1982 in the sport of athletics explained

1982 in athletics
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This article contains an overview of the year 1982 in athletics.

International Events

• African Championships
• Asian Games
• Central American and Caribbean Championships
• Commonwealth Games
• European Championships
• European Indoor Championships
• World Cross Country Championships

World records

Men

EVENT	ATHLETE	MARK	DATE	VENUE
5000m		13:00:41	July 7	Oslo, Norway
Half Marathon		1:01:36	September 19	Philadelphia, United States
Hammer		83.98m	June 4	Moscow, Soviet Union
Decathlon		8730	May 23	Götzis, Austria
	8741	August 15	Athens, Greece
	8774	September 8	Athens, Greece

Women

EVENT	ATHLETE	MARK	DATE	VENUE
400 metres		48.16	September 8	Athens, Greece
Mile		4:18.08	July 9	Paris, France
	4:17.44	September 16	Rieti, Italy
3,000 metres		8:26.78	July 25	Kiev, Soviet Union
5,000 metres		15:13.22	March 17	Auckland, New Zealand
	15:08.26	June 5	Eugene, Oregon, United States
10,000 metres		31:35.3	July 16	Eugene, Oregon, United States
4 × 400 m Relay	• Kirsten Emmelmann • Sabine Busch • Dagmar Neubauer • Marita Koch	3:19.04	September 11	Athens, Greece
Half Marathon		1:09:57	May 15	Gothenburg, Sweden
High Jump		2.02	September 8	Athens, Greece
Long Jump		7.15	August 1	Bucharest, Romania
Long Jump		7.20	August 1	Bucharest, Romania
Javelin Throw		72.40	July 29	Helsinki, Finland
Javelin Throw		74.20	September 26	Khania, Greece
Heptathlon		6845	June 20	Halle, East Germany

• Marlies Göhr (GDR) equals her own world record in the women's 100 metres, clocking 10.88 seconds on 1982-07-06 at a meet in Karl-Marx-Stadt.

Men's Best Year Performers

100 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		10.00
2.		10.03
3.		10.05
4.		10.10
5.		10.11

200 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		20.15
2.		20.19
3.		20.22
4.		20.23
5=		20.27
5=		20.27

400 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		44.68
2.		44.69
-		44.69
4.		44.72
5.		44.76

800 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		1:44.45
2.		1:44.48
3.		1:44.54
4.		1:44.71
5.		1:44.72

1,500 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		3:32.12
2.		3:32.33
3.		3:32.85
4.		3:33.12
5.		3:33.5

Mile

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		3:47.69
2.		3:48.85
3.		3:49.08
4.		3:49.34
5.		3:49.77

3,000 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		7:32.79
2.		7:33.37
3.		7:37.49
4.		7:39.09
5.		7:39.34

5,000 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		13:00.41
2.		13:07.29
3.		13:07.70
4.		13:08.97
5.		13:09.50

10,000 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		27:22.95
2.		27:24.39
3.		27:25.61
4.		27:26.95
5.		27:28.67

Marathon

See main article: article and 1982 Marathon Year Ranking.

110m Hurdles

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		13.22
2.		13.26
3.		13.31
4.		13.36
5.		13.37

400m Hurdles

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		47.48
2.		48.44
-		48.44
4.		48.45
5.		48.46

3,000m Steeplechase

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		8:16.17
2.		8:17.04
3.		8:17.22
4.		8:17.41
5.		8:18.80

High Jump

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.		2.33
2.		2.32
-		2.32
-		2.32
5.		2.31

Long Jump

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.		8.76
2.		8.56
3.		8.30
4.		8.21
5.		8.20
-		8.20

Triple Jump

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.		17.57
2.		17.46
3.		17.42
4.		17.37
5.		17.36

Discus

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.		70.58
2.		69.96
3.		69.44
4.		69.16
5.		68.60

Hammer

See main article: article and 1982 Hammer Throw Year Ranking.

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.		83.98
2.		83.54
3.		81.66
4.		80.72
5.		79.48

Shot Put

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.		22.02
2.		21.94
3.		21.74
4.		21.31
5.		21.27

Pole Vault

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.		5.75
-		5.75
3.		5.72
-		5.72
5.		5.71

Javelin (old design)

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.		95.80
2.		94.52
3.		91.34
4.		90.96
5.		90.72

Decathlon

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.		8774
2.		8741
3.		8485
4.		8472
5.		8397

Women's Best Year Performers

100 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		10.88
2.		10.93
3.		10.95
4.		11.00
5.		11.01

200 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		21.76
2.		22.04
3.		22.10
4.		22.13
5.		22.17

400 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		48.16
2.		48.85
3.		49.56
4.		50.41
5.		50.46

800 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		1:55.05
2.		1:55.41
3.		1:55.96
4.		1:56.1
5.		1:56.2

1,500 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		3:54.23
2.		3:56.14
3.		3:56.50
4.		3:57.05
5.		3:57.48

Mile

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		4:17.44
2.		4:18.08
3.		4:21.52
4.		4:21.78
5.		4:21.89

3,000 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		8:26.78
2.		8:29.36
3.		8:29.71
4.		8:31.67
5.		8:33.40

5,000 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		15:08.26
2.		15:08.80
3.		15:12.62
4.		15:13.22
5.		15:19.54

10,000 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		31:35.3
2.		31:48.23
3.		31:55.02
4.		31:57.0
5.		32:04.88

Marathon

See main article: article and 1982 Marathon Year Ranking.

100m Hurdles

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		12.44
2.		12.45
3.		12.54
4.		12.55
5.		12.62

400m Hurdles

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.		54.57
2.		54.89
3.		54.93
4.		54.96

High Jump

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.		2.02
2.		1.98
5.		1.97

Long Jump

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.		7.20
2.		7.15
3.		6.98
4.		6.92
5.		6.91

Discus

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.		71.40
2.		71.20
3.		70.64
4.		69.90
5.		69.76

Shot Put

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.		21.80
2.		21.61
3.		21.55
4.		21.27
5.		21.23

Javelin (old design)

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.		74.40
2.		74.20
3.		70.02
4.		69.28
5.		68.38

Heptathlon

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.		6845
2.		6646
3.		6629
4.		6524
5.		6523

Births

January

• January 2 – Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
• January 3 – Eşref Apak, Turkish hammer thrower
• January 5 – Vadims Vasiļevskis, Latvian athlete
• January 12 – Dimitrios Tsiamis, Greek triple jumper
• January 24 – Hamdi Dhouibi, Tunisian decathlete

February

• February 2 – Dorcus Inzikuru, Ugandan athlete
• February 7 – Rumyana Karapetrova, Bulgarian javelin thrower
• February 8 – Iryna Shtanhyeyeva, Ukrainian sprinter
• February 9 – Zersenay Tadese, Eritrean athlete
• February 10 – Justin Gatlin, American athlete
• February 18 – Krisztián Pars, Hungarian hammer thrower

March

• March 1 – Leryn Franco, Paraguayan javelin thrower
• March 14 – Yuleidis Limonta, Cuban heptathlete
• March 16 – Inga Kožarenoka, Latvian javelin thrower
• March 25 – Kayoko Fukushi, Japanese long-distance runner
• March 31 – Janice Josephs, South African heptathlete

April

• April 15 – Jean-Jacques Nkouloukidi, Italian race walker
• April 20 – Arnoud Okken, Dutch middle-distance runner
• April 20 – Dennis Leyckes, German decathlete
• April 25 – Victoria Mitchell, Australian long-distance runner

May

• May 6 – Dilshod Nazarov, Tajikistani hammer thrower
• May 10 – Yochai Halevi, Israeli long jumper and triple jumper
• May 12 – Marvin Anderson, Jamaican sprinter
• May 15 – Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican athlete
• May 20 – Mihail Stamatoyiannis, Greek shot putter
• May 25 – Ezekiel Kemboi, Kenyan athlete
• May 30 – Phaustin Baha Sulle, Tanzanian long-distance runner

June

• June 3 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
• June 5 – Fabiano Peçanha, Brazilian middle-distance runner
• June 11 – Vanessa Boslak, French pole vaulter
• June 13 – Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian distance runner
• June 25 – Esther Dankwah, Ghanaian sprinter

July

• July 8 – Park Chil-Sung, South Korean race walker
• July 14 – Vyacheslav Muravyev, Kazakhstani sprinter
• July 23 – Thaimara Rivas, Venezuelan heptathlete

August

• August 5 – Jo Ankier, British long-distance runner
• August 9 – Robert Häggblom, Finnish shot putter
• August 9 – Byron Piedra, Ecuadorian distance runner
• August 31 – Lien Huyghebaert, Belgian athlete

September

• September 11 – Elvan Abeylegesse, Ethiopian-born Turkish track and field athlete
• September 15 – Matthew Boyles, American race walker
• September 29 – Salome Chepchumba, Kenyan middle-distance runner

October

• October 25 – Aarik Wilson, American long jumper and triple jumper

November

• November 4 – Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower (d. 2009)
• November 6 – Loree Smith, American hammer thrower
• November 9 – Eloise Wellings, Australian long-distance runner
• November 11 – Ivan Babaryka, Ukrainian long-distance runner
• November 11 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
• November 29 – Andrei Chubsa, Belarusian high jumper

December

• December 2 – Morten Jensen, Danish long jumper
• December 11 – Darren Gilford, Maltese athlete
• December 25 – Samson Ramadhani, Tanzanian long-distance runner

Deaths

• April 26 – Ville Ritola (86), Finnish Olympic gold medal runner (b. 1896)
• June 25 – Ed Hamm (76), American athlete (b. 1906)
• June 28 – Wiesław Maniak (41), Polish sprinter (b. 1938)
• August 4 – Henk van der Wal (95), Dutch track and field athlete (b. 1886)

References

• Year Lists
• Association of Road Racing Statisticians
• Year Rankings