UK Athletics can confirm Ellis Cross (coach: Mick Woods, club: Aldershot Farnham and District) has been called up to the senior men’s team for the European Cross Country Championships on Sunday 11 December.

Cross, who last competed for Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the European Cross back in 2016, comes into the team to replace Marc Scott who has withdrawn prior to travel.

The Championships get underway at 8:35am (GMT) on Sunday 11 December.

The Great Britain and Northern Ireland team for the European Cross Country Championships, Turin, Italy – Sunday 11 December 2022:

Senior women

Abbie Donnelly (Rob Lewis, Lincoln Wellington)

Jess Gibbon (self-coached, Reading)

Cari Hughes (Andy Walling, Cardiff)

Amy-Eloise Markovc (Rob Denmark, Wakefield)

Poppy Tank (Alistair Cragg and Amy Cragg, City of Plymouth)

Jess Warner-Judd (Mick Judd, Blackburn)

Senior Men

Emile Cairess (Renato Canova, Leeds City)

Ben Connor (self-coached, Derby)

Ellis Cross (Mick Woods, Aldershot Farnham and District)

Mahamed Mahamed (Idris Hamud, Southampton)

Hugo Milner (Steve Lloyd, Derby)

Jack Rowe (Tim Eglen, Aldershot, Farnham and District)

U23 Women

Grace Carson (Bill Foster, Mid Ulster)

Alice Goodall (Mark Nixon, Edinburgh AC)

Megan Keith (Ross Cairns, Inverness)

Yasmin Marghini (Wayne Vinton, Belgrave Harriers)

Alexandra Millard (Bill Foster, Invicta East Kent)

Eloise Walker (Trevor Painter, Edinburgh AC)

U23 Men

Charles Hicks (Ricardo Santos, Shaftesbury Barnet)

Rory Leonard (Dave Smith, Morpeth)

Zakariya Mahamed (Idris Hamud, Southampton)

Matthew Stonier (Sonia McGeorge and Chris McGeorge, Invicta East Kent)

Tomer Tarragano (Dean Miller, Brighton & Hove City AC)

Joe Wigfield (Craig Winrow, Wirral AC)

U20 Women

Alice Bates (Shane Smith, Kettering)

Innes Fitzgerald (Gavin Pavey, Exeter)

Rebecca Flaherty (Karen Glerum, Bingley)

Megan Harris (Hayley Hemmings, Chelmsford)

Beatrice Wood (Dave Amey, City of Salisbury)

Alice Wright (Jon Bigg and Dan Stepney, Brighton Phoenix)

U20 Men

Will Barnicoat (Tim Eglen, Aldershot, Farnham and District)

Edward Bird (Mark Pauley, Poole)

Luke Birdseye (Shireen Higgins, Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow)

Jacob Deacon (Katie Hewison, Chorley)

Johnny Livingstone (Taylor Gulley, Exeter)

Sam Mills (Exeter)

Senior Mixed Relay

Calum Elson (Cambridge & Coleridge)

James Heneghan (James Thie, Pontypridd)

Khahisa Mhlanga (Herts Phoenix)

Revee Walcott-Nolan (Dale Clutterbuck, Luton)

Team Staff List

Team Leader – Chris Jones

Head of Delegation – Steve Vernon

Senior women’s coach – Liz Yelling

Senior men’s coach – Eamonn Martin

U23 women’s coach – Hayley Yelling

U23 men’s coach – Mick Woods

U20 women’s coach – Hayley Hemmings

U20s men’s coach – Mark Pollard

Mixed relay coach – Andrew Henderson

Medical – Duncan Robertson (Doctor), Adam Rattenberry and Rebecca Knight (Physios)

Team Manager – Cerys Miller