1996 European Cross Country Championships

The 3rd European Cross Country Championships were held at Charleroi in Belgium on 15 December 1996. Jon Brown took the title in the men's competition and Sara Wedlund won the women's race.

Results

Men individual 9.65km

Pos.	Runners	Time
	Jon Brown	32:37
	Paulo Guerra	33:12
	Mustapha Essaïd	33:19
4.	Carsten Jørgensen	33:20
5.	Eduardo Henriques	33:28
6.	Umberto Pusterla	33:36
7.	Vincent Rousseau	33:42
8.	Yann Millon	33:42
9.	Vítor Almeida	33:43
10.	Andrea Arlati	33:44
11.	José Regalo	33:54
12.	Alejandro Gómez	27:17

100 runners finished.

Men teams

Pos.	Team	Points
	Portugal Paulo Guerra Eduardo Henriques Vítor Almeida José Regalo	27
	France Mustapha Essaïd Yann Millon Cédric Dehouck Mohamed Ezzher	47
	Belgium Vincent Rousseau Marc Vanderstraeten Koen Van Rie Eric Bouffioux	59
4.	Italy	62
5.	United Kingdom	76
6.	Spain	86
7.	Russia	124
8.	Ireland	138

Total 24 teams

Women individual 4.55km

Pos.	Runners	Time
	Sara Wedlund	17:04
	Julia Vaquero	17:14
	Annemari Sandell	17:19
4.	Elene Fidatov	17:24
5.	Albertina Dias	17:29
6.	Claudia Lokar	17:35
7.	Yanna Oubouhou	17:36
8.	Hayley Haining	17:37
9.	Laurence Vivier	17:39
10.	Anja Smolders	17:41
11.	Chryssie Girard	17:42
12.	Laurence Duquenoy	17:46

Iulia Negura from Romania finished first (16:58), but was disqualified because of doping violation. 73 runners finished.

Women teams

Pos.	Team	Points
	France Yanna Oubouhou Laurence Viver Chryssie Girard	27
	United Kingdom Hayley Haining Andrea Whitcombe Suzanne Rigg	39
	Belgium Anja Smolders Veronique Collard Lieve Slegers	43
4.	Sweden	45
5.	Germany	64
6.	Romania	69
7.	Ireland	71
8.	Spain	71

Total 19 teams

External links

• Database containing all results between 1994-2007