| Competition: | 1982 European Karate Championships |
| Dates: | May 5 to 7 |
| Location: |  Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Prev: | 1981 |
| Next: | 1983 |
The 1982 European Karate Championships, the 17th edition, was held in Gothenburg, Sweden from May 8 to 9, 1982. The women's competition in kumite of 1982 was not in Gotheburg, but London February 27 to 28 (with juniors).
| Kata |  Jean-Pierre Fischer |  Deogracias Medina | Jorge Romero Malaga |
| Kumite -60 kg | Juan Marquez[1] |  Stewart MacKinnon | Mohammed Khatiri Rudolphe Vallee |
| Kumite -65 kg | Ricardo Abad Cebolla | Fiagan | Ramon Malave David Coulter |
| Kumite -70 kg | Jose Damian Gonzalez Aguado |  Mika Manninen | Rafael Arriaza Loureda Thierry Masci |
| Kumite -75 kg | Antonio Martínez Amillo | Serge Serfati | Ronald Bengtsson Didier Moreau |
| Kumite -80 kg | Claude Pettinella | Wim Mossel | Erich Marti Otti Roethof |
| Kumite + 80 kg | Jerome Atkinson | Hakan Nygren | Francisco Torres  Claudio Guazzaroni |
| Open Kumite | Vic Charles | White | Patrice Ruggiero Jose Manuel Torres |
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| Kumite | |
| Kata | María Moreno | Helen Raye | ||
| Kumite -53 kg | Francine Fillios |  |  | |
| Kumite -60 kg | Beverly Morris |  |   | |
| Kumite +60 kg | Béatrice Joffroy |  | |