1983 World Championships in Athletics

Athletics competition in Helsinki, Finland 1st World Championships in Athletics Helsinki IAAF 1983.jpg 145px Helsinki, Finland 153 1,355 41 7–14 August 1983 President Mauno Koivisto Helsinki Olympic Stadium 1980 Sittard 1987 Rome The 1st World Championships in Athletics (fi Yleisurheilun maailmanmestaruuskilpailut 1983; sv Världsmästerskapen i friidrott 1983) were run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations and were held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland between 7 and 14 August 1983. Despite the existence of previously held championship events in both 1976 and 1980, this 1983 championship was marked as the inaugural World Championship. Summary thumb|The championships at Helsinki Olympic Stadium, August 1983 thumb|Carl Lewis at the championships The overall medal table was a closely contested affair. East Germany took the most gold medals (10) over the first championships and finished with a total of 22 medals. The United States had the second number of gold medals, with eight, and also had the greatest overall medal haul, having won 24 medals. The Soviet Union won one more medal than the East Germans and had six golds, although almost half of their podium finishers were bronze medalists. Twenty-five nations reached the medal tally at the inaugural competition, with all six continents being represented. During the early 1980s this was the top venue in which Soviet Bloc athletes competed against American athletes due to the American-led boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow and the retaliatory Soviet Bloc boycott of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Carl Lewis won both the 100 metres and the long jump, and finished the competition by anchoring the 4 × 100 metres relay team to a world record time, along with the 200 metres champion Calvin Smith, and bronze medallists Emmit King and Willie Gault. Jarmila Kratochvílová dominated the 400 and 800 metres events, setting a world record of 47.99 seconds. Mary Decker enjoyed her best competition performance, taking the golds in the women's 1500 and 3000 metres. Other prominent athletes included Marita Koch, who won the 200 m and both relay golds, as well as the 100 m silver medal. Sergey Bubka won the first of his six consecutive World Championship gold medals in the pole vault. Men's results Track thumb|125px|postage stamp from Finland issued in 1983 1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 100 m1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres Carl LewisUnited States 10.07 Calvin SmithUnited States 10.21 Emmit KingUnited States 10.24 200 m1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 200 metres Calvin SmithUnited States 20.14 Elliott QuowUnited States 20.41 Pietro MenneaItaly 20.51 400 m1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres Bert CameronJamaica 45.05 Michael FranksUnited States 45.22 Sunder NixUnited States 45.24 800 m1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres Willi WülbeckWest Germany 1:43.65 Rob DruppersNetherlands 1:44.20 Joaquim CruzBrazil 1968 1:44.27 1500 m1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres Steve CramGreat Britain 3:41.59 Steve ScottUnited States 3:41.87 Saïd AouitaMorocco 3:42.02 5000 m1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 5000 metres Eamonn CoghlanIreland 13:28.53 Werner SchildhauerEast Germany 13:30.20 Martti VainioFinland 13:30.34 10,000 m1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 10,000 metres Alberto CovaItaly 28:01.04 Werner SchildhauerEast Germany 28:01.18 Hansjörg KunzeEast Germany 28:01.26 Marathon1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's Marathon Rob de CastellaAustralia 2:10:03 Kebede BalchaEthiopia 1975 2:10:27 Waldemar CierpinskiEast Germany 2:10:37 110 m hurdles1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 110 metres hurdles Greg FosterUnited States 13.42 Arto BryggareFinland 13.46 Willie GaultUnited States 13.48 400 m hurdles1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres hurdles Edwin MosesUnited States 47.50 Harald SchmidWest Germany 48.61 Aleksandr KharlovSoviet Union 49.03 3000 m st.1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase Patriz IlgWest Germany 8:15.06 Bogusław MamińskiPoland 8:17.03 Colin ReitzGreat Britain 8:17.75 20 km walk 1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk Ernesto CantoMexico 1:20:49 Jozef PribilinecCzechoslovakia 1:20:59 Yevgeniy YevsyukovSoviet Union 1:21:08 50 km walk1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk Ronald WeigelEast Germany 3:43:08 José MarínSpain 3:46:32 Sergey YungSoviet Union 3:49:03 4 × 100 m relay1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 x 100 metres relay USAEmmit KingWillie GaultCalvin SmithCarl Lewis 37.86(WR) ITAStefano TilliCarlo SimionatoPierfrancesco PavoniPietro Mennea 38.37(NR) URSAndrey ProkofyevNikolay SidorovVladimir MuravyovViktor Bryzgin 38.41 4 × 400 m relay1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 x 400 metres relay URSSergey LovachovAleksandr TroshchiloNikolay ChernetskiyViktor Markin 3:00.79 FRGErwin SkamrahlJörg VaihingerHarald SchmidHartmut Weber Martin Weppler*Edgar Nakladal* 3:01.83 GBRAinsley BennettGarry CookTodd BennettPhil Brown Kriss Akabusi* 3:03.53 Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds. Field 1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 High jump1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's high jump Hennadiy Avdyeyenko URS 2.32 Tyke Peacock USA 2.32 Zhu Jianhua CHN 2.29 Pole vault1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's pole vault Sergey Bubka URS 5.70 Konstantin Volkov URS 5.60 Atanas Tarev BUL 1971 5.60 Long jump1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's long jump Carl Lewis USA 8.55 Jason Grimes USA 8.29 Mike Conley USA 8.12 Triple jump1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump Zdzisław Hoffmann POL 17.42 Willie Banks USA 17.18 Ajayi Agbebaku NGR 17.18 Shot put1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put Edward Sarul POL 21.39 Ulf Timmermann GDR 21.16 Remigius Machura TCH 20.98 Discus throw1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw Imrich Bugár TCH 67.72 Luis Delís CUB 67.36 Géjza Valent TCH 66.08 Hammer throw1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's hammer throw Sergey Litvinov URS 82.68 Yuriy Sedykh URS 80.94 Zdzisław Kwaśny POL 79.42 Javelin throw1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw Detlef Michel GDR 89.48 Tom Petranoff USA 85.60 Dainis Kūla URS 85.58 Decathlon1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's decathlon Daley Thompson GBR 8666 Jürgen Hingsen FRG 8561 Siegfried Wentz FRG 8478 Women's results Track 1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 100 m1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres Marlies Göhr GDR 10.97(CR) Marita Koch GDR 11.02 Diane Williams USA 11.06 200 m1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 200 metres Marita Koch GDR 22.13 Merlene Ottey JAM 22.19 Kathy Cook GBR 22.37 400 m1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres Jarmila Kratochvílová TCH 47.99(WR) Taťána Kocembová TCH 48.59(PB) Mariya Pinigina URS 49.19 800 m1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres Jarmila Kratochvílová TCH 1:54.68 Lyubov Gurina URS 1:56.11 Yekaterina Podkopayeva URS 1:57.58 1500 m1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres Mary Decker USA 4:00.90 Zamira Zaytseva URS 4:01.19 Yekaterina Podkopayeva URS 4:02.25 3000 m1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres Mary Decker USA 8:34.62 Brigitte Kraus FRG 8:35.11 Tatyana Kazankina URS 8:35.13 Marathon1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's Marathon Grete Waitz NOR 2:28:09 Marianne Dickerson USA 2:31:09 Raisa Smekhnova URS 2:31:13 100 m hurdles1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 100 metres hurdles Bettine Jahn GDR 12.35 Kerstin Knabe GDR 12.42 Ginka Zagorcheva BUL 1971 12.62 400 m hurdles1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres hurdles Yekaterina Fesenko URS 54.14 Ana Ambrazienė URS 54.15 Ellen Fiedler GDR 54.55 4 × 100 m relay1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay GDRSilke GladischMarita KochIngrid AuerswaldMarlies Göhr 41.76 GBRJoan BaptisteKathy CookBeverley CallenderShirley Thomas 42.71 JAMLeleith HodgesJacqueline PuseyJuliet CuthbertMerlene Ottey 42.73 4 × 400 m relay1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 4 x 400 metres relay GDRKerstin WaltherSabine BuschMarita KochDagmar RübsamUndine Bremer*Ellen Fiedler* 3:19.73 TCHTaťána KocembováMilena MatějkovičováZuzana MoravčíkováJarmila Kratochvílová 3:20.32 URSYelena KorbanMarina IvanovaIrina BaskakovaMariya Pinigina 3:21.16 Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds. Field 1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 High jump1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump Tamara Bykova URS 2.01 Ulrike Meyfarth FRG 1.99 Louise Ritter USA 1.95 Long jump1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump Heike Daute GDR 7.27 Anişoara Cuşmir ROU 1965 7.15 Carol Lewis USA 7.04 Shot put1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put Helena Fibingerová TCH 21.05 Helma Knorscheidt GDR 20.70 Ilona Slupianek GDR 20.56 Discus throw1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's discus throw Martina Opitz GDR 68.94 Galina Murasova URS 67.44 Mariya Petkova BUL 1971 66.44 Javelin throw1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's javelin throw Tiina Lillak FIN 70.82 Fatima Whitbread GBR 69.14 Anna Verouli GRE 65.72 Heptathlon1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon Ramona Neubert GDR 6714 Sabine Paetz GDR 6662 Anke Vater GDR 6532 Medal table thumb|upright=1.25|Marathon bronze medallist and reigning Olympic champion Waldemar Cierpinski (DDR) celebrates with gold medal winner Robert de Castella (AUS). 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