1982 European Athletics Championships

Template:Infobox Athletics Championships The 13th European Athletics Championships were held from 6 September to 12 September 1982 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.

Men's results

Complete results were published.

Track

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres Template:DetailsLink	Frank Emmelmann East Germany	10.21	Pierfrancesco Pavoni Italy	10.25	Marian Woronin Poland	10.28
200 metres Template:DetailsLink	Olaf Prenzler East Germany	20.46	Cameron Sharp Great Britain	20.47	Frank Emmelmann East Germany	20.60
400 metres Template:DetailsLink	Hartmut Weber West Germany	44.72 Template:AthAbbr	Andreas Knebel East Germany	45.29	Viktor Markin Soviet Union	45.30
800 metres Template:DetailsLink	Hans-Peter Ferner West Germany	1:46.33	Sebastian Coe Great Britain	1:46.68	Jorma Härkönen Finland	1:46.90
1500 metres Template:DetailsLink	Steve Cram Great Britain	3:36.49	Nikolay Kirov Soviet Union	3:36.99	José Manuel Abascal Spain	3:37.04
5000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Thomas Wessinghage West Germany	13:28.90	Werner Schildhauer East Germany	13:30.03	David Moorcroft Great Britain	13:30.42
10,000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Alberto Cova Italy	27:41.03	Werner Schildhauer East Germany	27:41.21	Martti Vainio Finland	27:42.51
Marathon Template:DetailsLink	Gerard Nijboer Netherlands	2:15:16	Armand Parmentier Belgium	2:15:51	Karel Lismont Belgium	2:16:04
110 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Thomas Munkelt East Germany	13.41	Andrey Prokofyev Soviet Union	13.44	Arto Bryggare Finland	13.60
400 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Harald Schmid West Germany	47.48 Template:AthAbbr	Aleksandr Yatsevich Soviet Union	48.60	Uwe Ackermann East Germany	48.64
3000 metres steeplechase Template:DetailsLink	Patriz Ilg West Germany	8:18.52	Bogusław Mamiński Poland	8:19.22	Domingo Ramón Spain	8:20.48
20 kilometres walk Template:DetailsLink	José Marín Spain	1:23:43 Template:AthAbbr	Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia	1:25:55	Pavol Blažek Czechoslovakia	1:26:13
50 kilometres walk Template:DetailsLink	Reima Salonen Finland	3:55:29	José Marín Spain	3:59:18	Bo Gustafsson Sweden	4:01:21
4x100 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Sergey Sokolov Aleksandr Aksinin Andrey Prokofyev Nikolay Sidorov Soviet Union	38.60	Detlef Kübeck Olaf Prenzler Thomas Munkelt Frank Emmelmann East Germany	38.71	Christian Zirkelbach Christian Haas Peter Klein Erwin Skamrahl West Germany	38.71
4x400 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Erwin Skamrahl Harald Schmid Thomas Giessing Hartmut Weber West Germany	3.00.51 Template:AthAbbr	David Jenkins Garry Cook Todd Bennett Phil Brown Great Britain	3.00.68	Aleksandr Troshchilo Pavel Roshchin Pavel Konovalov Viktor Markin Soviet Union	3.00.80

Field

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump Template:DetailsLink	Dietmar Mögenburg West Germany	2.30 m =Template:AthAbbr	Janusz Trzepizur Poland	2.27 m	Gerd Nagel West Germany	2.24 m
Pole vault Template:DetailsLink	Aleksandr Krupskiy Soviet Union	5.60 m Template:AthAbbr	Vladimir Polyakov Soviet Union	5.60 m =Template:AthAbbr	Atanas Tarev Bulgaria	5.60 m =Template:AthAbbr
Long jump Template:DetailsLink[nb1]	Lutz Dombrowski East Germany	8.41 m w	Antonio Corgos Spain	8.19 m	Jan Leitner Czechoslovakia	8.08 m
Triple jump Template:DetailsLink	Keith Connor Great Britain	17.29 m Template:AthAbbr	Vasiliy Grishchenkov Soviet Union	17.15 m	Béla Bakosi Hungary	17.04 m
Shot put Template:DetailsLink	Udo Beyer East Germany	21.50 m Template:AthAbbr	Jānis Bojārs Soviet Union	20.81 m	Remigius Machura Czechoslovakia	20.59 m
Discus throw Template:DetailsLink	Imrich Bugár Czechoslovakia	66.64 m	Ihor Duhinets Soviet Union	65.60 m	Wolfgang Warnemünde East Germany	64.20 m
Hammer throw Template:DetailsLink	Yuriy Sedykh Soviet Union	81.66 m Template:AthAbbr	Igor Nikulin Soviet Union	79.44 m	Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union	78.66 m
Javelin throw Template:DetailsLink	Uwe Hohn East Germany	91.34 m	Heino Puuste Soviet Union	89.56 m	Detlef Michel East Germany	89.32 m
Decathlon Template:DetailsLink	Daley Thompson Great Britain	8774 pts Template:AthAbbr	Jürgen Hingsen West Germany	8517 pts	Siegfried Stark East Germany	8433 pts

• ^nb1 Lutz Dombrowski from East Germany jumped 8.25 m in the qualification round, which was a new championship record.

Women's results

Track

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres Template:DetailsLink	Marlies Göhr East Germany	11.01 Template:AthAbbr	Bärbel Wöckel East Germany	11.20	Rose-Aimée Bacoul France	11.29
200 metres Template:DetailsLink	Bärbel Wöckel East Germany	22.04 Template:AthAbbr	Kathy Smallwood Great Britain	22.13	Sabine Rieger East Germany	22.51
400 metres Template:DetailsLink	Marita Koch East Germany	48.16 Template:AthAbbr, Template:AthAbbr	Jarmila Kratochvílová Czechoslovakia	48.85	Taťána Kocembová Czechoslovakia	50.55
800 metres Template:DetailsLink	Olga Mineyeva Soviet Union	1:55.41 Template:AthAbbr	Lyudmila Veselkova Soviet Union	1:55.96	Margrit Klinger West Germany	1:57.22
1500 metres Template:DetailsLink	Olga Dvirna Soviet Union	3:57.80 Template:AthAbbr	Zamira Zaytseva Soviet Union	3:58.82	Gabriella Dorio Italy	3:59.02
3000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Svetlana Ulmasova Soviet Union	8:30.28 Template:AthAbbr	Maricica Puică Romania	8:33.33	Yelena Sipatova Soviet Union	8:34.06
Marathon Template:DetailsLink	Rosa Mota Portugal	2:36:04	Laura Fogli Italy	2:36:29	Ingrid Kristiansen Norway	2:36:39
100 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink [nb1]	Lucyna Kałek Poland	12.45 =Template:AthAbbr	Yordanka Donkova Bulgaria	12.54	Kerstin Knabe East Germany	12.54
400 metres hurdles Template:DetailsLink	Ann-Louise Skoglund Sweden	54.58 Template:AthAbbr	Petra Pfaff East Germany	54.89	Chantal Réga France	54.93
4x100 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Gesine Walther Bärbel Wöckel Sabine Rieger Marlies Göhr East Germany	42.19 Template:AthAbbr	Wendy Hoyte Kathy Smallwood Bev Callender Shirley Thomas Great Britain	42.66	Laurence Bily Marie-Christine Cazier Rose-Aimée Bacoul Liliane Gaschet France	42.69
4x400 metres relay Template:DetailsLink	Kirsten Siemon Sabine Busch Dagmar Rübsam Marita Koch East Germany	3:19.04 Template:AthAbbr, Template:AthAbbr	Věra Tylová Milena Matejkovičová Taťána Kocembová Jarmila Kratochvílová Czechoslovakia	3:22.17	Yelena Didilenko Irina Olkhovnikova Olga Mineyeva Irina Baskakova Soviet Union	3:22.79

• ^nb1 Lucyna Kałek also ran 12.45 in the heats, which was a new championship record.

Field

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump Template:DetailsLink	Ulrike Meyfarth West Germany	2.02 m Template:AthAbbr	Tamara Bykova Soviet Union	1.97 m	Sara Simeoni Italy	1.97 m
Long jump Template:DetailsLink	Vali Ionescu Romania	6.79 m	Anişoara Cuşmir-Stanciu Romania	6.73 m	Yelena Ivanova Soviet Union	6.73 m
Shot put Template:DetailsLink	Ilona Slupianek East Germany	21.59 m Template:AthAbbr	Helena Fibingerová Czechoslovakia	20.94 m	Nunu Abashidze Soviet Union	20.82 m
Discus throw Template:DetailsLink	Tsvetanka Khristova Bulgaria	68.34 m	Mariya Petkova Bulgaria	67.94 m	Galina Savinkova Soviet Union	67.82 m
Javelin throw Template:DetailsLink	Anna Verouli Greece	70.02 m Template:AthAbbr	Antje Kempe East Germany	67.94 m	Sofia Sakorafa Greece	67.04 m
Heptathlon Template:DetailsLink	Ramona Neubert East Germany	6664 pts	Sabine Mobius-Paetz East Germany	6594 pts	Sabine Everts West Germany	6418 pts

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 777 athletes from 30 countries participated in the event, 21 athletes more than the official number of 756, and one country more than the official number of 29 as published.

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See also

• 1982 in athletics (track and field)

Notes

Differences to competition format since the 1978 European Championships:

New events added:

• Women's marathon
• Women's heptathlon replaces the pentathlon

References

• EAA Official Site
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