European Cross Country Championships 1994

The first European Cross Country Championships the EAA took place on 10. December 1994 in Alnwick ( England , UK ) instead.

The men started over 9.5 km, the women over 4.5 km.

Results

Men

Individual evaluation

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Paulo Guerra	POR	27:43
2	Domingos Castro	POR	27:59
3	Antonio Serrano	ESP	28:03
4th	José Carlos Adán	ESP	28:06
5	Abdellah Béhar	FRA	28:08
6th	Luca Barzaghi	ITA	28:10
7th	José Manuel García	ESP	28:11
8th	Antonio Pinto	POR	28:12

Out of 103 athletes who started, 101 reached the finish line.

Participants from German-speaking countries:

• 16: Dieter Baumann ( GER ), 28:25
• 44: Jens Volkmann ( GER ), 29:13
• 49: Carsten Arndt ( GER ), 29:18
• 58: Steffen Dittmann ( GER ), 29:29
• 68: Jürg Stalder ( SUI ), 29:51
• 75: Bernd Breitmaier ( GER ), 30:06
• 82: Martin Block ( GER ), 30:21

Team evaluation

space	Country and athletes	Total points and individual placement
1	Portugal Paulo Guerra Domingos Castro António Pinto Alberto Maravilha	20 0 1 02 08 09
2	Spain Antonio Serrano José Carlos Adán José Manuel García Alejandro Gómez	27 0 3 04 07 13
3	France Abdellah Béhar Mustapha Essaïd Mohamed Ezzher Bertrand Frechard	50 0 5 10 17 18

A total of 21 nations took part. The German team came ninth with 167 points.

Women

Individual evaluation

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Catherina McKiernan	IRL	14:29
2	Julia Vaquero	ESP	14:30
3	Elena Fidatov	ROU	14:36
4th	Alla Shilyayeva	RUS	14:45
5	Maria Rebelo	FRA	14:46
6th	Fernanda Ribeiro	POR	14:47
7th	Mariana Chirila	ROU	14:48
8th	Lieve Slegers	BEL	14:49

Of the 77 athletes who started, 69 made it to the finish line.

Participants from German-speaking countries:

• 33: Claudia Dreher ( GER ), 15:16
• 36: Claudia Metzner ( GER ), 15:19
• 49: Melanie Kraus ( GER ), 15:38
• 53: Andrea Karhoff ( GER ), 15:39
• DNF: Claudia Stalder ( SUI )

Team evaluation

space	Country and athletes	Total points and individual placement
1	Romania Elena Fidatov Mariana Chirila Margareta Keszeg	26 0 3 07 16
2	France Maria Rebelo Blandine Bitzner-Ducret Farida Fatès	28 0 5 09 14
3	Portugal Fernanda Ribeiro Carla Sacramento Ana Dias	29 0 6 11 12

A total of 18 nations took part. The German team came in twelfth place with 118 points.

literature

• European Athletic Association (Ed.): Statistical Handbook. 13th SPAR European Cross Country Championships. mediasprint, Zofingen 2006, p. 20f. ( PDF; 681 kB )

Web links

• 1st European Cross Country Championships 1994 on the EAA website
• Event Result Database - European Cross Country Championships on the EAA website