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Topic: 1982 European Championships in Athletics

	European Athletics - History of the European Athletics Championships
		The idea of holding a European Athletics Championships was devised in 1933, with Hungarian official Szilard Stankovits as the prime mover, and the first Championships took place in Torino, Italy, in 1934.
		In 1938, women participated in the European Athletics Championships for the first time, though their events were held in Vienna two weeks after the men’s competition in Paris.
		Both Wooderson and Harbig set new championship records, as did Wooderson’s team mates Godfrey Brown in the 400m and Don Finlay in 110m hurdles (his time of 14.3 was also a European record); Harbig’s team mate Karl Hein in the hammer; and Finns Taisto Mäki in the 5000m and Ilmari Salminen in the 10000m.
	www.european-athletics.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3815&Itemid=3 (4401 words)

	News and Events!
		Truly it would be the height of poor sportsmanship to medal in a championship where there was no competition simply for the lack of funds to have the finest athletes in the world present and participating.
		In 2002 the European Championships in Patras, Greece.
		She is a seasoned veteran having participated in the 2001 World Championships in Ghent, Belgium and the 2002 European Championships in Patras, Greece.
	webpages.charter.net /americancenter/news.htm (2507 words)

	Picture Page on (Region)
		Beginning in 1954 a limit to the amount of students admitted each year was put in place by the Ministry of Education and Religion.
		Building of the Olympic Stadium began in 1980 and ended in 1982 in time for the 1982 European Championships in Athletics.
		The stadium also hosted several events, such as the 1991 Mediterranean games and in 1997 the IAAF World Championships in Athletics.
	myweb.unomaha.edu /~ngoergen/image.htm (612 words)

	TWU Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 1999
		She ran in the AIAW Indoor National Championships in Columbia, Mo., in March 1980 and took first place in the 60 meters with a time of 7.30.
		Set to defend her back-to-back titles in the 100 meters, Hodges prepared for the AIAW national championships in Eugene, OR, although her hamstring was sore.
		She represented the U.S. Badminton Team in South Africa and the European Championships and was on the Uber Cup Squad in 1963 and 1966.
	www.twu.edu /athletics/HOF1999.htm (1962 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Athletics \| European Athletics \| European Championships: Meet the BBC team
		Following his one European Championships as an athlete, this will be his eighth as a broadcaster.
		The former golden girl of British athletics is the only woman to have held the European, World, Commonwealth and Olympic 400m hurdles title at the same time.
		After retiring from athletics in 1990 he enjoyed a five-year spell as MP for Falmouth and Cambourne and was appointed as private secretary to Leader of the Opposition, William Hague in 1997.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/athletics/specials/european_athletics/2135933.stm (1262 words)

	Athletics Association of Ireland AAI » Ireland’s Record in European Athletics Championships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		From the inaugural European Athletics Championships in Turin 1934 it took 60 years before the Irish flag was hoisted in Helsinki 1994 when Sonia O’Sullivan won gold in the 3000 metres in 8.31.84.
		Four years later in Budapest Sonia had a remarkable double in the 5000 metres (15.06.50) and 10,000 metres (31.29.33).At the last championships in Munich 2002 Sonia added further to her successes in winning silver medals in the 5000 metres (15.14.85) and 10,000 metres (30.47.59).
		Athletics Ireland wishes all its athletes every success in Gothenburg in what is truly expected to be a wonderful edition of these championships.
	www.athleticsireland.ie /content/?p=434 (214 words)

	Jana Pittman - Athletics Gold
		At the Youth Championships, for athletes under 18, Pittman starred for Australia, winning the 400m Hurdles and also made the final of the 400m.
		Injuries eventually kept her out of the 2001 World Championships and affected her 2002 domestic season but she seemed to be improving, under new coach Craig Hilliard at the AIS.
		Jana is possibly Australia's best chance of success at the Paris World Championships and her clashes with 25 year old Russian, Yulia Pechonkina, the world's best 400m Hurdler in 2002, will be a highlight.
	www.geocities.com /geetee/bios/prof_jana.html (813 words)

	BYU Cougar Club - Hall of Fame - Carey May Edge
		Her five honors include a second-place finish at the 1981 AIAW Track Championships in the 5,000 meter race.
		Carey represented Ireland in the 1980 World Cross Country Championships, the 1982 European Championship Marathon, the 1983 World Championship Marathon, and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, where she finished 28th overall in the marathon.
		In 1984 she also finished second among the 10,500 competitors in the 10,000-meter Dublin Women's Road Race, the largest women's road race in the world; won both the 10,000-meter Quebec City Race and the Toronto 10,000-meter run; and placed sixth in the New York City Marathon.
	www.cougarclub.com /hall_of_fame/edge_c.html (442 words)

	Athletics - Hall of Fame
		After obtaining her bachelor's degree in 1934 and her master's in 1938, Magee was a member of the TWU faculty until her retirement in 1981 with the rank of associate professor.
		Gandy's accomplishments were recognized by the Texas Association for Intercollegiate Athletics when she was awarded the Division III Gymnast of the Year in 1982.
		In her first season of collegiate competition, German won the high jump at the AAU national championships and at the AIAW state, regional and national championships and then went on to compete in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich during the summer.
	www.twu.edu /ATHLETICS/FAME.HTML?printerfriendly=on (6339 words)

	Cameron Sharp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Commonwealth: 1978 Gold 4x100m, 1982 bronze 100m, bronze 200m, bronze 4x100m, 1986 bronze 4x100m.
		(Cameron is pictured above at the 1982 European Athletics Championships in Athens.
		This photograph is the copyright © of George Herringshaw and sporting-heroes.net
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=2779 (62 words)

	EUROPEAN VETERANS ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS STADIA, ÅRHUS & RANDERS, DENMARK JULY 22 - AUGUST 1, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 2001 the veteran committee of the Danish Athletics Federation choose Århus & Randers as the official Danish candidate cities for EVACS 2004.
		The organising committee of EVACS 2004 is mainly rooted in the largest athletics club in Jutland, Århus 1900 A/M. The club has more than 900 members and a huge experience as organiser of large sports competitions.
		The club relocated to the new Langvang Athletics Stadium in 1988 and has hosted the Danish Athletics Championships in 1998 and 2002.
	www.evacs2004.dk /organisers/organisers.asp?language=english (660 words)

	Steve Cram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Later in the season he won the bronze in the European Championships over 800 m behind Seb Coe and Tom McKean while beating Coe to the gold medal over the 1500 m.
		He was favourite to win the gold medal over 1500 m at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 but a calf injury just before the games in a 1000 m race meant that he was only able to finish fourth in a close race.
		Cram now works as a television presenter and athletics commentator predominantly for the BBC and as a motivational speaker.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steve_Cram (657 words)

	Coast to Coast Athletics - Baseball Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		JANET BALOWSKI (certified athletic trainer) - Janet is a Cum Laud graduate of Eastern Michigan University’s honors program where she received her B.S. in Sports Medicine before going on to receive her M.S. in Health Education from the University of Wisconsin.
		In addition to assigning coverage of the 11 athletic programs and the typical duties of running an athletic training room, Stephen has responsibility for the supervision and education of the student athletic trainer program, assisting in the development of an Athletic Training curriculum program and teaching Athletic Training courses.
		He is a certified Athletic Trainer with a wide range of athletic training in his background from working with the United State Olympic Committee, the Paralympic Games, World University Games down to the Kalamazoo Junior K-Wings Hockey Club.
	www.coasttocoastathletics.com /baseball/staff.html (6989 words)

	British Medallists/Placings in World and European Road Race Championships/Cups
		The inaugural championships in 1992 were held in conjunction with the Great North Run.
		Held in conjunction with the London Marathon in 1991 and the IAAF World Championships in Athletics Marathon since 1997.
		Joyce Smith 1981 [2:19:57] and 1982 [2:29:43], Véronique Marot 1989 [2:25:56], Liz McColgan 1996 [2:27:54], Paula Radcliffe 2002 [2:18:56], 2003 [2:15:25] and 2005 [2:17:42]
	www.gbrathletics.com /bm/road.htm (368 words)

	LOTS
		5th Bolivian Athletic Championship 1951,Bolivia, Sc C150-C156, horsemanship, basketball, fencing, hurdles, javelin and relay.
		Athletics European Championships 1982, Greece, Scott #1424-1426 set of 3 on Post Office cacheted envelopes, unaddressed.
		Athletics, World Championships, Helsinki 2005, picture postcard of female long jumper with games special cancellation (and small scratch from canceling machine), one unused ticket for 12-8-05, and men's and women's records in the shape of a Seiko stopwatch.
	www.sportstamps.org /lots.htm (1299 words)

	CNNSI.com - Soccer - Greek-Turkish bid built on shared passion - Tuesday December 03, 2002 08:25 AM
		The high point of Greek club football came at Wembley in 1971 where Panathinaikos were beaten in the European Cup final by Ajax Amsterdam.
		Violent scenes marred the first leg of the UEFA Cup tie between Fenerbahce and Panathinaikos in Istanbul, where supporters from both teams responded angrily to a delegation of Greek-Turkish foreign ministers pelting them with yoghurt during a walkabout at pitch-side.
		In modern times the biggest events have been the 1982 European Athletics championships and the 1997 World Athletics championships in Athens.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2002/12/03/greece_turkey (1767 words)

	EUROPEAN CUP 2003 2nd League Group A
		The local organising committee of the European Cup is mainly rooted in the largest athletics club in Jutland, Århus 1900 A/M. The club has more than 900 members and a huge experience as organiser of large sports competitions.
		In 2001 Århus 1900 A/M organised the European Cup in Relays for Clubs as well as the Danish Championships.
		Since 1982 athletes from Århus 1900 A/M made 83 appearances at Olympic Games, World Championships, and European Championships in athletics and cross country.
	www.aarhus1900.dk /ECUP2003/?page=organiser (227 words)

	Sports Features Communications - Press Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		As a Junior he won gold in the 200m at the European Junior Championships, along with bronze in the 100m and silver in the 4x100m.
		He had numerous placings at European Championships including a bronze in 1999 and was Commonwealth Champion in 1998, 1999 and 2002.
		He finished 3rd at the 1997, 1999 and 2003 World Championships, and was the 1998 and 2002 European Champion.
	www.sportsfeatures.com /PressPoint/show.php?id=16147 (1293 words)

	The FSF Ground Guide - Athens - The Stadium
		A further 9,000 were distributed via the general ballot run on the UEFA website with the remaining 20,800 going to UEFA, the local organising committee, sponsors, broadcasters and national associations.
		It was completed in time to host the 1982 European Championships in Athletics.
		It also hosted several events of the 1991 Mediterranean Games and the 1997 IAAF World Championships in Athletics, sought in order to prove that it was capable of hosting major sporting events after the failure of Athens to win the 1996 Summer Olympics.
	www.fsf.org.uk /news/news0036-athens-stadium.html (1054 words)

	Papua New Guinea Forum - Athletics heroes
		Two years later he won the European junior decathlon championship before picking up the gold at the 1978 Commonwealth Games, along with silver in the European competition the same year.
		He retired from his illustrious career in 1992 with further golds in the European championships, two Olympic golds in 1980 and 1984 (including scoring a world record 8847 points) and a world decathlon championship gold in 1983.
		Allan Wells goes down in Commonwealth history, not for his gold medals of which he won three, but rather the bizarre incident in the 200m final in 1982 where he was jointly awarded gold along with Englishman Mike McFarlane, after even the computers failed to split them in their time of 20.43 seconds.
	www.pngbd.com /forum/printthread.php?t=3596 (585 words)

	Sport in Sweden
		Wrestling 13 titles, Football; Sweden has been in nine finals and took silver in 1958, bronze in 1950, as well as in 1994; the UEFA cup went to IFK-Göteborg 1982 as well as 1987.
		Took five gold medals in the World Championships, and on those rare occasions when he did not take gold; he took either a silver or a bronze, medal, i.e., he took a medal in each and every race he entered.
		Who was the oldest participant ever in the Olympics, as he was close to 73 years of age, when he, in 1920, took the silver medal in the shooting competition.
	www.sverigeturism.se /smorgasbord/smorgasbord/natrecspo/sports/sports.html (1536 words)

	Kent State Women's Golf -- Martina Gillen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Was the top KSU finisher at the 2003 NCAA Championships, tying for 40th with a 307 aggregate...
		Was the runner-up at the MAC Championships with rounds of 73-73-77=223...
		Was second on the squad and the conference with a 75.92 scoring average...
	dept.kent.edu /athletics/wgolf/wgbio/gillen.htm (296 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - Athletes - Biography
		Has set 17 world outdoor (6.14 in 1994) and 18 indoor records (6.15 in 1993).
		Won European Championships 1986, European Indoor 1985, European Cup 1985, Goodwill Games 1986.
		Indianapolis, IN 4th IAAF World Cup in Athletics
	www.iaaf.org /athletes/athlete=365 (85 words)

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