Athletics at the 1982 Commonwealth Games
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
30 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 women's javelin throw event at the 1982 Commonwealth Games was held on 7 October at the QE II Stadium in Brisbane, Australia.^[1]

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Sue Howland	Australia	64.46	61.78		63.24			64.46	GR
	Petra Rivers	Australia	60.48		62.28				62.28
	Fatima Whitbread	England	57.22			58.86			58.86
4	Pamela Matthews	Australia							55.16
5	Monique Lapres	Canada							52.30
6	Celine Chartrand	Canada							50.14
7	Sharon Gibson	England							49.56
8	Mereoni Vibose	Fiji							47.30
9	Elizabeth Olaba	Kenya							40.96
10	Christine Béchard	Mauritius							31.68
	Margaret Sakala	Zimbabwe							NM

• Results (The Sydney Morning Herald)
• Results (The Canberra Times)
• Australian results Archived 14 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine