1982 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

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		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

These are the official results of the Men's 4 × 100 metres event at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece. The final was held at Olympic Stadium "Spiros Louis" on 11 September 1982.^[1]

Gold	Sergey Sokolov Aleksandr Aksinin Andrey Prokofyev Nikolay Sidorov  Soviet Union
Silver	Detlef Kübeck Olaf Prenzler Thomas Munkelt Frank Emmelmann  East Germany
Bronze	Christian Zirkelbach Christian Haas Peter Klein Erwin Skamrahl  West Germany

Rank	Nation	Athletes	Time
	Soviet Union (URS)	• Andrey Prokofyev • Sergey Sokolov • Aleksandr Aksinin • Nikolay Sidorov	38.60
	East Germany (GDR)	• Thomas Munkelt • Detlef Kübeck • Olaf Prenzler • Frank Emmelmann	38.71
	West Germany (FRG)	• Christian Zirkelbach • Christian Haas • Peter Klein • Erwin Skamrahl	38.71
4.	Italy (ITA)	• Pierfrancesco Pavoni • Giovanni Bongiorni • Luciano Caravani • Carlo Simionato	38.96
5.	Poland (POL)	• Arkadiusz Janiak • Zenon Licznerski • Krzysztof Zwoliński • Marian Woronin	39.00
6.	Hungary (HUN)	• István Tatár • István Nagy • László Babály • Attila Kovács	39.01
7.	France (FRA)	• Antoine Richard • Patrick Barré • Bernard Petitbois • Hermann Lomba	39.22
8.	Bulgaria (BUL)	• Ivaylo Karanyotov • Nikolay Markov • Petar Petrov • Ivan Tuparov	39.39

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.

• 1978 Men's European Championships 4 × 100 m Relay (Prague)
• 1980 Men's Olympic 4 × 100 m Relay (Moscow)
• 1983 Men's World Championships 4 × 100 m Relay (Helsinki)
• 1984 Men's Olympic 4 × 100 m Relay (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships 4 × 100 m Relay (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Men's World Championships 4 × 100 m Relay (Rome)
• 1988 Men's Olympic 4 × 100 m Relay (Seoul)
• 1990 Men's European Championships 4 × 100 m Relay (Split)

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