1982 European 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.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

13th European Athletics Championships
The logo of the 1982 European Athletics Championships
Dates6 – 12 September 1982
Host cityAthens, Greece
VenueAthens Olympic Stadium
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events41
Participation756 athletes from
29 nations

Men's results

Complete results were published.[13]

Track

1974 | 1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 |

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

1974 | 1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 |

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

1974 | 1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 |

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

1974 | 1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 |

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

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Greece)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 East Germany (GDR)138728
2 West Germany (FRG)81413
3 Soviet Union (URS)612826
4 Great Britain (GBR)3519
5 Czechoslovakia (TCH)1449
6 Italy (ITA)1225
 Spain (ESP)1225
8 Bulgaria (BUL)1214
 Poland (POL)1214
10 Romania (ROU)1203
11 Finland (FIN)1034
12 Greece (GRE)*1012
 Sweden (SWE)1012
14 Netherlands (NED)1001
 Portugal (POR)1001
16 Belgium (BEL)0112
17 France (FRA)0033
18 Hungary (HUN)0011
 Norway (NOR)0011
Totals (19 nations)414141123

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.[14]

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

  1. Gillon, Doug (September 6, 1982), Coe's hunger undiminished by late scare, Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved September 13, 2014
  2. Gillon, Doug (September 7, 1982), Battle of the decathlon giants, Glasgow Herald, p. 25, retrieved September 13, 2014
  3. Gillon, Doug (September 7, 1982), Sharp second fastes in heats, Glasgow Herald, p. 26, retrieved September 13, 2014
  4. All in order for Coe to run in 1500, Glasgow Herald, September 7, 1982, p. 26, retrieved September 13, 2014
  5. Gillon, Doug (September 8, 1982), Moorcroft fostering a drem in Athens, Glasgow Herald, p. 19, retrieved September 13, 2014
  6. Gillon, Doug (September 8, 1982), Thompson fights off injury to take lead, Glasgow Herald, p. 20, retrieved September 13, 2014
  7. Sharp edged out in a photo finish, Glasgow Herald, September 8, 1982, p. 20, retrieved September 13, 2014
  8. Gillon, Doug (September 9, 1982), Thompson's gold but silver for Coe, Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved September 13, 2014
  9. Gillon, Doug (September 10, 1982), Sharp's best is not quite good enough, Glasgow Herald, p. 26, retrieved September 13, 2014
  10. Gillon, Doug (September 11, 1982), Connor collects gold with a hop, skip and a jump, Glasgow Herald, retrieved September 13, 2014
  11. Dutch write-off wins marathon, Glasgow Herald, September 13, 1982, p. 16, retrieved September 13, 2014
  12. Gillon, Doug (September 13, 1982), Triumph and tragedy for young British pair, Glasgow Herald, retrieved September 13, 2014
  13. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 436–443, retrieved 13 August 2014
  14. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014
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