The 1982

UK Athletics Championships The UK Athletics Championships was an annual national championship in track and field for the United Kingdom, organised by the British Athletics Federation. The event incorporated the 1980 Olympic trials for the British Olympic team. The venue ...

was the national championship in outdoor

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for the United Kingdom held at

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. It was the second time the event was held in the

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town, following on from the 1977 UK Athletics Championships. The women's

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was dropped from the programme for this championship. It was the sixth edition of the competition limited to British athletes only, launched as an alternative to the

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, which was open to foreign competitors. However, due to the fact that the calibre of national competition remained greater at the AAA event, the UK Championships this year were not considered the principal national championship event by some statisticians, such as the National Union of Track Statisticians (NUTS). Many of the athletes below also competed at the 1982 AAA Championships.UK Championships
GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
NUTS. Retrieved 2018-02-25. David Ottley extended his unbeaten streak to five straight UK titles in the

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. On the men's side,

Steve Barry Steven ("Steve") John Barry (born 25 October 1950) is a retired Welsh race walker, born in Cardiff. A member of the Cardiff Amateur Athletic Club and Roath Walking Club, Barry won the gold medal in the 30 km road walk at the 1982 Commonwea ...

(racewalk), Graham Eggleton (

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), Peter Gordon (

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) and Martin Girvan (

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) also defended their 1981 UK titles.

Fatima Whitbread Fatima Whitbread (' Vedad; 3 March 1961) is a British retired javelin thrower. She broke the world record with a throw of in the qualifying round of the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart, and became the first British athle ...

was the only woman to repeat her victory, doing so in the javelin. No athlete won multiple titles at this edition, though

Mike McFarlane Michael Anthony McFarlane OBE (born 2 May 1960) is a retired British athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres and 200 metres. He won an Olympic silver medal in the 4×100 metres relay at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. He was the 200 m go ...

and Bev Callender both won the

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title and were runners-up in the

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. The main international track and field competition for the United Kingdom that year was the

1982 European Athletics Championships The 13th European Athletics Championships were held from 6 September to 12 September 1982 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. Men's results Compl ...

. Reflecting the secondary status of the UK event at national level, none of the British individual medallists there were present at UK Championships, though four relay medallists were on the UK podium: Bev Callender, Shirley Thomas,

Todd Bennett Todd Anthony Bennett (6 July 1962 – 16 July 2013) was a Great Britain, British athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. Athletics career Bennett competed for Great Britain in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United Stat ...

, Phil Brown. The four

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competed separately at the

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that year as well, and UK champions who won there were men's 200 m champion Mike McFarlane, men's racewalker Steve Barry and women's shot putter Judy Oakes.Commonwealth Games (Women)
GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-03-06.

Medal summary

Men

Women

References

{{British championships in athletics UK Athletics Championships UK Outdoor Championships Athletics Outdoor Sport in Monmouthshire Athletics competitions in Wales