1983 World Championships in Athletics

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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.

1 Men's Results
- 1.1 Track
- 1.2 Field
2 Women's Results
- 2.1 Track
- 2.2 Field
3 Medal table by country
4 References

[edit] Men's Results

[edit] Track

1983 |1987 |1991 |1993 |1995

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Carl Lewis USA	10.07	Calvin Smith USA	10.21	Emmit King USA	10.24
200 m	Calvin Smith USA	20.14	Elliott Quow USA	20.41	Pietro Mennea ITA	20.51
400 m	Bert Cameron JAM	45.05	Mike Franks USA	45.22	Sunder Nix USA	45.24
800 m	Willi Wülbeck FRG	1:43.65	Rob Druppers NLD	1:44.20	Joaquim Cruz BRA	1:44.27
1500 m	Steve Cram GBR	3:41.59	Steve Scott USA	3:41.87	Saïd Aouita MAR	3:42.02
5,000 m	Eamonn Coghlan IRL	13:28.53	Werner Schildhauer GDR	13:30.20	Martti Vainio FIN	13:30.34
10,000 m	Alberto Cova ITA	28:01.04	Werner Schildhauer GDR	28:01.18	Hansjörg Kunze GDR	28:01.26
Marathon	Rob de Castella AUS	2:10:03	Kebebe Balcha ETH	2:10:27	Waldemar Cierpinski GDR	2:10:37
110 m Hurdles	Greg Foster USA	13.42	Arto Bryggare FIN	13.46	Willie Gault USA	13.48
400 m Hurdles	Edwin Moses USA	47.50	Harald Schmid FRG	48.61	Aleksandr Kharlov SUN	49.03
3000 m Steeplechase	Patriz Ilg FRG	8:15.06	Boguslaw Maminski POL	8:17.03	Colin Reitz GBR	8:17.75
20 km Walk	Ernesto Canto MEX	1:20:49	Jozef Pribilinec CSK	1:20:59	Yevgeniy Yevsyukov SUN	1:21:08
50 km Walk	Ronald Weigel GDR	3:54:40	José Marín ESP	3:58:14	Sergey Yung SUN	3:58:53
4 x 100 m Relay	Emmit King, Willie Gault, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis USA	37.86	Stefano Tilli, Carlo Simmionato, Pierfrancesco Pavoni, Pietro Mennea ITA	38.37	Andrey Prokofyev, Nikolay Sidorov, Vladimir Muravyov, Viktor Bryzgin SUN	38.41
4 x 400 m	USSR	3:00.79	West Germany	3:01.83	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

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
Long Jump	Carl Lewis USA	8.55	Jason Grimes USA	8.29	Mike Conley USA	8.12
Triple Jump	Zdzislaw Hoffmann POL	17.42	Willie Banks USA	17.18	Ajayi Agbebaku NGA	17.18
High Jump	Gennadiy Avdeyenko SUN	2.32	Tyke Peacock USA	2.32	Zhu Jianhua CHN	2.29
Pole Vault	Sergey Bubka SUN	5.70	Konstantin Volkov SUN	5.60	Atanas Tarev BGR	5.60
Shot Put	Edward Sarul POL	21.39	Ulf Timmermann GDR	21.16	Remigius Machura CSK	20.98
Discus	Imrich Bugár CSK	67.72	Luis Delís CUB	67.36	Gejza Valent CSK	66.08
Hammer	Sergey Litvinov SUN	82.68	Yuriy Sedykh SUN	80.94	Zdzislaw Kwasny POL	79.42
Javelin	Detlef Michel GDR	89.48	Tom Petranoff USA	85.60	Dainis Kūla SUN	85.58
Decathlon	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

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Marlies Göhr GDR	10.97	Marita Koch GDR	11.02	Diane Williams USA	11.06
200 m	Marita Koch GDR	22.13	Merlene Ottey JAM	22.19	Kathy Cook UK	22.37
400 m	Jarmila Kratochvílová CSK	47.99	Tatána Kocembová CSK	48.59	Mariya Pinigina SUN	49.19
800 m	Jarmila Kratochvílová CSK	1:54.68	Lyubov Gurina SUN	1:56.11	Yekaterina Podkopayeva SUN	1:57.58
1500 m	Mary Decker USA	4:00.90	Zamira Zaytseva SUN	4:01.19	Yekaterina Podkopayeva SUN	4:02.25
3000 m	Mary Decker USA	8:34.62	Brigitte Kraus FRG	8:35.11	Tatyana Kazankina SUN	8:35.13
Marathon	Grete Waitz NOR	2:28:09	Marianne Dickerson USA	2:31:09	Raisa Smekhnova SUN	2:31:13
100 m Hurdles	Bettine Jahn GDR	12.35	Kerstin Knabe GDR	12.42	Ginka Zagorcheva BGR]	12.62
400 m Hurdles	Bärbel Broschat GDR	54.55	Ellen Neumann GDR	54.56	Petra Pfaff GDR	55.84
4 x 100 m	East Germany	41.76	Great Britain	42.71	Jamaica	42.73
4 x 400 m	East Germany	3:19.73	Czechoslovakia	3:20.32	USSR	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

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
Long Jump	Heike Daute GDR	7.27	Anisoara Cusmir ROU	7.15	Carol Lewis USA	7.04
high jump	Tamara Bykova SUN	2.01	Ulrike Meyfarth FRG	1.99	Louise Ritter USA	1.95
Shot Put	Helena Fibingerová CSK	21.05	Helma Knorscheidt GDR	20.70	Ilona Slupianek GDR	20.56
javelin throw	Tiina Lillak FIN	70.82	Fatima Whitbread UK	69.14	Anna Verouli GRC	65.72
Discus	Martina Opitz GDR	68.94	Galina Murashova SUN	67.44	Maria Petkova BGR	66.44
Heptathlon	Ramona Neubert GDR	6714	Sabine Paetz GDR	6662	Anke Vater GDR	6532
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	11	8	6	25
2.	USA	8	9	7	24
3.	USSR	5	5	10	20
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.	Image:Flag of Bulgaria 1971-1990.gif 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