European Athletics Championships 1982/800 m men
13th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's 800-meter run |
city | Athens |
Stadion | Athens Olympic Stadium |
Attendees | 26 athletes from 15 countries |
Competition phase | September 6th (preliminary) September 7th (semi-finals) September 8th (final) |
Medalist | |
gold | Hans-Peter Ferner ( FRG ) |
silver | Sebastian Coe ( GBR ) |
bronze | Jorma Härkönen ( FIN ) |
The men's 800-meter run at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held from September 6th to 8th, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .
The German runner Hans-Peter Ferner was surprisingly European champion . He won ahead of the British 1500 meter Olympic champion from 1980 and world record holder Sebastian Coe , who was also Olympic runner-up over 800 meters in 1980 and third at the European Championship in 1978 . Bronze went to the Finn Jorma Härkönen .
Existing records
World record | 1: 41.73 min | Sebastian Coe | Florence , Italy | June 20, 1981 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 1: 43.84 min | Olaf Beyer | EM Prague , Czechoslovakia | August 31, 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 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 (min) |
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1 | Sebastian Coe | Great Britain | 1: 48.66 |
2 | Hans-Peter Ferner | BR Germany | 1: 48.67 |
3 | José Marajo | France | 1: 49.12 |
4th | Anatoly Reshetnyak | Soviet Union | 1: 49.23 SB |
5 | Julien Michiels | Belgium | 1: 49.69 |
6th | Carlos Cabral | Spain | 1: 49.84 SB |
7th | Donato Sabia | Italy | 1: 50.27 SB |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Olaf Beyer | GDR | 1: 47.97 |
2 | Rob Druppers | Netherlands | 1: 48.24 |
3 | Willi Wuelbeck | BR Germany | 1: 48.40 |
4th | Philippe Dupont | France | 1: 48.61 SB |
5 | Spyros Spyrou | Greece | 1: 49.11 SB |
6th | José Antonio Pacheco | Spain | 1: 50.03 |
Forward 3
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Hans-Joachim Mogalle | GDR | 1: 48.02 |
2 | Matthias Assmann | BR Germany | 1: 48.14 SB |
3 | Andrés Vera | Spain | 1: 48.24 SB |
4th | Alexei Litvinov | Soviet Union | 1: 48.36 |
5 | Didier Le Guillou | France | 1: 48.36 SB |
6th | Klas-Göran Nissén | Sweden | 1: 50.46 PB |
7th | John Chappory | Gibraltar | 1: 53.02 SB |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Detlef Wagenknecht | GDR | 1: 47.67 |
2 | Colomán Trabado | Spain | 1: 47.69 SB |
3 | Jorma Härkönen | Finland | 1: 47.92 |
4th | Garry Cook | Great Britain | 1: 48.14 |
5 | Arno Körmeling | Netherlands | 1: 48.48 |
6th | Jón Didriksson | Iceland | 1: 50.30 PB |
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
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Hans-Peter Ferner | BR Germany | 1: 48.71 |
2 | Rob Druppers | Netherlands | 1: 48.92 |
3 | Garry Cook | Great Britain | 1: 49.03 |
4th | Detlef Wagenknecht | GDR | 1: 49.11 |
5 | Matthias Assmann | BR Germany | 1: 49.19 |
6th | Colomán Trabado | Spain | 1: 49.38 |
7th | Hans-Joachim Mogalle | GDR | 1: 49.58 |
8th | Didier Le Guillou | France | 1: 51.74 |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Sebastian Coe | Great Britain | 1: 47.98 |
2 | Olaf Beyer | GDR | 1: 48.05 |
3 | Willi Wuelbeck | BR Germany | 1: 48.16 SB |
4th | Jorma Härkönen | Finland | 1: 48.22 |
5 | Alexei Litvinov | Soviet Union | 1: 48.38 |
6th | José Marajo | France | 1: 48.49 SB |
7th | Arno Körmeling | Netherlands | 1: 49.20 |
8th | Andrés Vera | Spain | 1: 49.35 |
final
September 8, 1982
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Hans-Peter Ferner | BR Germany | 1: 46.33 SB |
2 | Sebastian Coe | Great Britain | 1: 46.68 |
3 | Jorma Härkönen | Finland | 1: 46.90 SB |
4th | Garry Cook | Great Britain | 1: 46.94 |
5 | Rob Druppers | Netherlands | 1: 47.06 |
6th | Detlef Wagenknecht | GDR | 1: 47.06 SB |
7th | Olaf Beyer | GDR | 1: 47.36 SB |
8th | Willi Wuelbeck | BR Germany | 1: 48.90 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 17, 2019
- Men 800m 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 800m 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, 800 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
- ↑ IAAF world records. 800m men , accessed August 17, 2019