European Athletics Championships 1982/800 m men

13th European Athletics Championships
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 Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

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)
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)
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)
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)
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

Hans-Joachim Mogalle (here in a leading position) did not reach the final as seventh of his semi-final run

Arno Körmeling retired in the semifinals as seventh of his race

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)
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)
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

Favorite Sebastian Coe, today's IAAF -President, had to settle for silver after he 800m 1978 EM -Dritter and 1980 Olympic silver medalist and about 1500 meters had become Olympic champion in 1980 - more great successes were still ahead of him

September 8, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
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

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  Rob Druppers reached number five

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  Detlef Wagenknecht came in sixth place

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  Defending champion Olaf Beyer finished seventh

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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m men , accessed August 17, 2019