European Cross Country Championships 2010

The 17th European Cross Country Championships the EAA took place on 12. December 2010 in Albufeira ( Portugal instead).

The course in the holiday resort Aldeia das Açoteias consisted of a 1600 m long loop and a smaller 500 m long loop, which was built into the course of all races except for the men in order to achieve the distances prescribed in the regulations. In addition, there was 270 m between start and finish. The men completed six large laps (9.87 km), the women and U23 men four large and three small laps (8.17 km), the U23 women and the juniors three large and two small laps (6.07 km) ) and the juniors two large and one small lap (3.970 km).

The defending champion Alemayehu Bezabeh was not at the start because he had been excluded from the Spanish team after the arrest of his coach Manuel Pascua in the Fuentes doping scandal .

Results

Men

Individual evaluation

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Serhiy Lebid	UKR	29:15
2	Ayad Lamdassem	ESP	29:18
3	Yousef El Kalai	POR	29:19
4th	Abdellatif Meftah	FRA	29:21
5	Morhad Amdouni	FRA	29:21
6th	Andrea Lalli	ITA	29:28
7th	Eduardo Mbengani	POR	29:29
8th	Rui Pedro Silva	POR	29:32

Of 75 registered athletes, 74 started and 71 made it to the finish.

Participants from German-speaking countries:

• 12: Steffen Uliczka ( GER ), 29:36
• 13: Stéphane Joly ( SUI ), 29:39
• 22: Philipp Bandi ( SUI ), 29:51
• 56: Michael Schmid ( AUT ), 31:29
• 65: Vincent Nothum ( LUX ), 32:45

Team evaluation

space	Country and athletes	Total points and individual placement
1	France Abdellatif Meftah Morhad Amdouni Mokhtar Benhari Driss El Himer	33 0 4 05 10 14
2	Portugal Yousef El Kalai Eduardo Mbengani Rui Pedro Silva Rui Silva	35 0 3 07 08 17
3	Spain Ayad Lamdassem Jesús España Ricardo Serrano Francisco Javier López	58 0 2 09 19 28

A total of ten teams were rated.

Women

Individual evaluation

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Jéssica Augusto	POR	26:52
2	Binnaz Uslu	DOOR	26:57
3	Ana Dulce Félix	POR	26:59
4th	Fionnuala Britton	IRL	26:59
5	Tetiana Holovchenko	UKR	27:04
6th	Marisa Barros	POR	27:06
7th	Hatti Dean	GBR	27:08
8th	Alessandra Aguilar	ESP	27:09

Out of 49 registered and started athletes, 47 reached the finish.

Participants from German-speaking countries and regions:

• 30: Veronica Pohl ( GER ), 28:35
• 43: Agnes Tschurtschenthaler ( ITA ), 29:48
• 45: Tamara Winkler ( SUI ), 30:18

Team evaluation

space	Country and athletes	Total points and individual placement
1	Portugal Jéssica Augusto Ana Dulce Félix Marisa Barros Sara Moreira	19 0 1 03 06 09
2	United Kingdom Hatti Dean Louise Ladies Stephanie Twell Helen Clitheroe	65 0 7 17 20 21
3	Spain Alessandra Aguilar Diana Martín Nuria Fernández Irene Pelayo	72 0 8 14 16 34

A total of seven teams were rated.

U23 men

Individual evaluation

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Sidi-Hassan Chahdi	FRA	24:11
2	Florian Carvalho	FRA	24:14
3	Yegor Nikolaev	RUS	24:15

Of 102 registered and started athletes, 96 reached the finish.

• 10: Florian Orth ( GER ), 24:44
• 18: Fynn Schwiegelshohn ( GER ), 24:55
• 31: Richard Ringer ( GER ), 25:11
• 46: Andreas Vojta ( AUT ), 25:32
• 47: Valentin Pfeil ( AUT ), 25:33
• 70: Marcel Berni ( SUI ), 25:59
• 75: Hagen Brosius ( GER ), 26:10
• 86: Andreas Kempf ( SUI ), 26:34
• 92: Christoph Sander ( AUT ), 27:01
• 94: Jürgen Aigner ( AUT ), 27:18

Team evaluation

space	Country and athletes	Total points and individual placement
1	Ireland David McCarthy Brendan O'Neill Michael Mulhare David Rooney	60 11 13 16 20
2	France Sidi-Hassan Chahdi Florian Carvalho Abdelatif Hadjam Etienne Diemunsch	78 0 1 02 24 51
3	Spain Sebastián Martos Antonio Abadía Javier García Víctor Corrales	79 12 14 26 27

A total of 16 teams were rated. The German team came in eighth with 134 points, the Austrian team in 15th place with 279 points.

U23 women

Individual evaluation

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Cristina Jordán	ESP	20:17
2	Emma Pallant	GBR	20:28
3	Hanna Nosenko	UKR

The original winner Meryem Erdoğan (20:08 min) from Turkey was subsequently disqualified because of irregularities in the blood profile. Of the 65 registered athletes, 64 started and 61 reached the finish.

Participants from German-speaking countries:

• 19: Jana Sussmann ( GER ), 21:13
• 23: Anna Hahner ( GER ), 21:19
• 32: Lisa Hahner ( GER ), 21:39
• 33: Maren Kock ( GER ), 21:46
• 39: Ursula Gatzweiler ( GER ), 21:57
• 42: Celine Hauert ( SUI ), 22:04
• 47: Mareike Schrulle ( GER ), 22:15
• 58: Tanja Eberhart ( AUT ), 22:56
• DNS: Anita Baierl ( AUT )

Team evaluation

space	Country and athletes	Total points and individual placement
1	United Kingdom Emma Pallant Natalie Gray Emily Pidgeon Sarah Waldron	47 0 3 07 16 21
2	Russia Ekaterina Gorbunowa NataljaVlassowa Lyudmila Lebedewa Alfija Khassanowa	49 0 9 12 13 15
3	Ukraine Anna Nossenko Wiktorija Pohorjelska Olha Skrypak Lyudmyla Kowalenko	65 0 4 08 17 36

A total of eight teams were rated. The German team came in fifth with 107 points.

Juniors

Individual evaluation

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Abdelaziz Merzougui	ESP	18:07
2	Nemanja Cerovac	SRB	18:07
3	Rui Pinto	POR	18:09

Of 104 registered and started athletes, 99 reached the finish.

Participants from German-speaking countries:

• 19: Tom Gröschel ( GER ), 18:36
• 37: Timo Benitz ( GER ), 19:02
• 51: Simon Rohrbach ( SUI ), 19:12
• 63: Janik Niederhauser ( SUI ), 19:20
• 71: Severin Sager ( SUI ), 7:30 p.m.
• 73: Stig Rehberg ( GER ), 19:32
• 77: Simon Boch ( GER ), 19:39
• 79: Otto Peetz ( GER ), 19:42
• 87: Jonas Fahrni ( SUI ), 19:53
• DNF: Marcel Fehr ( GER )

Team evaluation

space	Country and athletes	Total points and individual placement
1	United Kingdom Ryan Saunders Jonathan Hay John McDonnell Andrew Combs	62 10 14 16 22
2	Portugal Rui Pinto Emanuel Rolim José Costa Nuno Santos	74 0 3 21 24 26
3	Russia Andrei Russakow Viktor Sajenko Ilgisar Safiullin Nikolai Lyalikow	83 0 6 15 30 32

A total of 17 teams were rated. The German team came in twelfth with 206 points, the Swiss team in 15th place with 272 points.

Juniors

Individual evaluation

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Charlotte Purdue	GBR	12:42
2	Amela Terzić	SRB	12:59
3	Emelia Gorecka	GBR	13:00

Of 76 registered athletes, 75 started and 74 reached the finish.

Participants from German-speaking countries:

• 5: Corinna Harrer ( GER ), 13:08
• 11: Gesa Felicitas Krause ( GER ), 13:22
• 18: Maya Rehberg ( GER ), 13:43
• 19: Jannika John ( GER ), 13:44
• 21: Elena Burkard ( GER ), 13:47
• 29: Jennifer Wenth ( AUT ), 13:58
• 41: Tiffany Langel ( SUI ), 14:11
• 50: Regula Wyttenbach ( SUI ), 14:20
• 63: Regina Neumeyer ( GER ), 14:40
• DNS: Priska Auf der Maur ( SUI )

Team evaluation

space	Country and athletes	Total points and individual placement
1	United Kingdom Charlotte Purdue Emelia Gorecka Lily Partridge Annabel Gummow	23 0 1 03 09 10
2	Germany Corinna Harrer Gesa Felicitas Krause Maya Rehberg Jannika John	53 0 5 11 18 19
3	Romania Ioana Doagă Mirela Lavric Anca Maria Bunea Dana Elena Login	64 0 8 14 16 26

A total of eleven teams were rated.

Web links

• 17th SPAR European Cross Country Championships on the EAA website
• Results lists on Leichtathletik.de

Footnotes

1. ↑ the daily newspaper : Spanish doping ring lifted: Operation Greyhound . December 12, 2010
2. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Cristina Jordan receives gold retrospectively , www.leichtathletik.de January 15, 2013

Coordinates: 37 ° 5 ′ 32 "  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 43"  W.