1982 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Season summary, Ohio State
Key plays in the scoring drive included the following: a 15-yard run by Chucky Davis, a 12-yard run by David Keeling, and three passes from quarterback Randy Wright to Tim Stracka, Jeff Nault, and Al Toon, the last pass covering 12 yards to the Ohio State 1. Early in the second quarter, the Buckeyes moved the ball to the Wisconsin 33 only to have Spangler's 50 yard field goal attempt bounce off the crossbar. The Badgers were offside on the play. Spangler's second attempt of 45 yards then sailed wide to the left. Midway through the third quarter, the Badger offense stalled on the Ohio State 13 where Doran missed a 30-yard field goal attempt. The Buckeyes were unable to stop the Badger running backs during the final eight 8 minutes of the game resulting in a Badger shutout.


1982 Wisconsin gubernatorial election
The 1982 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1982. Democrat Anthony Earl won the election with 57% of the vote, winning his first term as Governor of Wisconsin and defeating Republican Terry Kohler. As of 2021, this is the most recent Wisconsin gubernatorial election where the Democratic candidate won by a double digit margin.


1982 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election
The Council elections held in Wolverhampton on Thursday 6 May 1982 were one third, and 20 of the 60 seats were up for election.


1982 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election
1982 was the first year the SDP and Liberal Party stood in alliance.


1982 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election
1982 was also the first year of elections following boundary changes that saw the loss of Wednesfield Heath, Eastfield and Parkfield wards and the bringing in of Fallings Park, East Park and Heath Town wards.


1982 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election
Prior to the election the constitution of the Council was:


1982 Women's British Open Squash Championship
The 1982 Women's Audi British Open Squash Championships was held at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley from 1–7 April 1982. The event was won for the third consecutive year by Vicki Cardwell (née Hoffman) who defeated Lisa Opie in the final.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup
The 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, known as the 1982 Hansells Vita Fresh World Cup for sponsorship purposes, was an international cricket tournament played in New Zealand from 10 January to 7 February 1982. Hosted by New Zealand for the first time, it was the third edition of the Women's Cricket World Cup, coming four years after the previous 1978 World Cup in India.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup
The tournament, which featured a triple round-robin, was at the time the longest World Cup both in duration and the number of matches played. Five teams were originally invited in addition to the hosts, but the Netherlands were unable to attend and the West Indies withdrew in protest at New Zealand hosting the 1981 South Africa rugby union tour during the apartheid-era in South Africa. Those teams were instead replaced by a composite International XI team. Australia did not lose a single match, winning its second consecutive tournament by defeating England in the final at Lancaster Park, Christchurch.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup
Australia's thirteen matches without defeat were part of a greater series of 24 matches without defeat, extending from 1978 to 1985, which remains a One Day International (ODI) record. The World Cup was marked by its low scoring, with only one team recording more than 250 runs in an innings, and was also notable for featuring two matches that were tied – the first between England and New Zealand, and the second between England and Australia. They were the first ties in international women's cricket. England's Jan Brittin led the tournament in runs, while Australian spinner Lyn Fullston led the tournament in wickets.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Background
Jack Hayward and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint organised the 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup, predating the first men's Cricket World Cup by two years. The tournament was played as a league format; the team who topped the points table at the conclusion would be champions. England beat Australia in the last match of the tournament to become the first Women's World Cup winners.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Background
The second Women's Cricket World Cup was scheduled to take place in South Africa in 1978, but with that country facing increasing sporting boycotts due to its apartheid policies, and withdrawals for financial reasons by the Netherlands and West Indies, the tournament was in jeopardy. The 1978 Women's Cricket World Cup was belatedly relocated to India, and featured only four teams. The tournament was once again played in a league format, but as in 1973, the final group match acted as a de facto final: Australia beat England to become champions.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Background
During the 1978 World Cup, the International Women's Cricket Council (IWCC) met. The IWCC had not been involved in the running of either of the first two world cups, but felt that there had been a lack of organisation, and announced that they would be more involved with future world cups. Despite the involvement of the IWCC, the organisation of the 1982 event still primarily rested on the New Zealand Women's Cricket Council; which itself was mostly formed of the players themselves. They spent eighteen months planning the tournament. Their efforts resulted in the Women's World Cup having a title sponsor for the first time; it was officially known as the Hansells Vita Fresh World Cup.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Format
Unlike the two previous women's world cups, the 1982 tournament featured a final. A round-robin league stage involved each of the five teams playing each other three times each; a total of 30 group matches, from which the top two teams qualified for the final. The tournament took place over 29 days, from 10 January to 7 February. Each match was played as a 60-overs-per-side contest.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Participants
Five teams were invited: Australia, England, India, the Netherlands and the West Indies, but as in 1978, South Africa were not invited due to the ongoing boycott. Despite the increased sponsorship, and the involvement of the IWCC, participating teams and players had to fund their own visit. For example, each Indian player had to pay ₨10,000 (roughly £570, or US$1,000 at the time). This cost was prohibitive for the Dutch team, who withdrew from the tournament, as they had four years earlier.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Participants
The West Indies also pulled out, in protest that New Zealand had hosted the apartheid-era South African rugby team in 1981. In order to prevent another four-team competition, the organising committee decided to invite a selection of players to form an International XI, as had featured at the 1973 World Cup.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Group stage, Summary
The tournament began on 10 January 1982 with two matches played in Auckland. Australia beat India by 153 runs, a new record margin in women's ODIs. In the other match, another record was set; England and New Zealand played out the first tied match in women's ODIs. The tournament remained in Auckland for the next round of matches on 12 January; England beat India by four wickets, while New Zealand surpassed the record set by Australia two days earlier, by beating the International XI by 184 runs, a record which would stand for six years.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Group stage, Summary
New Zealand set another new record in their next match two days later, when they bowled India out for what was, at the time, the lowest total in women's ODIs: 37. On the same day in Hamilton, England beat the International XI by 132 runs. Australia beat New Zealand by eight wickets and England by 44 runs on consecutive days in New Plymouth, while India completed a 79-run victory over the International XI in Napier. England remained in New Plymouth, and beat New Zealand by seven wickets the day after their loss to Australia.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Group stage, Summary
Continuing to move south, Australia beat the International XI by 64 runs in Palmerston North, while on the same day India beat England by 47 runs, India's first win over England, and a victory The Guardian described at the time as India's "best ever result in the World Cup". On 21 January, New Zealand beat the International XI by 97 runs. Two days later, Australia beat England by six wickets. England played again the next day, beating the International XI by nine wickets, while New Zealand beat India by eight wickets.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Group stage, Summary
Australia then won twice in two days, beating the International XI by 146 runs and India by four wickets. In the last round of matches played on North Island, England beat New Zealand by five wickets, New Zealand then lost to Australia by 69 runs, before India beat the International XI by 78 runs.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Group stage, Summary
The tournament moved to South Island on 30 January; Australia beat the International XI by 76 runs in Dunedin. The next day, England beat India by ten wickets, and New Zealand beat the International XI by 84 runs. Australia and England tied the 25th match of the tournament; it was England's second tie of the group stage, and the second ever in women's ODIs. India were once again bowled out cheaply by New Zealand in their next match, and were beaten by eight wickets.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Group stage, Summary
On 4 February, Australia and England both posted large totals in their victories; Australia scored 193 for five as they beat India by 39 runs, while England scored 242 for four in a 113-run over the International XI. Two days later, Australia beat New Zealand by 41 runs, and India beat the International XI by 14 runs; meaning that the International XI did not record a win in the competition. In the final match of the group stage, Australia beat England by three wickets.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Group stage, Summary
Having remained unbeaten throughout the tournament, only dropping points in their tie with England, Australia finished top of the table. England trailed them by fourteen points in second place; both qualified for the final. New Zealand won all their matches against India and the International XI, but against Australia and England, only gained points during their tie with England. India's victory over England was their only win that did not come against the International XI.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Final
The final was the only match of the tournament played at Lancaster Park, Christchurch, and took place in front of a crowd of 3,000. Dickie Bird became the only umpire to stand in both a men's and women's World Cup final. England won the toss and batted first. They scored slowly until the last ten overs of their innings; Jan Southgate made their highest score, with 53 runs, but found batting difficulty against Australia's spin bowling.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Final
In the last ten overs, England played more expansively, and eventually finished with 151 runs, meaning that Australia would need to score 152 to win. Australia lost three wickets early in their chase, but were steadied by a partnership between Karen Read and Sharon Tredrea. Quick scoring from Jen Jacobs and Marie Cornish late-on in the innings helped Australia to their target with six balls remaining, securing a three-wicket victory, and their second World Cup title.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Statistics
England's Jan Brittin finished with the most runs during the World Cup, having accumulated 391, ahead of the 383 scored by Lynne Thomas of the International XI and Susan Goatman, also of England, who scored 374. Brittin also made the highest score of the tournament, when she scored 138 not out against the International XI. The only other century of the tournament came against the same opposition: Barbara Bevege's 101. The best averages of the competition were achieved by England's Heyhoe-Flint, with 47.83, and two Australians, Jill Kennare (43.87) and Lyn Fullston (41.00).


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, Statistics
Amongst the bowlers, Fullston took the most wickets (23), followed by Jackie Lord of New Zealand, with 22, and India's Shubhangi Kulkarni, who took 20. Lord had the best bowling figures in an innings, when she took six wickets against India. The only other bowler to take five wickets in an innings was Fullston, who did so against New Zealand, taking five for 27. Kulkarni had the best bowling average in the World Cup, collecting her wickets at 11.70. She was followed by Fullston (12.00) and Lord (12.40). The most economical bowler was New Zealand's Sue Brown, who conceded 1.53 runs per over, followed by a pair of Australians; Cornish (1.76) and Denise Martin (1.77).


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final
The 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final was a one-day cricket match between the Australia women's national cricket team and the England women's cricket team played on 7 February 1982 at Lancaster Park in Christchurch, New Zealand. It marked the culmination of the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup, the third edition of the tournament, but was the first time a final had been held; both the previous events had been round-robin tournaments. Both Australia and England had previously won the competition; England won the inaugural tournament in 1973, while Australia won in 1978. Australia won the match by three wickets to claim their second world title.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final
Australia and England finished first and second in the league-stage to claim their places in the final. Australia had gone unbeaten throughout the round-robin, having won eleven of their matches and tied with England in the other. England had won seven of their matches, lost three and tied twice, and finished 14 points behind Australia and 6 ahead of New Zealand. The final was umpired by Dickie Bird and Fred Goodall. England batted first in the final, and scored slowly, particularly against Australia's spin bowling. Jan Southgate top-scored for England with 53 runs, as they made 151 for five. In response, Australia initially struggled, losing their first three wickets for 28 runs. A partnership between Karen Read and Sharon Tredrea recovered their innings, before quick scoring from Jen Jacobs and Marie Cornish saw them to victory.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, Background
The 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup was the third Women's Cricket World Cup. The first had been held in 1973, pre-dating the first men's Cricket World Cup by two years. The 1982 tournament featured five teams; Australia, England, India, New Zealand and an International XI. It took place between 10 January and 7 February, featuring 31 matches over 29 days. England had won the first world cup on home soil, before Australia claimed the second, held in India. Neither tournament had featured a final, but had rather been league competitions, in which the team which finished with the most points won.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, Route to the final
Each team played twelve matches during the round-robin stage of the tournament, facing each other three times. The top two teams would progress directly to the final, the first time the tournament would feature a final. Australia remained unbeaten; they won eleven of their matches and tied their other, against England. On the opening day of the tournament, Jill Kennare scored 98 runs, as Australia beat India by 153 runs. Four days later, England's Jan Brittin made the highest score of the tournament, 138 not out, against the International XI.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, Route to the final
England won seven of their matches, lost three times (twice against Australia and once against India), and tied two matches (in addition to the tie against Australia, they also tied with New Zealand). Australia finished top of the table with 46 points, and England were second with 32. Hosts New Zealand scored 26 points, India 16, while the International XI lost all their matches to finish with no points.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, Match, Summary
The final was played at Lancaster Park, in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 7 February, in front of a crowd of around 3,000. The match was umpired by a New Zealander, Fred Goodall, and the English umpire, Dickie Bird. By officiating in the match, Bird became the only umpire to stand in both a men's and women's World Cup final, having previously umpired the 1975 Cricket World Cup Final. The England captain, Susan Goatman, won the toss, and chose to bat first on a pitch described as "placid" by the Australian press.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, Match, Summary
The England opening batters, Brittin and Goatman, scored slowly, putting on 42 runs together before Brittin was dismissed by a diving catch from Marie Cornish off her own bowling for 17 runs. England scored another 12 runs before Goatman was bowled by Lyn Fullston for 29. Fullston was also the bowler for the next wicket; Chris Watmough was caught at mid-on by Kennare for 9, and England were 63 for three. England's experienced partnership of Jan Southgate and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint aimed to recover the England innings, but were restricted by Australia's spin bowling.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, Match, Summary
Southgate in particular was described in The Age as being "uncomfortable against the spin", while The Times criticised Heyhoe-Flint for "not forcing the pace when England had wickets in hand." In the final ten overs, the England batters began to score more quickly; but both were dismissed shortly before the close of the innings. Southgate, who made the team's highest score, 53 runs, was caught by Sharyn Hill off the bowling of Sharon Tredrea, while Heyhoe-Flint was caught by Fullston off Tredrea's bowling for 29. England finished with 151 for five.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, Match, Summary
Australia's reply started poorly; they lost three wickets in the first eleven overs, taking the score to 28 for three. Their opening pair, Peta Verco and Hill, were both caught by Goatman off the bowling of Avril Starling, while Kennare was the first of three Australian to be run out. Karen Read and Australia's captain, Tredrea, formed a solid partnership and steadied their team's innings.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, Match, Summary
The pair scored 54 runs together before they were both dismissed in quick succession; Read was caught by Southgate off the bowling of Janet Tedstone for 32, while Tredrea was caught behind off Carole Hodges for 25. Australia were 97 for five, needing another 55 runs to win. England adopted a tight field to minimise Australia's scoring options, but Jen Jacobs lofted the ball over the fielders during her innings of 37, which The Times described as one of the highlights of the match.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, Match, Summary
Cornish, who had been playing a support role until that point, then assumed control and scored seven runs from one over bowled by Enid Bakewell, but with Australia still needing seven runs, Raelee Thompson was run out. The Times praised England's "excellent work in the field", though it was ultimately a mis-field that gave Australia their winning run in the penultimate over. Cornish remained not out with 24 runs, and Australia won the match by three wickets with six balls remaining.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, Aftermath
England's Brittin finished at the tournament's leading run-scorer, with 391 runs, while Australia's Fullston took the most wickets, with 23. England's captain, Goatman, announced her retirement after the tournament; she had led England for three years, having previously captained the Young England team during the 1973 tournament. Southgate was appointed as her replacement as captain. Writing for Wisden, Netta Rheinberg noted that England could no longer "consider themselves able to fend off all challenges", and that as a result they implemented efforts to improve cricket at a junior level, to encourage future talent.


1982 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, Aftermath
Australia and England met again in the final of the 1988 Women's Cricket World Cup, when Australia won by eight wickets. Between them, Australia and England have won ten of the eleven Women's Cricket World Cups; only in 2000 did one of the pair fail to win, when New Zealand beat Australia in the final.


1982 Women's Lacrosse World Cup
The 1982 Women's Lacrosse World Cup was the first Women's Lacrosse World Cup and was played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham from September 20–26, 1982. USA defeated Australia in the final to win the tournament.


1982 Women's Lacrosse World Cup
The tournament was organised by the International Federation of Women’s Lacrosse Association (IFWLA) and sponsored by Brine.


1982 Women's Nordic Football Championship
1982 Women's Nordic Football Championship was the ninth and last edition of the Women's Nordic Football Championship tournament. It was held from 14 July to 18 July in Herning, Kolding and Vejle in Denmark.


1982 World 600
The 1982 World 600, the 23rd running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on May 30, 1982 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina. Contested over 400 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.4 km) speedway, it was the 12th race of the 1982 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Neil Bonnett of Wood Brothers Racing won the race.


1982 World 600
Tim Richmond, who crashed on lap 44, was driving a car with a mock sponsorship from "Clyde Torkle's Chicken Pit Special" to tie in with the movie Stroker Ace. Due to the crash, not much footage for the movie was shot.


1982 World 600, Background
Charlotte Motor Speedway is a motorsports complex located in Concord, North Carolina, United States 13 miles from Charlotte, North Carolina. The complex features a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) quad oval track that hosts NASCAR racing including the prestigious World 600 on Memorial Day weekend and the National 500. The speedway was built in 1959 by Bruton Smith and is considered the home track for NASCAR with many race teams located in the Charlotte area. The track is owned and operated by Speedway Motorsports Inc. (SMI).


1982 World Allround Speed Skating Championships
The World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men took place on 20 and 21 February 1982 in Assen at the De Bonte Wever ice rink.


1982 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for women
The 43rd edition of the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women took place on 13 and 14 February 1982 in Inzell at the Ludwig Schwabl Stadion ice rink.


1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships
The Men's 1982 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Munich, West Germany from May 4 to 15. The third edition of this competition, held two years before the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA.


1982 World Aquatics Championships
The 4th FINA World Aquatics Championships took place from July 29-August 8, 1982, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. They featured 848 athletes, competing in four Aquatics disciplines:


1982 World Championship Tennis Fall Finals
The 1982 World Championship Tennis Fall Finals was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the only edition of the World Championship Tennis Fall Finals and was part of the 1982 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was played in Naples in Italy and was held from October 14 through October 17, 1982.


1982 World Championship Tennis Fall Finals – Singles
Ivan Lendl won in the final 6–4, 6–2, 6–1 against Wojciech Fibak.


1982 World Championship Tennis Fall Finals – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1982 World Championship Tennis Finals
The 1982 World Championship Tennis Spring Finals was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 12th edition of the WCT Finals and was part of the 1982 World Championship Tennis circuit since World Championship Tennis had split from the Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was played at the Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas in the United States and was held from April 20 through April 26, 1982.


1982 World Championship Tennis Finals – Singles
John McEnroe was the defending champion but lost in the final 6–2, 3–6, 6–3, 6–3 to Ivan Lendl.


1982 World Championship Tennis Finals – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1982 World Championship Tennis Winter Finals
The 1982 World Championship Tennis Winter Finals was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 2nd edition of the World Championship Tennis Winter Finals and was part of the 1982 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was played in the Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan in the United States from January 24 to January 31, 1983.


1982 World Championship Tennis Winter Finals – Singles
Ivan Lendl won in the final 7–5, 6–2, 2–6, 6–4 against Guillermo Vilas.


1982 World Championship Tennis Winter Finals – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


1982 World Championship Tennis circuit
The 1982 World Championship Tennis circuit was one of the two rival professional male tennis circuits of 1982. It was organized by World Championship Tennis (WCT). On 30 April 1981 WCT announced its withdrawal from the Grand Prix circuit, which it had been incorporated into since 1978, and the establishment of its own full calendar season for 1982. According to WCT owner Lamar Hunt the reasons for the withdrawal were the restrictions placed on them by the Men's Professional Council, the administrators of the Grand Prix circuit.


1982 World Championship Tennis circuit
The 1982 WCT circuit consisted of a Spring Tour, with nine tournaments, a Summer/Fall Tour, with five tournaments, and a Winter Tour with six tournaments. Each tour segment had its own finals tournament (Dallas, Naples and Detroit respectively). Total prize money, including bonuses, for the circuit was $7,933,000 which represented an increase of approximately $5 million compared to 1981.


1982 World Championship Tennis circuit, Calendar
* The Detroit World Championship Tennis Winter Finals was played in January 1983 but was part of the 1982 WCT season.


1982 World Championship Tennis circuit, Prize money leaders
Prize money earned at WCT events during the calendar year 1982, excluding the Winter Finals played in Detroit in January 1983.


1982 World Championship Tennis circuit, Standings
The 1982 WCT season was divided into three segments, the Spring Tour, the Summer/Fall Tour and the Winter Tour. These are the standings of the top twenty singles players on the WCT circuit for each of these segments.


1982 World Cup (men's golf)
The 1982 World Cup took place 2–5 December 1982 at Pierre Marques Golf Club in Acapulco, Mexico. It was the 29th World Cup event. The previous World Cup was played in 1980, since the 1981 event was cancelled. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 31 teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The Spain team of José María Cañizares and Manuel Piñero won by three strokes over the United States team of Bobby Clampett and Bob Gilder. It was the third Spanish victory in the last six World Cup tournaments. The individual competition for The International Trophy, was won by Pinero one stroke ahead of Canizares and Gilder.


1982 World Doubles Championship
The 1982 World Doubles was the first championship of a doubles tournament for professional snooker players. The championship was sponsored by brewers Hofmeister and 29 teams entered the event with the last 16 competing at the National Recreation Centre in Crystal Palace, London. It was played in December with the semi-finals and final televised on ITV between 15 and 19 December 1982.


1982 World Doubles Championship
The venue was not popular, and the match that featured Terry Griffiths and Doug Mountjoy against Kirk Stevens and Jim Wych only had 67 spectators during the first session. Steve Davis and Tony Meo went on to win the tournament beating Griffiths and Mountjoy 13–2 in the final. Davis and Meo achieved a combined break of 193 in their semi-final with Tony Knowles and Jimmy White, which included a single 124 break by Meo. Davis became the first player to have won three types of world professional titles with the individual, team and doubles. Only Alex Higgins and Stephen Hendry became other players later on to reach that achievement.


1982 World Doubles Championship, Earlier Rounds
A pre-qualifying round and qualifying round took place leading up to the first round. Winning players are denoted in bold. Played between 1–3 November 1982.


1982 World Fencing Championships
The 1982 World Fencing Championships were held in Rome, Italy. The event took place from July 15 to July 24, 1982.


1982 World Field Archery Championships
The 1982 World Field Archery Championships were held in Kingsclere, England.


1982 World Figure Skating Championships
The 1982 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Copenhagen, Denmark from March 9 to 14. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1982 World Figure Skating Championships
The ISU Representative was Olaf Poulsen and the ISU Technical Delegate was Josef Dědič. It was the first worlds with different judging panels for compulsory figures, short programs, and compulsory dance on one side and for the free skatings and free dance on the other.


1982 World Indoor Bowls Championship
The 1982 Embassy World Indoor Bowls Championship  was held at the Coatbridge indoor bowling club, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, from 9–14 February 1982. Sudden death was introduced with 16 competitors (4 from a qualifying tournament), it replaced the group format. The winners prize was £4,000, a record for bowls. John Dunn an 18-year-old from Tonbridge Wells defeated David Bryant, ending Bryant’s attempt to secure a fourth consecutive world title. John Watson won the title beating Jim Baker in the final. The third place play off was won by John Dunn who defeated John Fullarton 21-19.


1982 World Judo Championships
The 1982 World Judo Championships were the 2nd edition of the Women's World Judo Championships, and were held in Paris, France from 4–5 December, 1982.


1982 World Junior Curling Championships
The 1982 World Junior Curling Championships were held from March 14 to 21 at the Aitken Centre in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The tournament only consisted of a men's event.


1982 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 1982 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held on December 15–20, 1981 in Oberstdorf, West Germany. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", the event determined the World Junior champions in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1982 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
The 1982 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships (1982 WJHC) was the sixth edition Ice Hockey World Junior Championship and was held from December 22, 1981, until January 2, 1982. The tournament was hosted by the United States in various cities across the state of Minnesota with some games also played in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario. Canada won their first gold medal at the World Juniors, while Czechoslovakia and Finland won silver and bronze, respectively.


1982 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool A
The 1982 tournament was a round-robin format, with the top three teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.


1982 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool A, Final standings
Switzerland was relegated to Pool B for the 1983 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.


1982 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool B
Pool B was played on March 16–20, in Heerenveen in the Netherlands. Two groups of four played round robins, with placement games pitting the respective finishers against each other. Japan made their debut, replacing absent Poland.


1982 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Pool B, Final round, 1st place game
Norway was promoted to Pool A for the 1983 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.


1982 World Karate Championships
The 1982 World Karate Championships are the 6th edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Taipei, Taiwan from November 21 to 25 November 1982.


1982 World Lacrosse Championship
The 1982 World Lacrosse Championship was the fourth World Lacrosse Championship and was played at Homewood Field in Baltimore, Maryland, from June 18–25, 1982. The United States defeated Australia in the final to win the tournament.


1982 World Men's Handball Championship
The 1982 World Men's Handball Championship was the 10th team handball World Championship. It was held in West Germany between 23 February-7 March 1982. Soviet Union won the championship.


1982 World Rally Championship
The 1982 World Rally Championship was the tenth season of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) World Rally Championship (WRC). The season consisted of 12 rallies. By this time, the schedule format had become generally stable with only one or two changes to venues year to year. 1982 marked the return of New Zealand to the schedule in place of Argentina's Rally Codasur.


1982 World Rally Championship
1982 was marked by the dominance of the Germans, with two German manufacturers Audi and Opel taking first and second in the manufacturer's title race, while Opel's driver, German Walter Röhrl, seized the driver's title. Top Audi pilots Michèle Mouton and Hannu Mikkola took second and third in the drivers' race, but their combined efforts were enough to put Audi over the top for the work's cup. Mouton's finish is the best by a female driver to this day.


1982 World Rally Championship
As with previous seasons, while all 12 events were calculated for tallying the drivers' scores, only 10 of the events applied to the championship for manufacturers. The two events in 1982 which applied only to driver standings were Sweden and the Rallye Côte d'Ivoire. Röhrl's strong performance in both of these rallies would have improved Opel's bid for a world title had they counted for manufacturers as well as drivers.


1982 World Rowing Championships
The 1982 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 28 to 29 August 1982 at Rotsee in Lucerne, Switzerland.


1982 World Rubik's Cube Championship
The 1982 World Rubik's Cube Championship was a competition for speedsolving the 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube.


1982 World Rubik's Cube Championship
It was held in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 June 1982. Contestants selected from 19 countries took part. Minh Thai from the United States of America was the winner with a best time of 22.95 after three attempts for each contestant. The top attempt of three was taken as the competitor's score. First prize was a gold-plated Rubik's Cube.


1982 World Rubik's Cube Championship
Writing shortly afterwards, David Singmaster who was one of the judges, described the competition as being efficiently organized, although at one point power for the TV and the display timer failed in the middle of a trial. The cubes were selected by Ernő Rubik himself, and according to Singmaster "competitors described them as pretty good". However, writing around 20 years later, Jessica Fridrich who had participated in the contest, criticised the cubes for being "really hard to turn and were not prepared for serious speed cubing".


1982 World Rubik's Cube Championship
This competition was the first officially recognised competition of its kind. The next competition was held in 2003 in Canada, with many differences to the competition structure and many other puzzles being added other than the Rubik's Cube.


1982 World Sambo Championships
The 1982 World Sambo Championships were held in Paris, France in July 1982. Championships were organized by FILA.


1982 World Series
The 1982 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1982 season. The 79th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals and the American League (AL) champion Milwaukee Brewers. The Cardinals won the series, four games to three.


1982 World Series
The Cardinals had last been in the World Series in 1968; a Milwaukee team, the Braves, had last contended in 1958. The Milwaukee team of 1982 started as an expansion team, the Seattle Pilots, in 1969, which then moved to Milwaukee in 1970 and changed their name to the Brewers.


1982 World Series
The Cardinals made it to the Series by winning the NL East division by three games over the Philadelphia Phillies, and then defeating the Atlanta Braves, three games to none, in the NL Championship Series. The Brewers made it by winning the AL East division by one game over the Baltimore Orioles, and then defeating the California Angels, three games to two, in the AL Championship Series. This is the Brewers' only World Series appearance to date.


1982 World Series
The Cardinals' victory helped the National League win four straight World Series from 1979 to 1982, the longest streak of consecutive titles by the National League in World Series history. The National League would not again win consecutive titles until the 2010 Giants, the 2011 Cardinals and the 2012 Giants.


1982 World Series
Though the teams had never met before, their home cities had a commercial rivalry in the beer market, as St. Louis is the home of Anheuser–Busch, which owned the Cardinals at the time, while Milwaukee is the home of Miller Brewing and other past major competitors of Anheuser–Busch. This led the media to refer to the series as the "Suds Series".


1982 World Series, Preview
The 1982 Milwaukee Brewers hit 216 home runs during the regular season, thus earning them the nickname "Harvey's Wallbangers" (after manager Harvey Kuenn). In sharp contrast, the 1982 St. Louis Cardinals only hit 67 home runs, fewer than the Brewers' Gorman Thomas (with 39 homers) and Ben Oglivie (34 homers) combined. The Cardinals had built their reputation and won their division behind solid pitching, exceptional defense, and aggressive base running, manufacturing runs in a style that would come to be called "Whiteyball," named for team manager Whitey Herzog. This style would be the hallmark of the Cardinals through the 1980s and see them into two more World Series (in 1985 and 1987, both of which they lost in seven games).


1982 World Series, Preview
The Brewers and Cardinals each boasted a dominant closer, with veteran Rollie Fingers holding the role for Milwaukee and Bruce Sutter for St. Louis. Fingers did not pitch in this series, which would have been his fourth, due to a muscle tear in his arm.


1982 World Series, Preview
The two teams had made a trade in December 1980 that was expected to benefit both clubs. Milwaukee traded pitchers Dave LaPoint and Lary Sorensen and outfielders Sixto Lezcano and David Green to the Cardinals, with pitcher Pete Vuckovich and catcher Ted Simmons comprising two-thirds of St. Louis' return.


1982 World Series, Preview
The Cardinals built their team on speed, clutch hitting and pitching. The Cardinals made additional trades for Willie McGee, Ozzie Smith, George Hendrick, Joaquín Andújar, and Sutter, all designed to craft a well balanced championship level team.


1982 World Series, Preview
The Brewers combined a productive farm system with additional trades as well to build their heavy hitting ball club. Thomas, Moose Haas, Robin Yount, and Paul Molitor came through the system, while the aforementioned Vukovich, Simmons, Fingers, and Oglivie, plus Cecil Cooper and Don Money, all arrived via the trade route. On June 1, with the team 23–24 and floundering in fifth place, Brewer GM Harry Dalton replaced manager Buck Rodgers with Harvey Kuenn. The Brewers responded by winning at a .626 clip the rest of the way, taking first place for good on July 31 and never looking back.


1982 World Series, Summary
NL St. Louis Cardinals (4) vs. AL Milwaukee Brewers (3)


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The Brewers' left-hander Mike Caldwell pitched a complete game shutout, allowing only three hits. The Brewers' offense was led by Paul Molitor, who had a World Series-record five hits and two RBIs. Robin Yount added four hits and two RBIs.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
The Brewers went up 2–0 in the first when Cardinals' first baseman Keith Hernandez's error on Ben Oglivie ground ball with two on scored a run, then Gorman Thomas's RBI single scored another. Charlie Moore doubled to lead off the fourth and scored on Molitor's single while Ted Simmons homered next inning. Cardinals starter Bob Forsch allowed consecutive two-out singles to Jim Gantner and Molitor in the sixth before both scored on Yount's double and knocked Forsch out of the game.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
In the ninth, Oglivie walked with one out off of Dave LaPoint, moved to second on a groundout, and scored on Don Money's single. Jeff Lahti relieved LaPoint and allowed a single to Moore. Gantner's triple then scored two before Gantner himself scored on Molitor's single to cap the scoring at 10–0.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 1
This was their last post-season win on the road until October 13, 2011, also against the St. Louis Cardinals.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
The Brew Crew drew first blood in the second with an RBI double by Charlie Moore. They followed that in the third when Paul Molitor singled, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch by Cardinals starter John Stuper, and scored on a Robin Yount groundout. Ted Simmons stretched the lead to 3–0 with his second homer in two games. The Cardinals scratched back in their half of the third when rookie Willie McGee singled, stole second, and scored on a Tom Herr double. Ken Oberkfell singled in Herr to cut the Brewer lead to 3–2. The Brewers made it 4–2 in the fifth when Yount doubled and Cecil Cooper singled him in.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Darrell Porter tied it in the sixth by doubling in two runs. Then, in the bottom of the eighth, the Brewers felt the effects of not having Rollie Fingers in the bullpen. With one out, Pete Ladd, pressed into service as the closer, walked Lonnie Smith with two on to load the bases and then walked pinch-hitter Steve Braun to force in the go-ahead run. The Cardinals could have made it worse, but McGee lined out to short for out #2, and an apparent base hit by Ozzie Smith struck Braun as he was running to second for the third out.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Bruce Sutter pitched the ninth and got credit for the win.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 2
Longtime American League umpire Bill Haller called his final game behind home plate in this contest. He also was the last umpire to wear a tie on the field, and the last to work home plate in the World Series wearing the "balloon" style outside chest protector.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Joaquín Andújar and Pete Vuckovich, each team's pitching aces, were locked in a scoreless pitching duel until the top half of the fifth, when Willie McGee belted a three-run homer for the Cards.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
The Redbirds added two more in the seventh off Vuckovich. Lonnie Smith doubled to right-center and tried to stretch it to a triple. Smith scored when Jim Gantner's relay throw to third went wild. McGee followed with a home run later in the inning, his second.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
McGee also had a couple of defensive gems, running down a deep Paul Molitor drive in the first and robbing Gorman Thomas of a home run in the ninth.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
In the seventh with one out, Andújar had to leave the game when a line drive from Ted Simmons struck his kneecap. The Brewers loaded the bases in that inning, but ace reliever Bruce Sutter got the final out to squelch the threat.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Cecil Cooper accounted for the Brewers' only runs with a two-run homer in the eighth off Sutter, while Ozzie Smith drove in the Cardinals final run with a walk.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 3
Sutter qualified for the save in this game (even though the Cards had a 5–0 lead when he entered the game), since he entered with the bases loaded, meaning the potential tying run was on deck.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Game 4 of the 1982 World Series pitted Dave LaPoint (9–3) against Moose Haas (11–8). Haas was a veteran of six major league campaigns while LaPoint had just completed his first full season.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
For six innings, the Cardinals seemed on the verge of taking a commanding 3–1 Series lead. Dave LaPoint held the Brewers to three hits in that time span, while his hitters plated him a 5–1 lead.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
In the top of the first inning, Ken Oberkfell doubled down the right-field line and George Hendrick hit a high chopper over the middle which handcuffed Yount and bounced into center-field, allowing Oberkfell to score. In the bottom of the first, Oberkfell dropped a bare-handed grounder from Yount. Both teams had trouble at times fielding, and the Brewers errors in Game 3 may have cost them three runs.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
Two Cardinal runs came in the second on an unusual way. With Willie McGee on first and attempting to steal, Brewers catcher Ted Simmons took a pitch-out but bobbled the ball allowing McGee to steal second. After a walk to Ozzie Smith, Moose Haas' wild pitch moved McGee to third and Smith to second. Tommy Herr hit a deep fly. McGee scored easily and Smith took advantage of center fielder Gorman Thomas slipping and falling on the warning track and never stopped, scoring behind McGee for a two-run sacrifice fly for Herr. Ken Oberkfell followed with a walk, stole second and came home when a Keith Hernandez grounder went through Gantner's legs. The Cardinals scored three times despite only one base hit.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
In the Brewers half of the fifth, with none out and runners at first and third, Ozzie Smith made one of his famous Wizard of Oz plays. Gantner hit a ground ball through the middle towards center field. Smith, though off-balance, stabbed at the ball while simultaneously stepping on second base, recovered and fired to first to double up Gantner.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 4
In the seventh, things fell apart. With one out, Oglivie reached first when first baseman Keith Hernandez's toss to LaPoint was dropped. LaPoint was relieved by Doug Bair after giving up a two-out RBI (unearned) double to Gantner. Before relieved by Jim Kaat, Bair walked Molitor and gave up a bases-loaded, two-run (both unearned) single to Yount. An RBI single by Cecil Cooper and a wild pitch brought in the fourth Cardinals pitcher, Jeff Lahti. Lahti intentionally walked (charged to Kaat) Simmons and gave up another bases-loaded, two-run single to Thomas. Lahti issued another intentional walk to Oglivie then induced a fly out to left field to end this inning. In this inning, six runs (three earned) crossed the plate for the Brewers on five hits and one error.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
Mike Caldwell pitched his second win of the Series and almost went the distance. The Brewers struck first on Ted Simmons's bases loaded groundout in the first off of Bob Forsch, but the Cardinals tied the game in the third on Keith Hernandez's RBI double. The Brewers took a 2–1 lead in the bottom half on Cecil Cooper's groundout with runners on first and third and added to their lead on Paul Molitor's RBI single in the fifth.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
George Hendrick's RBI single in the seventh cut the Brewers lead to 3–2, but they got that run back in the bottom of the inning on Robin Yount's home run, then added to their lead in the eighth on back-to-back RBI singles by Charlie Moore and Jim Gantner off of Bruce Sutter. The Cardinals staged a late rally in the ninth as Keith Hernandez doubled in a run and George Hendrick singled him in with two outs. Bob McClure came in and allowed a single to Darrell Porter, putting the tying run on base.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
McClure, however, struck out Willie McGee, then retired pinch-hitter Gene Tenace to end the game. Robin Yount set a World Series record by recording his second four-hit game, his first came in Game 1. To this day, Yount remains the only player to have multiple 4-hit games in one World Series.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 5
This was the tenth and final World Series game at Milwaukee County Stadium (1957, 1958 and 1982) as well as the final playoff game at Milwaukee County Stadium.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
Busch Stadium's lack of a dome caused two delays that totaled over 2+1⁄2 hours. The Cardinals staved off elimination with a blowout win. In the second, Dane Iorg doubled with two outs off of Don Sutton and scored on an error on Willie McGee's ground ball. Tom Herr's double then made it 2–0 Cardinals. In the fourth, Darrell Porter hit a two-run home run, then Iorg tripled and scored on Herr's groundout. Keith Hernandez's two-run home run in the fifth made it 7–0 and knocked Sutton out of the game.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 6
In the sixth, Iorg hit a leadoff double, moved to third on a wild pitch by Doc Medich, and scored on McGee's single. A single and walk loaded the bases with two outs before Hernandez's single scored two, Hendrick's single scored another, and an error on Porter's ground ball scored two more. The Brewers avoided a shutout in the ninth when Jim Gantner, who doubled to leadoff the inning, scored on Glenn Brummer's wild pitch. Dane Iorg had two doubles and a triple as rookie John Stuper went the distance (helped by the rain delays), scattering four hits.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
Joaquín Andújar and Pete Vuckovich opposed each other once again, and both had injuries. Andujar had decreased mobility after the line drive he had taken off the kneecap in Game 3, while Vuckovic was suffering from severe shoulder pain which would be diagnosed the following spring as a torn rotator cuff. The game was scoreless until the bottom of the fourth when the Cardinals scored first on a Lonnie Smith RBI single. Ben Oglivie tied it for the Brew Crew in the fifth with a homer, and they took a 3–1 lead in the sixth when Jim Gantner scored on an error and Cecil Cooper hit a sacrifice fly.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
In the bottom of the sixth, with one out, Ozzie Smith singled and Lonnie Smith doubled him to third. Brewers manager Harvey Kuenn then pulled Vuckovich in favor of Bob McClure, who walked pinch-hitter Gene Tenace to load the bases. Keith Hernandez then tied the game with a two-run single. George Hendrick then gave the Cardinals the lead with an RBI single.


1982 World Series, Matchups, Game 7
The Cardinals scored two runs in the eighth on RBI singles by Series MVP Darrell Porter and Steve Braun. Andújar pitched seven strong innings. After recording the final out of the 7th on Gantner, the two men appeared as if they were going to physically fight after Andujar made a gesture of exuberance, and home plate umpire Lee Weyer had to step between them and move Andujar towards the dugout to prevent a fist fight. Manager Herzog, concerned that his unpredictable starter would allow himself to lose concentration after the incident, then turned to closer Bruce Sutter for a two-inning save, his second save of the series.


1982 World Series, Composite box
1982 World Series (4–3): St. Louis Cardinals (N.L.) over Milwaukee Brewers (A.L.)


1982 World Series, Aftermath
Paul Molitor set a World Series record with his fifth hit, in the ninth inning of Game 1. Robin Yount would set another record in the seventh inning of Game 5 by becoming the first player in Series history to have two four-hit games.


1982 World Series, Aftermath
Cardinals catcher Darrell Porter was given the Series MVP award. Brewers pitcher Mike Caldwell, who won two games, would have been a strong candidate, as well as Molitor. Paul Molitor would eventually win the Series MVP Award 11 years later as a member of the Toronto Blue Jays. As it was, the winning team won the MVP. The only player on the losing team to win the MVP was Bobby Richardson of the 1960 New York Yankees.


1982 World Series, Aftermath
Both participants are currently in the NL Central, due to the transfer of the Brewers from the American League to the National League in 1998. This raises the possibility of the Brewers eventually representing two different leagues in World Series competition.


1982 World Series, Aftermath
That has happened three times before, taking the 19th Century contests into account: The Brooklyn Dodgers of 1889 and 1890, the Cardinals, who won the 1886 Series when they were in the American Association, and the Houston Astros, who played in both the 2005 World Series against the Chicago White Sox as a National League team, and the 2017 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers and the 2019 World Series against the Washington Nationals as an American League team. This also makes this one of two World Series in the modern era (1903–present) that is not possible to have a rematch, the other being the Astros and White Sox, due to the Astros moving to the American League in 2013.


1982 World Series, Aftermath
The Brewers and Cardinals would later meet in the 2011 National League Championship Series, with the Cardinals winning that series four games to two. As in 1982, the Cardinals won the 2011 World Series in seven games, this time against the Texas Rangers. As of 2015, the Cardinals' 11 championships are the most won by any National League team, and second only to the New York Yankees, who have 27. As of the 1982 World Series victory, the Cardinals had 9 championships compared to the Yankees' 22.


1982 World Series, Aftermath
The Cardinals would return to the World Series in 1985 and 1987 but lost both times in seven games. St. Louis wouldn't get back to the fall classic until 2004 (losing to Boston) and would not win another World Championship until 2006 when they beat Detroit in five games.


1982 World Series, Broadcasting
This was the final World Series telecast for longtime NBC analyst Tony Kubek, and the only one for veteran announcer Dick Enberg. Enberg hosted the pregame shows and alternated play-by-play duties (Enberg called the middle innings) with Joe Garagiola, who was himself working his last Series in that role before moving to the color commentator position alongside Vin Scully (who called the 1982 World Series alongside Sparky Anderson for CBS Radio) the following season.


1982 World Series, Broadcasting
Conversely, this was NBC's first Series telecast to feature Bob Costas (who served as a field reporter and hosted the World Series Trophy presentation following Game 7). Costas and Kubek would subsequently team up as the network's secondary MLB announcing team from 1983 to 1989. This included the June 23, 1984 game between St. Louis and Chicago otherwise known as the Ryne Sandberg game. Tom Seaver provided pregame analysis and also contributed occasional in-game commentary throughout the series, broadcasting from field level rather than in the booth.


1982 World Series, Broadcasting
Locally, the Series was broadcast by the teams' flagship radio stations using their own announcers. In Milwaukee, WISN aired the games with Bob Uecker and Dwayne Mosley announcing, while in St. Louis, KMOX aired the games with Jack Buck and Mike Shannon announcing.


1982 World Series of Poker
The 1982 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe.


1982 World Series of Poker, Main Event
There were 104 entrants to the Main Event. This Main Event was the first to exceed 100 entries. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament. Jack Straus (pair of 10's) beat Dewey Tomko (pair of 4's) to win the 1982 title; earlier in the tournament, Straus had been down to one chip.


1982 World Series of Poker, Main Event, Other High Finishes
NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.


1982 World Series of Poker, The wristwatch
Due to early criticism that the bracelets were too feminine and that no male winners wore them, the WSOP replaced the bracelets with golden wristwatches in 1982. The wristwatches were unpopular, and, as a result, the bracelets were brought back in 1983.


1982 World Shooting Championships
The 1982 World Shooting Championships was the 43rd edition of the global shooting competition World Shooting Championships, organised by the International Shooting Sport Federation.


1982 World Snooker Championship
The 1982 World Snooker Championship (also known as the 1982 Embassy World Snooker Championship) was a professional snooker tournament that took place between 30 April and 16 May 1982 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 19th event of the 1981–82 snooker season, and the only one that carried world ranking points. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette company Embassy and organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. The event featured a prize fund of £110,000 and the winner received £25,000.


1982 World Snooker Championship
Englishman Steve Davis was the defending champion, having won the 1981 final with a 18–12 over Doug Mountjoy. However, Davis lost 1–10 to Tony Knowles in the first round in 1982, falling to the Crucible curse as he became the latest champion who was unable to defend his first world title at the venue. Northern Ireland's Alex Higgins won the event, to take his second world title, defeating Welshman Ray Reardon 18–15 in the final. Ten century breaks were made during the tournament, the highest was a 143 compiled by Willie Thorne.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Overview
The World Snooker Championship is a professional cue sport event and the official world championship of the game of snooker. Developed in the late 19th century by British Army soldiers stationed in India, snooker was popular in the United Kingdom before being introduced to Europe and the Commonwealth. The sport is now played worldwide, especially in East and Southeast Asian nations such as China, Hong Kong and Thailand.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Overview
The 1982 World Championship was promoted by Mike Watterson and governed by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). It featured 32 professional players competing in one-on-one single-elimination matches, played over several frames. The players were selected to take part using a combination of the world snooker rankings and a pre-tournament qualification event. The defending champion was Steve Davis, who defeated Doug Mountjoy 18–12 in the 1981 championship final. The first World Championship, in 1927, was won by Joe Davis in a final at Camkin's Hall in Birmingham, England. Since 1977, the tournament has been held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Overview
There were 67 entrants for the 1982 tournament, a new record total. This was the first world championships to have 32 players in the first round. Previously, the top eight players received a bye into the second round. Ranking points were only awarded from the last 16 round onwards. The tournament was sponsored by cigarette company Embassy,


1982 World Snooker Championship, Overview, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below: The total of £110,000 was a new record high for the world championship.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
The first round took place between 30 April and 6 May, each match played over two sessions as the best-of-19 frames. Steve Davis was the bookmakers' favourite to win the tournament, with odds of 2/5. However, as defending champion, Davis lost 1–10 to Tony Knowles. Knowles won the first frame, followed it with the second after Davis twice missed potting the final black ball, and then won the next two by margins of more than 60 points to lead 4–0 at the mid-session interval.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
Without making a significant break, Davis won the fifth frame, after which Knowles made the highest break of the session, 67, to win the sixth. Davis' highest break of the first session was only 32 as he finished 1–8 behind. In the first frame of the second session, Davis made a foul shot by lightly feathering the cue ball while preparing to play a shot, which Knowles went on to win. In the eleventh frame, Knowles took a 53–0 lead before Davis failed to pot the black ball after the last red ball, and Knowles won the frame and match. Knowles claimed that he had gone to a nightclub until 2:00 am the previous night only having five hours of sleep.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
Graham Miles was level at 5–5 with Dave Martin but then won the next five frames to complete a 10–5 victory. Bill Werbeniuk led John Bear 7–2 after their first session. Bear won the next three frames to reduce the lead to 7–5, but Werbeniuk went on to win 10–7. Cliff Wilson led Eddie Charlton 5–4 but lost the match 5–10. Wilson had been taking medication for a viral infection prior to the first round, and was feeling unwell as he lost six consecutive frames in the second session. Dennis Taylor had lost one of his contact lenses the previous week, and played without vision aids. He trailed Silvino Francisco 2–7 but then won five of the next six to reduce the deficit to one frame at 7–8, before Francisco won three successive frames for a 10–7 win.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
Eight-time champion Fred Davis, the oldest competitor at the age of 68, lost 7–10 to Dean Reynolds, who at 19 was the youngest participant in the tournament. After losing the first three frames, Davis had led at 6–5. Jim Donnelly was the first Scottish player to play at the Crucible. Ray Reardon built a 6–3 lead over Donnelly in the first session, but lost the next two frames. From this point, Reardon won four in a row to wrap up a 10–5 victory.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
John Virgo defeated Mike Hallett 10–4 after leading 7–2. Terry Griffiths, who had become the bookmakers' favourite to win following the elimination of Davis, led 4–2 but finished his first session behind 4–5 to Willie Thorne. Thorne had never won a match in his six previous Crucible appearances, but defeated Griffiths 10–6 and compiled a break of 106, the first century break of the 1982 tournament. John Spencer defeated John Dunning  10–4.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
Alex Higgins, who had said he was having the "worst season of his professional career", became the bookmakers' favourite to win after both Davis and Griffiths had been both eliminated. He won 10–5 against Jim Meadowcroft in the opening round. Doug Mountjoy defeated Rex Williams, the reigning world billiards champion, 10–3.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
David Taylor led Patsy Fagan 6–3 overnight, then extended this to 7–3, before Fagan levelled at 7–7. At 7–8 behind, Fagan was asked by Taylor to play again after making a foul shot in failing to escape from a snooker. He then failed to pot the green ball and hit the cue ball again as it was still moving, disturbing other balls from their position. The referee could have interpreted this as Fagan conceding the frame, but instead replaced the balls. Fagan went on to win the frame.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round
From 9–9, Fagan made the highest break of match, 78, to win the deciding frame. Perrie Mans recorded a 10–8 win over Tony Meo, his first win at the Crucible since the 1978 semi-final. Jimmy White started his match against Cliff Thorburn with a 102 break in the first frame, and built a 7–2 lead in the first session, going on to win the match 10–4. Kirk Stevens defeated Jack Fitzmaurice 10–4. The first round saw five of the top eight seeds eliminated: Steve Davis (1), Thorburn (2), Griffiths (3), Dennis Taylor (5), and David Taylor (7). This included the previous three world champions, who were also the top three seeds.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Second round
The second round took place between 5 and 10 May, each match played over three sessions as the best-of-25 frames. Knowles followed his defeat of Davis with another win, 13–7 against Miles. Charlton led Werbeniuk 6–1 and 11–4, and won 13–5. Francisco won the first four frames against Reynolds to lead 4–0 and led at 5–3 and 9–5, before winning 13–8. Reardon was 6–2 and later 10–6 ahead of Virgo, winning 13–8.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Second round
After being 5–3 ahead of Spencer after the first session, Thorne made a break of 122 during the second, and went on to win 13–5. Francisco won the first four frames against 4–0 Reynolds, and after leading 5–3 and 9–5, won 13–8. Higgins won the first three frames against Mountjoy, two of them on the final black ball, after being behind on points in each of them, and finished their first session leading 6–2. He moved to 9–7 ahead, with Mountjoy then winning three consecutive frames. Higgins then won the next three consecutively for 12–10.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Second round
Mountjoy forced a deciding frame by winning the next two, and was nearly 40 points ahead in the decider, but Higgins won the frame to seal a 13–12 victory. Stevens completed a 13–7 win over Fagan, having led 10–6 at the end of their second session. White led Mans 5–3, before winning 13–6.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
The quarter-finals took place from 9 to 11 May, each match played over three sessions as the best-of-25 frames. White took a 5–3 lead over Stevens in their first session, extending this to 10–6, making a break of 126, and won the match 13–9. Reardon led Francisco 6–2 and 10–6 after their sessions, and won 13–8. Thorne was 3–5 behind Higgins, and despite breaks of 143 (the highest of the tournament) in the 9th frame, and 112 in the 16th frame, still trailed at the end of the second session, 7–9. Higgins won the match 13–10, compiling a 68 break in the last frame.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals
Knowles led Charlton 5–3 after their first session, and 10–6 after the second. He then won the first frame of the third session to lead 11–6. Charlton narrowed the lead to 9–11, and when Knowles missed an routine green ball, won another frame to trail by one frame at 10–11. Knowles missed a black ball from its spot in the 22nd frame, saying that he was distracted by a member of the audience rustling paper. After this, Charlton made a break of 78 to level the match 11–11. Charlton took the following frame as well, then won the match 13–11 with a break of 58, concluding a seven-frame winning streak.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Semi-finals
The semi-finals took place from 12 to 14 May, with both matches played over four sessions as the best-of-31 frames. White, who by defeating Stevens had become the youngest player ever to reach a world championship semi-final. His opponent, Higgins won the opening frame of the match. White made breaks of 60 and 38 in winning the second frame to make it 1–1, before Higgins built a 4–1 lead. With breaks of 63, 69 and 44, White drew level at 4–4 by the end of the first session.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Semi-finals
White won the first four frames of the second session, compiling a breaks of 69 in the first and 52 in the second. Although he left Higgins with a chance in the second frame, Higgins failed to pot the last red and conceded the frame. After the mid-session interval, Higgins made a break of 61 in winning the 13th frame, and, after White missed an easy black, took the 14th as well. Following another miss by White, this time on a red ball, Higgins also won the next frame, ending the day one frame behind at 7–8. In the third session, White took three of the first four frames, compiling a break of 89 in the fourth of these, to lead 11–8, Higgins then won the next three to level the match at 11–11 at the end of the session.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Semi-finals
White won the first frame of the fourth session, and Higgins fluked a brown in the following frame, going on to win it. The scores were also level at 13–13, with Higgins scoring only nine points across two frames as White moved into a 15–13 lead, two frames ahead with three to play. Higgins narrowed his deficit to one frame with a break of 72. In the 32nd frame, White was 59 points ahead when he missed a simple red.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Semi-finals
Higgins then made a break of 69, featuring excellent potting but poor positional play, described in the book Masters of the Baize (2005) as "arguably the greatest clearance of all time" to take the match to a deciding frame. In the last frame, Higgins made a break of 59 to win the match 16–15.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Semi-finals
Charlton moved into a 3–0 lead against Reardon, but then lost the next four as Reardon made breaks of 50, 47, 48 and 35 and finished the first session 4–3 ahead. A break of 83 in the first frame of the second session saw Charlton level the match at 4–4, with Reardon then moving a frame ahead again with a break of 98. Charlton moved into a two frame lead at 7–5 by winning three consecutive frames, but lost the 13th frame after snookering himself on the yellow.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Semi-finals
Reardon then equalised the match at 7–7 with a break of 59 in the last frame of the session. In the third session, the score went to 8–8 with Reardon then compiling breaks of 94 and 77 to win the next two. Charlton then equalised again with a 54 break in the 17th frame and by winning the 18th on the pink. A 93 clearance by Reardon gave him the lead at 11–10, but Charlton won the last frame of the session with a break of 64 that started with a fluke. In the fourth session, Reardon won five successive frames to claim a 16–11 win, making a 98 break in the fourth of those.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
The final was played on 15 and 16 May between Reardon and Higgins as the best-of-35 frames, held over four sessions. Reardon, six-times champion, had never lost in the world championship final, and it was Higgins' fourth world final, following his win in 1972, and his losing appearances in the 1976 and 1980 finals. The 1982 final was a rematch of the 1976 final, which Reardon won 27–16. In the opening session, which featured both players making a number of errors, Reardon built a 5–3 lead.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
Higgins had compiled a break of 118 in the fourth frame to equalise at 2–2. In the second session, Reardon was 6–4 ahead when he missed potting a pink, with Higgins going on to win that frame and the next, to equalise at 6–6. Reardon won the next frame, but Higgins took the lead at 8–7, the first day finishing with Higgins 10–7 up.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
Reardon won the first frame of the second day with a break of 95, and followed this by winning the next frame. Higgins then won the next two frame to gain a 12–9 lead. This was reduced as Reardon won frames 22 and 23, the session ending with Higgins leading 13–12. In the fourth and final session, Higgins won the first frame, and, after Reardon missed an easy yellow, the second as well. Now 15–12 ahead, Higgins missed a pot that allowed Reardon in to win the frame to narrow Higgins' advantage to two frames, 15–13.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final
With Higgins showing signs of nerves, Reardon won a further two frames to level at 15–15, having required Higgins to concede points from a foul in the second of these. Higgins then won the 31st frame 79–0, the 32nd 112–0 with breaks of 38 and 73, and then clinched the match with a clearance of 135. A tearful Higgins summoned his wife and baby daughter from the audience to celebrate with him. The tournament was broadcast on BBC2, with 10.8 million viewers on the second day of the final.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Main draw
Shown below are the results for each round. The numbers in brackets are player seeds, whilst those in bold denote match winners.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Qualifying
Qualifying matches took place in April 1982, at Redwood Lodge Country Club, Bristol; Romiley Forum, Stockport; Astra La Reserve Club, Sutton Coldfield; and at Sheffield Snooker Centre. Qualifying was played over two rounds, each played as the best-of-17 frames. The results are shown below. Players in bold denote match winners. Former world champion John Pulman withdrew from the competition as he had not sufficiently recovered from a broken leg sustained in October 1981.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Century breaks
There were 10 century breaks at the championship, the highest being 143 by Willie Thorne. There was also a £5,000 bonus on offer for compiling a higher break than the championship record of 145.


1982 World Snooker Championship, Century breaks
There were three century breaks made in the qualifying competition.


1982 World Sports Acrobatics Championships
The 6th World Sports Acrobatics Championships were held in London, Great Britain, in 1982.


1982 World Sportscar Championship
The 1982 World Sportscar Championship was the 30th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship racing. It featured the 1982 World Endurance Championship for Drivers, which was contested over an eight-round series, and the 1982 World Endurance Championship for Manufacturers, which was contested over five rounds held concurrently with the first five rounds of the Drivers Championship. The Drivers’ title was open to Group C Sports Cars, Group B GT Cars, Group 6 Two-Seater Racing Cars, Group 5 Special Production Cars, Group 4 GT Cars, Group 3 GT Cars, Group 2 Touring Cars and IMSA GTX, GTO and GTU cars. The Manufacturers title was limited to Group C Sports Cars and Group B GT Cars only. The series ran from 18 April 1982 to 17 October 1982.


1982 World Sportscar Championship
The World Endurance Championship for Drivers was won by Jacky Ickx driving a Porsche 956 and the World Endurance Championship for Manufacturers was awarded to Porsche.


1982 World Sportscar Championship, Schedule
† - Points were awarded for the World Endurance Championship for Drivers only.


1982 World Sportscar Championship, Drivers Championship
Points towards the 1982 World Endurance Championship for Drivers were awarded on a 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis to drivers of the ten top placed cars at each round, regardless of class. Bonus points were also awarded to the drivers of those cars on the following basis:


1982 World Sportscar Championship, Drivers Championship
Only the best six round results could be retained by each driver. Any driver transferring between cars during a race was ineligible to score points and a driver was required to complete at least 30 percent of the car's distance to be awarded points.


1982 World Sportscar Championship, Drivers Championship
Belgian driver Jacky Ickx won the title at the wheel of a Porsche 956 entered by Rothmans Porsche.


1982 World Sportscar Championship, Drivers Championship
A total of 125 drivers scored points in the Drivers Championship.


1982 World Sportscar Championship, Manufacturers Championship
Points towards the 1982 World Endurance Championship for Manufacturers were scored only by Group C and Group B cars on a 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first ten finishers in these two classes combined. Only the best placed car from each manufacturer was eligible to score points and only the best four round results could be retained by each manufacturer.


1982 World Sportscar Championship, Manufacturers Championship
Note: The FIA awarded manufacturers placings to the combined engine/chassis unit. For cars competing with a different make of engine to that of the chassis, the FIA gave prominence to the engine over the chassis when naming a “Manufacturer”.


1982 World Sportscar Championship, Manufacturers Championship, The cars
The following models contributed towards the net point scores of their respective manufacturers.


1982 World Taekwondo Championships
The 1982 World Taekwondo Championships are the 5th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Guayaquil, Ecuador from February 24 to February 27, 1982. A total of 229 athletes from 35 nations took part in the championships.


1982 World Team Classic
The 1982 World Team Classic sponsored by State Express was a team snooker tournament played at the Hexagon Theatre in Reading and the same seven teams competed. All matches including the final were again played in the best of six matches with a tie break frame between the captains if it stayed 3-3. Canada won their first title with the trio of Cliff Thorburn, Kirk Stevens, Bill Werbeniuk beating defending champions England 4–2.


1982 World Weightlifting Championships
The 1982 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Hala Tivoli, Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia from September 18 to September 26, 1982. There were 205 men in action from 38 nations. These world championships were combined with European championships.


1982 World Weightlifting Championships, Medal table
Ranking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)


1982 World Women's Curling Championship
The 1982 World Women's Curling Championship, the women's world curling championship, was held from March 16–21 at the Patinoire des Vernets in Geneva, Switzerland.


1982 World Women's Handball Championship
The 1982 World Women's Handball Championship took place in Hungary between 2-12 December 1982.


1982 World Wrestling Championships
The following is the final results of the 1982 World Wrestling Championships. Freestyle competition were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Greco-Roman competition were held in Katowice, Poland.


1982 World's Fair
The 1982 World's Fair, formally known as the Knoxville International Energy Exposition, was held in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. The specialized exposition themed "Energy Turns the World," was recognized by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE).


1982 World's Fair
It opened on May 1, 1982, and closed on October 31, 1982, after receiving over eleven million visitors. Participating nations included Australia, Belgium, Canada, The People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, the United States, and West Germany.


1982 World's Fair
The fair was constructed on a 70-acre (280,000 m2) site between Downtown Knoxville and the University of Tennessee campus. The core of the site primarily consisted of a deteriorating Louisville and Nashville Railroad yard and depot. The railroad yard was demolished, with the exception of a single rail line, and the depot was renovated for use as a restaurant during the fair. The Sunsphere, a 266-foot (81 m) steel tower topped with a five-story gold globe, was built as the main structure and symbol for the exposition. Today, the Sunsphere stands as a symbol for the city of Knoxville.


1982 World's Fair, Background
Knoxville developers cultivated the idea for a World's Fair in the city after the example of Spokane, Washington, which hosted a World's Fair in 1974. W. Stewart Evans, president of the Downtown Knoxville Association, proposed the idea of the fair to the city government.


1982 World's Fair, Background
Knoxville Mayor Kyle Testerman appointed local banker Jake Butcher to lead an exploratory committee. Butcher served as one of the main driving forces behind the fair. Within the city, Knoxvillians referred to the fair as "Jake's Fair." An administrative body known as the Knoxville Foundation Inc. was established to organize and operate the event. There was skepticism, both locally and nationally, about the ability of Knoxville, described as a "scruffy little city" by The Wall Street Journal in a 1980 news article, to successfully host a World's Fair.


1982 World's Fair, Background
This controversy contributed to the development of the term “Scruffy City,” as a nickname synonymous with Knoxville.


1982 World's Fair, Background
The exposition was the second World's Fair to be held in the state of Tennessee. The state's first endeavor was the Tennessee Centennial Exposition of 1897, held in the state's capital, Nashville.


1982 World's Fair, Opening day
On May 1, 1982, the 1982 World's Fair opened to a crowd of 87,000 with the theme "Energy Turns the World." Television commercials broadcast prior to the fair used the marketing tagline "You've Got To Be There!" The opening ceremony was broadcast on local and regional television stations, with President Ronald Reagan arriving to open the fair. Television personality and Winchester native Dinah Shore was the master of ceremonies for the fair, and musical artists such as Porter Wagoner and Ricky Skaggs performed as the gates opened. A six-month pass to the fair sold for $100 (equivalent to $268 in 2020).


1982 World's Fair, Fair
From its commencement on May 1, to its closing on October 31st, the fair attracted 11,127,780 visitors from all over the United States and the world, making it the 5th-best attended World's Fair in U.S. history among those sanctioned by the BIE. It had the highest attendance among the four Specialized Expos held in the United States. It made a profit of $57, far short of the $5 million surplus projected by organizers and boosters. The city of Knoxville was left with a $46 million debt. This debt would be paid in full in May 2007.


1982 World's Fair, Fair
Participating nations included Australia, Belgium, Canada, The People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Greece, People's Republic of Hungary, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, the United States, and West Germany. Panama never occupied its pavilion space, which was eventually occupied by a group of Caribbean island nations.


1982 World's Fair, Fair
The Peruvian exhibit featured a mummy that was unwrapped and studied at the fair. The Egyptian exhibit featured ancient artifacts valued at over US$30  million. Hungary, the home country of the Rubik's Cube, sent the world's largest Rubik's Cube with rotating squares for the entrance display to its pavilion. The Rubik's Cube remains in World's Fair Park, where it has been displayed in the lobby of the Holiday Inn located adjacent to World's Fair Park. Every night of the fair, at 10 pm, a 10-minute fireworks display was presented that could be seen over much of Knoxville.


1982 World's Fair, Fair
The Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots played a preseason football game at Neyland Stadium on August 14, 1982. The Steelers won the game 24–20.


1982 World's Fair, Fair
An NBA Exhibition game took place between the Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers took place at Stokely Athletic Center on October 23, 1982.


1982 World's Fair, Fair
A TV station, KM2XKA on Channel 7, was built for the fair, initially specializing in World's Fair information. It later converted to DTV-only WMAK, an independent station.


1982 World's Fair, Innovations showcased
The 1982 World's Fair brought the debut of several inventions and concepts, including touch screen display screens, Tetra Pak boxed shelf-stable milk, and the Cherry Coke flavor by Coca-Cola.


1982 World's Fair, Innovations showcased
Oil corporation Texaco showcased the concept of pay at the pump, as part of the advances in energy.


1982 World's Fair, Innovations showcased
The Knoxville-based fast food chain, Petro's Chili & Chips made their debut at the fair. Today, the chain consists of several locations in the state with most primarily located in East Tennessee.


1982 World's Fair, Difficulties
Hotels and other accommodations in Knoxville were not permitted to take reservations directly. Room reservations for everything from hotels to houseboats were sold in a package with fair admission tickets through the first eleven days of the fair, and were handled by a central bureau, Knoxvisit. Its financial and administrative troubles resulted in reservations being taken over by PLM. It also struggled with the operation and filed for bankruptcy.


1982 World's Fair, Difficulties
Jake Butcher's financial services corporation, United American Bank failed shortly after the exposition in 1983. On February 14, 1983, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation seized control of the bank due to irregularities in its financial records. This action caused public speculation that the bank's failure was due in part to Butcher's financing of the World's Fair.


1982 World's Fair, Legacy
Given the success of the fair, Knoxville residents speculated that the fair would put the city on track to become a major hub city in the Southeastern United States such as Atlanta or Charlotte. However, growth in Knoxville was relatively low compared to that of Chattanooga, which received national attention for its riverfront redevelopment projects.


1982 World's Fair, Legacy
In 1991, the city of Knoxville demolished the U.S. Pavilion in a controlled demolition. It had developed structural problems that could not be safely resolved after years of neglect. The site of the pavilion was cleared and developed for a parking lot along Cumberland Avenue, adjacent to the site of the Knoxville Convention Center in World's Fair Park.


1982 World's Fair, Legacy
The site of the Korean and Saudi Arabian pavilions and the Tennessee Gas Industries exhibit was converted into a performance lawn, and was host to a regular concert series for eight years. The site of the Japanese Pavilion became the new location for the Knoxville Museum of Art. The Elm Tree Theater located adjacent to the former pavilion was added as part of the Knoxville Museum of Art's courtyard. The elm tree was later struck by lightning and was cut down. The courtyard of the theater has since remained empty. Many of the pavilion sites and the fair's midway located south of the main park were given to the University of Tennessee for future campus extensions and student parking.


1982 World's Fair, Legacy
In 1996, Knoxville and the 1982 World's Fair were featured prominently in an episode of The Simpsons, "Bart on the Road". In the episode, Bart and his friends travel to Knoxville to visit the fair after seeing an advertisement in a tourism brochure, only to learn that it closed a decade before. The episode ends with Nelson throwing a stone at the Sunsphere, causing it to collapse on a car that the group had rented.


1982 World's Fair, Legacy
In 2000, the park was closed for two years for the construction of the  Knoxville Convention Center in the space formerly occupied by Rich's/Millers Garage, the site of the KUB Substation exhibit, and the site of America's Electric Energy Exhibit.


1982 World's Fair, Legacy
The Tennessee Amphitheater, the only structure other than the Sunsphere that remains from the World's Fair, was condemned to demolition in 2002. Popular sentiment supported restoring it, and the theater was renovated between 2005 and 2007, reopening in 2007. In 2007, the amphitheater was voted one of the top fifteen architectural works of East Tennessee by the East Tennessee chapter of the American Institute of Architects.


1982 World's Fair, Legacy
In the summer of 2002, the World's Fair Park was reopened to general events and concerts, such as Earth Fest and Greek Fest. An Independence Day celebration is held on the park lawns every year, with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra playing a free concert with a massive fireworks display. In May 2007, the East Tennessee Historical Society opened a temporary exhibit in its museum located in Downtown Knoxville, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the World's Fair. On July 4, 2007, one of the annual celebrations was held in conjunction with festivities commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the 1982 World's Fair. The following day, July 5, 2007, the Sunsphere's observation deck reopened to the public after renovations.


1982 World's Fair, Collectibles
Many collectible items were made specifically for the World's Fair, ranging from cups, trays, plates, belt buckles, and several other objects. Some of the more notable items include:


1982 World's Strongest Man
The 1982 World's Strongest Man was the sixth edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Bill Kazmaier from the United States. It was his third title in a row. Tom Magee from Canada finished second and John Gamble from the United States finished third. The contest was held at the Magic Mountain in California.


1982 World's Strongest Man
The World's Strongest Man was held in the United States for the sixth consecutive year; the competition did not return there until 1997.


1982 Wyoming Cowboys football team
The 1982 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cowboys were led by second-year head coach Al Kincaid and played their home games at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyoming. They finished the season with a 5–7 record overall and a 2–6 record in the Western Athletic Conference to finish 8th in the conference.


1982 Wyoming gubernatorial election
The 1982 Wyoming gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Democratic Governor Edgar Herschler ran for re-election to a third term. He faced former State House Speaker Warren A. Morton in the general election after several prominent Republicans, including then-Congressman Dick Cheney, declined to challenge him. However, Herschler remained personally popular and the national political environment favored Democrats, and he had little difficulty defeating Morton to win a third term. In doing so, Herschler became the first (and, with the subsequent adoption of gubernatorial term limits, likely the last) Governor of Wyoming to win three terms in office.


1982 Wyoming state elections
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on Tuesday, November 2, 1982. All of the state's executive officers—the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction—were up for election. Democratic Governor Edgar Herschler won a landslide victory on his way to a record third term in office and Democrat Lynn Simons, first elected in 1978 as Superintendent of Public Instruction, won a sizable re-election as well. Republicans held the other statewide offices.


1982 Wyoming state elections, Governor
Incumbent Democratic Governor Edgar Herschler ran for re-election to a third term. He faced former State House Speaker Warren A. Morton in the general election, and defeated him in a landslide to win a third term, the first governor of the state to do so.


1982 Wyoming state elections, Secretary of State
Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Thyra Thomson ran for re-election to a sixth term. Unopposed in the Republican primary, she faced rancher Leslie Peterson, the Democratic nominee, in the general election. Peterson ran a stronger campaign than any of Thomson's past opponents, and though Thomson ultimately won re-election, she did so by her slimmest margin.


1982 Wyoming state elections, Auditor
Incumbent Republican State Auditor Jim Griffith ran for re-election to a third term. He won the Republican primary unopposed and was initially set to face no opposition in the general election, as no Democratic candidate filed to oppose him. However, Sid Kornegay, a Democrat who ran for Congress in 1980, announced on the day of the primary that he would seek the Democratic Party's nomination as a write-in candidate. After Kornegay received 11 write-in votes in the Democratic primary, he was offered the nomination, which he accepted. Griffith, who was not seen as vulnerable by the Democratic Party, ended up defeating Kornegay in a landslide, winning 74% of the vote to Kornegay's 26%.


1982 Wyoming state elections, Auditor, Democratic primary
No Democratic candidates filed for State Auditor. However, Kornegay, a Democratic candidate for Congress in 1980 received 11 write-in votes and was offered the nomination, which he accepted.


1982 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer
Incumbent Republican State Treasurer Shirley Wittler was unable to seek re-election to a second term due to term limits. Craig L. Thomas, who unsuccessfully ran in the 1978 Republican primary, announced that he would run again, and received Wittler's endorsement. He faced former State Representative Stan Smith in the primary, and Smith narrowly defeated him—and by an even narrower margin than Wittler did four years earlier. In the general election, Smith was opposed by Carbon County Treasurer C. R. "Dick" Engstrom. Though Engstrom improved on Democrats' performance from 1978, he still lost to Smith by a sizable margin.


1982 Wyoming state elections, Superintendent of Public Instruction
Incumbent Democratic Superintendent of Public Instruction Lynn Simons ran for re-election to a second term. She was opposed in the general election by Republican nominee Gary Elliott, a former member of the Teton County School Board. Simons ultimately defeated Elliott by a significant margin.


1982 YCO-Tanduay season
The 1982 Yco-Tanduay season was the eighth season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


1982 YCO-Tanduay season, Summary
The team had signed up four rookies during the off-season, two were former members of the national team in the 1981 ABC championships and SEA games, Frankie Lim and Jose Yango, the other two rookies are Zaldy Latoza from APCOR and Melvin Martin from Jag Jeans in the MICAA.


1982 YCO-Tanduay season, Summary
Last year's Reinforced Filipino Conference best import Russell Murray returns to the Esquires in the first conference of the season. Yco-Tanduay finishes at fifth in the team standings. They were swept in two games by Toyota Super Corollas in the best-of-three quarterfinals.


1982 YCO-Tanduay season, Summary
In the Open Conference, the Esquires' two imports were 6-11 Jerome Henderson and 6-8 Curtis Berry. Yco-Tanduay were third behind N-Rich Coffee and Gilbey's Gin after 18 games in the elimination phase. Going into the last playing date of the quarterfinal round on November 23, all four quarterfinalist are tied with one win and one loss each. The Esquires lost to Toyota Super Corollas and were eliminated from the four-team semifinals.


1982 Yale Bulldogs football team
The 1982 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Bulldogs were led by 18th-year head coach Carmen Cozza, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished tied for fourth place in the Ivy League with a 3–4 record, 4–6 overall.


1982 Yale Bulldogs football team
This was Yale's first year in Division I-AA, after having competed in the top-level Division I-A and its predecessors since helping to found the sport in 1872.


1982 Yugoslavian motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1982 Yugoslavian motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighth round of the 1982 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 16–18 July 1982 at the Autodrom Rijeka.


1982 Yugoslavian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Yugoslavia between 10 March and 10 May 1982 through a complicated delegate system which selected delegates to local, republic, and federal assemblies.


1982 Yugoslavian parliamentary election, Background
The elections were the third held under the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution, approved on 31 January 1974, which established a bicameral Assembly with a Federal Chamber of 220 members and a Chamber of Republics and Provinces of 88 members.


1982 Yugoslavian parliamentary election, Electoral system
The members of the Federal Chamber represented three groups: self-managing organizations, communities and socio-political organizations. 30 members were elected for the six republics and 20 for the two autonomous provinces, Kosovo and Vojvodina.


1982 Yugoslavian parliamentary election, Elections
The Federal Council was elected between 10 March and 21 April, and the Chamber of Republics and Provinces on 10 May. The Federal Executive Council was elected on 15 May, with Milka Planinc as the President (Prime Minister), becoming Yugoslavia's first female head of government. The Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia was elected between 26 and 29 June, with Mitja Ribičič as the President.


1982 Yukon general election
The 1982 Yukon general election was held on June 7, 1982 to elect members of the 25th Legislative Assembly of the territory of Yukon, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservatives.


1982 Yukon general election, Incumbents not Running for Reelection
The following MLAs had announced that they would not be running in the 1982 election:


1982 Yukon general election, Results by Riding
Bold indicates party leaders† - denotes a retiring incumbent MLA


1982 Zairean parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Zaire on 18 and 19 September 1982. The Popular Movement of the Revolution was the only legal party at the time, and all candidates who stood for election to the Legislative Council had to be members of it. In total, 1,409 candidates ran for the 310 seats (increased from 252 due to population growth) in 154 constituencies.


1982 bombing of the African National Congress headquarters in London
The London offices of the African National Congress (ANC) were wrecked by an 11-kilogram (24 lb) bomb which exploded against the rear wall at 9 am on 14 March 1982. Windows up to 400 yards away were broken. Caretaker Vernet Mbatha, an ANC voluntary worker, who was sleeping in a flat above the offices, was injured. Significant damage was caused to buildings on White Lion Street and Penton Street, where the office was located. The offices served as the ANC's headquarters in exile since the 1960s.


1982 bombing of the African National Congress headquarters in London
Anti -apartheid activists blamed the South African government. The decision to bomb the office was made following ANC attacks in South Africa, including a rocket attack on the Voortrekkerhoogte military base in August 1981. It was also to demonstrate South Africa's displeasure with the British government. The property was repaired and was the ANC's base until Nelson Mandela's election as South African president in 1994.