1982 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

1982 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The final of the Men's hammer throw event at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece was held on September 10, 1982. The qualification round was staged a day earlier, on September 9, 1982.^[1]

Gold	Yuriy Sedykh Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Igor Nikulin Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze	Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union (URS)

Standing records prior to the 1982 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	83.98 m	June 4, 1982	Moscow, Soviet Union
Championship Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	77.28 m	September 2, 1978	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Broken records during the 1982 European Athletics Championships
Championship Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	77.58 m	September 9, 1982	Athens, Greece
Championship Record	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	77.58 m	September 9, 1982	Athens, Greece
Championship Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	81.66 m	September 10, 1982	Athens, Greece

Q = automatic qualification; q = qualified by rank; DNS = did not start; NM = no mark; WR = world record; CR = championship record; AR = area record; NR = national record; PB = personal best; SB = season best

Rank	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
		1	2	3
1	Sergey Litvinov (URS)				77.58 m CR
2	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)				77.58 m CR
3	Harri Huhtala (FIN)				75.86 m
4	Klaus Ploghaus (FRG)				74.32 m
5	Roland Steuk (GDR)				74.10 m
6	Igor Nikulin (URS)				74.06 m
7	Ireneusz Golda (POL)				73.92 m
8	Detlef Gerstenberg (GDR)				73.88 m
9	Mariusz Tomaszewski (POL)				73.48 m
10	Jörg Schäfer (FRG)				72.98 m
11	Giampaolo Urlando (ITA)				72.76 m
12	Juha Tiainen (FIN)				72.62 m
13	Emanuil Dyulgerov (BUL)				71.16 m
14	Tibor Tanczi (HUN)				71.04 m
15	Martin Girvan (GBR)				70.62 m
16	Orlando Bianchini (ITA)				70.06 m
17	Richard Olsen (NOR)				69.78 m
18	Jukka Olkkonen (FIN)				69.76 m
19	Christoph Sahner (FRG)				69.24 m
20	Sean Egan (IRL)				66.96 m
—	Kjell Bystedt (SWE)	X	X	X	NM

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Yuri Sedykh (URS)	81.66	80.48	80.96	79.36	81.62	80.94	81.66 m	CR
	Igor Nikulin (URS)	79.44	X	78.38	78.36	79.22	X	79.44 m
	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	76.88	76.72	78.66	78.10	X	77.90	78.66 m
4	Ireneusz Golda (POL)	76.58	73.76	75.82	74.60	74.98	76.56	76.58 m
5	Harri Huhtala (FIN)	76.12	X	72.82	74.96	73.60	74.30	76.12 m
6	Detlef Gerstenberg (GDR)	X	75.32	74.62	X	74.76	X	75.32 m
7	Roland Steuk (GDR)	74.76	74.50	72.50	X	72.22	X	74.76 m
8	Klaus Ploghaus (FRG)	X	74.52	74.52	X	71.78	X	74.52 m
9	Jörg Schäfer (FRG)							74.08 m
10	Mariusz Tomaszewski (POL)							73.74 m
11	Giampaolo Urlando (ITA)							73.72 m
12	Juha Tiainen (FIN)							72.12 m

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

• 1980 Men's Olympic Hammer Throw (Moscow)
• 1982 Hammer Throw Year Ranking
• 1983 Men's World Championships Hammer Throw (Helsinki)
• 1984 Men's Olympic Hammer Throw (Los Angeles)
• 1987 Men's World Championships Hammer Throw (Rome)
• 1988 Men's Olympic Hammer Throw (Seoul)

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• hammerthrow.wz