European Athletics Championships 1982 / Men's discus throw

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's discus throw
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Attendees	24 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 10th (qualification) September 11th (final)
Medalist
gold	Imrich Bugár ( TCH )
silver	Ihor Duhinez ( URS )
bronze	Wolfgang Warnemünde ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The men's discus throw at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 10 and 11, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

The European champion was the Czechoslovak European Championship third in 1978 and Olympic second in 1980 Imrich Bugár . Second place went to the Soviet thrower Ihor Duhinez . Bronze went to Wolfgang Warnemünde from the GDR.

Existing records

World record	71.16 m	Wolfgang Schmidt	East Berlin (now Berlin ), GDR (now Germany )	August 9, 1978
European record
EM record	66.82 m		EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	3rd September 1978

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

qualification

September 10, 1982

24 participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 61.00 m. Nine athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the three next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 60.46 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Wolfgang Warnemünde	GDR	63.74
2	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	63.52
3	Dmitri Kovtsun	Soviet Union	62.66 SB
4th	Ihor Duhinez	Soviet Union	62.54
5	Gejza Valent	Czechoslovakia	62.52
6th	Armin Lemme	GDR	61.94
7th	Alwin Wagner	BR Germany	61.26
8th	Georgi Kolnootschenko	Soviet Union	61.20
9	Werner Hartmann	BR Germany	61.10
10	Ion Zamfirache	Romania	60.70
11	Knut Hjeltnes	Norway	60.58 SB
12	Iosif Naghi	Romania	60.46
13	Borislav Taschew	Bulgaria	59.80
14th	Marco Martino	Italy	59.48
15th	Rolf Danneberg	BR Germany	59.44 SB
16	Marco Bucci	Italy	59.08
17th	Ari Huumonen	Finland	58.98
18th	Kenth garden crane	Sweden	57.90 SB
19th	Konstantinos Georgakopoulos	Greece	57.62
20th	Göran Svensson	Sweden	56.40 SB
21st	Richard Slaney	Great Britain	55.98 SB
22nd	Roger Axelsson	Sweden	52.24
NM	Markku Tuokko	Finland	without space
	Georg Frank	Austria

final

September 11, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	66.64
2	Ihor Duhinez	Soviet Union	65.60
3	Wolfgang Warnemünde	GDR	64.20 SB
4th	Armin Lemme	GDR	63.94
5	Georgi Kolnootschenko	Soviet Union	63.82
6th	Gejza Valent	Czechoslovakia	61.98
7th	Ion Zamfirache	Romania	61.66 SB
8th	Iosif Naghy	Romania	60.56
9	Dmitri Kovtsun	Soviet Union	58.44
10	Alwin Wagner	BR Germany	58.10
11	Werner Hartmann	BR Germany	57.68
12	Knut Hjeltnes	Norway	56.02

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  Imrich Bugár (on the photo in 2013) won his first big title here after the EM bronze in 1978 and the Olympic silver in 1980 - the following year he became world champion

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  Knut Hjeltnes, fifth in the 1978 European Championship , was twelfth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 22, 2019
• European Championship 1982 Athens, Men Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed August 22, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 22, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Discus Throw European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 439 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 22, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 22, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 22, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed August 22, 2019