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13th European Athletics Championships
The logo of the 1982 European Athletics Championships
Host city	Athens, Greece
Date(s)	6 – 12 September 1982
Main stadium	Athens Olympic Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Participation	756 athletes from 29 nations
Events	41
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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]}

Men's results

Complete results were published.^[13]

Track

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

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

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

Women's results

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

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

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Greece)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	13	8	7	28
2	West Germany (FRG)	8	1	4	13
3	Soviet Union (URS)	6	12	8	26
4	Great Britain (GBR)	3	5	1	9
5	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	4	4	9
6	Italy (ITA)	1	2	2	5
	Spain (ESP)	1	2	2	5
8	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	2	1	4
	Poland (POL)	1	2	1	4
10	Romania (ROU)	1	2	0	3
11	Finland (FIN)	1	0	3	4
12	Greece (GRE)*	1	0	1	2
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	1	2
14	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	1	0	0	1
16	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	1	2
17	France (FRA)	0	0	3	3
18	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 nations)		41	41	41	123

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

• EAA Official Site


• Athletix