European Athletics Championships 1982/3000 m for women

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter run for women
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Participants	21 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	the 9th of September
Medalists
gold	Svetlana Ulmassowa ( URS )
silver	Maricica Puică ( ROM )
bronze	Jelena Sipatowa ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The 3,000-meter run for women at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 9, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

In this competition, the Soviet runners won two medals, gold and bronze. The defending champion Svetlana Ulmassowa became the European champion . She won ahead of the Romanian Maricica Puică . Bronze went to Jelena Sipatowa .

Records

Existing records

World record	8: 26.78 min	Svetlana Ulmasowa	Kiev , Soviet Union (now Ukraine )	August 25, 1982
European record
Championship record	8: 33.16 min	Svetlana Ulmasowa	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 29, 1978

Record improvement

European champion Svetlana Ulmassowa improved her own EM record on September 9th by 2.88 seconds to 8: 30.28 minutes.  

execution

As usual with the men on the longest track, there was no preliminary round, all 21 participants started in a joint final.

final

Vice European Champion Maricica Puică finished fourth two days later over 1500 meters - later she won medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships, her greatest success: the 1984 Olympic victory over 3000 meters

September 9, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Svetlana Ulmasowa	Soviet Union	8: 30.28 CR
2	Maricica Puică	Romania	8: 33.33
3	Elena Sipatova	Soviet Union	8: 34.06 SB
4th	Tetiana Posdnyakova	Soviet Union	8: 38.98
5	Birgit Friedmann	BR Germany	8: 43.65 BR
6th	Margherita Gargano	Italy	8: 48.73
7th	Brigitte Kraus	BR Germany	8: 51.60
8th	Ingrid Kristiansen	Norway	8: 51.79 SB
9	Agnese Possamai	Italy	8: 54.52 SB
10	Aurora Cunha	Portugal	8: 55.24 SB
11	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	8: 55.67 SB
12	Pink Mota	Portugal	9: 04.82 PB
13	Monica Joyce	Ireland	9: 08.45 SB
14th	Birgit Bringslid	Sweden	9: 09.85 PB
15th	Breda Pergar	Yugoslavia	9: 11.79 SB
16	Mercedes Calleja	Spain	9: 12.32 PB
17th	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark	9: 14.35 SB
18th	Eva Ernström	Sweden	9: 15.12 SB
19th	Louise McGrillen	Ireland	9: 20.60 SB
20th	Deborah Peel	Great Britain	9: 24.41 PB
DSQ	Jeanette Nordgren	Sweden

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  Ingrid Kristiansen (here in 2015) finished eighth - later she was very successful on longer distances, including becoming world champion over 10,000 meters in 1987 , setting world records over 5000 and 10,000 meters and developing into a world-class marathon runner

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  Twelfth-placed Rosa Mota won the marathon three days later - she became a world-class marathon runner in the course of her further career, defended her European Championship title three times, became world champion in this discipline in 1987 and Olympic champion in 1988

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 25, 2019
• Women 3000m European Championship 1982 Athens on todor66.com, accessed August 25, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed August 25, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 3000m European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 441 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, 3000 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 25, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 3000 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 75 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on August 25, 2019