2015 European Cross Country Championships

The 2015 European Cross Country Championships was the 22nd edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was hosted in Hyères, France.^[1]

2015 European Cross Country Championships
Organisers	EAA
Edition	22nd
Date	13 December
Host city	Hyères, France
Venue	Hippodrome de Hyères
Events	6
Distances	10.117 km – Men 8.087 km – Women 8.087 km – U23 men 5.947 km – U23 women 5.947 km – Junior men 4.157 km – Junior women
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The 2014 runner-up Ali Kaya took the men's senior title, retaining the crown for Turkey. Spain, led by 2013 champion Alemayehu Bezabeh, returned to the top of the team rankings in that category. Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands was the women's senior winner, building upon her under-23 title win of 2013. Great Britain defended the women's team title, led by Kate Avery, who was runner-up for a second time running.^[2] Both senior individual runners were non-European born (Kenya for Kaya and Ethiopia for Hassan). All of the top five finishers in the men's race were born outside Europe.^[3]

Race results

Senior men

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Ali Kaya	Turkey	29:20
	Alemayehu Bezabeh	Spain	29:31
	Adel Mechaal	Spain	29:51
4	Ayad Lamdassem	Spain	29:57
5	Ilias Fifa	Spain	30:02
6	Florian Carvalho	France	30:06
7	Roberto Aláiz	Spain	30:20
8	Yohan Durand	France	30:20
9	Morhad Amdouni	France	30:24
10	David Nilsson	Sweden	30:25

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Spain Bezabeh Mechaal Lamdassem Fifa	14
	France Carvalho Durand Amdouni Timothée Bommier	35
	Great Britain Tom Lancashire Ross Millington Dewi Griffiths Jonathan Taylor	78

Senior women

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	25:47
	Kate Avery	Great Britain	25:55
	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway	25:57
4	Fionnuala McCormack	Ireland	26:00
5	Ancuta Bobocel	Romania	26:07
6	Steph Twell	Great Britain	26:08
7	Clémence Calvin	France	26:17
8	Gemma Steel	Great Britain	26:25
9	Maureen Koster	Netherlands	26:28
10	Johana Peiponen	Finland	26:34

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Great Britain Avery Twell Steel Lauren Howarth	33
	France Calvin Christelle Daunay Liv Westphal Christine Bardelle	78
	Ireland McCormack Lizzie Lee Caroline Crowley Ciara Durkan	83

Under-23 men

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Jonathan Davies	Great Britain	23:32
	Carlos Mayo	Spain	23:35
	Amanal Petros	Germany	23:29
4	Marc Scott	Great Britain	23:29
5	Djilali Bedrani	France	23:41
6	Lorenzo Dini	Italy	23:41
7	Nassim Hassaous	Spain	23:47
8	Napoleon Soloman	Sweden	23:49
9	Jaime Escriche	Spain	23:50
10	Peter Glans	Denmark	23:52

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Spain Mayo Hassaous Escriche Houssane Benabbou	39
	Great Britain Davies Scott Richard Goodman Henry Pearce	41
	France Bedrani Alexandre Saddedine Francois Barrer Félix Bour	59

Under-23 women

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Louise Carton	Belgium	19:46
	Jip Vastenburg	Netherlands	19:46
	Amela Terzić	Serbia	19:49
4	Laura Muir	Great Britain	19:53
5	Viktoria Kushnir	Belarus	20:05
6	Sarah Lahti	Sweden	20:06
7	Federica Del Buono	Italy	20:12
8	Emma Oudiou	France	20:14
9	Molly Renfer	Switzerland	20:14
10	Madeleine Murray	Great Britain	20:15

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Great Britain Muir M. Murray Nesbitt R. Murray	41
	France Oudiou Danois Bouchard Jarousseau	71
	Italy Federica Del Buono Christine Santi Costanza Martinetti Francesca Bertoni Isabella Papa Silvia Oggioni	82

Junior men

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Yemaneberhan Crippa	Italy	17:39
	Fabien Palcau	France	17:45
	El Madhi Lahoufi	Spain	17:46
4	Jimmy Gressier	France	17:48
5	Said Ettaqy	Italy	17:49
6	Stan Niesten	Netherlands	17:51
7	Mohamed-Amine El Bouajaji	France	17:52
8	Dieter Kersten	Belgium	17:53
9	Alexander Yee	United Kingdom	17:53
10	Pietro Riva	Italy	17:55

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	France Fabien Palcau Jimmy Gressier Mohamed-Amine El Bouajaji Maxime Hueber Moosbrugger	27
	Italy Yemaneberhan Crippa Said Ettaqy Pietro Riva Alessandro Giacobazzi	29
	United Kingdom Alexander Yee Christopher Olley Ben Dijkstra Mahamed Mahamed	67

Junior women

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Konstanze Klosterhalfen	Germany	13:12
	Harriet Knowles-Jones	Great Britain	13:16
	Alina Reh	Germany	13:20
4	Célia Antón	Spain	13:27
5	Bobby Clay	Great Britain	13:29
6	Sarah Kistner	Germany	13:35
7	Carolina Johnson	Sweden	13:36
8	Anna Emilie Møller	Denmark	13:37
9	Yuliya Moroz	Ukraine	13:40
10	Franziska Reng	Germany	13:40

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Germany Klosterhalfen Reh Kistner Reng	20
	Great Britain Knowles-Jones Clay Sinha Smith	40
	Denmark Møller Larsen Pedersen Schulz	62

References

1. Media Guide 2015 European Cross Country Championships. European Athletics. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
2. Hassan and Kaya victorious at European Cross Country Championships. IAAF (13 December 2015). Retrieved 13 December 2015.
3. SPAR European Cross Country Championships – Hyères 2015 Senior Men Final Archived 23 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine. European Athletics. Retrieved 13 December 2015.

External links

• Official website
• Results at European Athletics