European Athletics Championships 1982/100 m hurdles for women

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100-meter hurdles for women
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Participants	16 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	September 7th (preliminary) September 9th (final)
Medalists
gold	Lucyna Kałek ( POL )
silver	Jordanka Donkowa ( BUL )
bronze	Kerstin Knabe ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 7th and 9th, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

The European champion was Lucyna Kałek from Poland , who had been third in the Olympic Games in 1980 under her name Lucyna Langer. She won ahead of Bulgarian Jordanka Donkowa . Bronze went to GDR athlete Kerstin Knabe , and in 1980 she won the Olympics under her name, Kerstin Claus.

Records

Existing records

World record	12.36 s	Grażyna Rabsztyn	Warsaw , Poland	June 13, 1980
European record
EM record	12.60 s		EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 31, 1978

Record improvement

European champion Lucyna Kałek improved the existing EM record in the semifinals on September 7th by fifteen hundredths of a second to 12.45 s and equalized this new record in the final on September 9th.  

Preliminary round

September 7, 1982

The preliminary round was held in two runs. With sixteen runners, the number of participants was so small that no intermediate round was necessary. From the preliminary runs it went straight to the final, for which the first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified.

Forward 1

As fifth in her race, Michèle Chardonnet missed the final by one place

Wind: +1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lucyna Kałek	Poland	12.45 CR
2	Bettine Gärtz	GDR	12.60
3	Ginka Sagortschewa	Bulgaria	12.84 SB
4th	Maria Merchuk	Soviet Union	12.91
5	Michèle Chardonnet	France	13.28 SB
6th	Marie-Noëlle Savigny	France	13.36 SB
7th	Hilde Fredriksen	Norway	13.55 PB
8th	Elisavet Pantazi	Greece	13.71 PB

Forward 2

Cornelia Riefstahl, later Cornelia Oschkenat, was seven hundredths of a second missing to reach the final with two ranks ahead

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jordanka Donkova	Bulgaria	12.60
2	Kerstin boy	GDR	12.65
3	Tatiana Anisimova	Soviet Union	12.90 SB
4th	Vera Komissova	Soviet Union	13.00
5	Laurence Elloy	France	13.07 SB
6th	Cornelia Riefstahl	GDR	13.07 SB
7th	Shirley Strong	Great Britain	13.24 SB
8th	Ann Axelsson	Sweden	14.24 PB

final

Vice European Champion Jordanka Donkowa (here in 2013) - later European Champion ( 1986 ) and Olympic Champion ( 1988 )

September 9, 1982

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Lucyna Kałek	Poland	12.45 CRe
2	Jordanka Donkova	Bulgaria	12.54
3	Kerstin boy	GDR	12.54 PB
4th	Bettine Gärtz	GDR	12.55 PB
5	Maria Merchuk	Soviet Union	12.85
6th	Vera Komissova	Soviet Union	12.92 SB
7th	Tatiana Anisimova	Soviet Union	13.06
8th	Ginka Sagortschewa	Bulgaria	13.14

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  Bronze medalist Kerstin Knabe (right) , former Kerstin Claus - vice world champion the following year

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  Bettine Jahn came fourth, in 1980 she was Olympic seventh as Bettine Gärtz

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 25, 2019
• Women 100m Hurdles European Championship 1982 Athens on todor66.com, accessed August 25, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed August 25, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m Hurdles European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 441f (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, 100 m hurdles women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 25, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m hurdles women , accessed on August 25, 2019