2025 European Cross Country Championships

2025 European Cross Country Championships
Organisers	EAA
Edition	31st
Date	14 December
Host city	Lagoa,
Venue	Lagoa, Portugal
Events	7
Distances	~7.5 km – Men ~7.5 km – Women ~6 km – U23 men ~6 km – U23 women ~4.5 km – U20 men ~4.5 km – U20 women ~4 x 1.5 km – Mixed relay
Official website	Lagoa 2025
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The 2025 European Cross Country Championships was the 31st edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was held on 14 December 2025 in Lagoa, Portugal. ^{[1] [2]} The competition consisted of seven races and thirteen medal events; each of the six individual events (junior, under-23 and senior races for both men and women) also included a team classification based on aggregate finishing positions, while a thirteenth event, a mixed relay, was also held.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Portugal)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Spain  (ESP)	3	2	3	8
2	Belgium  (BEL)	3	0	0	3
3	Great Britain  (GBR)	2	3	1	6
4	Ireland  (IRL)	2	1	1	4
5	Italy  (ITA)	2	0	0	2
6	France  (FRA)	1	4	4	9
7	Germany  (GER)	0	1	1	2
8	Finland  (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Portugal  (POR)*	0	1	0	1
10	Sweden  (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey  (TUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		13	13	13	39

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Individual
Senior men details	Thierry Ndikumwenayo   Spain	22:05	Jimmy Gressier   France	22:08	Dominic Lobalu   Switzerland	22:23
Senior women details	Nadia Battocletti   Italy	24:52	Megan Keith   Great Britain	25:07	Yasemin Can   Turkey	25:13
U23 men details	Nick Griggs   Ireland	17:47	Aurélien Radja   France	17:59	Pierre Boudy   France	18:03
U23 women details	Maria Forero   Spain	19:59	Ilona Mononen   Finland	20:04	Pia Schlattmann   Germany	20:23
U20 men details	Willem Renders   Belgium	13:11	Oscar Gaitan   Spain	13:12	Alois Abraham   France	13:19
U20 women details	Innes Fitzgerald   Great Britain	14:35	Lucie Paturel   France	15:07	Emma Hickey   Ireland	15:10
Team
Senior men details	Spain Thierry Ndikumwenayo Abdessamad Oukhelfen Aarón las Heras Ilias Fifa Said Mechaal Daniel Arce	16	Ireland Jack O'Leary Brian Fay Cormac Dalton Darragh McElhinney Efrem Gidey	26	France Jimmy Gressier Fabien Palcau Simon Bedard Luc le Baron Valentin Bresc Hugo Hay	37
Senior women details	Belgium		Great Britain		France
U23 men details	Ireland		France		Spain
U23 women details	France		Germany		Spain
U20 men details	Belgium		Great Britain		Spain
U20 women details	Great Britain		Spain		Sweden
mixed relay
Mixed relay details	Italy		Portugal		Great Britain

• Note: Athletes in italics did not score for the team result.

Results

Senior men

Individual race Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s) Thierry Ndikumwenayo   Spain 22:05 Jimmy Gressier   France 22:08 Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu   Switzerland 22:23 4 Scott Beattie   Great Britain 22:23 5 Jack O'Leary   Ireland 22:25 6 Abdessamad Oukhelfen   Spain 22:27 7 Ruben Querinjean   Luxembourg 22:28 8 Simon Sundström   Sweden 22:29 9 Aarón Las Heras   Spain 22:30 10 Brian Fay   Ireland 22:31 11 Cormac Dalton   Ireland 22:31 12 Ilias Fifa   Spain 22:38 16 Darragh McElhinney   Ireland 22:49 19 Efrem Gidey   Ireland 22:52 47 Said Mechaal   Spain 23:38 54 Daniel Arce   Spain 23:51 61 Ayetullah Aslanhan   Turkey 24:12 65 Ersin Tekal   Turkey 24:12 66 Azat Demirtaş   Turkey 24:33 67 Anders Nedergaard   Denmark 24:49 [3] 2025 European Cross Country Championships - Men's 7.5 km results

Team race Rank Team Points   Spain 16 (1+6+9)   Ireland 26 {5+10+11)   France 37 (2+15+20) 4   Great Britain 50 (4+17+29) 5   Portugal 68 (14+21+33) 6   Norway 72 (18+22+32) 7   Sweden 87 (8+24+55) 8   Italy 98 (25+31+42) 9   Israel 122 (23+37+62) 10   Denmark 176 (53+56+67) 11   Turkey 192 (61+65+66) 12   Gibraltar 120 (78+20+22)

Senior women

Individual race Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s) Nadia Battocletti   Italy 24:52 Megan Keith   Great Britain 25:07 Yasemin Can   Turkey 25:13 4 Jana Van Lent   Belgium 25:24 5 Lisa Rooms   Belgium 25:34 6 Amina Maatoug   Netherlands 25:36 7 Chloe Herbiet   Belgium 25:43 8 Elena Burkard   Germany 25:45 9 Sarah Lathi   Sweden 25:48 10 Fiona Everard   Ireland 25:54 23 Niamh Allen   Ireland 26:15 36 Danielle Donegan   Ireland 26:42 44 Emily Haggard-Kearney   Ireland 27:06 50 Mary Mulhare   Ireland 27:25 [4] 2025 European Cross Country Championships - Women's 7.5 km results

Team race Rank Team Points   Belgium 16 (4+5+7)   Great Britain 39 (2+16+21)   France 42 (11+12+19) 4   Italy 43 (1+14+28) 5   Netherlands 47 (6+15+26) 6   Turkey 51 (3+13+35) 7   Spain 68 (17+18+33) 8   Ireland 69 (10+23+36) 9   Norway 84 (20+25+39) 10   Portugal 123 (27+38+58) 11   Denmark 157 (45+55+57)

Men's Cross Country U23 Race

Individual race Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s) Nick Griggs   Ireland 17:47 Aurélien Radja   France 17:59 Pierre Boudy   France 18:03 4 Joel Ibler Lillesø   Denmark 18:05 5 Jaime Migallon   Spain 18:06 6 Matthew Ramsden   Great Britain 18:06 7 Stefan Nillessen   Netherlands 18:07 8 Callum Morgan   Ireland 18:12 9 Gábor Karsai   Hungary 18:13 10 Niall Murphy   Ireland 18:13 29 Jonas Stafford   Ireland 18:35 48 Lughaidh Mallon   Ireland 19:06 [5]

Team race Rank Team Points   Ireland 19   France 33   Spain 42 4   Great Britain 51 5   Germany 71 6   Netherlands 76 7   Portugal 86 8   Belgium 89 9   Italy 91 10   Norway 105 11   Denmark 105 12   Poland 107 13   Turkey 168

Women's Cross Country U23 Race

Individual race Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s) Maria Forero   Spain 19:59 Ilona Mononen   Finland 20:04 Pia Schlattmann   Germany 20:23 4 Lisa Merkel   Germany 20:25 5 Julia David-Smith   France 20:37 6 Marta Serrano   Spain 20:38 7 Camille Place   France 20:38 8 Lucia Arnoldo   Italy 20:54 9 Nélie Clément   France 20:55 10 Julia Rosén   Sweden 20:56 11 Kirsty Maher   Ireland 20:57 12 Greta Settino   Italy 20:59 13 Emily Parker   Great Britain 21:03 14 Kira Weis   Germany 21:08 15 Katarzyna Napiórkowska   Poland 21:09 16 Elsa Sundqvist   Sweden 21:11 17 Liv Dinis   Sweden 21:12 18 Mireya Arnedillo   Spain 21:12 19 Megan Harris   Great Britain 21:14 20 Amy Greene   Ireland 21:15 21 Rebecca Flaherty   Great Britain 21:19 22 India Barwell   Great Britain 21:20 23 Nele Heymann   Germany 21:22 24 Thea Charlotte Knutsen   Norway 21:22 25 Ava O'Connor   Ireland 21:24 26 Anika Thompson   Ireland 21:30 27 Daria Domżalska   Poland 21:30 28 Rita Figueiredo   Portugal 21:32 29 Julie Voet   Belgium 21:32 30 Mia Waldmann   Great Britain 21:32 31 Ronja Hofstetter   Switzerland 21:38 32 Sila Bayir   Turkey 21:41 33 Jimena Blanco   Spain 21:43 34 Roise Roberts   Ireland 21:45 35 Carolina Fraquelli   Italy 21:45 36 Małgorzata Karpiuk   Poland 21:45 37 Beatrice Wood   Great Britain 21:46 38 Rocio Garrido   Spain 21:47 39 Emma D'Haene   Belgium 21:47 40 Ida Kraft   Sweden 21:51 41 Merve Karakaya   Turkey 21:52 42 Iva Gieselová   Czech Republic 21:53 43 Marit Griep   Netherlands 21:53 44 Loes Kempe   Netherlands 21:54 45 Yana Pauwelyn   Belgium 21:54 46 Elena Ribigini   Italy 21:55 47 Buse Mayda   Turkey 21:57 48 Lola Darcy   France 21:58 49 Ana Marinho   Portugal 22:00 50 Laura Ribigini   Italy 22:02 51 Marta Castro   Portugal 22:02 52 Beatriz Rios   Portugal 22:06 53 Corre Jade Le   France 22:14 54 Nicole Bauer   Austria 22:19 55 Hannah Enkels   Belgium 22:23 56 Diana Fernandes   Portugal 22:28 57 Alise Petrova   Latvia 22:36 58 Karolina Bliujūte   Lithuania 22:52 59 Gamze Altuntaş   Turkey 23:05 60 Kaisa-Maria Oll   Estonia 23:10 61 Eleonora Višnevskytė   Lithuania 23:22 62 Svetlozara Grozdanova   Bulgaria 24:26 63 Beatriz Azevedo   Portugal 24:47 Sofia Thøgersen   Denmark DNF Chiara Munaretto   Italy DNF Marte Hovland   Norway DNF Liliana Młynarczyk   Poland DNF Jihad Essoubai   Spain DNS Melissa Fracassini   Italy DNS Uliana Rachynska   Ukraine DNS [6]

Team race Rank Team Points   France 21   Germany 21   Spain 25 4   Sweden 43 5   Great Britain 53 6   Italy 55 7   Ireland 56 8   Poland 78 9   Belgium 113 10   Turkey 120 11   Portugal 128

Women's Cross Country U20 Race

Individual race Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s) Innes Fitzgerald   Great Britain 14:35 Lucie Paturel   France 15:07 Emma Hickey   Ireland 15:10 6 Anna Gardiner   Ireland 15:17 56 Lucy Foster   Ireland 16:12 78 Eimear Cooney   Ireland 16:43 79 Abby Smith   Ireland 16:43 [7]

Team race Rank Team Points   Great Britain 33   Spain 38   Sweden 44 4   Netherlands 56 5   Germany 60 6   Ireland 65 7   Turkey 73 8   France 87 9   Switzerland 87 10   Italy 106 11 12 13

Men's Cross Country U20 Race

Individual race Rank Athlete Country Time (m:s) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 1. Willem RENDERS 07 FEB 2007 BEL 13:11 2. Oscar GAITAN 20 JAN 2006 ESP 13:12 3. Alois ABRAHAM 25 JUL 2008 FRA 13:19 4. Ali TUNÇ 01 JAN 2006 TUR 13:19 5. Magnus ØYEN 26 APR 2007 NOR 13:24 6. Sem SERRANO 03 FEB 2006 BEL 13:29 7. Ilyes DRUEZ 18 MAR 2008 BEL 13:29 8. Matthieu BÜHRER 24 MAY 2006 SUI 13:31 9. Adam ČERVINKA 18 MAR 2007 CZE 13:31 10. Noah HARRIS 30 MAY 2007 IRL 13:32 11. David SCHELLER 10 JUL 2006 GER 13:32 12. William Sean RABJOHNS 11 FEB 2006 GBR 13:33 13. Cormac DIXON 18 JAN 2006 IRL 13:33 14. Alejandro IBAÑEZ 15 SEP 2007 ESP 13:36 15. Alex LENNON 28 APR 2008 GBR 13:37 16. Karl OTTFALK 03 JAN 2006 SWE 13:38 17. Bertold KALÁSZ 28 MAR 2007 HUN 13:38 18. Michael CLARK 15 JUL 2008 GBR 13:39 19. Aldin ĆATOVIĆ 06 APR 2007 SRB 13:39 20. Come LE BARON 29 AUG 2006 FRA 13:44 21. Tiago JORGE 23 NOV 2006 POR 13:45 22. Aleksander OKRUCIŃSKI 03 JUL 2008 POL 13:45 23. Loïc BERGER 24 FEB 2006 SUI 13:46 24. Aleksi AHLFORS 09 APR 2007 FIN 13:49 25. Yonis DUNET 2006 FRA 13:51 26. Benjámin SZABÓ 20 OCT 2006 HUN 13:52 27. Paul-Mathieu LANNUZEL 2006 FRA 13:53 28. Sebastian STAGH 05 FEB 2008 SWE 13:54 29. Kristers KUDLIS 25 NOV 2006 LAT 13:54 30. Ander ARAMENDI 09 JAN 2006 ESP 13:55 31. Quinn MIELL-INGRAM 21 MAY 2006 GBR 13:55 32. Sebastian LÖRSTAD 17 APR 2008 SWE 13:55 33. Nahom TESFALEM TEWELDE 04 AUG 2006 NOR 13:56 34. Kristian BRÅTHEN BØRVE 08 DEC 2006 NOR 13:56 35. Elliot VERMEULEN 28 APR 2006 BEL 13:56 36. Caolan MCFADDEN 06 MAY 2007 IRL 13:57 37. Théotime POPEA 02 MAY 2008 SUI 13:57 38. Vittore Simone BORROMINI 18 AUG 2007 ITA 13:58 39. Lewe TEUBER 2006 GER 13:59 40. Andres LARA 23 JUN 2006 ESP 13:59 41. Jakub ABRAMCZYK 21 JAN 2006 POL 14:00 42. Leni REMER MANCINI 19 OCT 2007 FRA 14:01 43. Hugo WITTEVEEN 26 AUG 2008 SUI 14:02 44. Filip JANČÍK 23 JAN 2006 SVK 14:05 45. Atakan Enes ÇİÇEK 01 SEP 2009 TUR 14:05 46. Christopher DAHLMEYER 26 SEP 2006 GER 14:06 47. Lucian Florin ȘTEFAN 11 APR 2006 ROU 14:07 48. Giacomo BELLILLO 18 NOV 2006 ITA 14:07 49. Jonson HUGHES 11 MAR 2007 GBR 14:08 50. Erik NEDERHEIM 22 MAY 2006 SWE 14:09 51. Jonas BEUTLER 09 APR 2009 SUI 14:09 52. Levin SAVEUR 11 SEP 2007 GER 14:09 53. Leonardo OLIVEIRA 04 MAY 2007 POR 14:09 54. Lenny Fred RIEBE 06 MAY 2006 GER 14:10 55. Luke DUNHAM 03 FEB 2008 GBR 14:10 56. Alex HULKA 01 AUG 2006 SVK 14:10 57. Mihai-Alin ȘAVLOVSCHI 22 AUG 2006 ROU 14:11 58. Enrico RICCI 15 APR 2006 ITA 14:11 59. Leo RAJANIEMI 04 MAR 2009 FIN 14:12 60. Artem RYBKA 27 JUL 2006 UKR 14:12 61. Jochem WIERSMA 12 NOV 2006 NED 14:13 62. Mario PALENCIA 27 NOV 2006 ESP 14:13 63. Eden KOTILAINEN 02 OCT 2007 FIN 14:14 64. Kiyasettin KARA 08 AUG 2006 TUR 14:15 65. Finn DIVER 05 JUL 2006 IRL 14:15 66. Luigi Alessio TURRIN 08 APR 2006 ITA 14:15 67. Tom BRESLIN 16 NOV 2006 IRL 14:15 68. Sebastian SMED GRØNKJÆR 07 JUN 2008 DEN 14:16 69. Guillermo SANCHEZ 02 APR 2006 ESP 14:18 70. Tudor Mihai MARGASOIU 16 SEP 2008 ROU 14:18 71. Federico GIARDIELLO 2009 ITA 14:20 72. Poli STOFFEL 2006 LUX 14:22 73. Rostyslav MATKOVSKYI 19 DEC 2007 UKR 14:22 74. Anton BROGGINI 2006 SUI 14:22 75. Manuel DOS SANTOS 18 APR 2006 POR 14:22 76. Tiago MACHADO 17 JAN 2006 POR 14:26 77. Niels Elton JOKUMSEN 29 JUN 2007 DEN 14:31 78. Denys LYSENKO 04 JAN 2007 UKR 14:31 79. Arbel HENZEL 22 JAN 2008 ISR 14:31 80. Damien PECHON 2008 LUX 14:31 81. Pancho PANCHEV 23 NOV 2007 BUL 14:34 82. Antoni GULBINOWICZ 06 MAR 2007 POL 14:35 83. Afonso ALEMÃO 10 JUL 2007 POR 14:37 84. Rihards SITNIKS 24 MAR 2007 LAT 14:38 85. Dominik IVANČÍK 09 APR 2008 SVK 14:45 86. Žiga VERNEKER 2006 SLO 14:51 87. Aviv OCHMAN 04 AUG 2009 ISR 14:54 88. Taras HESHKO 12 OCT 2007 UKR 14:56 89. Filip CMOK 23 MAY 2006 SLO 14:58 90. Albert SZIRBEK 23 JUN 2006 HUN 14:59 91. Azat ÖZKAN 16 JAN 2006 TUR 15:04 92. Žan OGRINC 21 JUL 2006 SLO 15:11 93. Antoni JAROSZ 14 FEB 2007 POL 15:15 94. Lenart MIHALIČ 20 JAN 2008 SLO 15:25 95. Finley CANT 08 SEP 2007 GIB 16:26 96. Arame MUSAELYAN 24 MAY 2008 ARM 17:18 Sebastian BRÆMER NYGAARD 15 NOV 2006 DEN DNF William THØGERSEN 06 APR 2008 DEN DNF Alessandro SANTANGELO 28 JAN 2008 ITA DNF Ralfs DZOSENS 03 SEP 2007 LAT DNF Lukas BUNCIC 27 DEC 2007 NOR DNF Håkon MOE BERG 26 JUN 2006 NOR DNF Duarte Vilas BOAS 08 SEP 2007 POR DNF [8]

Team race Rank Team Points 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Mixed Cross Country Relay

4 x 1.5 km Team race

Rank	Nation	Team	Time
	Italy	Gaia Sabbatini, Sebastiano Parolini, Marta Zenoni, Pietro Arese	17:12
	Portugal	Patricia Silva, Rodrigo Lima, Salomé Afonso, Isaac Nader	17:16
	Great Britain	Ava Lloyd, Jack Higgins, Holly Dixon, Callum Elson	17:17
4	France	Bérénice Fulchiron, Antoine Senard, Emilie Girard, Maël Gouyette	17:18
5	Belgium	Laure Bilo, Ward Leunckens, Marie Bilo, Tibaut Vandelannoote	17:21
6	Ireland	Eimear Maher, Cian McPhillips, Laura Nicholson, Andrew Coscoran	17:22
7	Spain	Marta Mitjans, Mariano García, Esther Guerreri, Mohamed Attaoui	17:34
8	Netherlands	Yasmine Abbes, Rick Van Riel, Sarah Peerik, Robin Van Riel	17:35
9	Germany	Verena Meisl, Jens Mergenthaler, Vera Coutellier, Marvin Heinrich	17:37
10	Poland	Julia Gruchała, Kacper Lewalski, Martyna Krawczyńska, Bartosz Kitliński	17:42
11	Denmark	Juliane Hvid, Nick Rostgaard Jensen, Annemarie Nissen, Markus Kirk Kjeldsen	17:53
12	Switzerland	Chiara Scherrer, Navid Kerber, Delia Sclabas, Silas Zurfluh	17:58
13	Ukraine	Oksana Dolynchuk, Vadym Lonskyi, Tetiana Chornovol, Dmytrii Nikolaichuk	18:01
14	Turkey	Turkey Mevlüt Aras, Damla Çelik, Recep Istek, Tuğba Toptas	18:20
15	Bulgaria	Lilyana Georgieva, Martin Balabanov, Silviya Georgieva, Martin Prodanov	18:44

References

1. SPAR European Cross Country Championships Lagoa 2025 Schedule 14 December, 2025 Encosta do Arade Lagoa, Portugal European Athletics Championships
2. 31st SPAR European Cross Country Championships results World Athletics
3. 2025 European Cross Country Championships Senior Men Results European Athletics 14 December 2025
4. 2025 European Cross Country Championships Senior Women Results European Athletics 14 December 2025
5. 2025 European Cross Country Championships U23 Men Results European Athletics 14 December 2025
6. 2025 European Cross Country Championships U23 Women Results European Athletics 14 December 2025
7. 2025 European Cross Country Championships U20 Women Results European Athletics 14 December 2025
8. 2025 European Cross Country Championships U20 Men Results European Athletics 14 December 2025