2025 European Cross Country Championships

2025 European Cross Country Championships
Organisers	EAA
Edition	31st
Date	14 December
Host city	Lagoa,
Location	Lagoa, Portugal
Races	7
Distances	~7.5 km – Men ~7.5 km – Women ~6 km – U23 men ~6 km – U23 women ~4.5 km – U20 men ~4.5 km – U20 women ~4 x 1.5 km – Mixed relay
Website	Lagoa 2025
Previous	2024 Antalya
Next	2026 Belgrade

The 2025 European Cross Country Championships was the 31st edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes. It was held on 14 December 2025 in Lagoa, Portugal.^[1]^[2] The competition consisted of seven races and thirteen medal events; each of the six individual events (junior, under-23 and senior races for both men and women) also included a team classification based on aggregate finishing positions, while a thirteenth event, a mixed relay, was also held.

Medal summary

Individual
Senior men		22:05		22:08		22:23
Senior women		24:52		25:07		25:13
U23 men		17:47		17:59		18:03
U23 women		19:59		20:04		20:23
U20 men		13:11		13:12		13:19
U20 women		14:35		15:07		15:10
Team
Senior men	Thierry Ndikumwenayo Abdessamad Oukhelfen Aarón las Heras Ilias Fifa Said Mechaal Daniel Arce	16	Jack O'Leary Brian Fay Cormac Dalton Darragh McElhinney Efrem Gidey	26	Jimmy Gressier Fabien Palcau Simon Bedard Luc le Baron Valentin Bresc Hugo Hay	37
Senior women	Jana Van Lent Lisa Rooms Chloé Herbiet Victoria Warpy	16	Megan Keith Phoebe Anderson Verity Ockenden Poppy Tank Cari Hughes Izzy Fry	39	Agathe Guillemot Anaëlle Guillonnet Alessia Zarbo Marie Bouchard Célia Tabet	42
U23 men	Nick Griggs Callum Morgan Niall Murphy Jonas Stafford Lughaidh Mallon	19	Aurélien Radja Pierre Boudy Anas Chaoudar Oscar Thebaud Ishak Dahmani	33	Jaime Migallón Ciro Martín Martín Segurola Rubén Leonardo Mesfin Escamilla Aleix Vives	42
U23 women	Julia David-Smith Camille Place Nélie Clément Lola Darcy Jade Le Corre	21	Pia Schlattmann Lisa Merkel Kira Weis Nele Heymann	21	Maria Forero Marta Serrano Mireya Arnedillo Jimena Blanco Rocio Garrido	25
U20 men	Willem Renders Sem Serrano Ilyes Druez Elliot Vermeulen	14	William Sean Rabjohns Alex Lennon Michael Clark Quinn Miell-Ingram Jonson Hughes Luke Dunham	45	Oscar Gaitan Alejandro Ibañez Ander Aramendi Andres Lara Mario Palencia Guillermo Sanchez	46
U20 women	Innes Fitzgerald Beth Lewis Isabel Holt Eliza Nicholson Zara Redmond Lizzie Wellsted	33	María Viciosa Mara Rolli Claudia Gutierrez Sandra Gonzalez Andrea Buenavida Ines Herault	38	Carmen Cernjul Fanny Szalkai Anastasia Nilsson Freja Bjerström Hanna Strand Majken Söderlund Larsson	44
mixed relay
Mixed relay	Gaia Sabbatini Sebastiano Parolini Marta Zenoni Pietro Arese	17:12	Patricia Silva Rodrigo Lima Salomé Afonso Isaac Nader	17:16	Ava Lloyd Jack Higgins Holly Dixon Callum Elson	17:17

Note: Athletes in italics did not score for the team result.

Results

Senior men

Individual race
Rank	Athlete	Time (m:s)
	Thierry Ndikumwenayo	22:05
	Jimmy Gressier	22:08
	Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu	22:23
4	Scott Beattie	22:23
5	Jack O'Leary	22:25
6	Abdessamad Oukhelfen	22:27
7	Ruben Querinjean	22:28
8	Simon Sundström	22:29
9	Aarón Las Heras	22:30
10	Brian Fay	22:31
11	Cormac Dalton	22:31
12	Ilias Fifa	22:38
13	John Heymans	22:41
14	Etson Barros	22:44
15	Fabien Palcau	22:45
16	Darragh McElhinney	22:49
17	Rory Leonard	22:49
18	Ibrahim Buras	22:51
19	Efrem Gidey	22:52
20	Simon Bedard	22:54
21	Miguel Moreira	22:58
22	Magnus Tuv Myhre	22:59
23	Adisu Guadia	23:01
24	Oliver Löfqvist	23:02
25	Giovanni Gatto	23:04
26	Jonas Raess	23:06
27	Luc Le Baron	23:07
28	Andrii Atamaniuk	23:07
29	Jacob Cann	23:08
30	Ruben Verheyden	23:10
31	Abderrazzak Gasmi	23:10
32	Jacob Boutera	23:13
33	Rui Pinto	23:13
34	Markus Görger	23:14
35	Joe Hudson	23:16
36	Valentin Bresc	23:16
37	Derebe Ayele	23:23
38	Richard Slade	23:25
39	Nick Jäger	23:26
40	Simas Bertašius	23:27
41	Calum Johnson	23:29
42	Osama Zoghlami	23:33
43	Marcin Biskup	23:34
44	Luca Alfieri	23:34
45	Alexandre Figueiredo	23:35
46	Tuomas Heikkilä	23:37
47	Saïd Mechaal	23:38
48	Peter Ďurec	23:39
49	Mathias Flak	23:42
50	Yassin Bouih	23:45
51	Jáchym Kovář	23:46
52	Nik Lemmink	23:46
53	Andreas Bock Bjørnsen	23:48
54	Daniel Arce	23:51
55	Axel Djurberg	23:53
56	Jacob Stengaard	23:56
57	Seyfu Jamaal Tahir	23:57
58	Jesse Fokkenrood	24:01
59	Ossi Kekki	24:06
60	João Amaro	24:10
61	Ayetullah Aslanhan	24:12
62	Matan Ivri	24:13
63	Marcel Tobler	24:16
64	Luke Micallef	24:21
65	Ersin Tekal	24:29
66	Azat Demirtaş	24:33
67	Anders Nedergaard	24:49
68	Elias Ariel Aarestrup Shifris	24:49
69	Giorgos Tofi	24:52
70	Christoffer Frost Johansen	24:53
71	Ivan Andreev	25:04
72	Niall Foley	25:18
73	Abdulhalik Çağiran	25:38
74	Klemen Vilhar	25:48
75	Nikita Bogdanovs	26:02
76	Richard Blagg	27:29
77	Philip Macedo
78	Benjamin James Reeves
79	Andrew Lee Jeffries-Mor
80	Colin Mark Thompson
81	Maurice Turnock
82	Ilir Këllezi
	Jan Kokalj
	José Carlos Pinto
	Yohanes Chiappinelli
	Hugo Hay
	Mustafe Muuse
	Guillaume Grimard

^[3]

Team race
Rank	Team	Points
		16 (1+6+9)
		26 {5+10+11)
		37 (2+15+20)
4		50 (4+17+29)
5		68 (14+21+33)
6		72 (18+22+32)
7		87 (8+24+55)
8		98 (25+31+42)
9		122 (23+37+62)
10		176 (53+56+67)
11		192 (61+65+66)
12		120 (78+20+22)

Senior women

Individual race
Rank	Athlete	Time (m:s)
	Nadia Battocletti	24:52
	Megan Keith	25:07
	Yasemin Can	25:13
4	Jana Van Lent	25:24
5	Lisa Rooms	25:34
6	Amina Maatoug	25:36
7	Chloe Herbiet	25:43
8	Elena Burkard	25:45
9	Sarah Lahti	25:48
10	Fiona Everard	25:54
11	Agathe Guillemot	25:54
12	Anaëlle Guillonnet	25:55
13	Ruken Tek	25:57
14	Elisa Palmero	25:58
15	Diane van Es	26:00
16	Phoebe Anderson	26:01
17	Idaira Prieto	26:06
18	Angela Viciosa	26:10
19	Alessia Zarbo	26:11
20	Selma Engdahl	26:12
21	Verity Ockenden	26:13
22	Poppy Tank	26:15
23	Niamh Allen	26:15
24	Marie Bouchard	26:16
25	Andrea Modin Engesæth	26:18
26	Veerle Bakker	26:19
27	Laura Taborda	26:20
28	Valentina Gemetto	26:21
29	Cari Hughes	26:21
30	Micol Majori	26:21
31	Izzy Fry	26:22
32	Victoria Warpy	26:23
33	Carolina Robles	26:26
34	Carla Gallardo	26:36
35	Nursena Çeto	26:41
36	Danielle Donegan	26:42
37	Majida Maayouf	26:53
38	Joana Vanessa Carvalho	26:56
39	Emmy Van Den Berg	26:58
40	Hanne Mjøen Maridal	26:58
41	Karawan Halabi Kablan	27:01
42	Célia Tabet	27:02
43	Devora Avramova	27:05
44	Emily Haggard-Kearney	27:06
45	Josephine Thestrup	27:12
46	Bahar Yıldırım	27:15
47	Tereza Hrochová	27:16
48	Nicole Svetlana Reina	27:17
49	Derya Kunur	27:21
50	Mary Mulhare	27:25
51	Isabel Barreiro	27:25
52	Viktoriia Shkurko	27:28
53	Olimpia Breza	27:29
54	Federica Zanne	27:31
55	Nanna Bové	27:32
56	Evelina Henriksson	27:33
57	Anna Holm Baumeister	27:34
58	Ana Mafalda Ferreira	27:37
59	Anna Emilie Møller	27:40
60	Romane Wolhauser	27:43
61	Neide Dias	27:48
62	Ivanna Chereshnyovska	27:50
63	Farida Abaroge	27:57
64	Vaida Žūsinaitė-Nekriošienė	27:59
65	Zita Urbán	28:10
66	Melissa Chelena Anastasakis	28:22
67	Veronika Páleníková	28:38
68	Mónica Silva	28:41
	Eva Dieterich
	Mariana Machado

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Team race
Rank	Team	Points
		16 (4+5+7)
		39 (2+16+21)
		42 (11+12+19)
4		43 (1+14+28)
5		47 (6+15+26)
6		51 (3+13+35)
7		68 (17+18+33)
8		69 (10+23+36)
9		84 (20+25+39)
10		123 (27+38+58)
11		157 (45+55+57)

Men's Cross Country U23 Race

Individual race
Rank	Athlete	Time (m:s)
	Nick Griggs	17:47
	Aurélien Radja	17:59
	Pierre Boudy	18:03
4	Joel Ibler Lillesø	18:05
5	Jaime Migallon	18:06
6	Matthew Ramsden	18:06
7	Stefan Nillessen	18:07
8	Callum Morgan	18:12
9	Gábor Karsai	18:13
10	Niall Murphy	18:13
29	Jonas Stafford	18:35
48	Lughaidh Mallon	19:06

^[5]

Team race
Rank	Team	Points
		19
		33
		42
4		51
5		71
6		76
7		86
8		89
9		91
10		105
11		105
12		107
13		168

Women's Cross Country U23 Race

Individual race
Rank	Athlete	Time (m:s)
	Maria Forero	19:59
	Ilona Mononen	20:04
	Pia Schlattmann	20:23
4	Lisa Merkel	20:25
5	Julia David-Smith	20:37
6	Marta Serrano	20:38
7	Camille Place	20:38
8	Lucia Arnoldo	20:54
9	Nélie Clément	20:55
10	Julia Rosén	20:56
11	Kirsty Maher	20:57
12	Greta Settino	20:59
13	Emily Parker	21:03
14	Kira Weis	21:08
15	Katarzyna Napiórkowska	21:09
16	Elsa Sundqvist	21:11
17	Liv Dinis	21:12
18	Mireya Arnedillo	21:12
19	Megan Harris	21:14
20	Amy Greene	21:15
21	Rebecca Flaherty	21:19
22	India Barwell	21:20
23	Nele Heymann	21:22
24	Thea Charlotte Knutsen	21:22
25	Ava O'Connor	21:24
26	Anika Thompson	21:30
27	Daria Domżalska	21:30
28	Rita Figueiredo	21:32
29	Julie Voet	21:32
30	Mia Waldmann	21:32
31	Ronja Hofstetter	21:38
32	Sila Bayir	21:41
33	Jimena Blanco	21:43
34	Roise Roberts	21:45
35	Carolina Fraquelli	21:45
36	Małgorzata Karpiuk	21:45
37	Beatrice Wood	21:46
38	Rocio Garrido	21:47
39	Emma D'Haene	21:47
40	Ida Kraft	21:51
41	Merve Karakaya	21:52
42	Iva Gieselová	21:53
43	Marit Griep	21:53
44	Loes Kempe	21:54
45	Yana Pauwelyn	21:54
46	Elena Ribigini	21:55
47	Buse Mayda	21:57
48	Lola Darcy	21:58
49	Ana Marinho	22:00
50	Laura Ribigini	22:02
51	Marta Castro	22:02
52	Beatriz Rios	22:06
53	Jade Le Corre	22:14
54	Nicole Bauer	22:19
55	Hannah Enkels	22:23
56	Diana Fernandes	22:28
57	Alise Petrova	22:36
58	Karolina Bliujūte	22:52
59	Gamze Altuntaş	23:05
60	Kaisa-Maria Oll	23:10
61	Eleonora Višnevskytė	23:22
62	Svetlozara Grozdanova	24:26
63	Beatriz Azevedo	24:47
	Sofia Thøgersen	DNF
	Chiara Munaretto	DNF
	Marte Hovland	DNF
	Liliana Młynarczyk	DNF
	Jihad Essoubai	DNS
	Melissa Fracassini	DNS
	Uliana Rachynska	DNS

^[6]

Team race
Rank	Team	Points
		21 (5+7+9)
		21 (3+4+14)
		25 (1+6+18)
4		43 (10+16+17)
5		53 (13+19+21)
6		55 (8+12+35)
7		56 (11+20+25)
8		78 (15+27+36)
9		113 (29+39+45)
10		120 (32+41+47)
11		128 (28+49+51)

Women's Cross Country U20 Race

Individual race
Rank	Athlete	Time (m:s)
	Innes Fitzgerald	14:35
	Lucie Paturel	15:07
	Emma Hickey	15:10
4	Carmen Cernjul	15:14
5	Edibe Yağız	15:15
6	Anna Gardiner	15:17
7	Fanny Szalkai	15:21
8	Evi Falkena	15:23
9	Shirin Kerber	15:25
10	Julia Ehrle	15:29
11	María Viciosa	15:30
12	Beth Lewis	15:30
13	Mara Rolli	15:31
14	Claudia Gutierrez	15:33
15	Anouk Danna	15:36
16	Mariana Moreira	15:37
17	Liis Kapten	15:37
18	Emily Junginger	15:39
19	Suzanne Harland	15:40
20	Isabel Holt	15:40
21	Andrea Nygård Vie	15:41
22	Sandra Gonzalez	15:44
23	Kyra Verdonck	15:44
24	Venus Abraham Teffera	15:46
25	Olivia Alessandrini	15:48
26	Ioulianna Roussou	15:49
27	Alexandra Maria Hudea	15:50
28	Elif Akçiçek	15:51
29	Kaate Mulders	15:52
30	Veronika Břízová	15:54
31	Sofia Ferrari	15:54
32	Lera Miller	15:56
33	Anastasia Nilsson	15:56
34	Inge Lugtenberg	15:57
35	Sibilla Vanadziņa	15:57
36	Clémentine Byl	15:58
37	Eliza Nicholson	15:58
38	Julia Liebenthal	15:59
39	Andrea Buenavida	15:59
40	Havva Efe	16:00
41	Ines Herault	16:01
42	Laly Porentru	16:02
43	Louise Bailly	16:02
44	Oliwia Piątkowska	16:03
45	Paloma Ferrari	16:04
46	Carolina Correia	16:04
47	Lamia Mourabit	16:05
48	Zara Redmond	16:06
49	Vendula Šoukalová	16:07
50	Martina Ghisalberti	16:07
51	Tabea Schmid	16:07
52	Franziska Drexler	16:08
53	Freja Bjerström	16:08
54	Maria Jesus	16:10
55	Solange Nunes	16:10
56	Lucy Foster	16:12
57	Hana Vítková	16:13
58	Sofiia Hordiichuk	16:13
59	Hanna Strand	16:13
60	Noor Jacques	16:14
61	Lizzie Wellsted	16:19
62	Stela Fernandes	16:21
63	Flurina Auf Der Maur	16:21
64	Mimosa Miari Fulcis	16:23
65	Klara Strząbała	16:24
66	Döndü Kübra Boyraz	16:27
67	Majken Söderlund Larsson	16:29
68	Daria Dubenets	16:30
69	Laure Verrijcken	16:31
70	Sara Yasmin Abid	16:32
71	Naomi Ben David	16:32
72	Cátia Khvas	16:33
73	Sofia Sidenius	16:33
74	Lenuta Constantin	16:36
75	Licia Ferrari	16:39
76	Hannah Lösel	16:41
77	Aurina Coletti	16:41
78	Eimear Cooney	16:43
79	Abby Smith	16:43
80	Klara Močnik	16:44
81	Mejra Mehmedović	16:46
82	Ayala Harris	16:47
83	Ema Pika Raj	16:48
84	Ofri Yacobi	16:50
85	Lara Balažic	16:53
86	Adéla Štefanová	16:57
87	Ilvana Fleurine Markovic	16:59
88	Ana Vita Verneker	17:02
89	Anika Atanasova	17:06
90	Andreea Denisa Horlescu	17:15
91	Olha Pravetska	17:20
92	Zuzanna Czyż	17:22
93	Pamela Eni	17:24
	Austra Ošiņa
	Anja Bezlaj
	Elif Naz Köseoğlu

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Team race
Rank	Team	Points
		33 (1+12+20ׁׁ)
		38 (11+13+14)
		44 (4+7+33)
4		56 (8+19+29)
5		60 (10+18+32)
6		65 (3+6+56)
7		73 (5+28+40)
8		87 (2+42+43)
9		87 (9+15+63)
10		106 (25+31+50)
11		115 (21+24+70)
12		116 (16+46+54)
13		119 (23+36+60)
14		136 (30+49+57)
15		147 (38+44+65)
16		191 (27+74+90)
17		217 (58+68+91)
18		237 (71+82+84)
19		248 (80+83+85)

Men's Cross Country U20 Race

Individual race
Rank	Athlete	Time (m:s)
	Willem Renders	13:11
	Oscar Gaitan	13:12
	Aloïs Abraham	13:19
4	Ali Tunç	13:19
5	Magnus Øyen	13:24
6	Sem Serrano	13:29
7	Ilyes Druez	13:29
8	Matthieu Bührer	13:31
9	Adam Červinka	13:31
10	Noah Harris	13:32
11	David Scheller	13:32
12	William Sean Rabjohns	13:33
13	Cormac Dixon	13:33
14	Alejandro Ibañez	13:36
15	Alex Lennon	13:37
16	Karl Ottfalk	13:38
17	Bertold Kalász	13:38
18	Michael Clark	13:39
19	Aldin Ćatović	13:39
20	Come Le Baron	13:44
21	Tiago Jorge	13:45
22	Aleksander Okruciński	13:45
23	Loïc Berger	13:46
24	Aleksi Ahlfors	13:49
25	Yonis Dunet	13:51
26	Benjámin Szabó	13:52
27	Paul-Mathieu Lannuzel	13:53
28	Sebastian Stagh	13:54
29	Kristers Kudlis	13:54
30	Ander Aramendi	13:55
31	Quinn Miell-Ingram	13:55
32	Sebastian Lörstad	13:55
33	Nahom Tesfalem Tewelde	13:56
34	Kristian Bråthen Børve	13:56
35	Elliot Vermeulen	13:56
36	Caolan McFadden	13:57
37	Théotime Popea	13:57
38	Vittore Simone Borromini	13:58
39	Lewe Teuber	13:59
40	Andres Lara	13:59
41	Jakub Abramczyk	14:00
42	Leni Remer Mancini	14:01
43	Hugo Witteveen	14:02
44	Filip Jančík	14:05
45	Atakan Enes Çiçek	14:05
46	Christopher Dahlmeyer	14:06
47	Lucian Florin Ștefan	14:07
48	Giacomo Bellillo	14:07
49	Jonson Hughes	14:08
50	Erik Nederheim	14:09
51	Jonas Beutler	14:09
52	Levin Saveur	14:09
53	Leonardo Oliveira	14:09
54	Lenny Fred Riebe	14:10
55	Luke Dunham	14:10
56	Alex Hulka	14:10
57	Mihai-Alin Șavlovschi	14:11
58	Enrico Ricci	14:11
59	Leo Rajaniemi	14:12
60	Artem Rybka	14:12
61	Jochem Wiersma	14:13
62	Mario Palencia	14:13
63	Eden Kotilainen	14:14
64	Kiyasettin Kara	14:15
65	Finn Diver	14:15
66	Luigi Alessio Turrin	14:15
67	Tom Breslin	14:15
68	Sebastian Smed Grønkjær	14:16
69	Guillermo Sanchez	14:18
70	Tudor Mihai Margasoiu	14:18
71	Federico Giardiello	14:20
72	Poli Stoffel	14:22
73	Rostyslav Matkovskyi	14:22
74	Anton Broggini	14:22
75	Manuel Dos Santos	14:22
76	Tiago Machado	14:26
77	Niels Elton Jokumsen	14:31
78	Denys Lysenko	14:31
79	Arbel Henzel	14:31
80	Damien Pechon	14:31
81	Pancho Panchev	14:34
82	Antoni Gulbinowicz	14:35
83	Afonso Alemão	14:37
84	Rihards Sitniks	14:38
85	Dominik Ivančík	14:45
86	Žiga Verneker	14:51
87	Aviv Ochman	14:54
88	Taras Heshko	14:56
89	Filip Cmok	14:58
90	Albert Szirbek	14:59
91	Azat Özkan	15:04
92	Žan Ogrinc	15:11
93	Antoni Jarosz	15:15
94	Lenart Mihalič	15:25
95	Finley Cant	16:26
96	Arame Musaelyan	17:18
	Sebastian Bræmer Nygaard	DNF
	William Thøgersen	DNF
	Alessandro Santangelo	DNF
	Ralfs Dzosens	DNF
	Lukas Buncic	DNF
	Håkon Moe Berg	DNF
	Duarte Vilas Boas	DNF

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Team race
Rank	Team	Points
		14 (1+6+7)
		45 (12+15+18)
		46 (2+14+30)
4		48 (3+20+25)
5		59 (10+13+36)
6		68 (8+23+37)
7		72 (5+33+34)
8		76 (16+28+32)
9		96 (11+39+46)
10		113 (4+45+64)
11		133 (17+26+90)
12		144 (38+48+58)
13		145 (22+41+82)
14		146 (24+59+63)
15		149 (21+53+75)
16		174 (47+57+70)
17		185 (44+56+85)
18		211 (60+73+78)
19		267 (86+89+92)

Mixed Cross Country Relay

4 x 1.5 km Team race
Rank	Team	Time
	Gaia Sabbatini, Sebastiano Parolini, Marta Zenoni, Pietro Arese	17:12
	Patricia Silva, Rodrigo Lima, Salomé Afonso, Isaac Nader	17:16
	Ava Lloyd, Jack Higgins, Holly Dixon, Callum Elson	17:17
4	Bérénice Fulchiron, Antoine Senard, Emilie Girard, Maël Gouyette	17:18
5	Laure Bilo, Ward Leunckens, Marie Bilo, Tibaut Vandelannoote	17:21
6	Eimear Maher, Cian McPhillips, Laura Nicholson, Andrew Coscoran	17:22
7	Marta Mitjans, Mariano García, Esther Guerreri, Mohamed Attaoui	17:34
8	Yasmine Abbes, Rick Van Riel, Sarah Peerik, Robin Van Riel	17:35
9	Verena Meisl, Jens Mergenthaler, Vera Coutellier, Marvin Heinrich	17:37
10	Julia Gruchała, Kacper Lewalski, Martyna Krawczyńska, Bartosz Kitliński	17:42
11	Juliane Hvid, Nick Rostgaard Jensen, Annemarie Nissen, Markus Kirk Kjeldsen	17:53
12	Chiara Scherrer, Navid Kerber, Delia Sclabas, Silas Zurfluh	17:58
13	Oksana Dolynchuk, Vadym Lonskyi, Tetiana Chornovol, Dmytrii Nikolaichuk	18:01
14	Turkey Mevlüt Aras, Damla Çelik, Recep Istek, Tuğba Toptas	18:20
15	Lilyana Georgieva, Martin Balabanov, Silviya Georgieva, Martin Prodanov	18:44