European Athletics Championships 1982 / men's hammer throw

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's hammer throw
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Attendees	21 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 9th (qualification) September 10th (final)
Medalist
gold	Jurij Sjedych ( URS )
silver	Igor Nikulin ( URS )
bronze	Sergei Litvinov ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The men's hammer throw at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 9 and 10, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

In this competition there was a triple victory for the hammer throwers from the USSR. For the second time European champion two-time Olympic champion was 1976 / 1980 Jurij Sjedych . EM silver went to Igor Nikulin . The 1980 Olympic runner-up and world record holder Sergei Litvinov won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	83.98 m	Sergei Litvinov	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	4th June 1982
European record
EM record	77.28 m	Yuri Sedych	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	2nd September 1978

Record improvements

The European Championship record was improved three times at these European Championships:

• 77.58 m - Sergei Litvinov , qualification on September 9
• 77.58 m - Jurij Sedych , qualification on September 9th 
• 81.66 m - Jurij Sedych , final on September 10th 

qualification

September 9, 1982

21 participants took part in the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 72.00 m. Exactly twelve athletes surpassed this mark (highlighted in light blue) and carried out the finals on the following day.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Sergei Litvinov	Soviet Union	77.58
2	Yury Sjedych	Soviet Union	77.58
3	Harri Huhtala	Finland	75.86
4th	Klaus Ploghaus	BR Germany	74.32
5	Roland Steuk	GDR	74.10
6th	Igor Nikulin	Soviet Union	74.06
7th	Ireneusz Golda	Poland	73.92
8th	Detlef Gerstenberg	GDR	73.88
9	Mariusz Tomaszewski	Poland	73.48
10	Jörg Schaefer	BR Germany	72.98
11	Gianpaolo Urlando	Italy	72.76
12	Juha Tiainen	Finland	72.62
13	Emanuil Dulgerow	Bulgaria	71.16 SB
14th	Tibor Tánczi	Hungary	71.04 SB
15th	Martin Girvan	Great Britain	70.62 SB
16	Orlando Bianchini	Italy	70.06 SB
17th	Richard Olsen	Denmark	69.78 SB
18th	Jukka Olkkonen	Finland	69.76
19th	Christoph Sahner	BR Germany	69.24
20th	Sean Egan	Ireland	66.96 SB
NM	Kjell Bystedt	Sweden	without space

final

September 10, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Yury Sjedych	Soviet Union	81.66 CR
2	Igor Nikulin	Soviet Union	79.44
3	Sergei Litvinov	Soviet Union	78.66
4th	Ireneusz Golda	Poland	76.58
5	Harri Huhtala	Finland	76.12 SB
6th	Detlef Gerstenberg	GDR	75.32 SB
7th	Roland Steuk	GDR	74.76 SB
8th	Klaus Ploghaus	BR Germany	74.52
9	Jörg Schaefer	BR Germany	74.08 SB
10	Mariusz Tomaszewski	Poland	73.74 SB
11	Gianpaolo Urlando	Italy	73.08 SB
12	Juha Tiainen	Finland	72.12

European champion Jurij Sjedych achieved the following series of tests in the final:
81.66 m - 80.48 m - 80.96 m - 79.36 m - 81.62 m - 80.94 m

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  Detlef Gerstenberg, fourth in the European Championship in 1978 , reached sixth place

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  The Vice European Champion from 1978 Roland Steuk came in seventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 22, 2019
• European Championship 1982 Athens, Men Hammer Throw on todor66.com, accessed August 22, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 22, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Hammer Throw European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 439 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 22, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, hammer throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 22, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 22, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed August 22, 2019