The 2022

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. The championships ...

was the 28th edition of the

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competition for European athletes. It was held on 11 December 2022 in La Mandria Park near

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, Italy. Italy became the first country to have staged the European Cross Country Championships on four occasions after previous editions in

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and Chia in

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. Initially Turin received the right to host the event in 2021. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic and cancellation of the 2020 championship, which was supposed to be staged by

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, the organizers of the Turin championship agreed to hold them in Italy in 2022, so that the 2021 event could be hosted by the Irish city. The looped course featured a steep 300 metre uphill and downhill section and a 50 metre-long indoor section through the carriage pavilion of La Mandria Castle ( :it:Castello della Mandria), part of the

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since 1997, on each long lap. Both Norwegians

Jakob Ingebrigtsen Jakob Ingebrigtsen (born 19 September 2000) is a Norwegian Middle-distance running, middle- and Long-distance running, long-distance runner. He won the gold medal in the 1500 metres at the Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympic ...

and

Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal (born 14 June 1990) is a Norwegian middle-, long-distance and steeplechase runner. She won bronze medals for the 10,000 metres at the 2016 European Championships, and in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2018 Eu ...

successfully defended their men's and women's senior titles from Fingal-Dublin 2021 respectively. It was Ingebrigtsen's sixth consecutive European cross country title after four victories at under-20 level. Grøvdal earned her ninth individual medal, an unsurpassed record by a female athlete in the meet history; it was her third gold after U20 success in

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. Both Great Britain's Charles Hicks and Italy's

Nadia Battocletti Nadia Battocletti (born 12 April 2000) is an Italian female Middle-distance running, middle- and Long-distance running, long-distance runner. She won the gold medal for the 5000 metres at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships, 2021 Europ ...

defended their men's and women's U23 titles respectively. For Battocletti it was a fourth consecutive continental cross country victory. Great Britain and Northern Ireland topped the medal table with 10 medals, including five golds.

Medal summary

Medal table

Results

Senior men

Senior women

U23 men

References