2014 European Cross Country Championships

The 2014 European Cross Country Championships was the 21st edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes which was held in Samokov, Bulgaria, on 14 December 2014. The events were hosted at Borovets – a winter sports and ski resort in the Rila mountains.^[1]

2014 European Cross Country Championships
Organisers	EAA
Edition	21st
Date	14 December
Host city	Samokov, Bulgaria
Venue	Borovets
Events	6
Distances	9.880 km – Men 8.050 km – Women 8.050 km – U23 men 6.025 km – U23 women 6.025 km – Junior men 4.000 km – Junior women
Official website	http://www.samokov2014.eu/
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Race results

Senior men

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Polat Kemboi Arikan	Turkey	32:19
	Ali Kaya	Turkey	32:19
	Alemayehu Bezabeh	Spain	32:30
4	Florian Carvalho	France	32:59
5	Ross Millington	Great Britain	33:00
6	Mohamed Marhum	Spain	33:04
7	Khalid Choukoud	Netherlands	33:04
8	Stefano La Rosa	Italy	33:17
9	Adam Hickey	Great Britain	33:19
10	Timothée Bommier	France	33:21

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Turkey Arikan Kaya Cihat Ulus Ramazan Özdemir	33
	Spain Bezabeh Marhum Antonio Abadía Roberto Alaiz	36
	Italy Stefano La Rosa Marouan Razine Patrick Nasti Ahmed El Mazoury	59

• Totals: 75 entrants, 75 starters, 70 finishers, 9 finishing teams.^[2]

Senior women

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Gemma Steel	Great Britain	28:27
	Kate Avery	Great Britain	28:27
	Meraf Bahta	Sweden	28:52
4	Almensch Belete	Belgium	28:52
5	Sophie Duarte	France	28:58
6	Fionnuala Britton	Ireland	28:59
7	Steph Twell	Great Britain	29:07
8	Iwona Lewandowska	Poland	29:09
9	Iris María Fuentes-Pila	Spain	29:19
10	Carla Salomé Rocha	Portugal	29:20

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Great Britain Steel Avery Twell Lily Partridge	21
	Spain Fuentes-Pila Trihas Gebre Diana Martín Lidia Rodríguez	70
	Ireland Britton Sara Treacy Michelle Finn Annmarie McGlynn	87

• Totals: 62 entrants, 62 starters, 58 finishers, 7 finishing teams.^[3]

Under-23 men

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Ilgizar Safiulin	Russia	25:31
	Igor Maksimov	Russia	25:33
	Vladimir Nikitin	Russia	25:37
4	Jonathan Hay	Great Britain	25:46
5	Callum Hawkins	Great Britain	25:49
6	Elmar Engholm	Sweden	25:52
7	Marc Scott	Great Britain	25:54
8	Francois Barrer	France	25:56
9	Alexander Palm	Sweden	26:00
10	Mikhail Strelkov	Russia	26:03

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Russia Safiulin Maksimov Nikitin Strelkov	16
	Great Britain Hay Hawkins Scott Charlie Hulson	31
	Sweden Engholm Palm Napoleon Solomon John Kingstedt	62

• Totals: 75 entrants, 74 starters, 66 finishers, 10 finishing teams.^[4]

Under-23 women

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Rhona Auckland	Great Britain	22:23
	Militsa Mircheva	Bulgaria	22:25
	Gulshat Fazlitdinova	Russia	22:28
4	Yekaterina Sokolenko	Russia	22:32
5	Maureen Koster	Netherlands	22:37
6	Sevilay Eytemis	Turkey	22:44
7	Louise Carton	Belgium	22:49
8	Svetlana Aplachkina	Russia	22:56
9	Alice Wright	Great Britain	22:59
10	Amela Terzić	Serbia	23:04

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Russia Fazlitdinova Sokolenko Aplachkina Luiza Litvinova	–
	Great Britain Auckland Wright Emelia Gorecka Maryse Haines	–
	Turkey Eytemis Seyran Adanir Sabahat Akpinar Esma Aydemir	–

• Totals: 60 entrants, 60 starters, 59 finishers, 9 finishing teams.^[5]

Junior men

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Yemaneberhan Crippa	Italy	20:07
	Carlos Mayo	Spain	20:22
	Said Ettaqy	Italy	20:28
4	Ayoub Mokhtar	Spain	20:30
5	Yohanes Chiappinelli	Italy	20:33
6	Emmanuel Roudolff Levisse	France	20:37
7	Jordi Torrents	Spain	20:40
8	William Levay	Sweden	20:40
9	Alessandro Giacobazzi	Italy	20:41
10	Emil Danielsson	Sweden	20:42

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Italy Yemaneberhan Crippa Said Ettaqy Yohanes Chiappinelli Alessandro Giacobazzi	18
	Spain Mayo Mokhtar Torrents Raul Celada	41
	Turkey Saffet Elkatmis Ferhat Bozkurt Suleyman Bekmezci Ramazan Barbaros	70

• Totals: 105 entrants, 104 starters, 94 finishers, 17 finishing teams.^[6]

Junior women

Individual race

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time (m:s)
	Emine Hatun Tuna	Turkey	14:13
	Jessica Judd	Great Britain	14:18
	Lydia Turner	Great Britain	14:25
4	Alina Reh	Germany	14:34
5	Amy Griffiths	Great Britain	14:38
6	Anna Emilie Møller	Denmark	14:42
7	Cassandre Beaugrand	France	14:44
8	Rebecca Straw	Great Britain	14:48
9	Célia Antón	Spain	14:49
10	Weronika Pyzik	Poland	14:55

Teams

Rank	Team	Points
	Great Britain Judd Turner Griffiths Straw	18
	France Beaugrand Célia Bremond Charlotte Mouchet Cecile Lejeune	64
	Germany Reh Sarah Kistner Anna Gehring Konstanze Klosterhalfen	74

• Totals: 76 entrants, 76 starters, 74 finishers, 10 finishing teams.^[7]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain (GBR)	4	4	1	9
2	Russia (RUS)	3	1	2	6
	Turkey (TUR)	3	1	2	6
4	Italy (ITA)	2	0	2	4
5	Spain (ESP)	0	4	1	5
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
8	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
9	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		12	12	12	36