European Athletics Championships 1982/100 m women

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100-meter run for women
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Participants	18 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	September 6th (preliminary) September 7th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists
gold	Marlies Göhr ( GDR )
silver	Bärbel Wöckel ( GDR )
bronze	Rose-Aimée Bacoul ( FRA )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The women's 100-meter run at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 6th and 7th, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

In this competition, the sprinters from the GDR recorded a double victory. The defending champion and Olympic runner-up in 1980, Marlies Göhr , became the European champion . She won ahead of the 200-meter Olympic champion in 1976 and 1980, Bärbel Wöckel , who became European 200-meter champion two days later. Bronze went to Rose-Aimée Bacoul from France .

Records

Existing records

World record	10.88 s	Marlies Goehr	Dresden , GDR (now Germany )	July 1, 1977
			Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany )	July 9, 1982
European record	10.88 s	Marlies Goehr	Dresden , GDR (now Germany )	July 1, 1977
			Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany )	July 9, 1982
EM record	11.13 s	Marlies Goehr	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 30, 1978

Record improvement

European champion Marlies Göhr improved her own championship record in the final on September 7th by twelve hundredths of a second to 11.01 s.  

Preliminary round

September 6, 1982

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the fastest female runner - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Of the only eighteen participants, only two were eliminated, both in the first run. For the second run with five sprinters, this unsuitable rule meant that all runners were qualified for the next lap if they only reached the finish.

Forward 1

Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marlies Goehr	GDR	11.18
2	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	Soviet Union	11.38 SB
3	Rose-Aimée Bacoul	France	11.40
4th	Sofka Popova	Bulgaria	11.44 SB
5	Marisa Masullo	Italy	11.53 SB
6th	Heide-Elke Gaugel	BR Germany	11.54
7th	Mona Evjen	Norway	12.08 SB

Forward 2

Wind: +2.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bärbel Wöckel	GDR	11.41
2	Nadezhda Georgieva	Bulgaria	11.45
3	Shirley Thomas	Great Britain	11.53
4th	Stepánka Sokolová	Czechoslovakia	11.61
5	Lena Möller	Sweden	11.87

Forward 3

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Anelija Nunewa	Bulgaria	11.29 SB
2	Laurence Bily	France	11.35 SB
3	Gesine Walther	GDR	11.36
4th	Wendy Hoyte	Great Britain	11.40
5	Helinä Laihorinne	Finland	11.47 SB
6th	Jelena Keltschewskaja	Soviet Union	11.54 SB

Semifinals

September 7, 1982

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: +1.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bärbel Wöckel	GDR	11.19
2	Rose-Aimée Bacoul	France	11.28 SB
3	Gesine Walther	GDR	11.33
4th	Anelija Nunewa	Bulgaria	11.35
5	Lyudmila Kondratyeva	Soviet Union	11.47
6th	Shirley Thomas	Great Britain	11.53 SB
7th	Marisa Masullo	Italy	11.57
8th	Lena Möller	Sweden	11.93 SB

Run 2

Wind: +1.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marlies Goehr	GDR	11.22
2	Wendy Hoyte	Great Britain	11.41
3	Laurence Bily	France	11.43
4th	Nadezhda Georgieva	Bulgaria	11.54 SB
5	Jelena Keltschewskaja	Soviet Union	11.58
6th	Sofka Popova	Bulgaria	11.58
7th	Helinä Laihorinne	Finland	11.58
8th	Stepánka Sokolová	Czechoslovakia	11.73 SB

Marlies Göhr defended her title after her Olympic silver medal in 1980 - she was once again European champion on this route in 1986 , also the first female world champion in 1983, and she also won numerous relay medals

final

September 7, 1982

Wind: −0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marlies Goehr	GDR	11.01 CR
2	Bärbel Wöckel	GDR	11.20
3	Rose-Aimée Bacoul	France	11.29
4th	Anelija Nunewa	Bulgaria	11.30
5	Gesine Walther	GDR	11.38
6th	Laurence Bily	France	11.47
7th	Nadezhda Georgieva	Bulgaria	11.68
8th	Wendy Hoyte	Great Britain	12.35

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  Vice European Champion Bärbel Wöckel, 200-meter Olympic champion in 1976 and 1980 , won the 200-meter title two days later

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  Gesine Walther (second from left in the photo) was fifth, two days later she was fourth over 200 meters

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed on 23 August 2019
• Women 100m European Championship 1982 Athens on todor66.com, accessed August 23, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on 23 August 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 440 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on 23 August 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 23, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 23, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed August 8, 2019