European Athletics Championships 1982/110 m hurdles of men

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 110-meter hurdles
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Attendees	21 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	September 9th (preliminary) September 10th (semi-finals) September 11th (final)
Medalist
gold	Thomas Munkelt ( GDR )
silver	Andrei Prokofiev ( URS )
bronze	Arto Bryggare ( FIN )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held from September 9-11, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

The defending champion and Olympic champion from 1980 Thomas Munkelt from the GDR became European champion . Second place went to the Soviet hurdler Andrei Prokofiev . The Finn Arto Bryggare won the EM bronze in 1978 .

Existing records

World record	12.93 s	Renaldo Nehemiah	Zurich , Switzerland	August 12, 1981
European record	13.28 s	Guy Drut	Saint-Etienne , France	June 29, 1975
Championship record	13.40 s		EM Rome , Italy	September 8, 1974

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

Preliminary round

September 9, 1982

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and also the fastest runner - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.52
2	Andrei Prokofiev	Soviet Union	13.71
3	Mark Holtom	Great Britain	13.72
4th	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.72
5	Ion Oltean	Romania	13.82 SB
6th	Roberto Schneider	Switzerland	13.92 SB
7th	Herbert Kreiner	Austria	14.50

Forward 2

Wind: −1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jacek Rutkowski	Poland	13.87
2	Andreas Schlisske	GDR	13.90
3	Georgi Schabanov	Soviet Union	13.91
4th	György Bakos	Hungary	13.98 SB
5	Karl-Werner Dönges	BR Germany	14.01
6th	Urs Rohner	Switzerland	14.20
7th	Reijo Byman	Finland	14.36 SB
8th	Petros Evripidou	Greece	14.69 SB

Forward 3

Wind: −1.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Romuald Giegiel	Poland	13.85
2	Holger Pohland	GDR	13.85
3	Wilbert Greaves	Great Britain	13.86
4th	Alexander Putschkov	Soviet Union	13.95
5	Javier Moracho	Spain	14.01
6th	Daniele Fontecchio	Italy	14.01 SB
7th	Július Ivan	Czechoslovakia	14.05 SB

Semifinals

September 10, 1982

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Andreas Schlisske (left) only missed the final by one place or two hundredths of a second

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Andrei Prokofiev	Soviet Union	13.58
2	Holger Pohland	GDR	13.62
3	Karl-Werner Dönges	BR Germany	13.65
4th	Romuald Giegiel	Poland	13.77
5	Andreas Schlisske	GDR	13.79 SB
6th	György Bakos	Hungary	14.06
7th	Mark Holtom	Great Britain	14.14
8th	Roberto Schneider	Switzerland	14.22

Run 2

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.47
2	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.59 SB
3	Wilbert Greaves	Great Britain	13.66 SB
4th	Alexander Putschkov	Soviet Union	13.73 SB
5	Javier Moracho	Spain	13.76 SB
6th	Georgi Schabanov	Soviet Union	13.79
7th	Jacek Rutkowski	Poland	13.83 SB
8th	Ion Oltean	Romania	13.95

final

The 1980 Olympic champion Thomas Munkelt became European champion for the second time

September 11, 1982

Wind: −0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Thomas Munkelt	GDR	13.41 SB
2	Andrei Prokofiev	Soviet Union	13.46 SB
3	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.60
4th	Wilbert Greaves	Great Britain	13.67
5	Alexander Putschkov	Soviet Union	13.79
6th	Romuald Giegiel	Poland	13.82
7th	Karl-Werner Dönges	BR Germany	13.83
8th	Holger Pohland	GDR	13.89

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  Arto Bryggare (here in 2009) won four years ago EM -Bronze - at the European Championships in 1986 he improved to second place, in 1984 he won Olympic bronze

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  Holger Pohland (in the foreground) came eighth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 19, 2019
• Men 110m Hurdles European Championship 1982 Athens on todor66.com, accessed on August 19, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 19, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 110m Hurdles European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 437f (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 19, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, 110 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 19, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 19, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Men's 110-meter hurdles , accessed August 19, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 110 m Hurdles Men , p. 16 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on August 19, 2019