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