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1983 World Championships in Athletics
Host city	Helsinki, Finland
Date(s)	August 7 – August 14, 1983
Main Stadium	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Nations participating	153
Athletes participating	1,355
Events	41

The inaugural World Championships in Athletics were run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations and were held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland between August 7 and August 14, 1983.

[edit] Men's Results

[edit] Track

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Carl Lewis United States	10.07	Calvin Smith United States	10.21	Emmit King United States	10.24
200 m details	Calvin Smith United States	20.14	Elliott Quow United States	20.41	Pietro Mennea Italy	20.51
400 m details	Bert Cameron Jamaica	45.05	Michael Franks United States	45.22	Sunder Nix United States	45.24
800 m details	Willi Wülbeck West Germany	1:43.65	Rob Druppers Netherlands	1:44.20	Joaquim Cruz Brazil	1:44.27
1,500 m details	Steve Cram Great Britain	3:41.59	Steve Scott United States	3:41.87	Saïd Aouita Morocco	3:42.02
5,000 m details	Eamonn Coghlan Ireland	13:28.53	Werner Schildhauer East Germany	13:30.20	Martti Vainio Finland	13:30.34
10,000 m details	Alberto Cova Italy	28:01.04	Werner Schildhauer East Germany	28:01.18	Hansjörg Kunze East Germany	28:01.26
Marathon details	Rob de Castella Australia	2:10:03	Kebebe Balcha Ethiopia	2:10:27	Waldemar Cierpinski East Germany	2:10:37
110 m hurdles details	Greg Foster United States	13.42	Arto Bryggare Finland	13.46	Willie Gault United States	13.48
400 m hurdles details	Edwin Moses United States	47.50	Harald Schmid West Germany	48.61	Aleksandr Kharlov Soviet Union	49.03
3,000 m st. details	Patriz Ilg West Germany	8:15.06	Bogusław Mamiński Poland	8:17.03	Colin Reitz Great Britain	8:17.75
20 km walk details	Ernesto Canto Mexico	1:20:49	Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia	1:20:59	Yevgeny Yevsyukov Soviet Union	1:21:08
50 km walk details	Ronald Weigel East Germany	3:43:08	José Marín Spain	3:43:42	Sergey Yung Soviet Union	3:49:03
4x100 m relay details	Emmit King Willie Gault Calvin Smith Carl Lewis United States	37.86 (WR)	Stefano Tilli Carlo Simionato Pierfrancesco Pavoni Pietro Mennea Italy	38.37 (NR)	Andrey Prokofyev Nikolay Sidorov Vladimir Muravyov Viktor Bryzgin Soviet Union	38.41
4x400 m relay details	Sergey Lovachov Aleksandr Troshchilo Nikolay Chernetskiy Viktor Markin Soviet Union	3:00.79	Erwin Skamrahl Jörg Vaihinger Harald Schmid Hartmut Weber West Germany	3:01.83	Ainsley Bennett Garry Cook Todd Bennett Phil Brown Great Britain	3:03.53
AR Area record \| CR championship record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB/PR personal best/record \| SB seasonal best \| WL world leading (in a given season) \| WR world record

[edit] Field

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Long jump details	Carl Lewis (USA)	8.55	Jason Grimes (USA)	8.29	Mike Conley (USA)	8.12
Triple jump details	Zdzisław Hoffmann (POL)	17.42	Willie Banks (USA)	17.18	Ajayi Agbebaku (NGR)	17.18
High jump details	Gennadiy Avdeyenko (URS)	2.32	Tyke Peacock (USA)	2.32	Zhu Jianhua (CHN)	2.29
Pole vault details	Sergey Bubka (URS)	5.70	Konstantin Volkov (URS)	5.60	Atanas Tarev (BUL)	5.60
Shot put details	Edward Sarul (POL)	21.39	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	21.16	Remigius Machura (TCH)	20.98
Discus throw details	Imrich Bugár (TCH)	67.72	Luis Delís (CUB)	67.36	Gejza Valent (TCH)	66.08
Hammer throw details	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	82.68	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	80.94	Zdzisław Kwaśny (POL)	79.42
Javelin throw details	Detlef Michel (GDR)	89.48	Tom Petranoff (USA)	85.60	Dainis Kūla (URS)	85.58
Decathlon details	Daley Thompson (GBR)	8666	Jürgen Hingsen (FRG)	8561	Siegfried Wentz (FRG)	8478
AR Area record \| CR championship record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB/PR personal best/record \| SB seasonal best \| WL world leading (in a given season) \| WR world record

[edit] Women's Results

[edit] Track

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Marlies Oelsner-Gohr (GDR)	10.97 (CR)	Marita Koch (GDR)	11.02	Diane Williams (USA)	11.06
200 m details	Marita Koch (GDR)	22.13	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	22.19	Kathy Smallwood-Cook (GBR)	22.37
400 m details	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	47.99 (WR)	Taťána Kocembová (TCH)	48.59 (PB)	Mariya Pinigina (URS)	49.19
800 m details	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	1:54.68	Lyubov Gurina (URS)	1:56.11	Yekaterina Podkopayeva (URS)	1:57.58
1,500 m details	Mary Decker (USA)	4:00.90	Zamira Zaytseva (URS)	4:01.19	Yekaterina Podkopayeva (URS)	4:02.25
3,000 m details	Mary Decker (USA)	8:34.62	Brigitte Kraus (FRG)	8:35.11	Tatyana Kovalenko-Kazankina (URS)	8:35.13
Marathon details	Grete Waitz (NOR)	2:28:09	Marianne Dickerson (USA)	2:31:09	Raisa Smekhnova (URS)	2:31:13
100 m hurdles details	Bettine Jahn (GDR)	12.35	Kerstin Claus-Knabe (GDR)	12.42	Ginka Boycheva-Zagorcheva (BUL)	12.62
400 m hurdles details	Yekaterina Fesenko (URS)	54.14	Ana Ambrazienė (URS)	54.15	Ellen Neumann-Fiedler (GDR)	54.55
4x100 m relay details	Silke Gladisch Marita Koch Ingrid Brestrich-Auerswald Marlies Oelsner-Gohr East Germany	41.76	Joan Baptiste Kathy Smallwood-Cook Beverley Callender Shirley Thomas Great Britain	42.71	Leleith Hodges Jacqueline Pusey Juliet Cuthbert Merlene Ottey Jamaica	42.73
4x400 m relay details	Gesine Walther Sabine Busch Marita Koch Dagmar Rübsam East Germany	3:19.73	Taťána Kocembová Milena Matejkovičová-Strnadová Zuzana Moravčíková Jarmila Kratochvílová Czechoslovakia	3:20.32	Yelena Korban Marina Kharlamova Irina Baskakova Mariya Pingina Soviet Union	3:21.16
AR Area record \| CR championship record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB/PR personal best/record \| SB seasonal best \| WL world leading (in a given season) \| WR world record

[edit] Field

1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Discus throw details	Martina Opitz (GDR)	68.94	Galina Murasova (URS)	67.44	Maria Petkova (BUL)	66.44
High jump details	Tamara Bykova (URS)	2.01	Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG)	1.99	Louise Ritter (USA)	1.95
Heptathlon details	Ramona Gohler-Neubert (GDR)	6714	Sabine Mobius-Paetz (GDR)	6662	Anke Vater (GDR)	6532
Javelin throw details	Tiina Lillak (FIN)	70.82	Fatima Whitbread (GBR)	69.14	Anna Verouli (GRE)	65.72
Long jump details	Heike Daute (GDR)	7.27	Anişoara Cuşmir (ROU)	7.15	Carol Lewis (USA)	7.04
Shot put details	Helena Fibingerová (TCH)	21.05	Helma Knorscheidt (GDR)	20.70	Ilona Schoknecht-Slupianek (GDR)	20.56
AR Area record \| CR championship record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB/PR personal best/record \| SB seasonal best \| WL world leading (in a given season) \| WR world record

[edit] Medal table by country

Position	Country:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1.	East Germany	10	7	5	22
2.	United States	8	9	7	24
3.	Soviet Union	6	6	11	23
4.	Czechoslovakia	4	3	2	9
5.	West Germany	2	5	1	8
6.	Great Britain	2	2	3	7
7.	Poland	2	1	1	4
8=	Finland	1	1	1	3
8=	Italy	1	1	1	3
8=	Jamaica	1	1	1	3
11=	Australia	1	0	0	1
11=	Ireland	1	0	0	1
11=	Mexico	1	0	0	1
11=	Norway	1	0	0	1
15=	Cuba	0	1	0	1
15=	Ethiopia	0	1	0	1
15=	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
15=	Romania	0	1	0	1
15=	Spain	0	1	0	1
20.	Bulgaria	0	0	3	3
21=	Brazil	0	0	1	1
21=	China	0	0	1	1
21=	Greece	0	0	1	1
21=	Morocco	0	0	1	1
21=	Nigeria	0	0	1	1

[edit] See also

1983 in athletics (track and field)

[edit] References

IAAF

[edit] External links

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Contents

[edit] Men's Results

[edit] Track

[edit] Field

[edit] Women's Results

[edit] Track

[edit] Field

[edit] Medal table by country

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] External links