Major General James G. Blunt

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]

Medal summary

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

Senior men

Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kaan Kigen Özbilen  Turkey 29:45
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Adel Mechaal  Spain 29:54
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Turkey
Kaan Kigen Özbilen, Aras Kaya, Polat Kemboi Arıkan
1+7+9=17
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Spain
Adel Mechaal, Daniel Mateo, Ayad Lamdassem
2+8+10=20
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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

Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yasemin Can  Turkey 26:48
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Meraf Bahta  Sweden 27:03
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Great Britain
Charlotte Taylor, Emelia Gorecka, Gemma Steel
6+8+9=23
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Romania
Roxana Bârcă, Ancuța Bobocel, Cristina Simion
4+11+16=31
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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

Rank Team Time (m:s)
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Great Britain
Melissa Courtney, Cameron Boyek, Sarah McDonald, Tom Marshall
18:24
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Czech Republic
Simona Vrzalová, Filip Sasínek, Kristiina Mäki, Jakub Holuša
18:25
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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

Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jimmy Gressier  France 24:35
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hugo Hay  France 24:37
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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
1st place, gold medalist(s)  France
Jimmy Gressier, Hugo Hay, Emmanuel Roudolff Lévisse
1+2+4=7
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Belgium
Simon Debognies, Robin Hendrix, Michael Somers
6+9+11=26
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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

Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
1st place, gold medalist(s) Alina Reh  Germany 20:22
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Konstanze Klosterhalfen  Germany 20:25
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Great Britain
Jessica Judd, Amy-Eloise Neale, Amy Griffiths
3+4+5=12
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Germany
Alina Reh, Konstanze Klosterhalfen, Anna Gehring
1+2+12=15
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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

Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jakob Ingebrigtsen  Norway 18:39
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ramazan Barbaros  Turkey 18:41
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Spain
Miguel González, Annasse Mahboub, Ignacio Fontes
5+7+8=20
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  France
Louis Gilavert, Yani Khelaf, Ilyes Boum
3+4+20=27
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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

Individual race
Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s)
1st place, gold medalist(s) Harriet Knowles-Jones  Great Britain 13:48
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Lili Tóth  Hungary 13:59
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Great Britain
Harriet Knowles-Jones, Cari Hughes, Khahisa Mhlanga
1+9+11=21
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Italy
Nadia Battocletti, Francesca Tommasi, Elisa Cherubini, Micol Majori, Laura De Marco
5+6+22=33
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  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

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

  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.
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