1982 in athletics (track and field)

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This page contains an overview of the year 1982 in athletics (track and field).

[edit] International Events

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

[edit] World Records

[edit] Men

EVENT	ATHLETE	MARK	DATE	VENUE
Half Marathon	Michael Musyoki (KEN)	1:01:36	September 19	Philadelphia, USA
Hammer	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	83.98m	June 4	Moscow, Soviet Union
Decathlon	Daley Thompson (GBR)	8730	May 23	Götzis, Austria
	Jürgen Hingsen (FRG)	8741	August 15	Athens, Greece
	Daley Thompson (GBR)	8774	September 8	Athens, Greece

[edit] Women

EVENT	ATHLETE	MARK	DATE	VENUE
400 metres	Marita Koch (GDR)	48.16	September 8	Athens, Greece
Mile	Mary Slaney (USA)	4:18.08	July 9	Paris, France
	Maricica Puica (ROU)	4:17.44	September 16	Rieti, Italy
3,000 metres	Svetlana Ulmasova (URS)	8:26.78	July 25	Kiev, Soviet Union
5,000 metres	Anne Audain (NZL)	15:13.22	March 17	Auckland, New Zealand
	Mary Slaney (USA)	15:08.26	June 5	Eugene, Oregon, USA
10,000 metres	Mary Slaney (USA)	31:35.3	July 16	Eugene, Oregon, USA
4x400m Relay	East Germany (GDR) • Kirsten Emmelmann • Sabine Busch • Dagmar Neubauer • Marita Koch	3:19.04	September 11	Athens, Greece
Half Marathon	Grete Waitz (NOR)	1:09:57	May 15	Gothenburg, Sweden
Heptathlon	Ramona Neubert (GDR)	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.

[edit] Men's Best Year Performers

[edit] 100 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Carl Lewis (USA)	10.00
2.	Stanley Floyd (USA)	10.03
3.	Calvin Smith (USA)	10.05
4.	Willie Gault (USA)	10.10
5.	Mike Miller (USA)	10.11

[edit] 200 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Mike Miller (USA)	20.15
2.	Phil Epps (USA)	20.19
3.	Tony Sharpe (CAN)	20.22
4.	James Butler (USA)	20.23
5.	Carl Lewis (USA)	20.27
—	Jeff Phillips (USA)	20.27

[edit] 400 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Sunder Nix (USA)	44.68
2.	Darrell Robinson (USA)	44.69
—	Bert Cameron (JAM)	44.69
4.	Hartmut Weber (FRG)	44.72
5.	Hassan El Kashief (SUD)	44.76

[edit] 800 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Steve Cram (GBR)	1:44.45
2.	Sebastian Coe (GBR)	1:44.48
3.	Rob Druppers (NED)	1:44.54
4.	Garry Cook (GBR)	1:44.71
5.	James Robinson (USA)	1:44.72

[edit] 1,500 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Sydney Maree (USA)	3:32.12
2.	Steve Scott (USA)	3:32.33
3.	Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)	3:32.85
4.	José Manuel Abascal (ESP)	3:33.12
5.	Ray Flynn (IRL)	3:33.5

[edit] Mile

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Steve Scott (USA)	3:47.69
2.	Sydney Maree (USA)	3:48.85
3.	John Walker (NZL)	3:49.08
4.	David Moorcroft (GBR)	3:49.34
5.	Ray Flynn (IRL)	3:49.77

[edit] 3,000 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	David Moorcroft (GBR)	7:32.79
2.	Sydney Maree (USA)	7:33.37
3.	John Walker (NZL)	7:37.49
4.	Peter Koech (KEN)	7:39.09
5.	Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)	7:39.34

[edit] 5,000 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	David Moorcroft (GBR)	13:00.41
2.	Wodajo Bulti (ETH)	13:07.29
3.	Antonio Leitão (POR)	13:07.70
4.	Henry Rono (KEN)	13:08.97
5.	Peter Koech (KEN)	13:09.50

[edit] 10,000 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Fernando Mamede (POR)	27:22.95
2.	Carlos Lopes (POR)	27:24.39
3.	Alberto Salazar (USA)	27:25.61
4.	Alex Hagelsteens (BEL)	27:26.95
5.	Henry Rono (KEN)	27:28.67

[edit] Half Marathon

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Michael Musyoki (KEN)	1:01:36 WR

[edit] Marathon

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Alberto Salazar (USA)	2:08:52
2.	Dick Beardsley (USA)	2:08:54
3.	Robert de Castella (AUS)	2:09:18
4.	Hugh Jones (GBR)	2:09:24
5.	Juma Ikangaa (TAN)	2:09:30

[edit] 110m Hurdles

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Greg Foster (USA)	13.22
2.	Willie Gault (USA)	13.26
3.	Sam Turner (USA)	13.31
4.	Alejandro Casañas (CUB)	13.36
5.	Mark McKoy (CAN)	13.37

[edit] 400m Hurdles

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Harald Schmid (FRG)	47.48
2.	David Patrick (USA)	48.44
—	David Lee (USA)	48.44
4.	Andre Phillips (USA)	48.45
5.	Larry Cowling (USA)	48.46

[edit] 3,000m Steeplechase

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Henry Marsh (USA)	8:16.17
2.	Patriz Ilg (FRG)	8:17.04
3.	Wolfgang Konrad (AUT)	8:17.22
4.	Bogusław Mamiński (POL)	8:17.41
5.	Colin Reitz (GBR)	8:18.80

[edit] High Jump

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Zhu Jianhua (CHN)	2.33
2.	Gennadiy Byelkov (URS)	2.32
—	Milt Ottey (CAN)	2.32
—	Del Davis (USA)	2.32
5.	Steven Wray (BAH)	2.31

[edit] Long Jump

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Carl Lewis (USA)	8.76
2.	Larry Myricks (USA)	8.56
3.	Lutz Dombrowski (GDR)	8.30
4.	Vance Johnson (USA)	8.21
5.	László Szalma (HUN)	8.20
—	Viktor Belskiy (URS)	8.20

[edit] Triple Jump

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Keith Connor (GBR)	17.57
2.	Kenneth Lorraway (AUS)	17.46
3.	Gennadiy Valyukevich (URS)	17.42
4.	Aleksandr Beskrovniy (URS)	17.37
5.	Willie Banks (USA)	17.36

[edit] Discus

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Luis Delís (CUB)	70.58
2.	Art Burns (USA)	69.96
3.	Georgiy Kolnootchenko (URS)	69.44
4.	Yuriy Dumchev (URS)	69.16
5.	Imrich Bugár (TCH)	68.60

[edit] Hammer

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	83.98
2.	Igor Nikulin (URS)	83.54
3.	Yuriy Syedikh (URS)	81.66
4.	Yuriy Tarasyuk (URS)	80.72
5.	Karl-Hans Riehm (FRG)	79.48

[edit] Shot Put

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Dave Laut (USA)	22.02
2.	Udo Beyer (GDR)	21.94
3.	Remigius Machura (TCH)	21.74
4.	Janis Bojars (URS)	21.31
5.	Kevin Akins (USA)	21.27

[edit] Pole Vault

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Dave Volz (USA)	5.75
—	Jean-Michel Bellot (FRA)	5.75
3.	Billy Olson (USA)	5.72
—	Dan Ripley (USA)	5.72
5.	Larry Jessee (USA)	5.71

[edit] Javelin (old design)

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Bob Roggy (USA)	95.80
2.	Detlef Michel (GDR)	94.52
3.	Uwe Hohn (GDR)	91.34
4.	Dainis Kula (URS)	90.96
5.	Heino Puuste (URS)	90.72

[edit] Decathlon

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Daley Thompson (GBR)	8774
2.	Jürgen Hingsen (FRG)	8741
3.	Konstantin Akhapkin (URS)	8485
4.	Siegfried Stark (GDR)	8472
5.	Torsten Voss (FRG)	8397

[edit] Women's Best Year Performers

[edit] 100 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Marlies Göhr (GDR)	10.88
2.	Evelyn Ashford (USA)	10.93
3.	Bärbel Wöckel (GDR)	10.95
4.	Marita Koch (GDR)	11.01
5.	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	11.03

[edit] 200 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Marita Koch (GDR)	21.76
2.	Bärbel Wöckel (GDR)	22.04
3.	Evelyn Ashford (USA)	22.10
4.	Kathy Cook (GBR)	22.13
5.	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	22.17

[edit] 400 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Marita Koch (GDR)	48.16
2.	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	48.85
3.	Bärbel Wöckel (GDR)	49.56
4.	Tatána Kocembová (TCH)	50.41
5.	Kathy Cook (GBR)	50.46

[edit] 800 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Doina Melinte (ROU)	1:55.05
2.	Olga Mineyeva (URS)	1:55.41
3.	Lyudmila Veselkova (URS)	1:55.96
4.	Ravilya Agletdinova (URS)	1:56.1
5.	Tatyana Mishkel (URS)	1:56.2

[edit] 1,500 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Olga Dvirna (URS)	3:54.23
2.	Zamira Zaytseva (URS)	3:56.14
3.	Tatyana Pozdnyakova (URS)	3:56.50
4.	Svetlana Guskova (URS)	3:57.05
5.	Maricica Puica (ROU)	3:57.48

[edit] Mile

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Maricica Puica (ROU)	4:17.44
2.	Mary Slaney (USA)	4:18.08
3.	Vesela Yatzinska (BUL)	4:21.52
4.	Vanya Stoyanova (BUL)	4:21.78
5.	Tamara Sorokina (URS)	4:21.89

[edit] 3,000 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Svetlana Ulmasova (URS)	8:26.78
2.	Svetlana Guskova (URS)	8:29.36
3.	Mary Slaney (USA)	8:29.71
4.	Maricica Puica (ROU)	8:31.67
5.	Galina Zakharova (URS)	8:33.40

[edit] 5,000 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Mary Slaney (USA)	15:08.26
2.	Grete Waitz (NOR)	15:08.80
3.	Irina Bondarchuk (URS)	15:12.62
4.	Anne Audain (NZL)	15:13.22
5.	Charlotte Teske (FRG)	15:19.54

[edit] 10,000 metres

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Mary Slaney (USA)	31:35.3
2.	Anna Domoradskaya (URS)	31:48.23
3.	Raysa Sadreydinova (URS)	31:55.02
4.	Galina Zakharova (URS)	31:57.0
5.	Lyudmila Baranova (URS)	32:04.88

[edit] Half Marathon

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Grete Waitz (NOR)	1:09:57

[edit] Marathon

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Joan Benoit (USA)	2:26:12
2.	Grete Waitz (NOR)	2:27:14
3.	Julie Brown (USA)	2:28:33
4.	Charlotte Teske (FRG)	2:29:01
5.	Joyce Smith (GBR)	2:29:43

[edit] 100m Hurdles

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	12.44
2.	Lucyna Kalek (POL)	12.45
3.	Kerstin Knabe (GDR)	12.54
4.	Bettine Jahn (GDR)	12.55
5.	Sabine John (GDR)	12.62

[edit] 400m Hurdles

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Ann-Louise Skoglund (SWE)	54.57
2.	Petra Pfaff (GDR)	54.89
3.	Chantal Réga (FRA)	54.93
4.	Ellen Fiedler (GDR)	54.96

[edit] High Jump

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG)	2.02
2.	Coleen Sommer (USA)	1.98
—	Tamara Bykova (URS)	1.98
—	Sara Simeoni (ITA)	1.98

[edit] Long Jump

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Valy Ionescu (ROU)	7.20
2.	Anişoara Cuşmir (ROU)	7.15
3.	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	6.98
4.	Tatyana Skachko (URS)	6.92
5.	Jodi Anderson (USA)	6.91

[edit] Discus

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Irina Meszynski (URS)	71.40
2.	Maria Petkova (BUL)	71.20
3.	Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)	70.64
4.	Galina Savinkova (URS)	69.90
5.	Gisela Beyer (GDR)	69.76

[edit] Shot Put

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	21.80
2.	Verzhinia Veselinova (BUL)	21.61
3.	Helena Fibingerová (TCH)	21.55
4.	Liane Schmuhl (GDR)	21.27
5.	Nunu Abashidze (URS)	21.23

[edit] Javelin (old design)

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Sofia Sakorafa (GRE)	74.40
2.	Tiina Lillak (FIN)	74.20
3.	Anna Verouli (GRE)	70.02
4.	Petra Rivers (AUS)	69.28
5.	Antje Zöllkau (GDR)	68.38

[edit] Heptathlon

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Ramona Neubert (GDR)	6845
2.	Natalya Grachova (URS)	6646
3.	Sabine John (GDR)	6629
4.	Natalya Shubenkova (URS)	6524
5.	Sabine Everts (FRG)	6523

[edit] Births

• January 2 — Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Greek race walker
• January 5 — Vadims Vasiļevskis, Latvian athlete
• February 2 — Dorcus Inzikuru, Ugandan athlete
• February 9 — Zersenay Tadesse, Eritrean athlete
• February 10 — Justin Gatlin, American athlete
• April 20 — Arnoud Okken, Dutch athlete
• April 25 — Victoria Mitchell, Australian long-distance runner
• May 15 — Veronica Campbell, Jamaican athlete
• May 25 — Ezekiel Kemboi, Kenyan athlete
• June 3 — Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter
• June 5 — Fabiano Peçanha, Brazilian middle-distance runner
• June 13 — Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian distance runner
• August 31 — Lien Huyghebaert, Belgian athlete
• September 11 — Elvan Abeylegesse, Ethiopian-born Turkish track and field athlete
• November 11 — Asafa Powell, Jamaican athlete
• December 11 — Darren Gilford, Maltese athlete

[edit] 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)

[edit] References

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

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