European Athletics Championships 1982 / Women's discus throw

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's discus throw
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Participants	16 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	September 8th
Medalists
gold	Tsvetanka Christowa ( BUL )
silver	Marija Petkowa ( BUL )
bronze	Galina Savinkova ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The women's discus throw at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 8, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

In this competition, the Bulgarian discus throwers won a double victory. Zwetanka Christowa became European champion . Silver went to the Olympic runner-up in 1980 and world record holder Marija Petkowa . The Soviet athlete Galina Savinkova won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	71.80 m	Maria Petkova	Sofia , Bulgaria	July 13, 1980
European record
EM record	69.00 m	Faina Melnik	EM Rome , Italy	September 6, 1974

The existing EM record was not set and not improved at these European championships either.

execution

Only sixteen participants did not qualify and all athletes entered the final together.

final

Gisela Beyer reached as in the 1980 Olympics fourth place - in 1983 it was World Cup -Fünfte

September 8, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Tsvetanka Christova	Bulgaria	68.34
2	Maria Petkova	Bulgaria	67.94
3	Galina Savinkova	Soviet Union	67.82
4th	Gisela Beyer	GDR	66.78
5	Silvia Madetzki	GDR	66.64
6th	Galina Murašova	Soviet Union	65.30
7th	Florența Crăciunescu	Romania	64.00
8th	Irina Meszynski	GDR	63.78
9	Svetla Boschkowa	Bulgaria	60.78 SB
10	Ingra Manecke	BR Germany	60.46 PB
11	Ulla Lundholm	Finland	58.90 SB
12	Ria Stalman	Netherlands	58.48 SB
13	Zdenka Silhavá	Czechoslovakia	56.16
14th	Isabelle Accambray	France	53.06 PB
15th	Patricia Walsh	Ireland	52.78
16	Gunnel Hettman	Sweden	44.00 PB

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  Florența Crăciunescu came in seventh - her greatest success was the 1984 Olympic  bronze

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  Ria Stalman came in twelfth place - in 1984 she became an Olympic champion

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 26, 2019
• European Championship 1982 Athens, Women Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed August 26, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 26, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Discus Throw European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 442 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 26, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on August 26, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 26, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed August 26, 2019