1982 European Athletics Championships / men's marathon

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's marathon
city	Athens
place	Circuit through Athens
Attendees	35 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	September 12, 1982
Medalist
gold	Gerard Nijboer ( NED )
silver	Armand Parmentier ( BEL )
bronze	Karel Lismont ( BEL )

The men's marathon at the 1982 European Athletics Championships took place on September 12, 1982 in Athens , Greece .

The Dutchman Gerard Nijboer won the race in 2:15:16 h. The Belgian Armand Parmentier was vice European champion ahead of his compatriot Karel Lismont .

Records / best performances

World record	Robert De Castella	2:08:18 h	Fukuoka marathon	December 6, 1981
Championship record	Leonid Mossejew	2: 11: 57.5 h	EM in Prague	3rd September 1978

View of Athens from Mount Lycabettus

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

Result

European champion Gerard Nijboer. Netherlands

The Belgian vice European
champion Armand Parmentier - running fourth in the 1983 Rotterdam marathon

Bronze medalist
Karel Lismont, Belgium - Amsterdam 1976

space	athlete	country	time
	Gerard Nijboer	Netherlands	2:15:16 SB
	Armand Parmentier	Belgium	2:15:51
	Karel Lismont	Belgium	2:16:04 SB
04th	Pertti Tiainen	Finland	2:16:27 SB
05	Jukka Toivola	Finland	2:17:31 SB
06th	Waldemar Cierpinski	GDR	2:17:50 SB
07th	Ryszard Marczak	Poland	2:17:53
08th	Giampaolo Messina	Italy	2:18:20
09	Øyvind Dahl	Norway	2:19:49
10	Kjell-Erik Ståhl	Sweden	2:20:36 SB
11	Dick Hooper	Ireland	2:20:51
12	David Cannon	Great Britain	2:21:33 SB
13	Giovanni Poli	Italy	2:22:27 PB
14th	Dominique Chauvelier	France	2:22:40 SB
15th	Janos Szekeres	Hungary	2:22:41 SB
16	Leonid Mossejew	Soviet Union	2:24:00 SB
17th	Mehmet Terzi	Turkey	2:24:06 SB
18th	Richard Umberg	Switzerland	2:24:54 SB
19th	Delfim Moreira	Portugal	2:26:08 SB
20th	Michael Koussis	Greece	2:26:22
21st	Bernard Bobes	France	2:26:37 SB
22nd	Ralf Salzmann	BR Germany	2:27:24 SB
23	Freddy Vandervennet	Belgium	2:27:44 SB
24	Vadim Sidorov	Soviet Union	2:31:29
25th	Theofanis Tsimingatos	Greece	2:35:41 PB
	Richard Kopijasz	Poland	DNF
	Tommy Persson	Sweden
	Allan Zachariassen	Denmark
	Svend-Erik Kristensen	Denmark
	Kyriakos Lazaridis	Greece
	Cor Vriend	Netherlands
	Santiago de la Parte	Spain
	Niilo Kemppe	Finland
	Steve Kenyon	Great Britain
	Uladsimir Kowtow	Soviet Union

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  Waldemar Cierpinski, GDR - sixth place

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  Ryszard Marzak, Poland (here in fourth place in the 1982 Rotterdam Marathon ) - seventh place

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  Øyvind Dahl, Norway (in a leading position in a marathon in 1980) - ninth place

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  Cor Vriend, Netherlands - race not finished

Web links and sources

• Men Marathon European Championships 1982 Athens on todor66.com, accessed February 20, 2019
• European Marathon Championships at marathonspiegel.de, accessed on February 20, 2019
• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed February 20, 2019

Video

• Europei Atene 1982 Maratona Ricostruzione Nijboer on youtube.com, published May 13, 2015, accessed February 20, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF records. Men's marathon , accessed February 20, 2019