The 3rd European Cross Country Championships

European Cross Country Championships

The European Cross Country Championships is an annual international cross country running competition. Organised by the European Athletic Association, it is the area championships for the region and is held in December each year...

were held at Charleroi

Charleroi

Charleroi is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. , the total population of Charleroi was 201,593. The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of and had a total population of 522,522 as of 1 January 2008, ranking it as...

 in Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 on 15 December 1996. Jon Brown

Jon Brown

Jonathan Michael Brown is a former British athlete, now representing Canada. He specialises in the marathon....

 took the title in the men's competition and Sara Wedlund won the women's race.

Men individual 9.65km

Pos.	Runners	Time
	Jon Brown Jon Brown Jonathan Michael Brown is a former British athlete, now representing Canada. He specialises in the marathon....	32:37
	Paulo Guerra Paulo Guerra Paulo Alexandre Martins Guerra is a Portuguese runner who specialized in the 10,000 metres and cross-country running...	33:12
	Mustapha Essaïd	33:19
4.	Carsten Jørgensen Carsten Jørgensen Carsten Jørgensen is a Danish orienteering competitor and World champion. He won a gold medal in the 1997 World Orienteering Championships in Grimstad with the Danish Relay team. He received a bronze medal in the 1995 World Orienteering Championships in Detmold .He has been quite successful in...	33:20
5.	Eduardo Henriques Eduardo Henriques Eduardo António da Silva Henriques is a Portuguese runner who specialized in the 3000 metres steeplechase and cross-country running...	33:28
6.	Umberto Pusterla	33:36
7.	Vincent Rousseau Vincent Rousseau Vincent Rousseau is a former long-distance runner from Belgium, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1984. In 1993, he had his biggest success by winning the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Brussels, the next year followed by the first...	33:42
8.	Yann Millon	33:42
9.	Vítor Almeida	33:43
10.	Andrea Arlati	33:44
11.	José Regalo	33:54
12.	Alejandro Gómez Alejandro Gómez (athlete) Alejandro Gómez Cabral is a retired Spanish long-distance runner who specialized in the marathon and cross-country running.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*1500 metres - 3:39.18 min...	27:17

100 runners finished.

Men teams

Pos.	Team	Points
	Paulo Guerra Paulo Guerra Paulo Alexandre Martins Guerra is a Portuguese runner who specialized in the 10,000 metres and cross-country running...   Eduardo Henriques Eduardo Henriques Eduardo António da Silva Henriques is a Portuguese runner who specialized in the 3000 metres steeplechase and cross-country running...   Vítor Almeida  José Regalo	27
	Mustapha Essaïd  Yann Millon  Cédric Dehouck  Mohamed Ezzher	47
	Vincent Rousseau Vincent Rousseau Vincent Rousseau is a former long-distance runner from Belgium, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1984. In 1993, he had his biggest success by winning the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Brussels, the next year followed by the first...   Marc Vanderstraeten  Koen Van Rie  Eric Bouffioux	59
4.		62
5.		76
6.		86
7.		124
8.		138

Total 24 teams

Women individual 4.55km

Pos.	Runners	Time
	Sara Wedlund	17:04
	Julia Vaquero	17:14
	Annemari Sandell	17:19
4.	Elene Fidatov	17:24
5.	Albertina Dias Albertina Dias Maria Albertina da Costa Dias Pereira is a former Portuguese long-distance runner. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1988...	17:29
6.	Claudia Lokar	17:35
7.	Yanna Oubouhou	17:36
8.	Hayley Haining Hayley Haining Hayley Haining is a British runner who was nominated as a reserve for the British team for the 2008 Olympic Games.-Running career:...	17:37
9.	Laurence Vivier	17:39
10.	Anja Smolders	17:41
11.	Chryssie Girard	17:42
12.	Laurence Duquenoy	17:46

Iulia Negura from Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 finished first (16:58), but was disqualified because of doping violation.
73 runners finished.

Women teams

Pos.	Team	Points
	Yanna Oubouhou  Laurence Viver  Chryssie Girard	27
	Hayley Haining Hayley Haining Hayley Haining is a British runner who was nominated as a reserve for the British team for the 2008 Olympic Games.-Running career:...   Andrea Whitcombe  Suzanne Rigg	39
	Anja Smolders  Veronique Collard  Lieve Slegers Lieve Slegers Lieve Slegers is a former long-distance runner from Belgium, who won the Rotterdam Marathon on 28 April 1996 clocking 2:28:06. She represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the women's 10,000 metres, where she was eliminated in the qualifying heats. Slegers also competed at the...	43
4.		45
5.		64
6.		69
7.		71
8.		71

Total 19 teams

External links

• Database containing all results between 1994-2007