Helsinki (Finland)
7th - 14th August 1983
(Olympic Stadium)
100 m - 08-08-1983
1. Marlies Göhr - East Germany - 10.97
(Championship record)
2. Marita Koch - East Germany - 11.02
3. Diane Williams - USA - 11.06
200 m - 14-08-1983
1. Marita Koch - East Germany - 22.13
2. Merlene Ottey - Jamaica - 22.19
3. Kathy Cook - Great Britain - 22.37
400 m - 10-08-1983
1. Jarmila Kratochvílová - Czechoslovakia - 47.99
(World record)
2. Tatána Kocembová - Czechoslovakia - 48.59
3. Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina - Soviet Union - 49.19
800 m - 09-08-1983
1. Jarmila Kratochvílová - Czechoslovakia - 1:54.68
2. Lyubov Gurina - Soviet Union - 1:56.11
3. Yekaterina Podkopayeva - Soviet Union - 1:57.58
1500 m - 14-08-1983
1. Mary Decker - USA - 4:00.90
2. Zamira Zaytseva - Soviet Union - 4:01.19
3. Yekaterina Podkopayeva - Soviet Union - 4:02.25
3000 m - 10-08-1983
1. Mary Decker - USA - 8:34.62
(Championship record)
2. Brigitte Kraus - West Germany - 8:35.11
3. Tatyana Kazankina - Soviet Union - 8:35.13
marathon - 07-08-1983
1. Grete Waitz - Norway - 2:28:09
(Championship record)
2. Marianne Dickerson - USA - 2:31:09
3. Raisa Smekhnova - Soviet Union - 2:31:13
(national record)
100 m hurdles - 13-08-1983
1. Bettine Jahn - East Germany - 12.35w
2. Kerstin Knabe - East Germany - 12.42w
3. Ginka Zagorcheva - Bulgaria - 12.62w
400m hurdles - 10-08-1983
1. Yekaterina Fesenko-Grun - Soviet Union - 54.12
( Championship record)
2. Ana Ambraziene - Soviet Union - 54.15
3. Ellen Neumann-Fiedler - East Germany - 54.55
4 x 100 m - 10-08-1983
1. East Germany - 41.76
( Championship record)
(Silke Gladisch, Marita Koch, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Göhr)
2. Great Britain - 42.71
(Joan Baptiste, Kathy Cook, Beverley Callender, Shirley Thomas)
3. Jamaica - 42.73
(Leleith Hodges, Jacqueline Pusey, Juliet Cuthbert, Merlene Ottey)
4 x 400 m - 14-08-1983
1. East Germany - 3:19.73
( Championship record)
(Kerstin Walther, Sabine Busch, Marita Koch, Dagmar Rübsam)
2. Czechoslovakia - 3:20.32
(Tatána Kocembová, Milena Matejkovicová, Zuzana Moravcíková, Jarmila Kratochvílová)
3. Soviet Union - 3:21.16
(Yelena Korban, Marina Ivanova, Irina Baskakova, Mariya Pinigina)
long jump - 14-08-1983
1. Heike Daute-Drechsler - East Germany - 7,27 m
( Championship record)
2. Anisoara Cusmir-Stanciu - Romania - 7,15 m
3. Carol Lewis - USA - 7,04 m
high jump - 09-08-1983
1. Tamara Bykova - Soviet Union - 2,01 m
( Championship record)
2. Ulrike Meyfarth - West Germany - 1,99 m
3. Louise Ritter - USA - 1,95 m
shot put - 12-08-1983
1. Helena Fibingerová - Czechoslovakia - 21,05 m
( Championship record)
2. Helma Knorscheidt - East Germany - 20,70 m
( Championship record)
3. Ilona Slupianek - East Germany - 20,56 m
discus throw - 14-08-1983
1. Martina Hellmann - East Germany - 68,94 m
( Championship record)
2. Galina Murašova - Soviet Union - 67,44 m
3. Mariya Petkova - Bulgaria - 66,44 m
javelin throw - 13-08-1983
1. Tiina Lillak - Finland - 70,82 m
( Championship record)
2. Fatima Whitbread - Great Britain - 69,14 m
3. Anna Verouli - Greece - 65,72 m
heptathlon - 08/09-08-1983
1. Ramona Neubert - East Germany - 6714 points
( Championship record)
2. Sabine Paetz - East Germany - 6662 points
3. Anke Vater - East Germany - 6532 points
