| Event: | Women's javelin throw |
| Competition: | European Athletics Championships |
These are the official results of the Women's javelin throw event (old design) at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece, held at Olympic Stadium "Spiros Louis" on 8 and 9 September 1982. All results were made with a rough surfaced javelin (old design).
| Gold | Anna Verouli Greece (GRE) | |
| Silver | Antje Kempe East Germany (GDR) | |
| Bronze | Sofia Sakorafa Greece (GRE) |
| Q | automatic qualification | |
| q | qualification by rank | |
| DNS | did not start | |
| NM | no mark | |
| WR | world record | |
| AR | area record | |
| NR | national record | |
| PB | personal best | |
| SB | season best |
9 September
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Attempts | Result | Notes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | 70.02 | CR | ||||||||||
| align=left | align=left | 67.94 | |||||||||||
| align=left | align=left | 67.04 | |||||||||||
| 4 | align=left | align=left |  | 66.26 | |||||||||
| 5 | align=left | align=left | 65.88 | ||||||||||
| 6 | align=left | align=left | 65.82 | ||||||||||
| 7 | align=left | align=left | 65.56 | ||||||||||
| 8 | align=left | align=left | 65.10 | ||||||||||
| 9 | align=left | align=left | 61.28 | ||||||||||
| 10 | align=left | align=left |  | 61.20 | |||||||||
| 11 | align=left | align=left | 59.28 | ||||||||||
| 12 | align=left | align=left | | 58.52 | |||||||||
8 September
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | align=left | 68.38 | Q | |||
| 2 | align=left | align=left | | 61.66 | Q | ||
| 3 | align=left | align=left | 61.64 | Q | |||
| 4 | align=left | align=left | 61.46 | Q | |||
| 5 | align=left | align=left | 61.10 | Q | |||
| 6 | align=left | align=left | | 60.76 | Q | ||
| 7 | align=left | align=left | 60.68 | Q | |||
| 8 | align=left | align=left | | 60.24 | Q | ||
| 9 | align=left | align=left | 60.22 | Q | |||
| 10 | align=left | align=left | 59.80 | Q | |||
| 11 | align=left | align=left | 58.72 | Q | |||
| 12 | align=left | align=left | 58.08 | Q | |||
| 13 | align=left | align=left | | 57.00 | |||
| 14 | align=left | align=left |  | 54.54 | |||
| 15 | align=left | align=left | 54.12 | ||||
| 16 | align=left | align=left | | 53.88 | |||
| 17 | align=left | align=left |  | 51.76 | |||
| 18 | align=left | align=left |  | 51.24 | |||
| 19 | align=left | align=left |  | 49.90 | |||
| 20 | align=left | align=left |  | 39.26 |
According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.
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