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.

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[edit] Men's Results

[edit] Track

1983 |1987 |1991 |1993 |1995

Event: Gold: Silver: Bronze:
100 m Carl Lewis
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10.07 Calvin Smith
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10.21 Emmit King
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10.24
200 m Calvin Smith
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20.14 Elliott Quow
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20.41 Pietro Mennea
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20.51
400 m Bert Cameron
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45.05 Mike Franks
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45.22 Sunder Nix
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45.24
800 m Willi Wülbeck
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1:43.65 Rob Druppers
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1:44.20 Joaquim Cruz
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1:44.27
1500 m Steve Cram
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3:41.59 Steve Scott
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3:41.87 Saïd Aouita
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3:42.02
5,000 m Eamonn Coghlan
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13:28.53 Werner Schildhauer
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13:30.20 Martti Vainio
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13:30.34
10,000 m Alberto Cova
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28:01.04 Werner Schildhauer
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28:01.18 Hansjörg Kunze
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28:01.26
Marathon Rob de Castella
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2:10:03 Kebebe Balcha
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2:10:27 Waldemar Cierpinski
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2:10:37
110 m Hurdles Greg Foster
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13.42 Arto Bryggare
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13.46 Willie Gault
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13.48
400 m Hurdles Edwin Moses
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47.50 Harald Schmid
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48.61 Aleksandr Kharlov
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49.03
3000 m Steeplechase Patriz Ilg
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8:15.06 Bogusław Mamiński
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8:17.03 Colin Reitz
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8:17.75
20 km Walk Ernesto Canto
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1:20:49 Jozef Pribilinec
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1:20:59 Yevgeniy Yevsyukov
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1:21:08
50 km Walk Ronald Weigel
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3:54:40 José Marín
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3:58:14 Sergey Yung
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3:58:53
4 x 100 m Relay Emmit King, Willie Gault, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis
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37.86 Stefano Tilli, Carlo Simmionato, Pierfrancesco Pavoni, Pietro Mennea
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38.37 Andrey Prokofyev, Nikolay Sidorov, Vladimir Muravyov, Viktor Bryzgin
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38.41
4 x 400 m Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin
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3:00.79 Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Helmut Weber
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3:01.83 Ainsley Bennett, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Phil Brown
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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
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8.55 Jason Grimes
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8.29 Mike Conley
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8.12
Triple Jump Zdzisław Hoffmann
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17.42 Willie Banks
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17.18 Ajayi Agbebaku
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17.18
High Jump Gennadiy Avdeyenko
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2.32 Tyke Peacock
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2.32 Zhu Jianhua
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2.29
Pole Vault Sergey Bubka
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5.70 Konstantin Volkov
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5.60 Atanas Tarev
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5.60
Shot Put Edward Sarul
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21.39 Ulf Timmermann
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21.16 Remigius Machura
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20.98
Discus Imrich Bugár
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67.72 Luis Delís
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67.36 Gejza Valent
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66.08
Hammer Sergey Litvinov
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82.68 Yuriy Sedykh
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80.94 Zdzisław Kwaśny
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79.42
Javelin Detlef Michel
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89.48 Tom Petranoff
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85.60 Dainis Kūla
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85.58
Decathlon Daley Thompson
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8666 Jürgen Hingsen
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8561 Siegfried Wentz
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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
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10.97 Marita Koch
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11.02 Diane Williams
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11.06
200 m Marita Koch
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22.13 Merlene Ottey
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22.19 Kathy Cook
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22.37
400 m Jarmila Kratochvílová
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47.99 Taťána Kocembová
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48.59 Mariya Pinigina
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49.19
800 m Jarmila Kratochvílová
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1:54.68 Lyubov Gurina
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1:56.11 Yekaterina Podkopayeva
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1:57.58
1500 m Mary Decker
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4:00.90 Zamira Zaytseva
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4:01.19 Yekaterina Podkopayeva
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4:02.25
3000 m Mary Decker
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8:34.62 Brigitte Kraus
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8:35.11 Tatyana Kazankina
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8:35.13
Marathon Grete Waitz
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2:28:09 Marianne Dickerson
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2:31:09 Raisa Smekhnova
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2:31:13
100 m hurdles Bettine Jahn
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12.35 Kerstin Knabe
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12.42 Ginka Zagorcheva
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12.62
400 m hurdles Yekaterina Fesenko
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54.14 Ana Ambraziené
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54.15 Ellen Fiedler
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54.55
4 x 100 m Silke Gladisch-Möller, Marita Koch, Ingrid Auerswald-Lange, Marlies Göhr
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41.76 Joan Baptiste, Kathy Smallwood-Cook, Beverley Callender, Shirley Thomas
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42.71 Leleith Hodges, Jacqueline Pusey, Juliet Cuthbert, Merlene Ottey
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42.73
4 x 400 m Gesine Walther, Sabine Busch, Marita Koch, Dagmar Rübsam
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3:19.73 Taťána Kocembová, Milena Matejkovičová-Strnadová, Zuzana Moravčíková, Jarmila Kratochvílová
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3:20.32 Yelena Korban, Marina Kharlamova, Irina Baskakova, Mariya Pingina
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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
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7.27 Anişoara Cuşmir-Stanciu
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7.15 Carol Lewis
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7.04
high jump Tamara Bykova
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2.01 Ulrike Meyfarth
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1.99 Louise Ritter
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1.95
Shot Put Helena Fibingerová
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21.05 Helma Knorscheidt
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20.70 Ilona Slupianek
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20.56
javelin throw Tiina Lillak
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70.82 Fatima Whitbread
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69.14 Anna Verouli
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65.72
Discus Martina Opitz
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68.94 Galina Murashova
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67.44 Maria Petkova
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66.44
Heptathlon Ramona Neubert
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6714 Sabine Paetz
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6662 Anke Vater
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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. Flag of German Democratic Republic East Germany 11 8 6 25
2. Flag of United States United States 8 9 7 24
3. Flag of Soviet Union Soviet Union 5 5 10 20
4. Flag of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 4 3 2 9
5. Flag of West Germany West Germany 2 5 1 8
6. Flag of United Kingdom Great Britain 2 2 3 7
7. Flag of Poland Poland 2 1 1 4
8= Flag of Finland Finland 1 1 1 3
8= Flag of Italy Italy 1 1 1 3
8= Flag of Jamaica Jamaica 1 1 1 3
11= Flag of Australia Australia 1 0 0 1
11= Flag of Republic of Ireland Ireland 1 0 0 1
11= Flag of Mexico Mexico 1 0 0 1
11= Flag of Norway Norway 1 0 0 1
15= Flag of Cuba Cuba 0 1 0 1
15= Flag of Ethiopia Ethiopia 0 1 0 1
15= Flag of Netherlands Netherlands 0 1 0 1
15= Flag of Romania Romania 0 1 0 1
15= Flag of Spain Spain 0 1 0 1
20. Flag of Bulgaria Bulgaria 0 0 3 3
21= Flag of Brazil Brazil 0 0 1 1
21= Flag of People's Republic of China China 0 0 1 1
21= Flag of Greece Greece 0 0 1 1
21= Flag of Morocco Morocco 0 0 1 1
21= Flag of Nigeria Nigeria 0 0 1 1

[edit] References


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