1982 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres

Medalists

Gold	Hartmut Weber  West Germany
Silver	Andreas Knebel  East Germany
Bronze	Viktor Markin  Soviet Union

Results

Final

9 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Hartmut Weber	West Germany	44.72	CR
	Andreas Knebel	East Germany	45.29
	Viktor Markin	Soviet Union	45.30
4	Phil Brown	United Kingdom	45.45
5	Aleksandr Troshchilo	Soviet Union	45.67
6	Pavel Konovalov	Soviet Union	45.84
7	Željko Knapić	Yugoslavia	46.20
8	Thomas Giessing	West Germany	48.70

Semi-finals

8 September

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hartmut Weber	West Germany	46.13	Q
2	Andreas Knebel	East Germany	46.30	Q
3	Pavel Konovalov	Soviet Union	46.32	Q
4	Aleksandr Troshchilo	Soviet Union	46.40	Q
5	Mauro Zuliani	Italy	46.44
6	Todd Bennett	United Kingdom	46.84
7	Andrzej Stępień	Poland	47.28
8	Oddur Sigurðsson	Iceland	47.35

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Viktor Markin	Soviet Union	45.99	Q
2	Phil Brown	United Kingdom	46.14	Q
3	Željko Knapić	Yugoslavia	46.24	Q
4	Thomas Giessing	West Germany	46.43	Q
5	Didier Dubois	France	46.56
6	Roberto Ribaud	Italy	46.58
7	Sándor Újhelyi	Hungary	46.59
8	David Jenkins	United Kingdom	47.04

Heats

7 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hartmut Weber	West Germany	45.90	Q
2	David Jenkins	United Kingdom	46.13	Q
3	Pavel Konovalov	Soviet Union	46.23	Q
4	Sándor Újhelyi	Hungary	46.46	q
5	Didier Dubois	France	46.51	q
6	Benjamín González	Spain	47.00
7	Hannu Mykrä	Finland	47.16

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Phil Brown	United Kingdom	46.52	Q
2	Viktor Markin	Soviet Union	46.53	Q
3	Roberto Ribaud	Italy	46.57	Q
4	Oddur Sigurðsson	Iceland	46.63	q
5	Andrzej Stępień	Poland	46.65	q
6	Hector Llatser	France	47.46
7	José Carvalho	Portugal	47.92

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Željko Knapić	Yugoslavia	46.71	Q
2	Mauro Zuliani	Italy	46.72	Q
3	Aleksandr Troshchilo	Soviet Union	46.74	Q
4	Ryszard Podlas	Poland	46.88
5	Eric Josjö	Sweden	46.91
6	Edgar Nakladal	West Germany	47.30
7	Paul Bourdin	France	47.43

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Todd Bennett	United Kingdom	46.16	Q
2	Andreas Knebel	East Germany	46.32	Q
3	Thomas Giessing	West Germany	46.41	Q
4	Roberto Tozzi	Italy	46.65
5	Jacques Borlée	Belgium	47.52

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.