports Campus	7/13	37	606	13
28	2022	Turin, Template:Flagu	11 December	La Mandria Park	7/13	40	623	13
29	2023	Brussels, Template:Flagu	10 December	Laeken Park	7/13			13
30	2024	Antalya, Template:Flagu	8 December		7/13
31	2025	Lagoa, Template:Flagu	14 December		7/13
32	2026	TBA	13 December		7/13
33	2027	TBA	12 December		7/13

• ^nb Country and athlete figures for senior races only

Medals (1994-2024)

Source:

Consist of all individual and team events in senior, U23 and U20.

Senior

Individual

File:Serhiy Lebid Bruxelles 2008.JPG

Multiple champion Serhiy Lebid winning in 2008

File:Hayley Yelling Dublin 2009.JPG

Hayley Yelling winning the 2009 women's race

Year	Men's senior race	Women's senior race
1994	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
1995	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
1996	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
1997	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
1998	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
1999	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2000	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2001	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2002	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2003	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2004	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2005	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2006	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2007	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2008	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2009	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2010	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2011	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2012	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2013	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2014	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2015	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2016	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2017	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2018	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2019	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2021	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2022	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2023	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete
2024	Template:Flagathlete	Template:Flagathlete

Medal table

Updated after 2019, including the team rankings for each category and the mixed relay.

#	Country	Template:Gold1	Template:Silver2	Template:Bronze3	Total
1	Template:GBR2	19	21	15	55
2		16	16	16	48
3		14	19	18	51
4		13	15	14	42
5		13	07	04	24
6		10	01	03	14
7		04	02	03	09
8		04	01	02	07
9		03	03	01	07
10		02	02	07	011
11		01	04	04	9
12		01	06	03	10
13		01	04	02	07
14		01	01	04	06
15		01	01	01	03
16		01	01	00	02
17		01	00	01	02
18		01	00	00	01
		01	00	00	01
20		00	01	03	04
21		00	01	01	02
		00	01	01	02
23		00	01	00	01
24		00	00	05	05
Total (24 nations)		107	107	107	321

Under 20

Men

Edition	Individual			Team
	Template:Gold1	Template:Silver2	Template:Bronze3	Template:Gold1	Template:Silver2	Template:Bronze3
1997	Template:Flagicon Gert-Jan Liefers	Template:Flagicon Günther Weidlinger	Template:Flagicon Mustafa Mohamed
1998	Template:Flagicon Yousef El Nasri	Template:Flagicon Ovidiu Tat	Template:Flagicon Gareth Turnbull
1999	Template:Flagicon Hans Janssens	Template:Flagicon Guillaume Eraud	Template:Flagicon Turo Inkiläinen
2000	Template:Flagicon Wolfram Müller	Template:Flagicon Christopher Thompson	Template:Flagicon Martin Pröll
2001	Template:Flagicon Vasyl Matviychuk	Template:Flagicon Mo Farah	Template:Flagicon Stefano Scaini
2002	Template:Flagicon Yevgeniy Rybakov	Template:Flagicon Anatoliy Rybakov	Template:Flagicon Halil Akkaş
2003	Template:Flagicon Yevgeniy Rybakov	Template:Flagicon Anatoliy Rybakov	Template:Flagicon Aleksey Reunkov
2004	Template:Flagicon Barnabás Bene	Template:Flagicon Yevgeniy Rybakov	Template:Flagicon Anatoliy Rybakov
2005	Template:Flagicon Barnabás Bene	Template:Flagicon Andrew Vernon	Template:Flagicon Dušan Markešević
2006	Template:Flagicon Andrea Lalli	Template:Flagicon Siarhei Chebiarak	Template:Flagicon Ciprian Suhanea
2007	Template:Flagicon Mourad Amdouni	Template:Flagicon Florian Carvalho	Template:Flagicon Dmytro Lashyn
2008	Template:Flagicon Florian Carvalho	Template:Flagicon Sondre Nordstad Moen	Template:Flagicon Hassan Chahdi
2009	Template:Flagicon Jeroen D'Hoedt	Template:Flagicon Nick Goolab	Template:Flagicon James Wilkinson
2010	Template:Flagicon Abdelaziz Merzougui	Template:Flagicon Nemanja Cerovac	Template:Flagicon Rui Pinto
2011	Template:Flagicon Ilgizar Safiullin	Template:Flagicon Richard Goodman	Template:Flagicon Vladimir Nikitin
2012	Template:Flagicon Szymon Kulka	Template:Flagicon Mitko Tsenov	Template:Flagicon Kieran Clements
2013	Template:Flagicon Ali Kaya	Template:Flagicon Isaac Kimeli	Template:Flagicon Mikhail Strelkov
2014	Template:Flagicon Yemaneberhan Crippa	Template:Flagicon Carlos Mayo	Template:Flagicon Said Ettaqy
2015	Template:Flagicon Yemaneberhan Crippa	Template:Flagicon Fabien Palcau	Template:Flagicon El Madhi Lahoufi
2016	Template:Flagicon Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Template:Flagicon Yohanes Chiappinelli	Template:Flagicon Mahamed Mahamed
2017	Template:Flagicon Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Template:Flagicon Ramazan Barbaros	Template:Flagicon Louis Gilavert
2018	Template:Flagicon Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Template:Flagicon Ouassim Oumaiz	Template:Flagicon Elzan Bibić
2019	Template:Flagicon Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Template:Flagicon Ayetullah Aslanhan	Template:Flagicon Efrem Gidey
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Women

Edition	Individual			Team
	Template:Gold1	Template:Silver2	Template:Bronze3	Template:Gold1	Template:Silver2	Template:Bronze3
1997	Template:Flagicon Sonja Stolić	Template:Flagicon Monica Rosa	Template:Flagicon Judith Heise
1998	Template:Flagicon Katalin Szentgyörgyi	Template:Flagicon Inês Monteiro	Template:Flagicon Sonja Stolić
1999	Template:Flagicon Inês Monteiro	Template:Flagicon Nicola Spirig	Template:Flagicon Ane Marie Moutsinga
2000	Template:Flagicon Jessica Augusto	Template:Flagicon Nicola Spirig	Template:Flagicon Elvan Can
2001	Template:Flagicon Elvan Abeylegesse	Template:Flagicon Tatyana Chulakh	Template:Flagicon Snezana Kostić
2002	Template:Flagicon Charlotte Dale	Template:Flagicon Elina Lindgren	Template:Flagicon Galina Yegorova
2003	Template:Flagicon Inna Poluškina	Template:Flagicon Snežana Kostić	Template:Flagicon Charlotte Dale
2004	Template:Flagicon Binnaz Uslu	Template:Flagicon Ancuţa Bobocel	Template:Flagicon Marta Romo
2005	Template:Flagicon Ancuţa Bobocel	Template:Flagicon Emily Pidgeon	Template:Flagicon Susan Kuijken
2006	Template:Flagicon Stephanie Twell	Template:Flagicon Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal	Template:Flagicon Ancuţa Bobocel
2007	Template:Flagicon Stephanie Twell	Template:Flagicon Danuta Urbanik	Template:Flagicon Charlotte Purdue
2008	Template:Flagicon Stephanie Twell	Template:Flagicon Charlotte Purdue	Template:Flagicon Lauren Howarth
2009	Template:Flagicon Karoline Grøvdal	Template:Flagicon Gulshat Fazlitdinova	Template:Flagicon Kate Avery
2010	Template:Flagicon Charlotte Purdue	Template:Flagicon Amela Terzić	Template:Flagicon Emelia Gorecka
2011	Template:Flagicon Emelia Gorecka	Template:Flagicon Ioana Doaga	Template:Flagicon Amela Terzić
2012	Template:Flagicon Amela Terzić	Template:Flagicon Emelia Gorecka	Template:Flagicon Maya Rehberg
2013	Template:Flagicon Emelia Gorecka	Template:Flagicon Sofia Ennaoui	Template:Flagicon Maruša Mišmaš
2014	Template:Flagicon Emine Hatun Tuna	Template:Flagicon Jessica Judd	Template:Flagicon Lydia Turner
2015	Template:Flagicon Konstanze Klosterhalfen	Template:Flagicon Harriet Knowles-Jones	Template:Flagicon Alina Reh
2016	Template:Flagicon Konstanze Klosterhalfen	Template:Flagicon Anna Emilie Møller	Template:Flagicon Harriet Knowles-Jones
2017	Template:Flagicon Harriet Knowles-Jones	Template:Flagicon Lili Tóth	Template:Flagicon Miriam Dattke
2018	Template:Flagicon Nadia Battocletti	Template:Flagicon Delia Sclabas	Template:Flagicon İnci Kalkan
2019	Template:Flagicon Nadia Battocletti	Template:Flagicon Klara Lukan	Template:Flagicon Mariana Machado
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Medal table

File:Nadia Battocletti at ECCC 2019.jpg

Nadia Battocletti (Italy, pictured in 2019) won the Under-20 female race twice.

External links

• Historical results from GBR Athletics