1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

Marathon These are the official results of the Men's 20 kilometres race walk event at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. The race was held on 7 August 1983. Medalists GoldMEX Ernesto CantoMexico (MEX)SilverTCH Jozef PribilinecCzechoslovakia (TCH)BronzeURS Yevgeniy YevsyukovSoviet Union (URS) Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds DNS did not startNM no markWR world recordAR area recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best Records Standing records prior to the 1983 World Athletics Championships World Record Domingo Colin MEX 1:19.35 April 27, 1980 URS Cherkasy, Soviet Union Event Record New eventBroken records during the 1983 World Athletics Championships Event Record Ernesto Canto MEX 1:20.49 August 7, 1983 FIN Helsinki, Finland Final ranking RankAthleteTimeNote Ernesto Canto MEX1:20:49 Jozef Pribilinec TCH1:20:59 Yevgeniy Yevsyukov URS1:21:084 Josep Marín ESP1:21:215 Gérard Lelièvre FRA1:21:37 NR6 Pavol Blažek TCH1:21:547 Maurizio Damilano ITA1:21:578 Guillaume LeBlanc CAN1:22:04 NR9 Raúl González MEX1:22:0610 Roland Wieser GDR1:22:1411 Anatoliy Gorshkov URS1:22:3412 Reima Salonen FIN1:22:5113 Pyotr Pochenchuk URS1:24:5514 Ralf Kowalsky GDR1:25:13 15 Dave Smith AUS1:25:23 16 Enrique Vera MEX1:25:27 17 Alik Basriev BUL1:25:49 18 Carlo Mattioli ITA1:25:53 19 Jim Heiring USA1:25:55 20 Marcel Jobin CAN1:26:13 21 Erling Andersen NOR1:26:39 22 Michael Bonke GDR1:26:57 23 José Pinto POR1:27:10 24 Alessandro Pezzatini ITA1:27:15 25 Phil Vesty GBR1:27:20 26 Martial Fesselier FRA1:27:39 27 Roman Mrázek TCH1:27:46 28 Jordi Llopart ESP1:27:49 29 Simon Baker AUS1:28:09 30 Willi Sawall AUS1:28:16 31 Per Rasmussen SWE1:28:51 32 Matti Katila FIN1:29:14 33 Lars Ove Moen NOR1:29:16 34 Francisco Botonero ESP1:29:42 35 Abdelwahab Ferguene ALG1:29:53 36 Tim Lewis USA1:30:10 37 Roger Mills GBR1:30:25 38 Shemsu Hassan ETH 19751:30:36 39 Kevin Taylor NZL1:30:38 40 Li Guangxing CHN1:31:02 41 Ian McCombie GBR1:31:14 42 Chand Ram IND1:31:32 43 Jiang Shaohong CHN1:31:43 44 Petri Makela FIN1:32:21 45 Benamar Kachkouche ALG1:32:33 46 Takehiro Sonohara JPN1:33:45 47 Sergio Gutierrez CRC1:33:59 48 Joseph Martens BEL1:34:39 49 Santiago Fonseca HON 19491:35:07 50 Shane Donelly NZL1:35:21 51 Osvaldo Morejon BOL1:36:37 52 Per Nielsen DEN1:38:52 53 Stefano Casali SMR1:39:41 54 Nadarajan Rengasamy SIN1:51:35 55 Uaongo Areai COK2:05:13 DID NOT FINISH (DNF)— Marco Evoniuk USADNF — François Lapointe CANDNF — Keith Olsthoom NZLDNF DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)— Bo Gustafsson SWEDSQ — Burhan Vurgun TURDSQ DID NOT START (DNS)— Jan Staaf SWEDNS — Zhang Fuxin CHNDNS See also 1980 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Moscow) 1982 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Athens) 1983 Race Walking Year Ranking 1984 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Los Angeles) 1984 Men's Friendship Games 20km Walk (Moscow) 1986 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Stuttgart) 1988 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Seoul) References Results Leichtathletik-Statistiek-Seite W Category:Race walking at the World Athletics Championships