European Athletics Championships 1982 / women's long jump

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of women
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Participants	21 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 6th (qualification) September 7th (final)
Medalists
gold	Vali Ionescu ( ROM )
silver	Anișoara Cușmir ( ROM )
bronze	Jelena Ivanova ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

The women's long jump at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 6th and 7th, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

In this competition there was a double victory for the Romanian long jumpers. World record holder Vali Ionescu became European champion . Second place went to Anișoara Cușmir , later Anișoara Stanciu. Bronze went to Jelena Iwanowa from the USSR.

Existing records

World record	7.20 m	Vali Ionescu	Bucharest , Romania	August 1, 1982
European record
EM record	7.09 m	Vilma Bardauskienė	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 29, 1978

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

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the best jumps are named. The permitted limit is two meters per second. With stronger wind support, the distance will be counted for the competition, but will not be included in the lists of records and the best.

qualification

September 6, 1982

21 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.60 m. Four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eight athletes placed next to twelve long jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 6.45 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Heike Daute	GDR	6.77	+0.9
2	Anișoara Cușmir	Romania	6.62	-0.7
3	Jarmila Strejcková	Czechoslovakia	6.54	+0.5
4th	Irena Duknowitsch	Soviet Union	6.52	+0.8
5	Christine Schima	GDR	6.46	-0.6
6th	Karin Antretter	BR Germany	6.45	+0.9
7th	Svetlana Zorina	Soviet Union	6.35 SB	-0.8
8th	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark	6.18 SB	-0.9
9	Snežana Dančetović	Yugoslavia	6.16 SB	+0.5
10	Lena Wallin	Sweden	5.75 SB	-0.4

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Sabine Everts	BR Germany	6.68	+0.5
2	Brigitte Wujak	GDR	6.67 SB	+0.3
3	Vali Ionescu	Romania	6.58	+1.1
4th	Jelena Ivanova	Soviet Union	6.55	+1.8
5	Zsusza Vanyek	Hungary	6.51	+2.2
6th	Anna Włodarczyk	Poland	6.47	+0.6
7th	Maroula Lambrou	Greece	6.38 SB	+1.2
8th	Ludmila Jimramovská	Czechoslovakia	6.33 PB	-0.1
9	Gina Ghioroaie	Romania	6.30 SB	+1.1
10	Anne Kyllönen	Finland	6.28 PB	+0.8
11	Eva Murková	Czechoslovakia	6.25 SB	+0.4

final

European champion Vali Ionescu, a month earlier she had jumped the world record

September 7, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Vali Ionescu	Romania	6.79	-0.3
2	Anișoara Cușmir	Romania	6.73	+0.2
3	Jelena Ivanova	Soviet Union	6.73 PB	+1.1
4th	Heike Daute	GDR	6.71	+0.4
5	Anna Włodarczyk	Poland	6.69 PB	+1.1
6th	Sabine Everts	BR Germany	6.65	+0.3
7th	Christine Schima	GDR	6.64 SB	+0.4
8th	Karin Antretter	BR Germany	6.55 PB	+0.8
9	Zsusza Vanyek	Hungary	6.52	-0.2
10	Brigitte Wujak	GDR	6.47	-1.0
11	Jarmila Strejcková	Czechoslovakia	6.43	-0.2
12	Irena Duknowitsch	Soviet Union	6.33	+0.2

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  Vice European Champion Anişoara Cuşmir - the following year she set the world record and became vice world champion , as Anişoara Stanciu she won the Olympic gold medal in 1984

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  Heike Daute took fourth place - under her name Heike Drechsler she became one of the best long jumpers ever with two Olympic, World Cup and European Championship titles

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  The Olympic runner-up in 1980 and fourth in the European Championship in 1978 Brigitte Wujak was tenth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 26, 2019
• European Championship 1982 Athens, Women Long Jump 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 Long Jump 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, long jump 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. Long jump women , accessed August 26, 2019