1st IAAF World Championships Helsinki 1983 - men




Helsinki (Finland)
7th - 14th August 1983
(Olympic Stadium)

100 m - 08-08-1983

1. Carl Lewis - USA - 10.07
2. Calvin Smith - USA - 10.21
3. Emmit King - USA - 10.24

200 m - 14-08-1983

1. Calvin Smith - USA - 20.14
2. Elliott Quow - USA - 20.41
3. Pietro Mennea - ITA - 20.51

400 m - 10-08-1983

1. Bert Cameron - Jamaica - 45.05
2. Michael Franks - USA - 45.22
3. Sunder Nix - USA - 45.24

800 m - 09-08-1983

1. Willi Wülbeck - West Germany - 1:43.65
2. Rob Druppers - Netherlands - 1:44.20
3. Joaquim Cruz - Brazil - 1:44.27

1500 m - 14-08-1983

1. Steve Cram - Great Britain - 3:41.59
2. Steve Scott - USA - 3:41.87
3. Saďd Aouita - Morocco - 3:42.02

5000 m - 14-08-1983

1. Eamonn Coghlan - Ireland - 13:28.53
2. Werner Schildhauer - East Germany - 13:30.20
3. Martti Vainio - Finland - 13:30.34

10000 m - 09-08-1983

1. Alberto Cova - Italy - 28:01.04
2. Werner Schildhauer - East Germany - 28:01.18
3. Hansjörg Kunze - East Germany - 28:01.26

marathon - 14-08-1983

1. Robert de Castella - Australia - 2:10:03
2. Kebede Balcha - Ethiopia - 2:10:27
3. Waldemar Cierpinski - East Germany - 2:10:37

Five national records were broken in this race (Sweden, Italy, Norway, Spain and Botswana)

110 m hurdles - 12-08-1983

1. Greg Foster - USA - 13.42
2. Arto Bryggare - Finland - 13.46
3. Willie Gault - USA - 13.48

400m hurdles - 09-08-1983

1. Edwin Moses - USA - 47.50
2. Harald Schmid - West Germany - 48.61
3. Aleksandr Kharlov - Soviet Union - 49.03

3000 m steeple - 12-08-1983

1. Patriz Ilg - West Germany - 8:15.06
2. Boguslaw Maminski - Poland - 8:17.03
3. Colin Reitz - Great Britain - 8:17.75

20 km walk - 07-08-1983

1. Ernesto Canto - Mexico - 1:20:49
2. Jozef Pribilinec - Czechoslovakia - 1:20:59
3. Yevgeniy Yevsyukov - Soviet Union - 1:21:21

Two national records were broken in this race (France and Canada)

50 km walk - 12-08-1983

1. Ronald Weigel - East Germany - 3:43:08
2. Josep Marín - Spain - 3:46:32
3. Sergey Yung - Soviet Union - 3:49:03

4 x 100 m - 10-08-1983

1. United States - 37.86
(World record)
(Emmit King, Willie Gault, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis)
2. Italy - 38.37
(national record)
(Stefano Tilli, Carlo Simionato, Pierfrancesco Pavoni, Pietro Mennea)
3. Soviet Union - 38.41
(JAndrey Prokofyev, Nikolay Sidorov, Vladimir Muravyov, Viktor Bryzgin)

4 x 400 m - 14-08-1983

1. Soviet Union- 3:00.79
(Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin)
2. West Germany - 3:01.83
(Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Hartmut Weber)
3. Great Britain - 3:03.53
(Ainsley Bennett, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown)

long jump - 10-08-1983

1. Carl Lewis - USA - 8,55 m
(Championship record)
2. Jason Grimes - USA - 8,29 m
3. Mike Conley - USA - 8,12 m

triple jump - 08-08-1983

1. Zdzislaw Hoffmann - Poland - 17,42 m
2. Willie Banks - USA - 17,18 m
3. Ajayi Agbebaku - Nigeria - 17,18 m

high jump - 13-08-1983

1. Hennadiy Avdyeyenko - Soviet Union - 2,32 m
2. Tyke Peacock - USA - 2,32 m
3. Jianhua Zhu - China - 2,29 m

pole vault - 14-08-1983

1. Sergey Bubka - Soviet Union - 5,70 m
2. Konstantin Volkov - Soviet Union - 5,60 m
3. Atanas Tarev - Bulgaria - 5,60 m

shot put - 07-08-1983

1. Edward Sarul - Poland - 21,39 m
(Championship record)
2. Ulf Timmermann - East Germany - 21,16 m
3. Remigius Machura - Czechoslovakia - 20,98 m

discus throw - 14-08-1983

1. Imrich Bugár - Czechoslovakia - 67,72 m
2. Luis Delis - Cuba - 67,36 m
3. Géjza Valent - Czechoslovakia - 66,08 m

javelin throw - 12-08-1983

1. Detlef Michel - East Germany - 89,48 m
2. Tom Petranoff - USA - 85,60 m
3. Dainis Kula - Soviet Union - 85,58 m

hammer throw - 09-08-1983

1. Sergey Litvinov - Soviet Union - 82,68 m
(Championship record)
2. Yuriy Sedykh - Soviet Union - 80,94 m
3. Zdzislaw Kwasny - Poland - 79,42 m
(national record)

decathlon - 12/13-08-1983

1. Daley Thompson - Great Britain - 8666 points
(Championship record)
2. Jurgen Hingsen - West Germany - 8561 points
3. Siegfried Wentz - West Germany - 8478 points