The 5th European Cross Country Championships were held at Ferrara in Italy on 13 December 1998. Serhiy Lebid took the title in the men's competition and Paula Radcliffe won the women's race.

Results

Men individual 9.7 km

Pos. Runners Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)Ukraine Serhiy Lebid28:07
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Belgium Mohammed Mourhit28:08
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)France Driss El Himer28:16
4.Austria Günther Weidlinger28:17
5.Denmark Carsten Jørgensen28:18
6.Portugal Eduardo Henriques28:25
7.Italy Giuliano Battocletti28:36
8.Spain Manuel Pancorbo28:40

79 runners finished

Men teams

Pos. Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) Italy
Giuliano Battocletti
Gabriele De Nard
Umberto Pusterla
Gennaro Di Napoli
53
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Portugal
Eduardo Henriques
Paulo Guerra
João Junqueira
José Ramos
55
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Spain
Manuel Pancorbo
Julio Rey
Martín Fiz
Fabián Roncero
68
4. United Kingdom91
5. France92
6. Ireland108
7. Belgium122
8. Netherlands126

Total 13 teams

Women individual 5.6 km

Pos. Runners Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)United Kingdom Paula Radcliffe18:07
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Finland Annemari Sandell18:10
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Serbia and Montenegro Olivera Jevtić18:11
4.Portugal Fernanda Ribeiro18:19
5.Portugal Helena Sampaio18:26
6.France Yanna Belkacem18:42
7.Portugal Albertina Dias18:46
8.Spain María Luisa Larraga18:49

60 runners finished

Women teams

Pos. Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) Portugal
Fernanda Ribeiro
Helena Sampaio
Albertina Dias
16
2nd place, silver medalist(s) France
Yanna Belkacem
Zahia Dahmani
Fatima Yvelain
25
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Romania
Cristina Iloc
Constantina Diţă
Luminiţa Gogârlea
41
4. Spain54
5. United Kingdom55
6. Germany71
7. Belgium77
8. Italy89

Total 12 teams

Junior men individual 5.6 km

Pos. Runners Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)Spain Yousef El Nasri16:50
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Romania Ovidiu Tat16:51
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Republic of Ireland Gareth Turnbull16:55
4.United Kingdom Sam Haughian16:57
5.Ukraine Ivan Heshko17:02
6.Sweden Mustafa Mohamed17:02
7.Spain Miguel Angel Pinto17:07
8.Portugal Filipe Pedro17:11

Junior men teams

Pos. Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) Spain28
2nd place, silver medalist(s) United Kingdom30
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Romania36
4. Sweden45
5. Ukraine52
6. Italy54
7. Germany73
8. Portugal73

Junior women individual 3.6 km

Pos. Runners Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)Hungary Katalin Szentgyörgyi11:51
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Portugal Inês Monteiro11:58
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Serbia and Montenegro Sonja Stolić12:03
4.Turkey Sebile Sibel Özyurt12:04
5.Turkey Tezeta Nuray Surekli12:09
6.Belgium Tinneke Boonen12:19
7.Slovenia Sonja Roman12:20
8.Czech Republic Helena Volná12:22

Junior women teams

Pos. Team Points
1st place, gold medalist(s) Turkey20
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Belgium46
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Romania49
4. Spain56
5. Portugal58
6. Germany58
7. United Kingdom60
8. Italy83

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