European Athletics Championships 1982 / Women's Shot Put

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Women
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Participants	11 athletes from 7 countries
Competition phase	September 6th
Medalists
gold	Ilona Slupianek ( GDR )
silver	Helena Fibingerová ( TCH )
bronze	Nunu Abaschydze ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The shot put women at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was on September 6, 1982 at the Olympic Stadium of Athens discharged.

The defending champion, Olympic champion from 1980 and world record holder Ilona Slupianek from the GDR became European champion . She won before the Czechoslovak European Championship runner-up in 1978 Helena Fibingerová . Bronze went to the Soviet athlete Nunu Abashydze .

Records

Existing records

World record	22.45 m	Ilona Slupianek	Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	May 11, 1980
European record
EM record	21.41 m		EM in Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 30, 1978

Record improvement

European champion Ilona Slupianek improved her own championship record on September 6th by eighteen centimeters to 21.59 m.  

execution

With only eleven participants, there was no qualification, all athletes entered the final together.

final

After a positive doping test in 1977 Ilona Slupianek European champion was 1978 / 1982 and Olympic champion in 1980 - this and her two world records achieved later have to be seen clearly on the currently known background of the East German doping practices

September 6, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ilona Slupianek	GDR	21.59 CR
2	Helena Fibingerová	Czechoslovakia	20.94
3	Nunu Abashydze	Soviet Union	20.82
4th	Elena Stoyanova	Bulgaria	20.35 SB
5	Vershinia Veselinova	Soviet Union	20.23
6th	Helma Knorscheidt	GDR	20.21
7th	Liana Schmuhl	GDR	20.09
8th	Mihaela Loghin	Romania	18.91 SB
9	Zdenka Silhavá	Czechoslovakia	18.46 SB
10	Soultana Saroudi	Greece	17.39 SB
11	Gunnel Hettman	Sweden	13.24 PB

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  The Olympic bronze medalist from 1976 , EM -Third of 1974 and EM -Second of 1978 Helena Fibingerová (here in 2012) won silver again - in the course of her successful career was her biggest success of the World Cup -Titel 1983

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  As in 1978, Mihaela Loghin was eighth - in 1984 she was second in the Olympics

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 26, 2019
• European Championship 1982 Athens, Women Shot Put 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 Shot Put 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, women's shot put 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. Shot put women , accessed August 12, 2019
2. ↑ Doping - not an issue for the Briesenick family on taz.de, accessed on August 12, 2019
3. ↑ Doping, BRD / GDR - Past on cycling4fans.de, accessed on August 12, 2019
4. ↑ The GDR already stuffed the little ones of the sport with pills - this has fatal consequences on focus.de, Focus Magazin, No. 11/1994, March 14, 1994, accessed on August 12, 2019