European Athletics Championships 1982 / men's high jump

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's high jump
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Attendees	23 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 10th (qualification) September 11th (final)
Medalist
gold	Dietmar Mögenburg ( FRG )
silver	Janusz Trzepizur ( POL )
bronze	Gerd Nagel ( FRG )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The men's high jump at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 10 and 11, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

With gold and bronze, there were two medals in this competition for the high jumpers from the Federal Republic of Germany. Dietmar Mögenburg became European champion . He won ahead of the Pole Janusz Trzepizur . Bronze went to Gerd Nagel .

Records

Existing records

World record	2.36 m	Gerd Wessig	OS Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia )	August 1, 1980
European record
EM record	2.30 m	Vladimir Yashchenko	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	2nd September 1978

Record setting

European champion Dietmar Mögenburg equalized the championship record of 2.30 m in the final on September 11th.  

qualification

Sorin Matei was not able to reach the final with 2.15 m

September 10, 1982

23 participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification height for direct entry into the final was 2.24 m. Since only two athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 2.21 m was enough for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Janusz Trzepizur	Poland	2.24
	Gerd Nagel	BR Germany	2.24 SBe
3	Thomas Eriksson	Sweden	2.21
	Valery Sereda	Soviet Union	2.21 SB
	Vladimir Granenkov	Soviet Union	2.21 SB
	Josef Hrabal	Czechoslovakia	2.21
	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	2.21
	André Schneider	BR Germany	2.21
	Franck Bonnet	France	2.21 SB
	Jacek Wszoła	Poland	2.21 SB
	Roland Dalhauser	Switzerland	2.21 SB
	Dietmar Mögenburg	BR Germany	2.21
13	Roberto Cabrejas	Spain	2.18 SB
	Geoff Parsons	Great Britain	2.18 SB
	Novica Čanović	Yugoslavia	2.18 SB
	Gianni Davito	Italy	2.18 SB
16	Franck Verzy	France	2.15 SB
	Sorin Matei	Romania	2.15
	Massimo Di Giorgio	Italy	2.15
	Oleksiy Demjanjuk	Soviet Union	2.15 SB
21st	Miguel Morale	Spain	2.10
	Michaíl Minoudis	Greece	2.10
NM	Paolo Porghi	Italy	without height

final

Vice European Champion Janusz Trzepizur

September 11, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Dietmar Mögenburg	BR Germany	2.30 CRe
2	Janusz Trzepizur	Poland	2.27
3	Gerd Nagel	BR Germany	2.24 SBe
4th	André Schneider	BR Germany	2.24 SB
5	Valery Sereda	Soviet Union	2.21 SBe
6th	Vladimir Granenkov	Soviet Union	2.21 SBe
7th	Roland Dalhauser	Switzerland	2.21 SBe
8th	Franck Bonnet	France	2.18
9	Thomas Eriksson	Sweden	2.18
10	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	2.15
	Josef Hrabal	Czechoslovakia	2.15
DNS	Jacek Wszoła	Poland

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  Patrik Sjöberg was at the beginning of a very successful career and finished tenth - later he won two Olympic silver medals in 1984 and 1992, as well as an Olympic bronze in  1988

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  The Olympic champion from 1976 , Olympic runner-up in 1980 , EC fifth from 1974 and EC sixth from 1978 Jacek Wszola (here in 2007) did not make the final here

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 20, 2019
• European Championship 1982 Athens, Men High Jump on todor66.com, accessed August 20, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed August 20, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men High Jump European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 438 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, high jump men
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 20, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed August 20, 2019.