1983 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN ATHLETICS

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.

Women's Results

Medal table by country

Men's Results

Track

1983 |1987 |1991 |1993 |1995

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Carl Lewis	10.07	Calvin Smith	10.21	Emmit King	10.24
200 m	Calvin Smith	20.14	Elliott Quow	20.41	Pietro Mennea	20.51
400 m	Bert Cameron	45.05	Mike Franks	45.22	Sunder Nix	45.24
800 m	Willi Wülbeck	1:43.65	Rob Druppers	1:44.20	Joaquim Cruz	1:44.27
1.500 m	Steve Cram	3:41.59	Steve Scott	3:41.87	Saïd Aouita	3:42.02
5.000 m	Eamonn Coghlan	13:28.53	Werner Schildhauer	13:30.20	Martti Vainio	13:30.34
10.000 m ''Details''	Alberto Cova	28:01.04	Werner Schildhauer	28:01.18	Hansjörg Kunze	28:01.26
Marathon ''Details''	Rob de Castella	2:10:03	Kebebe Balcha	2:10:27	Waldemar Cierpinski	2:10:37
110 m Hurdles	Greg Foster	13.42	Arto Bryggare	13.46	Willie Gault	13.48
400 m Hurdles	Edwin Moses	47.50	Harald Schmid	48.61	Aleksandr Kharlov	49.03
3.000 m Steeplechase	Patriz Ilg	8:15.06	Bogusław Mamiński	8:17.03	Colin Reitz	8:17.75
20 km Walk	Ernesto Canto	1:20:49	Jozef Pribilinec	1:20:59	Yevgeniy Yevsyukov	1:21:08
50 km Walk	Ronald Weigel	3:43:08	José Marín	3:43:42	Sergey Yung	3:49:03
4 x 100 m Relay	Emmit King, Willie Gault, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis	37.86 WR	Stefano Tilli, Carlo Simmionato, Pierfrancesco Pavoni, Pietro Mennea	38.37 NR	Andrey Prokofyev, Nikolay Sidorov, Vladimir Muravyov, Viktor Bryzgin	38.41
4 x 400 m	Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin	3:00.79	Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Helmut Weber	3:01.83	Ainsley Bennett, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Phil Brown	3:03.53

Field

1983 |1987 |1991 |1993 |1995

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
Long Jump	Carl Lewis	8.55	Jason Grimes	8.29	Mike Conley	8.12
Triple Jump	Zdzisław Hoffmann	17.42	Willie Banks	17.18	Ajayi Agbebaku	17.18
High Jump	Gennadiy Avdeyenko	2.32	Tyke Peacock	2.32	Zhu Jianhua	2.29
Pole Vault	Sergey Bubka	5.70	Konstantin Volkov	5.60	Atanas Tarev	5.60
Shot Put	Edward Sarul	21.39	Ulf Timmermann	21.16	Remigius Machura	20.98
Discus	Imrich Bugár	67.72	Luis Delís	67.36	Gejza Valent	66.08
Hammer	Sergey Litvinov	82.68	Yuriy Sedykh	80.94	Zdzisław Kwaśny	79.42
Javelin	Detlef Michel	89.48	Tom Petranoff	85.60	Dainis Kūla	85.58
Decathlon	Daley Thompson	8666	Jürgen Hingsen	8561	Siegfried Wentz	8478

Women's Results

Track

1983 |1987 |1991 |1993 |1995

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Marlies Göhr	10.97	Marita Koch	11.02	Diane Williams	11.06
200 m	Marita Koch	22.13	Merlene Ottey	22.19	Kathy Smallwood-Cook	22.37
400 m	Jarmila Kratochvílová	47.99 WR	Taťána Kocembová	48.59 PB	Mariya Pinigina	49.19
800 m	Jarmila Kratochvílová	1:54.68	Lyubov Gurina	1:56.11	Yekaterina Podkopayeva	1:57.58
1500 m	Mary Decker	4:00.90	Zamira Zaytseva	4:01.19	Yekaterina Podkopayeva	4:02.25
3000 m	Mary Decker	8:34.62	Brigitte Kraus	8:35.11	Tatyana Kazankina	8:35.13
Marathon ''Details''	Grete Waitz	2:28:09	Marianne Dickerson	2:31:09	Raisa Smekhnova	2:31:13
100 m hurdles	Bettine Jahn	12.35	Kerstin Knabe	12.42	Ginka Zagorcheva	12.62
400 m hurdles	Yekaterina Fesenko	54.14	Ana Ambraziené	54.15	Ellen Fiedler	54.55
4 x 100 m	Silke Gladisch-Möller, Marita Koch, Ingrid Auerswald-Lange, Marlies Göhr	41.76	Joan Baptiste, Kathy Smallwood-Cook, Beverley Callendar, Shirley Thomas	42.71	Leleith Hodges, Jacqueline Pusey, Juliet Cuthbert, Merlene Ottey	42.73
4 x 400 m	Gesine Walther, Sabine Busch, Marita Koch, Dagmar Rübsam	3:19.73	Taťána Kocembová, Milena Matejkovičová-Strnadová, Zuzana Moravčíková, Jarmila Kratochvílová	3:20.32	Yelena Korban, Marina Kharlamova, Irina Baskakova, Mariya Pingina	3:21.16

Field

1983 |1987 |1991 |1993 |1995

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
Long jump	Heike Daute	7.27	Anişoara Cuşmir-Stanciu	7.15	Carol Lewis	7.04
High jump	Tamara Bykova	2.01	Ulrike Meyfarth	1.99	Louise Ritter	1.95
Shot put	Helena Fibingerová	21.05	Helma Knorscheidt	20.70	Ilona Slupianek	20.56
Javelin throw	Tiina Lillak	70.82	Fatima Whitbread	69.14	Anna Verouli	65.72
Discus	Martina Opitz	68.94	Galina Murashova	67.44	Maria Petkova	66.44
Heptathlon	Ramona Neubert	6714	Sabine Paetz	6662	Anke Vater	6532

Medal table by country

'Position'	'Country:'	'Gold:'	'Silver:'	'Bronze:'	'Total: '
1.		11	8	6	25
2.		8	9	7	24
3.		5	5	10	20
4.		4	3	2	9
5.		2	5	1	8
6.		2	2	3	7
7.		2	1	1	4
8=		1	1	1	3
8=		1	1	1	3
8=		1	1	1	3
11=		1	0	0	1
11=		1	0	0	1
11=		1	0	0	1
11=		1	0	0	1
15=		0	1	0	1
15=		0	1	0	1
15=		0	1	0	1
15=		0	1	0	1
15=		0	1	0	1
20.		0	0	3	3
21=		0	0	1	1
21=		0	0	1	1
21=		0	0	1	1
21=		0	0	1	1
21=		0	0	1	1

References

★ IAAF

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