European Athletics Championships 1982/800 m women

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 800-meter run
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Participants	20 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 6th (preliminary) September 7th (semi-finals) September 8th (final)
Medalists
gold	Olga Minejewa ( URS )
silver	Lyudmila Wesselkowa ( URS )
bronze	Margrit Klinger ( FRG )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The women's 800-meter run at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held from September 6 to 8, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

The Soviet runners achieved a double victory in this competition. The European champion was the Olympic runner-up in 1980 Olga Minejewa . She won ahead of Lyudmila Vesselkowa . The German athlete Margrit Klinger won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	1: 54.94 min	Tatiana Kasankina	Montreal OS , Canada	July 26, 1976
European record
EM record	1: 55.80 min	Tatiana Prowidochina	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 31, 1978

Record improvement

European champion Olga Minejewa improved the existing championship record in the final on September 8th by 39 hundredths of a second to 1: 55.41 min.

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.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Doina Melinte	Romania	2: 00.87
2	Lyudmila Vesselkowa	Soviet Union	2: 00.92
3	Wanda Stefanska	Poland	2: 01.13
4th	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	2: 01.36
5	Raisin Wallez	Belgium	2: 02.07 PB
6th	Randi Bjørn	Norway	2: 04.20 SB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Margrit Klinger	BR Germany	2: 01.43
2	Rawilja Agletdinova	Soviet Union	2: 01.59
3	Anne Clarkson	Great Britain	2: 01.59
4th	Vanya Gospodinova	Bulgaria	2: 02.00
5	Zuzana Moravčíková	Czechoslovakia	2: 03.15
6th	Jill McCabe	Great Britain	2: 03.98
7th	Bernadette Louis	France	2: 05.76 PB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hildegard Ullrich	GDR	2: 01.24
2	Olga Mineeva	Soviet Union	2: 01.29
3	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	2: 01.50 SB
4th	Jolanta Januchta	Poland	2: 01.66
5	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	2: 02.37 SB
6th	Nathalie Thoumas	France	2: 04.99 PB
7th	Georgia Troubouki	Greece	2: 10.15 PB

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

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hildegard Ullrich	GDR	2: 02.44
2	Jolanta Januchta	Poland	2: 02.50
3	Olga Mineeva	Soviet Union	2: 02.65
4th	Doina Melinte	Romania	2: 02.71
5	Rawilja Agletdinova	Soviet Union	2: 02.82
6th	Vanya Gospodinova	Bulgaria	2: 03.45
7th	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	2: 03.53
8th	Jill McCabe	Great Britain	2: 05.43

Elly van Hulst (right) did not reach the final in seventh of her semi-final run, three days later she was eighth over 1500 meters

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lyudmila Vesselkowa	Soviet Union	1: 59.00
2	Margrit Klinger	BR Germany	1: 59.05
3	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	1: 59.28 SB
4th	Wanda Stefanska	Poland	1: 59.87 NU23R
5	Anne Clarkson	Great Britain	2: 00.34
6th	Zuzana Moravčíková	Czechoslovakia	2: 02.48 SB
7th	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	2: 02.62
8th	Raisin Wallez	Belgium	2: 03.70

final

September 8, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Olga Mineeva	Soviet Union	1: 55.41 CR
2	Lyudmila Vesselkowa	Soviet Union	1: 55.96 PB
3	Margrit Klinger	BR Germany	1: 57.22 BR
4th	Jolanta Januchta	Poland	1: 57.92 SB
5	Hildegard Ullrich	GDR	1: 58.19 SB
6th	Doina Melinte	Romania	1: 59.69
7th	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	2: 01.77
8th	Wanda Stefanska	Poland	2: 03.05

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  Hildegard Ullrich (No. 46) , later Hildegard Körner, reached fifth place

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  Doina Melinte came in sixth place - at the Olympic Games in 1984 she won gold over 800 and silver over 1500 meters

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 24, 2019
• Women 800m European Championship 1982 Athens on todor66.com, accessed August 24, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 24, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 800m European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 441 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 24, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, 800 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 24, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 24, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m women , accessed August 24, 2019