As a team Great Britain is the big winner of these European Championships. Great Britain won 3 out of 6 team results and placed in the medals in all the team standings. Individually Mo Farah and Stephanie Twell were the best British performers of the day.

At the European Championships cross country, Sergey Lebid has taken the title in an impressive manner. In the final lap, the Brit Mo Farah and Sergey Lebid were the only ones left of a group of 9 athletes. With an acceleration on the final climb, Lebid dropped Farah and he run straight to his eighth triumph.

With two laps to go, Hilda Kibet broke away from her competitors and she turned the EC into a show. No one was able to even come close. The Portuguese women Jessica Augusto and Ines Monteiro controlled the race behind Kibet and divided the remaining medals among them.

The Italian Andrea Lalli has won a hotly contested men's espoirs (under 23's) race. At the end of a tough and strenuous race, Lalli proved strongest. The Brit Andy Vernon finished second and the Turkish came in third.

In an impressive manner Susan Kuijken has beaten a strong field of contenders in the espoirs race, the under 23's. She had to counter a fierce attack by the Turkish Sultan Haydar though, but at the end kept a major lead over the British Tunstall who came in second.

The Frenchman Florian Carvalho was both physically and tactically the strongest runner in the men's juniors race. A group of 7 race favourites broke clear half way. Towards the end, Carvalho accelerated and convincingly beat the competitors.

Hot favourite Stephanie Twell won the European Junior title in a dominant way. The six British girls finished in the first six places. Such a total sweep has never been seen before at the European Cross Country Championships.