European Athletics Championships 1982 / women's javelin

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's javelin throw
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Participants	20 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	September 8th (qualification) September 9th (final)
Medalists
gold	Anna Verouli ( GRE )
silver	Antje Kempe ( GDR )
bronze	Sofia Sakorafa ( GRE )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The women's javelin at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 8 and 9, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

In this competition, the Greek javelin throwers won two medals, gold and bronze. Anna Verouli became European champion . She won ahead of the GDR athlete Antje Kempe , later Antje Zöllkau. Bronze went to Sofia Sakorafa .

Records

Existing records

World record	72.40 m	Tiina Lillak	Helsinki , Finland	July 29, 1982
European record
EM record	69.16 m	Ruth Fuchs	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	2nd September 1978

Record improvement

European champion Anna Verouli improved the existing championship record in the final on September 9th by 86 centimeters to 70.02 m. This made her the first female javelin thrower to exceed the 70 meter mark at European Championships.  

qualification

September 8, 1982, 6:15 p.m.

Twenty participants entered the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 58.00 m. Exactly twelve athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). They contested the final the following day.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Antje Kempe	GDR	68.38 SB
2	Tuula Laaksalo	Finland	61.66 SB
3	Sofia Sakorafa	Greece	61.64
4th	Anna Verouli	Greece	61.46
5	Petra Felke	GDR	61.10
6th	Tiina Lillak	Finland	60.76
7th	Elena Burgárová	Czechoslovakia	60.68 SB
8th	Mária Janák	Hungary	60.24
9	Ingrid Thyssen	BR Germany	60.22
10	Ute Richter	GDR	59.80
11	Eva Helmschmidt	BR Germany	58.72
12	Fatima Whitbread	Great Britain	58.06
13	Helena Laine	Finland	57.00
14th	Trine Hattestad	Norway	54.54 SB
15th	Regula Egger	Switzerland	54.12 SB
16	Hilde Bratvold	Norway	53.88 PB
17th	Fausta Quintavalla	Italy	51.76
18th	Genowefa Olejarz	Poland	51.24 SB
19th	Åsa Westman	Sweden	49.90
20th	Jennifer Pace	Malta	39.26 SB

final

Vice European Champion Antje Kempe, later Antje Zöllkau

September 9, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Anna Verouli	Greece	70.02 CR
2	Antje Kempe	GDR	67.94
3	Sofia Sakorafa	Greece	67.04
4th	Tiina Lillak	Finland	66.26
5	Ute Richter	GDR	65.88
6th	Eva Helmschmidt	BR Germany	65.82 SB
7th	Petra Felke	GDR	65.56 SB
8th	Fatima Whitbread	Great Britain	65.10
9	Ingrid Thyssen	BR Germany	61.28
10	Mária Janák	Hungary	61.20 PB
11	Elena Burgárová	Czechoslovakia	59.28
12	Tuula Laaksalo	Finland	58.52

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  Bronze medalist Sofia Sakorafa - in the same year she set the world record, later she became a politician

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  Petra Felke came seventh at the beginning of her career - later she won numerous medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships, her greatest success: Olympic gold in 1988

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  Fatima Whitbread came in eighth - in 1984 she was Olympic third , 1986 European champion, 1987 world champion and 1988 Olympic second

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 26, 2019
• European Championship 1982 Athens, Women Javelin 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 Javelin 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, javelin 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. Javelin women , accessed August 26, 2019