The 1st European Cross Country Championships were held at Alnwick in England on 10 December 1994. Paulo Guerra took the title in the men's competition and Catherina McKiernan won the women's race.

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Pos.	Runners	Time
	Paulo Guerra	27:43
	Domingos Castro	27:59
	Antonio Serrano	28:03
4.	José Carlos Adán	28:06
5.	Abdellah Béhar	28:08
6.	Luca Barzaghi	28:10
7.	José Manuel García	28:11
8.	António Pinto	28:12
9.	Alberto Maravilha	28:13
10.	Mustapha Essaïd	28:19

Total 103 competitors

Pos.	Team	Points
	Portugal Paulo Guerra Domingos Castro António Pinto Alberto Maravilha	20 1 2 8 9
	Spain Antonio Serrano José Carlos Adán José Manuel García Alejandro Gómez	27 3 4 7 13
	France Abdellah Béhar Mustapha Essaïd Mohamed Ezzher Bertrand Frechard	50 5 10 17 18
4.	United Kingdom Andrew Pearson Barry Royden Richard Nerurkar Dave Lewis	77 11 14 25 27
5.	Italy Luca Barzaghi Vincenzo Modica Eugenio Frangi Paolo Donati	84 6 24 26 28
6.	Netherlands Marco Gielson Greg Van Hest Kamiel Maase Marcel Laros	132 21 31 34 46
7.	Russia	146
8.	Ireland	152

Total 21 teams

Pos.	Runners	Time
	Catherina McKiernan	14:29
	Julia Vaquero	14:30
	Elena Fidatov	14:43
4.	Alla Zhilyaeva	14:45
5.	Maria Rebelo	14:46
6.	Fernanda Ribeiro	14:47
7.	Mariana Chirila-Stanescu	14:48
8.	Lieve Slegers	14:49
9.	Blandine Bitzner-Ducret	14:50
10.	Tamara Koba	14:51

Total 77 competitors

Pos.	Team	Points
	Romania Elena Fidatov Mariana Chirila-Stanescu Margareta Keszeg	26 3 7 16
	France Maria Rebelo Blandine Bitzner-Ducret Farida Fates	28 5 9 14
	Portugal Fernanda Ribeiro Carla Sacramento Ana Dias	29 6 11 12
4.	Spain Julia Vaquero Rocio Rios Carmen Fuentes	45 2 21 22
5.	Italy Flavia Gaviglio Maria Curatolo Nives Curti	62 13 19 30
6.	Belgium Lieve Slegers Veronique Collard Marleen Renders	64 8 18 38
7.	Russia	73
8.	Ireland	75

Total 17 teams

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