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2008 European Cross Country Championships

Field	Value
Name	2008 European Cross Country Championships
Logo	Brussel2008logo.png
Organisers	EAA
Edition	15th
Date	14 December
Host city	Brussels, Belgium
Races	6
Distances	10 km – Men
8 km – Women
8 km – U23 men
6 km – U23 women
6 km – Junior men
4 km – Junior women
Previous	2007 Toro
Next	2009 Dublin

8 km – Women 8 km – U23 men 6 km – U23 women 6 km – Junior men 4 km – Junior women 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.	Runners	Time
	UKR Serhiy Lebid	30:49
	GBR Mo Farah	30:57
	SWE Mustafa Mohamed	31:13
4.	ESP Ayad Lamdassem	31:17
5.	BEL Pieter Desmet	31:19
6.	FRA Bouabdellah Tahri	31:21
7.	ESP Alemayehu Bezabeh	31:23
8.	POR Rui Pedro Silva	31:26
9.	NED Michel Butter	31:30
10.	GBR Frank Tickner	31:39
11.	FRA Mokhtar Benhari	31:40
12.	ITA Daniele Meucci	31:41

Total 77 competitors

Men teams

Pos.	Runners	Points

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	54
4.		79
5.		93
6.		116
7.		129
8.		153

Total 12 teams

Women individual 8.0 km

Pos.	Runners	Time
	NED Hilda Kibet	27:45
	POR Jessica Augusto	27:54
	POR Inês Monteiro	28:02
4.	IRL Mary Cullen	28:04
5.	ESP Rosa María Morató	28:17
6.	NED Adriënne Herzog	28:19
7.	POR Anália Rosa	28:25
8.	GBR Hatti Dean	28:30
9.	GBR Louise Damen	28:33
10.	ITA Elena Romagnolo	28:39
11.	RUS Viktoriya Trushenko	28:40
12.	RUS Gulnara Galkina	28:40

Total 64 competitors

Women teams

Pos.	Runners	Points

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	78
4.		97
5.		111
6.		119
7.		127
8.		131

Total 11 teams

Men U23 individual 8.0 km

Pos.	Runners	Time
	ITA Andrea Lalli	24:56
	GBR Andy Vernon	25:04
	TUR Selim Bayrak	25:17
4.	GBR Ben Lindsay	25:18
5.	FRA Benjamin Malaty	25:18
6.	GBR John Beattie	25:18
7.	GBR Keith Gerrard	25:21
8.	FRA Mourad Amdouni	25:22

Total 85 competitors

Men U23 teams

Pos.	Runners	Points

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	62
4.		93
5.		112
6.		119
7.		142
8.		151

Total 16 teams

Women U23 individual 6.0 km

Pos.	Runners	Time
	NED Susan Kuijken	21:02
	GBR Sarah Tunstall	21:10
	RUS Yuliya Zarudneva	21:24
4.	GBR Morag MacLarty	21:24
5.	ROM Ancuţa Bobocel	21:43
6.	GER Heike Bienstein	21:43
7.	GBR Katherine Sparke	21:47
8.	RUS Tatyana Shutova	21:49

Tota 66 competitors

Women U23 teams

Pos.	Runners	Points

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	57
4.		80
5.		135
6.		137
7.		138
8.		152

Total 11 teams

Junior men individual 6.0 km

Pos.	Runners	Time
	FRA Florian Carvalho	18:42
	NOR Sondre Nordstad Moen	18.47
	FRA Hassan Chahdi	18:49
4.	GER Alexander Hahn	18:55
5.	GBR David Forrester	18:58
6.	TUR Hasan Pak	18:58
7.	POR Bruno Albuquerque	19:08
8.	ESP Antonio Abadía	19:11

Total 94 competitors

Junior men teams

Pos.	Runners	Points

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	52
4.		79
5.		89
6.		93
7.		102
8.		169

Total 16 teams

Junior women individual 4.0 km

Pos.	Runners	Time
	GBR Stephanie Twell	13:28
	GBR Charlotte Purdue	13:39
	GBR Lauren Howarth	13:55
4.	GBR Emily Pidgeon	14:00
5.	GBR Emma Pallant	14:05
6.	GBR Laura Park	14:08
7.	RUS Yekaterina Gorbunova	14:12
8.	RUS Marina Gordeyeva	14:12

Total 81 competitors

Junior women teams

Pos.	Runners	Points

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	62
4.		77
5.		89
6.		150
7.		173
8.		174

Total 11 teams

References

(14 December 2008). "Bruxelles BEL 14 December". European Athletics Association.
(15 December 2008). "XV MAASTOJUOKSUN EM-KILPAILUT BRYSSELI (BEL) 14.12.2008, 14.12.2008, Päivitetty 15.12.2008 19:55". Suomen Urheiluliitto.

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