With three team golds and three individual medals - a gold and two bronzes - it proved to be a successful event for the British athletes.

Early on in proceedings, Britain won the junior men's team title.

While none of the British under-20 line-up came close to individual success, a solid all-round performance saw Ryan Saunders perform strongest to finish 10th while Jonny Hay and John McDonnell came 14th and 16th respectively.

Andrew Combs and Ben Connor provided support with 22nd and 23rd placings and Robbie Farnham-Rose back in 46th, which proved to be enough for Britain to retain the crown they also won last year.

Spain's Abdelaziz Merzougui took individual gold in the race.

Charlotte Purdue (pictured) gave Britain a superb start by claiming invdividual gold in the junior women's race as well as helping to win team gold.

Purdue broke free around halfway and was a clear winner in the end while her training partner and team-mate Emelia Gorecka took bronze.

A third team gold arrived in the under-23 women's race, in which Emma Pallant finished third to take bronze.

The senior women's race saw Great Britain take silver.

Steeplechaser Hatti Dean led the side home in seventh and was followed by Louise Damen in 17th, Steph Twell in 20th, Helen Clitheroe in 21st, Gemma Steel in 27th and last year's individual champion Hayley Yelling-Higham in 28th.

Jessica Augusto of Portugal took individual gold and helped her team to gold in the process.

Ukrainian veteran Sergiy Lebid won the senior men's race for a record ninth time and while Britain came fifth in the team standings to miss out on a medal, that did not stop them topping the overall medals table.