European Athletics Championships 1982 / men's long jump

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of men
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Attendees	22 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	September 8th (qualification) September 9th (final)
Medalist
gold	Lutz Dombrowski ( GDR )
silver	Antonio Corgos ( ESP )
bronze	Jan Leitner ( TCH )

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

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

European champion was the 1980 Olympic champion and European record holder Lutz Dombrowski from the GDR. He won ahead of the Spaniard Antonio Corgos . Bronze went to the Czechoslovak Jan Leitner .

Records

Existing records

World record	8.90 m	Bob Beamon	OS Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1968
European record	8.54 m	Lutz Dombrowski	OS Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia )	July 28, 1980
Championship record	8.18 m	Jacques Rousseau	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	2nd September 1978

Record improvement

European champion Lutz Dombrowski improved the existing EM record in qualifying on September 8th by seven centimeters to 8.25 m. During his victorious jump to 8.41 m in the final on September 9th, he was supported by a tail wind of 2.9 m / s, which is inadmissible for records and best lists.  

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 8, 1982

22 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 7.80 m. Fourteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and contested the final on the following day.

For the athletes who reached the final and one other participant there is information on group membership, which is listed in the table below.

space	Surname	nation	group	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Lutz Dombrowski	GDR	B.	8.25 CR	-1.0
2	Antonio Corgos	Spain	B.	8.02	-0.5
3	Sergei Rodin	Soviet Union	A.	7.99	-0.3
4th	Rolf Bernhard	Switzerland	A.	7.93 SB	± 0.0
5	Jörg Klocke	BR Germany	B.	7.91	-0.7
6th	Zdenek Mazur	Czechoslovakia	A.	7.91	+1.1
7th	Nenad Stekic	Yugoslavia	A.	7.91	-1.0
8th	Dimítrios Delifotis	Greece	A.	7.89	+1.3
9	Atanas Atanasov	Bulgaria	A.	7.85 SB	+1.2
10	László Szálma	Hungary	B.	7.84 SB	-1.2
11	Atanas Chochev	Bulgaria	A.	7.82 SB	+0.3
12	Ivan Tuparov	Bulgaria	B.	7.80 SB	-0.2
13	Jan Leitner	Czechoslovakia	B.	7.80	-1.1
14th	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	A.	7.80	+0.3
15th	Stanislaw Jaskulka	Poland	k. A.	7.74 SB	+0.7
16	Jarmo Kärnä	Finland		7.70 SB	+0.7
17th	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium		7.68 SB	-1.7
18th	Yuri Samarin	Soviet Union		7.62 SB	+0.3
19th	Shamil Abbyasov	Soviet Union		7.58 SB	-0.1
20th	René Gloor	Switzerland	B.	7.54	-1.4
21st	Gyula Pálóczi	Hungary	k. A.	7.49 SB	+1.2
22nd	Not so Hoffström	Sweden		7.30	+1.3

final

After the 1980 Olympic victory with a European record, Lutz Dombrowski has now also won the title of European Champion

September 9, 1982

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Lutz Dombrowski	GDR	8.41	+2.9
2	Antonio Corgos	Spain	8.19 SB	+0.4
3	Jan Leitner	Czechoslovakia	8.08	+1.7
4th	Zdenek Mazur	Czechoslovakia	8.08 PBe	-0.1
5	Nenad Stekic	Yugoslavia	7.93 SB	-0.5
6th	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	7.89 SB	+0.7
7th	Atanas Chochev	Bulgaria	7.89	+2.4
8th	Atanas Atanasov	Bulgaria	7.82	-0.2
9	Rolf Bernhard	Switzerland	7.75	-0.4
10	Dimítrios Delifotis	Greece	7.75	+0.6
11	László Szálma	Hungary	7.74	-1.1
12	Ivan Tuparov	Bulgaria	7.73	+1.1
13	Sergei Rodin	Soviet Union	7.70	+0.3
14th	Jörg Klocke	BR Germany	7.56	-0.5

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed August 20, 2019
• European Championship 1982 Athens, Men Long Jump on todor66.com, accessed August 20, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed August 20, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Long Jump European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 438 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, long jump men
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 20, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump , accessed August 20, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Long Jump Men , p. 25, Spanish / English (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on August 20, 2019