| Event: | Men's triple jump |
| Competition: | European Athletics Championships |
The final of the Men's Triple Jump event at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece was held on 10 September 1982.
| Gold |  Keith ConnorGreat Britain (GBR) | |
| Silver | Vasiliy Grishchenkov Soviet Union (URS) | |
| Bronze |  Béla BakosiHungary (HUN) |
| Q | automatic qualification | |
| q | qualification by rank | |
| DNS | did not start | |
| NM | no mark | |
| WR | world record | |
| AR | area record | |
| NR | national record | |
| PB | personal best | |
| SB | season best |
| Standing records prior to the 1982 European Athletics Championships | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.89 m | October 15, 1975 |  Mexico City, Mexico | |||
| 17.23 m | September 8, 1974 |  Rome, Italy | |||
| Broken records during the 1982 European Athletics Championships | |||||
| 17.29 m | September 10, 1982 | Athens, Greece | |||
| Rank | Athlete | Attempts | Result | Note | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| 17.29 m (w: -0.1 m/s) | CR | |||||||||
| 17.15 m (w: 0.2 m/s) | ||||||||||
| 17.04 m (w: 0.2 m/s) | ||||||||||
| 4 | 16.95 m (w: -0.3 m/s) | |||||||||
| 5 | 16.82 m (w: -1.2 m/s) | |||||||||
| 6 | 16.46 m (w: 0.3 m/s) | |||||||||
| 7 | 16.32 m (w: -1.9 m/s) | |||||||||
| 8 | 16.13 m (w: -0.2 m/s) | |||||||||
| 9 | 16.05 m (w: -0.6 m/s) | |||||||||
| 10 | 16.03 m (w: -0.3 m/s) | |||||||||
| 11 | 15.95 m (w: -0.5 m/s) | |||||||||
| 12 | 15.92 m (w: -0.7 m/s) | |||||||||
| DNS | ||||||||||
According to an unofficial count, 12 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.
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