1983 in the sport of athletics

none 1983 in athletics World Championship in Athletics 1982 1984 1983 the sport of athletics This article contains an overview of the year 1983 in athletics. International Events Asian Championships Balkan Games Central American and Caribbean Championships European Indoor Championships Mediterranean Games Pan American Games South American Championships World Championships World Cross Country Championships World Student Games World records Men EVENT ATHLETE MARK DATE VENUE 100 metres Calvin Smith USA 9.93 3 July Air Force Academy, CO, USA 1500 m Sydney Maree USA 3:31.24 28 August Köln, West Germany 1500 m Steve Ovett GBR 3:30.77 4 September Rieti, Italy 400m Hurdles Ed Moses USA 47.02 31 August Koblenz, West Germany 4 × 100 m Relay USA• Emmit King• Willie Gault• Calvin Smith• Carl Lewis 37.86 10 August Helsinki High Jump Zhu Jianhua CHN 2.37m 11 June Beijing, PR China Zhu Jianhua CHN 2.38m 22 September Shanghai, PR China Pole Vault Pierre Quinon FRA 5.82m 28 August Köln, West Germany Pole Vault Thierry Vigneron FRA 5.83m 1 September Rome, Italy Shot Put Udo Beyer GDR 22.22m 25 June Los Angeles, United States Discus Yuriy Dumchev URS 71.86m 29 May Moscow, Soviet Union Hammer Sergey Litvinov URS 84.14m 21 June Moscow, Soviet Union Javelin (old) Tom Petranoff USA 99.72m 15 May Westwood, United States Decathlon Jürgen Hingsen FRG 8825 4–5 June Bernhausen, West Germany Half Marathon Paul Cummings USA 1:01:32 25 September Dayton, Ohio, United States Women EVENT ATHLETE MARK DATE VENUE 100 metres Marlies Göhr GDR 10.81 8 June East Berlin Evelyn Ashford USA 10.79 3 July Colorado Springs 400 metres Jarmila Kratochvílová TCH 47.99 10 August Helsinki 800 metres Jarmila Kratochvílová TCH 1:53.28 26 July Munich 10,000 metres Lyudmila Baranova URS 31:35.01 29 May Krasnodar Raysa Sadreydinova URS 31:27.58 7 September Odessa 400m Hurdles Anna Ambrazienė URS 54.02 11 June Moscow 4 × 100 m Relay GDR• Silke Möller• Marita Koch• Ingrid Auerswald• Marlies Göhr 41.53 31 July East Berlin High Jump Ulrike Meyfarth FRG 2.03m 21 August London Tamara Bykova URS 2.04m 25 August Pisa, Italy Heptathlon Ramona Neubert GDR 6935 18–19 June Moscow Half Marathon Joan Benoit USA 1:09:10 18 September Philadelphia Men's Best Year Performers 100 metres Main race this year: World Championships 100 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Calvin Smith USA 9.93 2. Carl Lewis USA 9.97 3. Mel Lattany USA 10.03 4. Leandro Peñalver CUB 10.06 Ron Brown USA Emmit King USA 200 metres Main race this year: World Championships 200 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Carl Lewis USA 19.75 2. Calvin Smith USA 19.99 3. Larry Myricks USA 20.03 4. Elliott Quow USA 20.16 5. Mel Lattany USA 20.22 400 metres Main race this year: World Championships 400 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Erwin Skamrahl FRG 44.50 2. Bert Cameron JAM 44.62 3. James Rolle USA 44.73 4. Chris Whitlock USA 44.80 5. Sunder Nix USA 44.87 800 metres Main race this year: World Championships 800 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Steve Cram GBR 1:43.61 2. Willi Wülbeck FRG 1:43.65 3. Sebastian Coe GBR 1:43.80 4. Peter Elliott GBR 1:43.98 5. Joaquim Cruz BRA 1:44.04 1,500 metres Main race this year: World Championships 1,500 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Steve Ovett GBR 3:30.77 2. Sydney Maree USA 3:31.24 3. Steve Cram GBR 3:31.66 4. Saïd Aouita MAR 3:32.54 5. Steve Scott USA 3:32.71 Mile RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Steve Scott USA 3:49.21 2. John Walker NZL 3:49.73 3. Thomas Wessinghage FRG 3:49.98 4. Sydney Maree USA 3:50.30 5. Steve Ovett GBR 3:50.49 3,000 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Doug Padilla USA 7:35.84 2. Eamonn Coghlan IRL 7:38.39 3. António Leitão POR 7:39.69 4. Thomas Wessinghage FRG 7:39.71 5. Dragan Zdravković YUG 7:40.49 5,000 metres Main race this year: World Championships 5,000 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Fernando Mamede POR 13:08.54 2. António Leitão POR 13:14.13 3. Doug Padilla USA 13:17.69 4. Antonio Prieto ESP 13:18.53 5. Thomas Wessinghage FRG 13:18.86 10,000 metres Main race this year: World Championships 10,000 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Carlos Lopes POR 27:23.44 2. Werner Schildhauer GDR 27:24.95 3. Fernando Mamede POR 27:25.13 4. Hansjörg Kunze GDR 27:30.69 5. Nick Rose GBR 27:31.19 Half Marathon RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Paul Cummings USA 1:01:32 WR Marathon Main race this year: World Championships Marathon RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Robert de Castella AUS 2:08:37 2. Toshihiko Seko JPN 2:08:38 3. Carlos Lopes POR 2:08:39 4. Takeshi So JPN 2:08:55 Juma Ikangaa TAN 110m Hurdles Main race this year: World Championships 110m Hurdles RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Greg Foster USA 13.11 2. Sam Turner USA 13.17 3. Tonie Campbell USA 13.32 4. Arto Bryggare FIN 13.44 Roger Kingdom USA 400m Hurdles Main race this year: World Championships 400m Hurdles RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Edwin Moses USA 47.02 2. Andre Phillips USA 47.78 3. David Patrick USA 48.05 4. David Lee USA 48.42 5. Harald Schmid FRG 48.49 3,000m Steeplechase Main race this year: World Championships 3,000m Steeplechase RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Henry Marsh USA 8:12.37 2. Bogusław Mamiński POL 8:12.62 3. Patriz Ilg FRG 8:15.06 4. Graeme Fell GBR 8:15.16 5. Joseph Mahmoud FRA 8:15.59 High Jump Main competition this year: World Championships High Jump RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS HEIGHT 1. Zhu Jianhua CHN 2.38 WR 2. Valeriy Sereda URS 2.35 3. Paul Frommeyer FRG 2.34 Carlo Thränhardt FRG Eddy Annys BEL Long Jump Main competition this year: World Championships Long Jump RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE 1. Carl Lewis USA 8.79 2. Jason Grimes USA 8.39 3. Sergey Rodin URS 8.33 Reginald Kelly USA 5. Aleksandr Beskrovniy URS 8.28 Triple Jump Main competition this year: World Championships Triple Jump RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE 1. Vasiliy Grishchenkov URS 17.55 2. Aleksandr Beskrovniy URS 17.53 3. Zdzislaw Hoffmann POL 17.42 4. Lázaro Betancourt CUB 17.40 5. Ken Lorraway AUS 17.35 Discus Main competition this year: World Championships Discus Throw RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE 1. Yuriy Dumchev URS 71.86 WR 2. Ben Plucknett USA 71.32 3. Art Burns USA 71.18 4. Luis Delís CUB 71.06 5. Imrich Bugár TCH 70.72 Hammer RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE 1. Sergey Litvinov URS 84.14 2. Igor Nikulin URS 82.92 3. Yuriy Tarasyuk URS 81.18 4. Juha Tiainen FIN 81.02 5. Yuriy Syedikh URS 80.94 Shot Put Main competition this year: World Championships Shot Put RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE 1. Udo Beyer GDR 22.22 WR 2. Dave Laut USA 21.94 3. Edward Sarul POL 21.68 4. Kevin Akins USA 21.61 5. Mike Lehmann USA 21.43 Javelin (old design) Main competition this year: World Championships Javelin Throw RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE 1. Tom Petranoff USA 99.72 2. Detlef Michel GDR 96.72 3. Heino Puuste URS 94.20 4. Dainis Kula URS 91.88 5. Klaus Tafelmeier FRG 91.44 Pole Vault Main competition this year: World Championships Pole Vault RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS HEIGHT 1. Thierry Vigneron FRA 5.83 2. Pierre Quinon FRA 5.82 3. Billy Olson USA 5.80 4. Jeff Buckingham USA 5.76 5. Brad Pursley USA 5.75 Decathlon Main competition this year: World Championships Decathlon RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS POINTS 1. Jürgen Hingsen FRG 8779 WR 2. Siegfried Wentz FRG 8718 3. Daley Thompson GBR 8666 4. Grigoriy Degtyaryev URS 8538 5. Uwe Freimuth GDR 8501 Women's Best Year Performers 100 metres Main race this year: World Championships 100 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Evelyn Ashford USA 10.79 WR 2. Marlies Göhr GDR 10.81 WR 3. Marita Koch GDR 10.83 4. Diane Williams USA 10.94 5. Silke Gladisch GDR 11.03 200 metres Main race this year: World Championships 200 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Marita Koch GDR 21.82 2. Evelyn Ashford USA 21.88 3. Chandra Cheeseborough USA 21.99 4. Merlene Ottey JAM 22.19 5. Florence Griffith USA 22.23 400 metres Main race this year: World Championships 400 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Jarmila Kratochvílová TCH 47.99 WR 2. Tatána Kocembová TCH 48.59 3. Mariya Pinigina URS 49.19 4. Gaby Bußmann FRG 49.75 5. Marita Payne CAN 50.06 800 metres Main race this year: World Championships 800 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Jarmila Kratochvílová TCH 1:53.28 WR 2. Yekaterina Podkopayeva URS 1:55.96 3. Lyubov Gurina URS 1:56.11 4. Zamira Zaytseva URS 1:56.21 5. Tatyana Providokhina URS 1:56.81 1,500 metres Main race this year: World Championships 1,500 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Mary Decker USA 3:57.12 2. Ravilya Agletdinova URS 3:59.31 3. Fiţa Lovin ROU 1965 4:00.12 4. Yekaterina Podkopayeva URS 4:00.3 5. Maria Radu ROU 1965 4:00.62 3,000 metres Main race this year: World Championships 3,000 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Tatyana Kazankina URS 8:32.08 2. Alla Yushina URS 8:34.02 3. Galina Zakharova URS 8:34.60 4. Mary Decker USA 8:34.62 5. Svetlana Guskova URS 8:35.06 5,000 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Zola Budd RSA 1928 15:10.65 2. Anna Domoradskaya URS 15:19.0 10,000 metres RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Raysa Sadreydinova URS 31:27.58 WR 2. Lyudmila Baranova URS 31:35.01 WR 3. Tatyana Pozdnyakova URS 31:48.94 4. Olga Bondarenko URS 31:49.44 5. Aurora Cunha POR 31:52.85 Half Marathon RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Joan Benoit USA 1:09:10 Marathon Main race this year: World Championships Marathon RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Joan Benoit USA 2:22:43 2. Grete Waitz NOR 2:25:17 3. Julie Brown USA 2:26:26 4. Mary O'Connor NZL 2:28:20 5. Charlotte Teske FRG 2:28:32 100m Hurdles Main race this year: World Championships 100m Hurdles RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Bettine Jahn GDR 12.42 2. Ginka Zagorcheva BUL 1971 12.49 3. Kerstin Knabe GDR 12.62 4. Yordanka Donkova BUL 1971 12.65 5. Cornelia Riefstahl GDR 12.72 400m Hurdles Main race this year: World Championships 400m Hurdles RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME 1. Anna Ambrazienė URS 54.02 WR 2. Yekaterina Fesenko URS 54.14 3. Ellen Fiedler GDR 54.20 4. Petra Pfaff GDR 54.64 5. Yelena Filipishina URS 54.72 High Jump Main competition this year: World Championships High Jump RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS HEIGHT 1. Tamara Bykova URS 2.04 WR 2. Ulrike Meyfarth FRG 2.03 WR 3. Louise Ritter USA 2.01 4. Kerstin Brandt GDR 1.99 5. Larisa Kositsyna URS 1.98 Silvia Costa CUB Valentina Poluyko URS Long Jump Main competition this year: World Championships Long Jump RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE 1. Anişoara Cuşmir ROU 1965 7.43 2. Heike Daute GDR 7.14 3. Svetlana Zorina URS 7.04 Tatyana Proskuryakova URS 5. Margarita Butkiené URS 7.00 Discus Main competition this year: World Championships Discus Throw RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE 1. Galina Savinkova URS 73.26 2. Gisela Beyer GDR 70.96 3. Mariya Petkova BUL 1971 70.74 4. Martina Hellmann GDR 70.26 5. Zdeňka Šilhavá TCH 70.00 Shot Put Main competition this year: World Championships Shot Put RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE 1. Ilona Slupianek GDR 22.40 2. Helena Fibingerová TCH 21.46 3. Zdeňka Šilhavá TCH 21.05 4. Mihaela Loghin ROU 1965 20.95 5. Nunu Abashidze URS 20.94 Javelin (old design) Main competition this year: World Championships Javelin Throw RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE 1. Tiina Lillak FIN 74.76 2. Tessa Sanderson GBR 73.58 3. Sofia Sakorafa GRE 72.28 4. Antje Zöllkau GDR 71.00 5. Anna Verouli GRE 70.90 Heptathlon Main competition this year: World Championships Heptathlon RANK 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS POINTS 1. Ramona Neubert GDR 6935 WR 2. Sabine Paetz GDR 6713 3. Lyudmila Kolyadina URS 6541 4. Yekaterina Smirnova URS 6536 5. Anke Vater GDR 6531 Births January 4 — Laura Douglas, Welsh hammer thrower January 7 — Marc Burns, Trinidad and Tobago athlete January 7 — Stéphanie Falzon, French hammer thrower January 11 — Cui Zhide, Chinese race walker January 16 — Trevell Quinley, American long jumper January 26 — Arturo Casado, Spanish middle-distance runner January 28 — Chiara Rosa, Italian shot putter February 1 — Alice Timbilili, Kenyan distance runner February 2 — Athanasia Perra, Greek triple jumper March 10 — Yelena Bolsun, Russian sprinter March 14 — Jiang Qiuyan, Chinese race walker March 21 — Martina Hrašnová, Slovak hammer thrower March 21 — Jussi Heikkilä, Finnish hurdler March 22 — André Pollmächer, German long-distance runner March 23 — Mo Farah, Somali-British distance runner March 28 — Jurica Grabušić, Croatian hurdler April 25 — Nick Willis, New Zealand middle-distance runner May 5 — Mabel Gay, Cuban triple jumper June 4 — Satoshi Osaki, Japanese long-distance runner July 12 — Yarelis Barrios, Cuban discus thrower July 18 — Mikk Pahapill, Estonian decathlete July 20 — Ignisious Gaisah, Ghanaian athlete August 2 — Zuzana Malíková, Slovak race walker August 4 — Fábio Gomes da Silva, Brazilian pole vaulter September 2 — Tatyana Kozlova, Russian race walker September 11 — Vivian Cheruiyot, Kenyan distance runner September 14 — Mestawet Tufa, Ethiopian distance runner October 2 — Michael Kipyego, Kenyan runner October 5 — Hamid Ezzine, Moroccan long-distance runner October 6 — Leonid Andreev, Uzbekistani decathlete and pole vaulter October 8 — Mihkel Kukk, Estonian javelin thrower October 10 — Dong Jimin, Chinese race walker October 22 — Mika Vasara, Finnish shot putter October 22 — Li Zhuhong, Chinese long-distance runner November 19 — Meseret Defar, Ethiopian distance runner December 2 — Yelena Priyma, Russian hammer thrower December 6 — Urszula Piwnicka, Polish javelin thrower December 8 — Aliaksandr Kazulka, Belarusian hammer thrower December 9 — Diana Pickler, American heptathlete December 13 — Janeth Jepkosgei, Kenyan middle-distance runner December 22 — Viola Kibiwot, Kenyan middle-distance runner December 27 — Tomo Morimoto, Japanese long-distance runner Deaths January 21 — Antonio Siddi (59), Italian athlete (b. 1923) January 24 — Juan Carlos Zabala (71), Argentine athlete (b. 1911) February 14 — Lina Radke (79), German athlete (b. 1903) September 12 — Sabin Carr (79), American pole vaulter (b. 1904) References Association of Road Racing Statisticians Year Rankings Category:Sport of athletics by year