European Athletics Championships 1982/400 m men

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 400-meter run
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Attendees	26 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	September 7th (preliminary) September 8th (semi-finals) September 9th (final)
Medalist
gold	Hartmut Weber ( FRG )
silver	Andreas Knebel ( GDR )
bronze	Viktor Markin ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens
in 2017

The men's 400-meter run at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held from September 7th to 9th, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

The German runner Hartmut Weber became European champion . He won ahead of Andreas Knebel from the GDR. The 1980 Soviet Olympic champion and European record holder Viktor Markin won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	43.86 s	Lee Evans	OS Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1968
European record	44.60 s	Viktor Markin	OS Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia )	July 30, 1980
EM record	45.04 s	Karl Honz	EM Rome , Italy	4th September 1974

Record improvement

European champion Hartmut Weber improved the existing championship record in the final on September 9th by 32 hundredths of a second to 44.72 seconds.

Preliminary round

September 7, 1982

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Hartmut Weber	BR Germany	45.90
2	David Jenkins	Great Britain	46.13 SB
3	Pavel Konovalov	Soviet Union	46.23
4th	Sándor Újhelyi	Hungary	46.46 PB
5	Didier Dubois	France	46.51 SB
6th	Benjamin González	Spain	47.00 SB
7th	Hannu Mykrä	Finland	47.16

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Philip Brown	Great Britain	46.52
2	Viktor Markin	Soviet Union	46.53 SB
3	Roberto Ribaud	Italy	46.57 SB
4th	Oddur Sigurdsson	Iceland	46.63 SB
5	Andrzej Stepien	Poland	46.65 SB
6th	Hector Llatser	France	47.46 SB
7th	José Carvalho	Portugal	47.92 PB

Forward 3

Ryszard Podlas (here in 2013) his fourth place in his preliminary run was not enough for the semi-finals

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Željko Knapić	Yugoslavia	46.71
2	Mauro Zuliani	Italy	46.72
3	Alexander Troschtschilo	Soviet Union	46.74
4th	Ryszard Podlas	Poland	46.88
5	Eric Josjö	Sweden	46.91
6th	Edgar Nakladal	BR Germany	47.30 SB
7th	Paul Bourdin	France	47.43 SB

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Todd Bennett	Great Britain	46.16 SB
2	Andreas Knebel	GDR	46.32
3	Thomas Giessing	BR Germany	46.41 SB
4th	Roberto Tozzi	Italy	46.65 SB
5	Jacques Borlée	Belgium	47.52 SB

Semifinals

September 7, 1982, 5:35 p.m.

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

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Hartmut Weber	BR Germany	46.13
2	Andreas Knebel	GDR	46.30
3	Pavel Konovalov	Soviet Union	46.32
4th	Alexander Troschtschilo	Soviet Union	46.40
5	Mauro Zuliani	Italy	46.44 SB
6th	Todd Bennett	Great Britain	46.84
7th	Andrzej Stepien	Poland	47.28
8th	Oddur Sigurdsson	Iceland	47.35

David Jenkins, European champion from 1971 made it to the semi-finals again, but was eliminated there

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Viktor Markin	Soviet Union	45.99
2	Philip Brown	Great Britain	46.14
3	Željko Knapić	Yugoslavia	46.24
4th	Thomas Giessing	BR Germany	46.43
5	Didier Dubois	France	46.56
6th	Roberto Ribaud	Italy	46.58
7th	Sándor Újhelyi	Hungary	46.59
8th	David Jenkins	Great Britain	47.04

final

September 9, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Hartmut Weber	BR Germany	44.72 CR
2	Andreas Knebel	GDR	45.29 PB
3	Viktor Markin	Soviet Union	45.30 SB
4th	Philip Brown	Great Britain	45.45 SB
5	Alexander Troschtschilo	Soviet Union	45.67 NU23R
6th	Pavel Konovalov	Soviet Union	45.84 PB
7th	Željko Knapić	Yugoslavia	46.20 SB
8th	Thomas Giessing	BR Germany	48.70

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 17, 2019
• Men 400m European Championship 1982 Athens on todor66.com, accessed August 17, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 17, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 400m European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 436 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 17, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, 400 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 17, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 17, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m men , accessed August 17, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Men , p. 10 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on August 17, 2019