1982 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Men's 4 x 400 metres relay
at the European Athletics Championships

These are the official results of the Men's 4x400 metres event at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece, held at Olympic Stadium "Spiros Louis" on 10 and 11 September 1982.[1]

Medalists

Gold Erwin Skamrahl
Harald Schmid
Thomas Giessing
Hartmut Weber
 West Germany
Silver David Jenkins
Garry Cook
Todd Bennett
Phil Brown
 United Kingdom
Bronze Aleksandr Troshchilo
Pavel Roshchin
Pavel Konovalov
Viktor Markin
 Soviet Union

Results

Final

11 September

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  West Germany Erwin Skamrahl
Harald Schmid
Thomas Giessing
Hartmut Weber
3:00.51 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  United Kingdom David Jenkins
Garry Cook
Todd Bennett
Phil Brown
3:00.68
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Soviet Union Aleksandr Troshchilo
Pavel Roshchin
Pavel Konovalov
Viktor Markin
3:00.80
4  Poland Ryszard Wichrowski
Ryszard Szparak
Andrzej Stępień
Ryszard Podlas
3:02.77
5  Czechoslovakia Miroslav Zahorak
František Břečka
Dušan Malovec
Stanislav Sajdok
3:02.82
6  Italy Pietro Mennea
Roberto Tozzi
Roberto Ribaud
Mauro Zuliani
3:03.21
7  France Paul Bourdin
Aldo Canti
Didier Dubois
Pascal Barré
3:04.73
8  Sweden Sven Nylander
Eric Josjö
Per-Ola Olsson
Staffan Blomstrand
3:06.91

Heats

10 September

Heat 1

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  United Kingdom David Jenkins
Garry Cook
Todd Bennett
Phil Brown
3:02.52 Q
2  Soviet Union Pavel Konovalov
Pavel Roshchin
Vladimir Prosin
Aleksandr Troshchilo
3:02.98 Q
3  Czechoslovakia František Břečka
Dušan Malovec
Miroslav Zahorak
Stanislav Sajdok
3:03.06 Q
4  Italy Roberto Tozzi
Roberto Ribaud
Pietro Mennea
Mauro Zuliani
3:03.66 q
5  Sweden Sven Nylander
Staffan Blomstrand
Eric Josjö
Per-Ola Olsson
3:05.32 q
6  Yugoslavia Ismail Mačev
Goran Humar
Jozef Kereši
Željko Knapić
3:08.44

Heat 2

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  Poland Ryszard Wichrowski
Ryszard Szparak
Ryszard Podlas
Andrzej Stępień
3:05.31 Q
2  West Germany Erwin Skamrahl
Harald Schmid
Edgar Nakladal
Hartmut Weber
3:05.35 Q
3  France Paul Bourdin
Aldo Canti
Didier Dubois
Pascal Barré
3:05.49 Q
4   Switzerland Andreas Kaufmann
Urs Kamber
René Gloor
Rolf Gisler
3:05.64
5  Greece Georgios Vamvakas
Nikolaos Megalemos
Panagiotis Stefanopoulos
Athanassios Kalogiannis
3:09.42
 Spain Benjamín González
Marceliano Ruiz
Colomán Trabado
Ángel Heras
DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 50 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

See also

References

  1. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 – STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 436–443, retrieved 13 August 2014