European Athletics Championships 1982/400 m women

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400-meter run for women
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Participants	16 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	September 7th (preliminary) September 8th (final)
Medalists
gold	Marita Koch ( GDR )
silver	Jarmila Kratochvílová ( TCH )
bronze	Taťána Kocembová ( TCH )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The women's 400-meter run at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 7th and 8th, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

In this competition, the runners from Czechoslovakia won two medals with silver and bronze. In first and second place there was the same order as in the Olympic Games two years earlier . The defending champion Marita Koch from the GDR, who improved her own world record in the final , became the European champion . She won ahead of Jarmila Kratochvílová . Taťána Kocembová won bronze .

Records

Existing records

World record	48.60 s	Marita Koch	Turin , Italy	4th August 1979
European record
EM record	48.94 s		EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 31, 1978

Record improvement

European champion Marita Koch improved her championship record in the final on September 8th by 78 hundredths of a second to 48.16 s. In doing so, she also undercut her own world record.  

Preliminary round

September 7, 1982

The preliminary round was held in two runs. With sixteen runners, the number of participants was so small that no intermediate round was necessary. From the preliminary runs it went straight to the final, for which the first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marita Koch	GDR	50.22
2	Irina Baskakova	Soviet Union	51.03
3	Taťána Kocembová	Czechoslovakia	51.69
4th	Judit Forgács	Hungary	51.88 SB
5	Erika Rossi	Italy	52.01 PB
6th	Grażyna Oliszewska	Poland	53.15 SB
7th	Claudia Steger	BR Germany	53.56 PB
8th	Charlotte Holmström	Sweden	55.22 PB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Czechoslovakia	50.38
2	Dagmar Rübsam	GDR	50.55 SB
3	Gaby Bussmann	BR Germany	50.64 SB
4th	Sabine Busch	GDR	50.80
5	Jelena Korban	Soviet Union	50.83 SB
6th	Linsey Macdonald	Great Britain	52.09 SB
7th	Michelle Scutt	Great Britain	52.11
8th	Elżbieta Kapusta	Poland	53.83 PB

As with her first title win four years ago, European champion Marita Koch won with a new world record - she won a number of titles at the Olympic Games, world and European championships

final

September 8, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marita Koch	GDR	48.16 WR
2	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Czechoslovakia	48.85 SB
3	Taťána Kocembová	Czechoslovakia	50.55
4th	Sabine Busch	GDR	50.57 SB
5	Irina Baskakova	Soviet Union	50.58 SB
6th	Dagmar Rübsam	GDR	50.76
7th	Gaby Bussmann	BR Germany	50.93
8th	Judit Forgács	Hungary	52.49

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  Bronze medalist Taťána Kocembová

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  Sabine Busch came fourth - her greatest success was achieved in 1987 as world champion over 400 m hurdles

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  Dagmar Rübsam finished sixth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed on 23 August 2019
• Women 400m European Championship 1982 Athens on todor66.com, accessed August 23, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on 23 August 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 400m European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 441 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on 23 August 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, 400 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 23, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 23, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m women , accessed August 23, 2019