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	men	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

The final of the Men's Triple Jump event at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece was held on 10 September 1982.^[1]

Gold	Keith Connor Great Britain (GBR)
Silver	Vasiliy Grishchenkov Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze	Béla Bakosi Hungary (HUN)

• All results shown are in metres

Standing records prior to the 1982 European Athletics Championships
World Record	João Carlos de Oliveira (BRA)	17.89 m	October 15, 1975	Mexico City, Mexico
Event Record	Viktor Saneyev (URS)	17.23 m	September 8, 1974	Rome, Italy
Broken records during the 1982 European Athletics Championships
Event Record	Keith Connor (GBR)	17.29 m	September 10, 1982	Athens, Greece

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Result	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Keith Connor (GBR)							17.29 m (w: -0.1 m/s)	CR
	Vasiliy Grishchenkov (URS)							17.15 m (w: 0.2 m/s)
	Béla Bakosi (HUN)							17.04 m (w: 0.2 m/s)
4	Gennadiy Valyukevich (URS)							16.95 m (w: -0.3 m/s)
5	Aleksandr Beskrovny (URS)							16.82 m (w: -1.2 m/s)
6	Bedros Bedrosian (ROU)							16.46 m (w: 0.3 m/s)
7	Markku Rokala (FIN)							16.32 m (w: -1.9 m/s)
8	Roberto Mazzucato (ITA)							16.13 m (w: -0.2 m/s)
9	Dario Badinelli (ITA)							16.05 m (w: -0.6 m/s)
10	Janoš Hegediš (YUG)							16.03 m (w: -0.3 m/s)
11	Johan Brink (SWE)							15.95 m (w: -0.5 m/s)
12	John Herbert (GBR)							15.92 m (w: -0.7 m/s)
	Dimitrios Mihas (GRE)							DNS

According to an unofficial count, 12 athletes from 8 countries participated in the event.

• 1980 Men's Olympic Triple Jump (Moscow)
• 1983 Men's World Championships Triple Jump (Helsinki)
• 1984 Men's Olympic Triple Jump (Los Angeles)

• Results