European Athletics Championships 1982 / Men's Shot Put

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Men
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Attendees	20 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	September 8th (qualification) September 9th (final)
Medalist
gold	Udo Beyer ( GDR )
silver	Jānis Bojārs ( URS )
bronze	Remigius Machura ( TCH )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The shot put men at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was launched on 8 and 9 September 1982 at the Olympic Stadium of Athens discharged.

The defending champion, Olympic champion from 1976 and Olympic third from 1980, Udo Beyer from the GDR became European champions . He won against the Soviet shot putter Jānis Bojārs . Bronze went to the Czechoslovak Remigius Machura .

Records

Existing records

World record	22.15 m	Udo Beyer	Gothenburg , Sweden	July 6, 1978
European record
EM record	21.08 m	Hartmut Briesenick	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 13, 1971
		Udo Beyer	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	September 1, 1978

Record improvement

European champion Udo Beyer improved the existing EM record in the final on September 9th by 42 centimeters to 21.50 m.  

qualification

September 8, 1982

Twenty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 19.50 m. Thirteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and contested the final on the following day.

For eleven of the thirteen finalists there is information on group membership, which is listed in the table below.

space	Surname	nation	group	Width (m)
1	Udo Beyer	GDR	B.	20.14
2	Remigius Machura	Czechoslovakia	k. A.	20.09
3	Jānis Bojārs	Soviet Union		20.00
4th	Edward Sarul	Poland	B.	19.91 SB
5	Mathias Schmidt	GDR	A.	19.89
6th	Vladimir Kisselev	Soviet Union	A.	19.82
7th	Peter Block	GDR	A.	19.81
8th	Vladimir Milic	Yugoslavia	B.	19.72
9	Nikolai Christow	Bulgaria	B.	19.62 SB
10	Alessandro Andrei	Italy	B.	19.59 SB
11	Luigi De Santis	Italy	A.	19.55
12	Reijo Ståhlberg	Finland	B.	19.54
13	Sergei Gavryushin	Soviet Union	A.	19.54
14th	Marco Montelatici	Italy	k. A.	19.34 SB
15th	Aulis Akonniemi	Finland		19.30 SB
16	Jovan Lazarevic	Yugoslavia		19.27 SB
17th	Udo Gelhausen	BR Germany		18.87
18th	Per Nilsson	Sweden		18.28 SB
19th	Skärvstrand is different	Sweden		?
20th	Luc Viudès	France

final

The 1976 Olympic champion and 1980 Olympic bronze medalist Udo Beyer successfully defended his title

September 9, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Udo Beyer	GDR	21.50 CR
2	Jānis Bojārs	Soviet Union	20.81
3	Remigius Machura	Czechoslovakia	20.59
4th	Vladimir Milic	Yugoslavia	20.52
5	Mathias Schmidt	GDR	20.51 SB
6th	Peter Block	GDR	20.49
7th	Vladimir Kisselev	Soviet Union	20.40 SB
8th	Sergei Gavryushin	Soviet Union	20.15 SB
9	Reijo Ståhlberg	Finland	19.49
10	Alessandro Andrei	Italy	19.28
11	Edward Sarul	Poland	19.19
12	Nikolai Christow	Bulgaria	19.04
13	Luigi De Santis	Italy	18.88

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  Bronze medalist Remigius Machura (here at a competition in 2005)

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  Mathias Schmidt (right) came in fifth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 22, 2019
• European Championship 1982 Athens, Men Shot Put 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 Shot Put European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 438f (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 22, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, men's shot put 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. Shot put men , accessed August 22, 2019
2. ↑ For Anders Skärvstrand in nineteenth place a width of 18.22 m is given in the sources, for Luc Viudès on the rank behind Skärvstrand 18.25 m are listed. However, this must be a mistake, because then the placements of the two athletes would have to be reversed.