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1982 in the sport of athletics

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Title	1982 in athletics
Major world competitions	World Championship in Athletics
Previous	1981
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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	David Moorcroft	13:00:41	July 7	Oslo, Norway
Half Marathon	Michael Musyoki	1:01:36	September 19	Philadelphia, United States
Hammer	Sergey Litvinov	83.98m	June 4	Moscow, Soviet Union
Decathlon	Daley Thompson	8730	May 23	Götzis, Austria
Jürgen Hingsen	8741	August 15	Athens, Greece
Daley Thompson	8774	September 8	Athens, Greece

Women

EVENT	ATHLETE	MARK	DATE	VENUE
400 metres	Marita Koch	48.16	September 8	Athens, Greece
Mile	Mary Slaney	4:18.08	July 9	Paris, France
Maricica Puică	4:17.44	September 16	Rieti, Italy
3,000 metres	Svetlana Ulmasova	8:26.78	July 25	Kiev, Soviet Union
5,000 metres	Anne Audain	15:13.22	March 17	Auckland, New Zealand
Mary Slaney	15:08.26	June 5	Eugene, Oregon, United States
10,000 metres	Mary Slaney	31:35.3	July 16	Eugene, Oregon, United States
4 × 400 m Relay	GDR
• Kirsten Emmelmann
• Sabine Busch
• Dagmar Neubauer
• Marita Koch	3:19.04	September 11	Athens, Greece
Half Marathon	Grete Waitz	1:09:57	May 15	Gothenburg, Sweden
High Jump	Ulrike Meyfarth	2.02	September 8	Athens, Greece
Long Jump	Anisoara Cusmir	7.15	August 1	Bucharest, Romania
Long Jump	Valeria Ionescu	7.20	August 1	Bucharest, Romania
Javelin Throw	Tiina Lillak	72.40	July 29	Helsinki, Finland
Javelin Throw	Sofia Sakorafa	74.20	September 26	Khania, Greece
Heptathlon	Ramona Neubert	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.	Carl Lewis	10.00
2.	Stanley Floyd	10.03
3.	Calvin Smith	10.05
4.	Willie Gault	10.10
5.	Mike Miller	10.11

[[200 metres]]

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

[[400 metres]]

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

[[800 metres]]

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

[[1500 metres|1,500 metres]]

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

[[Mile run world record progression|Mile]]

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

[[3000 metres|3,000 metres]]

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

[[5000 metres|5,000 metres]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	David Moorcroft	13:00.41
2.	Wodajo Bulti	13:07.29
3.	António Leitão	13:07.70
4.	Henry Rono	13:08.97
5.	Peter Koech	13:09.50

[[10000 metres|10,000 metres]]

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

[[Half Marathon]]

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

[[Marathon (sport)|Marathon]]

Main article: 1982 Marathon Year Ranking

[[Hurdling|110m Hurdles]]

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

[[Hurdling|400m Hurdles]]

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

[[Steeplechase (athletics)|3,000m Steeplechase]]

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

[[High Jump]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Zhu Jianhua	2.33
2.	Gennadiy Byelkov	2.32
—	Milton Ottey	2.32
—	Del Davis	2.32
5.	Steven Wray	2.31

[[Long Jump]]

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

[[Triple Jump]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Keith Connor	17.57
2.	Ken Lorraway	17.46
3.	Gennadiy Valyukevich	17.42
4.	Aleksandr Beskrovniy	17.37
5.	Willie Banks	17.36

[[Discus throw|Discus]]

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

[[Hammer throw|Hammer]]

Main article: 1982 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

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

[[Shot Put]]

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

[[Pole Vault]]

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

[[Javelin throw|Javelin (old design)]]

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

[[Decathlon]]

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

Women's Best Year Performers

[[100 metres]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Marlies Göhr	10.88
2.	Evelyn Ashford	10.93
3.	Bärbel Wöckel	10.95
4.	Angella Taylor	11.00
5.	Marita Koch	11.01

[[200 metres]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Marita Koch	21.76
2.	Bärbel Wöckel	22.04
3.	Evelyn Ashford	22.10
4.	Kathy Smallwood	22.13
5.	Merlene Ottey	22.17

[[400 metres]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Marita Koch	48.16
2.	Jarmila Kratochvílová	48.85
3.	Bärbel Wöckel	49.56
4.	Tatána Kocembová	50.41
5.	Kathy Smallwood	50.46

[[800 metres]]

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

[[1500 metres|1,500 metres]]

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

[[Mile run world record progression|Mile]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Maricica Puică	4:17.44
2.	Mary Decker-Tabb	4:18.08
3.	Vesela Yatzinska	4:21.52
4.	Vanya Stoyanova	4:21.78
5.	Tamara Sorokina	4:21.89

[[3000 metres|3,000 metres]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Svetlana Ulmasova	8:26.78
2.	Svetlana Guskova	8:29.36
3.	Mary Decker-Tabb	8:29.71
4.	Maricica Puică	8:31.67
5.	Galina Zakharova	8:33.40

[[5000 metres|5,000 metres]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Mary Decker-Tabb	15:08.26
2.	Grete Waitz	15:08.80
3.	Irina Bondarchuk	15:12.62
4.	Anne Audain	15:13.22
5.	Charlotte Teske	15:19.54

[[10000 metres|10,000 metres]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Mary Decker-Tabb	31:35.3
2.	Anna Domoradskaya	31:48.23
3.	Raysa Sadreydinova	31:55.02
4.	Galina Zakharova	31:57.0
5.	Lyudmila Baranova	32:04.88

[[Half Marathon]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Grete Waitz	1:09:57

[[Marathon (sport)|Marathon]]

Main article: 1982 Marathon Year Ranking

[[Hurdling|100m Hurdles]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Yordanka Donkova	12.44
2.	Lucyna Kalek	12.45
3.	Kerstin Knabe	12.54
4.	Bettine Jahn	12.55
5.	Sabine Mobius	12.62

[[Hurdling|400m Hurdles]]

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

[[High Jump]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Ulrike Meyfarth	2.02
2.	Coleen Sommer	1.98
Tamara Bykova
Sara Simeoni
5.	Jutta Kirst	1.97
Yelena Popkova

[[Long Jump]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Valy Ionescu	7.20
2.	Anişoara Cuşmir	7.15
3.	Heike Daute	6.98
4.	Tatyana Skachko	6.92
5.	Jodi Anderson	6.91

[[Discus throw|Discus]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Irina Meszynski	71.40
2.	Mariya Petkova	71.20
3.	Tsvetanka Khristova	70.64
4.	Galina Savinkova	69.90
5.	Gisela Beyer	69.76

[[Shot Put]]

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

[[Javelin throw|Javelin (old design)]]

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

[[Heptathlon]]

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Ramona Neubert	6845
2.	Natalya Grachova	6646
3.	Sabine Mobius	6629
4.	Natalya Shubenkova	6524
5.	Sabine Everts	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 7 – Josh Rohatinsky, American long-distance runner
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)

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