European Athletics Championships 1982 / men's javelin

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's javelin throw
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Attendees	21 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 6th (qualification) September 7th (final)
Medalist
gold	Uwe Hohn ( GDR )
silver	Heino Puuste ( URS )
bronze	Detlef Michel ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The men's javelin throw at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 6 and 7, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

In this competition, the javelin throwers from the GDR won two gold and bronze medals. Uwe Hohn became European champion . He won ahead of the Soviet athlete Heino Puuste . Bronze went to Detlef Michel .

Existing records

World record	96.72 m	Ferenc Paragi	Tata , Hungary	April 23, 1980
European record
Championship record	91.52 m	Jānis Lūsis	EM Athens , Greece	19th September 1969

The European Championship record, which has existed since 1969, was neither set nor improved at these European championships.

qualification

September 6, 1982, 7:45 p.m.

21 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 80.00 m. Thirteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and contested the final on the following day.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Arto Härkönen	Finland	71.26	x	86.58	86.58
2	Heino Puuste	Soviet Union	74.16	82.76	-	82.76
3	Per Erling Olsen	Norway	x	79.80	82.30	82.30
4th	Detlef Michel	GDR	81.66	-	-	81.66
5	Agostino Ghesini	Italy	78.38	80.62	-	80.62
6th	Dariusz Adamus	Poland	76.08	x	x	76.08 SB
7th	Jan-Olof Damgren	Sweden	73.46	x	73.36	73.46 SB
8th	Pentti Sinersaari	Finland	71.66	x	x	71.66 SB
9	Jørgen Jelstrøm	Denmark	70.84	x	69.30	70.84 SB
10	Steve Pearson	Great Britain	x	x	69.56	69.56 SB
NM	Jari Keihäs	Sweden	x	x	x	without space

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Dainis Kūla	Soviet Union	84.18	-	-	84.18
2	Uwe Mockery	GDR	84.14	-	-	84.14
3	Kenth Eldebrink	Sweden	x	83.76	-	83.76 SB
4th	Antero Toivonen	Finland	82.30	-	-	82.30
5	David Ottley	Great Britain	x	x	81.24	81.24 SB
6th	Klaus Tafelmeier	BR Germany	77.56	x	81.14	81.14 SB
7th	Alexander Makarov	Soviet Union	79.76	80.74	-	80.74
8th	Reidar Lorentzen	Sweden	72.10	80.22	-	80.22
9	Einar Vilhjálmsson	Iceland	68.56	72.26	67.60	72.26 SB
NM	Stefan Stoikow	Bulgaria	x	x	x	without space

final

September 7, 1982, 5:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)	Best width (m)
1	Uwe Mockery	GDR	x	87.58	83.24	86.60	91.34	x	91.34 SB
2	Heino Puuste	Soviet Union	89.56	x	x	78.20	84.56	x	89.56
3	Detlef Michel	GDR	x	72.72	84.36	81.36	86.46	89.32	89.32
4th	Dainis Kūla	Soviet Union	85.88	87.84	x	x	x	84.98	87.84
5	Arto Härkönen	Finland	85.52	83.80	86.76	85.72	84.04	79.86	86.76 SB
6th	Alexander Makarov	Soviet Union	86.08	x	x	84.14	x	78.96	86.08 SB
7th	Antero Toivonen	Finland	84.34	81.32	x	81.38	x	x	84.34 SB
8th	Agostino Ghesini	Italy	79.92	81.10	78.06	78.50	x	x	81.10 SB
9	Reidar Lorentzen	Sweden	x	80.40	x	not in the final of the eight best throwers			80.40 SB
10	Per Erling Olsen	Norway	76.80	76.50	79.18				79.18
11	Kenth Eldebrink	Sweden	74.90	75.76	x				75.76
12	David Ottley	Great Britain	x	74.30	75.06				75.06
13	Klaus Tafelmeier	BR Germany	x	x	70.40				70.40

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  European champion Uwe Hohn - in 1984 he was the first and only javelin thrower who threw more than a hundred meters; In 1986 new spear models were then prescribed, with which the achieved distances were reduced

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  The EM fourth from 1978 Detlef Michel won the bronze medal - in 1983 he was world champion, in 1986 vice European champion

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  Per Erling Olsen took tenth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 22, 2019
• European Championship 1982 Athens, Men Javelin 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 Javelin 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, javelin 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. Javelin Men , Retrieved August 22, 2019