European Athletics Championships 1982/100 m men

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 100-meter run
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Attendees	28 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 6th (preliminary) September 7th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist
gold	Frank Emmelmann ( GDR )
silver	Pierfrancesco Pavoni ( ITA )
bronze	Marian Voronin ( POL )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The men's 100-meter run at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 6th and 7th, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

GDR sprinter Frank Emmelmann became European champion . He won ahead of the Italian Pierfrancesco Pavoni . Bronze went to the Pole Marian Voronin .

Existing records

World record	9.95 s	Jim Hines	Olympic Games Mexico City , Mexico	October 14, 1968
European record	10.01 s	Pietro Mennea	Mexico City , Mexico	4th September 1979
Championship record	10.19 s		EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 29, 1978

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

September 6, 1982

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the fastest runner - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

Wind: −0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	10.45
2	Bernard Petitbois	France	10.55
3	Vladimir Muravyov	Soviet Union	10.57 SB
4th	Christian Zirkelbach	BR Germany	10.59 SB
5	Krzysztof Zwoliński	Poland	10.61

Forward 2

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christian Haas	BR Germany	10.45 SB
2	Thomas Schröder	GDR	10.54 SB
3	Stefan Burkart	Switzerland	10.59 SB
4th	James Evans	Great Britain	10.62

Forward 3

Wind: −0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	10.28 SB
2	Nikolai Sidorov	Soviet Union	10.38
3	Olaf Prenzler	GDR	10.40
4th	Kosmas Stratos	Greece	10.45 SB
5	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	10.48 SB
6th	Werner Bastians	BR Germany	10.58 SB
7th	István Tatár	Hungary	10.69 SB

Forward 4

Antoine Richard missed the semi-finals in his preliminary run by two places

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Emmelmann	GDR	10.30
2	Arkadiusz Janiak	Poland	10.55 SB
3	Ivailo Karanyotov	Bulgaria	10.61
4th	Attila Kovács	Hungary	10.64 SB
5	Antoine Richard	France	10.66 SB
6th	Gianfranco Lazzer	Italy	10.73 SB

Forward 5

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marian Voronin	Poland	10.20 SB
2	Giovanni Grazioli	Italy	10.43 SB
3	Alexander Evgenev	Soviet Union	10.44 SB
4th	Stefan Nilsson	Sweden	10.50 SB
5	Zdeněk Mazur	Czechoslovakia	10.55
6th	Franco Fähndrich	Switzerland	10.65 SB

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

Thomas Schröder retired as fifth in his semi-final race

Wind: −2.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marian Voronin	Poland	10.44
2	Nikolai Sidorov	Soviet Union	10.44
3	Olaf Prenzler	GDR	10.48
4th	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	10.50
5	Thomas Schröder	GDR	10.58
6th	Christian Haas	BR Germany	10.58
7th	Ivailo Karanyotov	Bulgaria	10.66
8th	Stefan Burkart	Switzerland	10.77

Run 2

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Emmelmann	GDR	10.30
2	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	10.32
3	Bernard Petitbois	France	10.49 SB
4th	Kosmas Stratos	Greece	10.50
5	Vladimir Muravyov	Soviet Union	10.58
6th	Alexander Evgenev	Soviet Union	10.59
7th	Giovanni Grazioli	Italy	10.61
8th	Arkadiusz Janiak	Poland	10.66

European champion Frank Emmelmann (left) - he also won silver here in the GDR's 4 x 100 meter relay and bronze over 200 meters

final

September 7, 1982

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Frank Emmelmann	GDR	10.21
2	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	10.25 NU23R
3	Marian Voronin	Poland	10.28
4th	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	10.28 SBe
5	Nikolai Sidorov	Soviet Union	10.32 PB
6th	Olaf Prenzler	GDR	10.35 SB
7th	Bernard Petitbois	France	10.50
8th	Kosmas Stratos	Greece	10.56

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  Bronze medalist Marian Voronin - in 1978 he was European champion with the Polish sprint relay

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  Olaf Prenzler (left) took sixth place and two days later became European champion over 200 meters

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 15, 2019
• Men 100m European Championship 1982 Athens on todor66.com, accessed August 15, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed August 15, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 100m European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 436 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 15, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 15, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 15, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m men , accessed August 15, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 7 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on August 15, 2019