# 1982 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres

These are the official results of the Men's 100 metres event at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece, held at Olympic Stadium "Spiros Louis" on 6 and 7 September 1982.

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.
* Bulgaria (2)
* Czechoslovakia (1)
* East Germany (3)
* France (2)
* Greece (1)
* Hungary (2)
* Italy (3)
* Poland (3)
* Soviet Union (3)
* Sweden (1)
* Switzerland (2)
* United Kingdom (2)
* West Germany (3)

## Results
### Heats

6 September

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Pierfrancesco Pavoni | Italy | 10.45 | Q |
| 2 | Bernard Petitbois | France | 10.55 | Q |
| 3 | Vladimir Muravyov | Soviet Union | 10.57 | Q |
| 4 | Christian Zirkelbach | West Germany | 10.59 | |
| 5 | Krzysztof Zwoliński | Poland | 10.61 | |
| | | | Wind: -0.9 m/s | Wind: -0.9 m/s |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Christian Haas | West Germany | 10.45 | Q |
| 2 | Thomas Schröder | East Germany | 10.54 | Q |
| 3 | Stefan Burkart | Switzerland | 10.59 | Q |
| 4 | Jim Evans | United Kingdom | 10.62 | |
| | | | Wind: +0.3 m/s | Wind: +0.3 m/s |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Cameron Sharp | United Kingdom | 10.28 | Q |
| 2 | Nikolay Sidorov | Soviet Union | 10.38 | Q |
| 3 | Olaf Prenzler | East Germany | 10.40 | Q |
| 4 | Kosmas Stratos | Greece | 10.45 | Q |
| 5 | Petar Petrov | Bulgaria | 10.48 | |
| 6 | Werner Bastians | West Germany | 10.58 | |
| 7 | István Tatár | Hungary | 10.69 | |
| | | | Wind: +0.7 m/s | Wind: +0.7 m/s |

#### Heat 4

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Frank Emmelmann | East Germany | 10.30 | Q |
| 2 | Arkadiusz Janiak | Poland | 10.55 | Q |
| 3 | Ivaylo Karanyotov | Bulgaria | 10.61 | Q |
| 4 | Attila Kovács | Hungary | 10.64 | |
| 5 | Antoine Richard | France | 10.66 | |
| 6 | Gianfranco Lazzer | Italy | 10.73 | |
| | | | Wind: -1.1 m/s | Wind: -1.1 m/s |

#### Heat 5

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Marian Woronin | Poland | 10.20 | Q |
| 2 | Giovanni Grazioli | Italy | 10.43 | Q |
| 3 | Aleksandr Yevgenyev | Soviet Union | 10.44 | Q |
| 4 | Stefan Nilsson | Sweden | 10.50 | |
| 5 | Zdeněk Mazur | Czechoslovakia | 10.55 | |
| 6 | Franco Fähndrich | Switzerland | 10.65 | |
| | | | Wind: +1.2 m/s | Wind: +1.2 m/s |

### Semi-finals

7 September

#### Semi-final 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Marian Woronin | Poland | 10.44 | Q |
| 2 | Nikolay Sidorov | Soviet Union | 10.44 | Q |
| 3 | Olaf Prenzler | East Germany | 10.48 | Q |
| 4 | Pierfrancesco Pavoni | Italy | 10.50 | Q |
| 5 | Thomas Schröder | East Germany | 10.58 | |
| 6 | Christian Haas | West Germany | 10.58 | |
| 7 | Ivaylo Karanyotov | Bulgaria | 10.66 | |
| 8 | Stefan Burkart | Switzerland | 10.77 | |
| | | | Wind: -2.9 m/s | Wind: -2.9 m/s |

#### Semi-final 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Frank Emmelmann | East Germany | 10.30 | Q |
| 2 | Cameron Sharp | United Kingdom | 10.32 | Q |
| 3 | Bernard Petitbois | France | 10.49 | Q |
| 4 | Kosmas Stratos | Greece | 10.50 | Q |
| 5 | Vladimir Muravyov | Soviet Union | 10.58 | |
| 6 | Aleksandr Yevgenyev | Soviet Union | 10.59 | |
| 7 | Giovanni Grazioli | Italy | 10.61 | |
| 8 | Arkadiusz Janiak | Poland | 10.66 | |
| | | | Wind: +0.5 m/s | Wind: +0.5 m/s |

### Final

7 September
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 1 | Frank Emmelmann | East Germany | 10.21 | |
| | 7 | Pierfrancesco Pavoni | Italy | 10.25 | NJR |
| | 6 | Marian Woronin | Poland | 10.28 | |
| 4 | 8 | Cameron Sharp | United Kingdom | 10.28 | |
| 5 | 2 | Nikolay Sidorov | Soviet Union | 10.32 | |
| 6 | 5 | Olaf Prenzler | East Germany | 10.35 | |
| 7 | 4 | Bernard Petitbois | France | 10.50 | |
| 8 | 3 | Kosmas Stratos | Greece | 12.56 | |
| | | | | Wind: -0.8 m/s | Wind: -0.8 m/s |