The 15th European Cross Country Championships were held at Brussels in Belgium on 14 December 2008. Serhiy Lebid took his eighth title in the men's competition and Hilda Kibet won the women's race.
Results
Men individual 10.0 km Pos.RunnersTime Serhiy Lebid 30:49 Mo Farah 30:57 Mustafa Mohamed 31:134. Ayad Lamdassem 31:175. Pieter Desmet 31:196. Bouabdellah Tahri 31:217. Alemayehu Bezabeh 31:238. Rui Pedro Silva 31:269. Michel Butter 31:3010. Frank Tickner 31:3911. Mokhtar Benhari 31:4012. Daniele Meucci 31:41 Total 77 competitors
Men teams Pos.RunnersPoints Ayad Lamdassem Alemayehu Bezabeh Sergio Sánchez Javier Guerra 39 Bouabdellah Tahri Mokhtar Benhari Driss El Himer James Theury 49 Mo Farah Frank Tickner Michael Skinner Lee Merrien 544. 795. 936. 1167. 1298. 153 Total 12 teams
Women individual 8.0 km Pos.RunnersTime Hilda Kibet 27:45 Jessica Augusto 27:54 Inês Monteiro 28:024. Mary Cullen 28:045. Rosa María Morató 28:176. Adriënne Herzog 28:197. Anália Rosa 28:258. Hatti Dean 28:309. Louise Damen 28:3310. Elena Romagnolo 28:3911. Viktoriya Trushenko 28:4012. Gulnara Galkina 28:40 Total 64 competitors
Women teams Pos.RunnersPoints Jessica Augusto Inês Monteiro Anália Rosa Ana Dulce Félix 29 Hatti Dean Louise Damen Laura Kenney Hayley Yelling 49 Sophie Duarte Christelle Daunay Christine Bardelle Maria Martins 784. 975. 1116. 1197. 1278. 131 Total 11 teams
Men U23 individual 8.0 km Pos.RunnersTime Andrea Lalli 24:56 Andy Vernon 25:04 Selim Bayrak 25:174. Ben Lindsay 25:185. Benjamin Malaty 25:186. John Beattie 25:187. Keith Gerrard 25:218. Mourad Amdouni 25:22 Total 85 competitors
Men U23 teams Pos.RunnersPoints Andy Vernon Ben Lindsay John Beattie Keith Gerrard 19 Andrea Lalli Martin Dematteis Bernard Dematteis Simone Gariboldi 42 Benjamin Malaty Mourad Amdouni Denis Mayaud Pierrot Pantel 624. 935. 1126. 1197. 1428. 151 Total 16 teams
Women U23 individual 6.0 km Pos.RunnersTime Susan Kuijken 21:02 Sarah Tunstall 21:10 Yuliya Zarudneva 21:244. Morag MacLarty 21:245. Ancuţa Bobocel 21:436. Heike Bienstein 21:437. Katherine Sparke 21:478. Tatyana Shutova 21:49 Tota 66 competitors
Women U23 teams Pos.RunnersPoints Sarah Tunstall Morag MacLarty Katherine Sparke Stacey Johnson 24 Yuliya Zarudneva Tatyana Shutova Natalya Puchkova Natalya Vlasova 44 Heike Bienstein Ingalena Heuck Julia Hiller Katharina Becker 574. 805. 1356. 1377. 1388. 152 Total 11 teams
Junior men individual 6.0 km Pos.RunnersTime Florian Carvalho 18:42 Sondre Nordstad Moen 18.47 Hassan Chahdi 18:494. Alexander Hahn 18:555. David Forrester 18:586. Hasan Pak 18:587. Bruno Albuquerque 19:088. Antonio Abadía 19:11 Total 94 competitors
Junior men teams Pos.RunnersPoints Florian Carvalho Hassan Chahdi Simon Denissel Colin Guillard 50 Sondre Nordstad Moen Sindre Buraas Lars Erik Malde Henrik Ingebrigtsen 51 David Forrester Ross Murray Mitch Goose Phillip Berntsen 524. 795. 896. 937. 1028. 169 Total 16 teams
Junior women individual 4.0 km Pos.RunnersTime Stephanie Twell 13:28 Charlotte Purdue 13:39 Lauren Howarth 13:554. Emily Pidgeon 14:005. Emma Pallant 14:056. Laura Park 14:087. Yekaterina Gorbunova 14:128. Marina Gordeyeva 14:12 Total 81 competitors
Junior women teams Pos.RunnersPoints Stephanie Twell Charlotte Purdue Lauren Howarth Emily Pidgeon 10 Viktoriya Pohorelska Myroslava Polishchuk Olha Skrypak Lyudmyla Kovalenko 50 Yekaterina Gorbunova Marina Gordeyeva Yelena Korobkina Yelnara Latypova 624. 775. 896. 1507. 1738. 174 Total 11 teams
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