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

## Medal summary

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | 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

* Host nation (Italy)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Great Britain (GBR) | 5 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| 2 | Italy (ITA)* | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Spain (ESP) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Norway (NOR) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | Germany (GER) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 8 | Turkey (TUR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 13 | 13 | 13 | 39 |

## Results
### Senior men

Individual race :
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time (m:s) |
| | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | Norway | 29:33 |
| | Emile Cairess | United Kingdom | 29:42 |
| | Isaac Kimeli | Belgium | 29:45 |
| 4 | Yemaneberhan Crippa | Italy | 29:47 |
| 5 | Filimon Abraham | Germany | 29:49 |
| 6 | Bastien Augusto | France | 29:52 |
| 7 | Yann Schrub | France | 29:52 |
| 8 | Yohanes Chiappinelli | Italy | 30:03 |
| 9 | Mohamed Katir | Spain | 30:06 |
| 10 | Abdessamad Oukhelfen | Spain | 30:08 |
| 11 | Morhad Amdouni | France | 30:12 |
| 12 | Mahamed Mahamed | United Kingdom | 30:18 |
| 13 | Osama Zoghlami | Italy | 30:20 |
| 14 | John Heymans | Belgium | 30:21 |
| 15 | Peter Lynch | Ireland | 30:23 |
| 16 | Davor Aaron Bienenfeld | Germany | 30:25 |
| 17 | Carlos Mayo | Spain | 30:27 |
| 18 | Roberto Aláiz | Spain | 30:30 |
| 19 | Michael Somers | Belgium | 30:32 |
| 20 | Valentin Gondouin | France | 30:36 |
| 21 | Narve Gilje Nordås | Norway | 30:40 |
| 22 | Nekagenet Crippa | Italy | 30:40 |
| 23 | Henrik Ingebrigtsen | Norway | 30:44 |
| 24 | Mike Foppen | Netherlands | 30:44 |
| 25 | Nassim Hassaous | Spain | 30:44 |
| 26 | Samuel Fitwi Sibhatu | Germany | 30:46 |
| 27 | Hiko Tonosa Haso | Ireland | 30:48 |
| 28 | Emil Danielsson | Sweden | 30:49 |
| 29 | Andreas Vojta | Austria | 30:49 |
| 30 | Brian Fay | Ireland | 30:50 |
| 31 | Mikkel Dahl-Jessen | Denmark | 30:50 |
| 32 | Hugo Milner | United Kingdom | 30:50 |
| 33 | Barry Keane | Ireland | 30:52 |
| 34 | Sergio Paniagua | Spain | 30:54 |
| 35 | Robin Hendrix | Belgium | 30:58 |
| 36 | Cormac Dalton | Ireland | 31:01 |
| 37 | Ellis Cross | United Kingdom | 31:05 |
| 38 | Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed | ART | 31:12 |
| 39 | Max Peter Bejmer | Sweden | 31:12 |
| 40 | Peter Ďurec | Slovakia | 31:13 |
| 41 | Jáchym Kovář | Czech Republic | 31:15 |
| 42 | Ben Connor | United Kingdom | 31:16 |
| 43 | Youssef Mekdafou | France | 31:17 |
| 44 | Jack Rowe | United Kingdom | 31:19 |
| 45 | Mohammad Reza | Sweden | 31:22 |
| 46 | Pasquale Selvarolo | Italy | 31:23 |
| 47 | Leonid Latsepov | Estonia | 31:24 |
| 48 | Jonas Gertsen | Denmark | 31:31 |
| 49 | Seyd Taha Ghafari | ART | 31:34 |
| 50 | Stan Niesten | Netherlands | 31:37 |
| 51 | Tachlowini Gabriyesos | ART | 31:38 |
| 52 | Ersin Tekal | Turkey | 31:46 |
| 53 | Elzan Bibić | Serbia | 31:50 |
| 54 | Filmon Tesfu | Netherlands | 31:51 |
| 55 | Hlynur Andrésson | Iceland | 31:53 |
| 56 | Jurjen Polderman | Netherlands | 31:54 |
| 57 | Patrick Karl | Germany | 31:56 |
| 58 | Marios Anagnostou | Greece | 32:02 |
| 59 | Donovan Christien | France | 32:05 |
| 60 | Per Svela | Norway | 32:15 |
| 61 | Fouad Idbafdil | ART | 32:19 |
| 62 | Kaur Kivistik | Estonia | 32:29 |
| 63 | Karel Hussar | Estonia | 32:32 |
| 64 | Sezgin Ataç | Turkey | 32:32 |
| 65 | Ștefan Iulius Gavril | Romania | 32:42 |
| 66 | Dmytro Siruk | Ukraine | 32:46 |
| 67 | Pierre Murchan | Ireland | 32:52 |
| 68 | Tesfay Felfele | ART | 32:58 |
| 69 | Luke Micallef | Malta | 32:58 |
| 70 | Jan Kokalj | Slovenia | 33:47 |
| 71 | Bob Bertemes | Luxembourg | 34:55 |
| 72 | Arnold Rogers | Gibraltar | 36:05 |
| 73 | Charel Weicherding | Luxembourg | 36:12 |
| 74 | Lorenzo Bugli | San Marino | 36:34 |
| 75 | Richard Blagg | Gibraltar | 37:44 |
| 76 | Ilir Këllezi | Albania | 38:16 |
| 77 | Sonny Folcheri | Monaco | 39:04 |
| 78 | Robert Matto | Gibraltar | 39:50 |
| 79 | Leon Gordon | Gibraltar | 40:03 |
| 80 | Maurice Turnock | Gibraltar | 42:15 |
| — | Filip Ingebrigtsen | Norway | DNF |
| — | Nahuel Carabaña | Andorra | DNF |
| — | Sam Parsons | Germany | DNF |
Team race :
| Rank | Team | Points |
| | France Bastien Augusto Yann Schruub Morhad Amdouni Valentin Gondouin Youssef Mekdafou Donovan Christien | 24 pts (6+7+11) |
| | Italy Yemaneberhan Crippa Yohanes Chiappinelli Osama Zoghlami Nekagenet Crippa Pasquale Selvarolo | 25 pts (4+8+13) |
| | Spain Mohamed Katir Abdessamad Oukhelfen Carlos Mayo Roberto Aláiz Nassim Hassaous Sergio Paniagua | 36 pts (9+10+17) |
| 4 | Belgium Isaac Kimeli John Heymans Michael Somers Robin Hendrix | 36 pts (3+14+19) |
| 5 | Norway Jakob Ingebrigtsen Narve Gilje Nordås Henrik Ingebrigtsen Per Svela Filip Ingebrigtsen | 45 pts (1+21+23) |
| 6 | Great Britain Emile Cairess Mahamed Mahamed Hugo Milner Ellis Cross Ben Connor Jack Rowe | 46 pts (2+12+32) |
| 7 | Germany Filimon Abraham Davor Aaron Bienenfeld Samuel Fitwi Sibhatu Patrick Karl Sam Parsons | 47 pts (5+16+26) |
| 8 | Ireland Peter Lynch Hiko Tonosa Haso Brian Fay Barry Keane Cormac Dalton Pierre Murchan | 72 pts (15+27+30) |
| 9 | Sweden Emil Danielsson Max Peter Bejmer Mohammad Reza | 112 pts (28+39+45) |
| 10 | Netherlands Mike Foppen Stan Niesten Filmon Tesfu Jurjen Polderman | 128 pts (24+50+54) |
| 11 | Estonia Leonid Latsepov Kaur Kivistik Karel Hussar | 172 pts (47+62+63) |
| 12 | Gibraltar 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) |
| | Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal | Norway | 26:25 |
| | Konstanze Klosterhalfen | Germany | 26:29 |
| | Alina Reh | Germany | 27:19 |
| 4 | Hanna Klein | Germany | 27:19 |
| 5 | Selamawit Teferi | Israel | 27:20 |
| 6 | Miriam Dattke | Germany | 27:22 |
| 7 | Samrawit Mengsteab | Sweden | 27:27 |
| 8 | Jessica Warner-Judd | United Kingdom | 27:27 |
| 9 | Abbie Donnelly | United Kingdom | 27:28 |
| 10 | Veerle Bakker | Netherlands | 27:34 |
| 11 | Eilish Flanagan | Ireland | 27:38 |
| 12 | Roisin Flanagan | Ireland | 27:38 |
| 13 | Poppy Tank | United Kingdom | 27:44 |
| 14 | Jessica Gibbon | United Kingdom | 27:44 |
| 15 | Irene Sánchez-Escribano | Spain | 27:46 |
| 16 | Marie Bouchard | France | 27:49 |
| 17 | Águeda Marqués | Spain | 27:56 |
| 18 | Silke Jonkman | Netherlands | 27:58 |
| 19 | Sarah Lahti | Sweden | 28:05 |
| 20 | Caterina Granz | Germany | 28:10 |
| 21 | Nicole Svetlana Reina | Italy | 28:11 |
| 22 | Carl Hughes | United Kingdom | 28:16 |
| 23 | Naima Ait Alibou | Spain | 28:16 |
| 24 | Isabel Barreiro | Spain | 28:18 |
| 25 | Cecile Jarousseau | France | 28:19 |
| 26 | Amy-Eloise Markovc | United Kingdom | 28:20 |
| 27 | Mary Mulhare | Ireland | 28:32 |
| 28 | Carolina Robles | Spain | 28:32 |
| 29 | Claudia Prisecaru | Romania | 28:37 |
| 30 | Alice Mitard | France | 28:38 |
| 31 | Ann-Marie McGlynn | Ireland | 28:40 |
| 32 | Gaia Colli | Italy | 28:41 |
| 33 | Mélanie Allier | France | 28:45 |
| 34 | Hanne Verbruggen | Belgium | 28:46 |
| 35 | Lisa Rooms | Belgium | 28:54 |
| 36 | Johanna Peiponen | Finland | 28:55 |
| 37 | Sabina Jarzabek | Poland | 28:55 |
| 38 | Emine Hatun Mechaal | Turkey | 28:57 |
| 39 | Sarah Madeleine | France | 29:02 |
| 40 | Militsa Mircheva | Bulgaria | 29:02 |
| 41 | Marta García | Spain | 29:05 |
| 42 | Özlem Kaya | Turkey | 29:05 |
| 43 | Carolien Millenaar | Denmark | 29:06 |
| 44 | Nanna Bové | Denmark | 29:09 |
| 45 | Sara Christiansson | Sweden | 29:12 |
| 46 | Aoibhe Richardson | Ireland | 29:13 |
| 47 | Karawan Halabi | Israel | 29:18 |
| 48 | Juliane Hvid | Denmark | 29:22 |
| 49 | Eline Dalemans | Belgium | 29:25 |
| 50 | Federica Zanne | Italy | 29:31 |
| 51 | Anastasia Denisova | Sweden | 29:32 |
| 52 | Hadar Ophir Forer | Israel | 29:36 |
| 53 | Annie Saugstrup | Denmark | 29:46 |
| 54 | Laura Maasik | Estonia | 29:48 |
| 55 | Michelle Finn | Ireland | 29:57 |
| 56 | Lilla Böhm | Sweden | 29:59 |
| 57 | Anja Fink | Slovenia | 30:01 |
| 58 | Maryna Nemchenko | Sweden | 30:06 |
| 59 | Sophie Tonneau | France | 30:22 |
| 60 | Cristina Molteni | Italy | 30:46 |
| 61 | Ismini Panagiotopoulou | Greece | 31:10 |
| 62 | Eirini Tsoupaki | Greece | 32:00 |
| 63 | Maria Gorette Subano | Italy | 32:46 |
| — | Yasemin Can | Turkey | DNF |
| — | Michela Moretton | Italy | DNF |
| — | Sara Schou Kristensen | Denmark | DNF |
| — | Evgenia Papadimatou | Greece | DNF |
| — | Camilla Richardsson | Finland | DNS |
Team race :
| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Germany Konstanze Klosterhalfen Alina Reh Hanna Klein Miriam Dattke Caterina Granz | 9 pts (2+3+4) |
| | Great Britain Jessica Warner-Judd Abbie Donnelly Poppy Tank Jessica Gibbon Cari Hughes Amy-Eloise Markovc | 30 pts (8+9+13) |
| | Ireland Eilish Flanagan Roisin Flanagan Mary Mulhare Ann-Marie McGlynn Aoibhe Richardson Michelle Finn | 50 pts (11+12+27) |
| 4 | Spain Irene Sánchez-Escribano Águeda Marqués Naima Ait Alibou Isabel Barreiro Carolina Robles Marta García | 55 pts (15+17+23) |
| 5 | France Marie Bouchard Cecile Jarousseau Alice Mitard Mélanie Allier Sarah Madeleine Sophie Tonneau | 71 pts (16+25+30) |
| 6 | Sweden Samrawit Mensteab Sarah Lahti Sara Christiansson Anastasia Denisova | 71 pts (7+19+45) |
| 7 | Italy Nicole Svetlana Reina Gaia Colli Federica Zanne Cristina Molteni Maria Gorette Subano Michela Moretton | 103 pts (21+32+50) |
| 8 | Israel Selamawit Teferi Karawan Halabi Hadar Ophir Forer | 104 pts (5+47+52) |
| 9 | Belgium Hanne Verbruggen Lisa Rooms Eline Dalemans | 118 pts (34+35+49) |
| 10 | Denmark Carolien Millenaar Nanna Bové Juliane Hvid Annie Saugstrup Sara Schou Kristensen | 135 pts (43+44+48) |