European Athletics Championships 1982/200 m women

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Participants	16 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	September 8th (preliminary) September 9th (final)
Medalists
gold	Bärbel Wöckel ( GDR )
silver	Kathy Smallwood ( POL )
bronze	Sabine Rieger ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The women's 200-meter run at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 8 and 9, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

With gold and bronze, the GDR sprinters won two medals in this competition. The European champion was the 1976 and 1980 Olympic champion Bärbel Wöckel , who had finished second over 100 meters two days earlier . British rider Kathy Smallwood , later Kathy Cook , took second place . Bronze went to Sabine Rieger , later successful as Sabine Günther.

Records

Existing records

World record	21.71 s	Marita Koch	Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany )	June 10, 1979
European record
Championship record	22.51 s	Irena Szewińska	EM Rome , Italy	September 6, 1974

Record improvement

European champion Bärbel Wöckel improved the existing championship record in the final on September 9th by 47 hundredths of a second to 22.04 s.  

Preliminary round

September 8, 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

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bärbel Wöckel	GDR	22.81
2	Kathy Smallwood	Great Britain	22.97
3	Liliane Gaschet	France	23.21
4th	Anelija Nunewa	Bulgaria	23.35
5	Irina Olchownikova	Soviet Union	23.46 SB
6th	Joan Baptiste	Great Britain	23.84 SB
7th	Heike Schulte-Mattler	BR Germany	23.88
8th	Mona Evjen	Norway	23.96

Forward 2

Wind: −2.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sabine Rieger	GDR	22.90
2	Gesine Walther	GDR	22.90
3	Beverley Callender	Great Britain	22.96
4th	Marie-Christine Cazier	France	23.39
5	Heidi-Elke Gaugel	BR Germany	23.45 SB
6th	Jelena Keltschewskaja	Soviet Union	23.59 SB
7th	Marisa Masullo	Italy	23.74
8th	Ute Thimm	BR Germany	23.85 SB

The European champion Bärbel Wöckel, Olympic champion in 1976 and 1980 , had previously finished second two days over 100 meters occupied

final

September 9, 1982

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Bärbel Wöckel	GDR	22.04 CR
2	Kathy Smallwood	Great Britain	22.13 NU23R
3	Sabine Rieger	GDR	22.51
4th	Gesine Walther	GDR	22.60
5	Beverley Callender	Great Britain	22.91 SB
6th	Anelija Nunewa	Bulgaria	22.93 SB
7th	Liliane Gaschet	France	22.97 SB
8th	Marie-Christine Cazier	France	23.08

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  Bronze medalist
  Sabine Rieger (right)

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  Gesine Walther (second from left on the photo) , fifth over 100 meters two days earlier, came fourth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed on 23 August 2019
• Women 200m 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 200m European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 441 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on 23 August 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, 200 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. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed August 23, 2019