European Athletics Championships 1982 / Men's Decathlon

13th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's decathlon
city	Athens
Stadion	Athens Olympic Stadium
Attendees	27 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	7th / 8th September
Medalist
gold	Daley Thompson ( GBR )
silver	Jürgen Hingsen ( FRG )
bronze	Siegfried Stark ( GDR )

The men's decathlon at the 1982 European Athletics Championships was held on September 7th and 8th, 1982 in the Olympic Stadium in Athens .

It was won by the British Vice European Champion from 1978 and Olympic Champion from 1980 Daley Thompson , who set a new world record. He won ahead of the previous world record holder Jürgen Hingsen from the Federal Republic of Germany. As in 1978, bronze went to the GDR athlete Siegfried Stark .

Records

Existing records

World record	8743 P 1964 rating	8741 P 1985 rating	Jürgen Hingsen	Ulm , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	14./15. August 1982
European record
EM record	8340 P 1964 rating	8337 P 1985 rating	Alexander Grebenyuk	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	30./31. August 1978

The Olympic Stadium of Athens in 2017

Record improvement

European champion Daley Thompson improved the championship record on 7/8. September to 8774 points after the then valid rating from 1964 - today's rating from 1985: 8743 P - and at the same time set a new world record.  

execution

The decathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The ten disciplines took place over two days.

• Day 1: September 7th - 100 m / long jump / shot put / high jump / 400 m
• Day 2: September 8th - 110 m hurdles / discus throw / pole vault / javelin throw / 1500 m

The scoring was based on the points table from 1964.

Result

7th / 8th September 1982

Preliminary remarks on the point
values : For orientation and classification of the performance, the points achieved in 1985 according to the current evaluation system are also listed. After that there would have been no postponements at these European championships. These comparisons are only indicative, however, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis. At the subsequent European Championships, the current rating was used.

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Surname

nation

Points official value.

Points 1985 value.

100 m

Long jump

Bullet poking

High jump

400 m

Status after day 1 (P)

110 m hurdles

Discus throw

Stabhoch- jump

javelin throw

1500 m

1

Daley Thompson

Great Britain

8774 WR

8743

10.51 s

7.80 m

15.44 m

2.03 m

47.11 s

4549

14.39 s

45.48 m

5.00 m

63.56 m

4: 23.71 min

2

Jürgen Hingsen

BR Germany

8530

8517

11.01 s

7.58 m

15.52 m

2.15 m

48.10 s

4435

14.61 s

44.74 m

4.80 m

60.42 m

4: 22.22 min

3

Siegfried Stark

GDR

8472 SB

8433

11.30 s

7.31 m

15.71 m

2.03 m

48.76 s

4190

14.89 s

48.64 m

5.00 m

67.38 m

4: 23.52 min

4th

Steffen Grummt

GDR

8214

8217

11.10 s

7.16 m

15.95 m

1.91 m

49.16 s

14.78 s

49.08 m

4.60 m

65.32 m

4: 27.05 min

5

Georg Werthner

Austria

8165

8171

11.16 s

7.33 m

14.11 m

2.03 m

48.73 s

4033

15.08 s

39.82 m

4.50 m

70.66 m

4: 14.89 min

6th

Grigory Degtyarov

Soviet Union

8134

8160

11.07 s

7.22 m

14.94 m

2.00 m

49.84 s

4165

14.75 s

49.38 m

4.60 m

57.12 m

4: 23.15 min

7th

Valeriu Caceanov

Soviet Union

8073

8116

1.11 s

7.44 m

14.00 m

2.03 m

48.64 s

14.47 s

45.46 m

4.20 m

57.30 m

4: 18.98 min

8th

Christian Gugler

Switzerland

8046 PB

8036

11.44 s

7.05 m

12.99 m

2.03 m

49.91 s

14.87 s

44.82 m

4.80 m

68.24 m

4: 21.95 min

9

Guido Kratschmer

BR Germany

7972 SB

8016

11.02 s

7.26 m

14.77 m

1.91 m

49.03 s

14.65 s

43.84 m

4.30 m

61.54 m

4: 24.24 min

10

Atanas Andonow

Bulgaria

7878 SB

7904

11.34 s

6.69 m

15.15 m

2.06 m

51.09 s

14.91 s

48.20 m

4.60 m

62.08 m

4: 40.72 min

11

Michele Rüfenacht

Switzerland

7797 SB

7874

10.73 s

6.94 m

13.43 m

1.97 m

48.38 s

3886

14.57 s

45.20 m

4.00 m

56.66 m

4: 31.03 min

12

Martin Machura

Czechoslovakia

7731 PB

7794

10.97 s

7.14 m

15.39 m

2.06 m

49.78 s

4196

16.38 s

46.72 m

4.50 m

59.78 m

5: 05.06 min

13

Colin Boreham

Great Britain

7700

7762

11.23 s

7.11 m

13.71 m

2.06 m

48.90 s

14.81 s

38.80 m

4.00 m

57.96 m

4: 25.16 min

14th

Harri Sundell

Finland

7687 PB

7744

11.12 s

7.38 m

14.25 m

2.00 m

49.30 s

4109

15.11 s

42.90 m

4.20 m

57.62 m

4: 49.95 min

15th

Christer Lythell

Sweden

7664

7717

11.45 s

6.93 m

14.76 m

1.88 m

49.35 s

15.14 s

46.88 m

4.20 m

60.08 m

4: 31.17 min

16

Adam Bagiński

Poland

7603 PB

7659

11.38 s

6.69 m

13.81 m

2.00 m

50.49 s

15.27 s

45.00 m

4.50 m

58.58 m

4: 35.00 min

17th

Conny Silfver

Sweden

7478 SB

7551

11.35 s

6.70 m

13.77 m

1.91 m

50.09 s

15.07 s

42.12 m

4.40 m

55.92 m

4: 29.56 min

18th

Trond Skramstad

Norway

7457

7517

11.20 s

6.80 m

13.11 m

1.94 m

49.27 s

14.94 s

35.06 m

4.30 m

64.56 m

4: 30.16 min

19th

Gudmund Olsen

Norway

7450 PB

7506

11.64 s

6.68 m

14.96 m

1.91 m

52.28 s

15.58 s

45.72 m

4.30 m

63.56 m

4: 35.59 min

20th

Siegfried Wentz

BR Germany

7446

7284

11.17 s

7.17 m

15.81 m

2.03 m

48.15 s

4227

14.52 s

45.86 m

NM

63.64 m

4: 35.38 min

DNF

Konstantin Achapkin

Soviet Union

11.11 s

7.54 m

14.46 m

1.97 m

49.41 s

4126

15.08 s

48.88 m

DNS

Tsvetko Mitrakiev

Bulgaria

11.32 s

6.99 m

13.26 m

1.97 m

50.80 s

15.15 s

39.26 m

DNS

Stephan Niklaus

Switzerland

10.77 s

7.25 m

15.03 m

2.00 m

47.66 s

4205

16.75 s

DNS

Dariusz Ludwig

Poland

11.22 s

7.55 m

13.99 m

2.06 m

50.61 s

15.27 s

DNS

Torsten Voss

GDR

10.80 s

7.04 m

12.83 m

2.00 m

48.07 s

16.97 s

DNS

Robert De Wit

Netherlands

11.40 s

6.46 m

13.23 m

2.00 m

48.72 s

DNS

Johannes Lahti

Finland

11.26 s

6.94 m

13.88 m

DNS

• 

  After finishing third at the European Championships in 1978 and his Olympic victory in 1980 , Daley Thompson (here in 2007) also achieved the European Championship title with a new world record - in 1984 he was again Olympic champion and in 1986 European champion again

• 

  Vice European champion Jürgen Hingsen went into his first duel with Daley Thompson as the world record holder - this duel was repeated with the same outcome at the 1983 World Championships and the 1984 Olympic Games

• 

  The ex-world record holder, Olympic runner-up in 1976 and European Championship third in 1974, Guido Kratschmer no longer had the strong form of earlier years and came in ninth

• 

  Torsten Voss gave up the competition after the 110 meter hurdles - in 1987 he was world champion and in 1988 Olympic runner-up, later he won numerous medals in  bobsleigh

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Athens 1982 from european-athletics.org, accessed on 23 August 2019
• Men Decathlon European Championship 1982 Athens on todor66.com, accessed on August 23, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1982 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on 23 August 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Decathlon Men European Championship 1982 Athens, p. 439 (PDF, 13.363 kB), English, on european-athletics.org, accessed on 23 August 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1982, decathlon men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 23, 2019
• 13th European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, Greece from ifosta.de, accessed on August 23, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Decathlon , accessed August 23, 2019