1983 world championships in athletics

The 1983 World Championships in Athletics were the first World Championships and run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations were held in the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland between August 7 and August 14.

Medal Winners

Medal table by country

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b>Country:	!align="center" bgcolor="gold"\|Gold:	!align="center" bgcolor="silver"\|Silver:	!align="center" bgcolor="bronze"\|Bronze:	Total:
.	East Germany	11	8	6	25
.	USA	8	9	7	24
.	USSR	5	5	10	20
.	Czechoslovakia	4	3	2	9
.	West Germany	2	5	1	8
.	Great Britain	2	2	3	7
.	Poland	2	1	1	4
=	Finland	1	1	1	3
=	Italy	1	1	1	3
=	Jamaica	1	1	1	3
1=	Australia	1	0	0	1
1=	Ireland	1	0	0	1
1=	Mexico	1	0	0	1
1=	Norway	1	0	0	1
5=	Cuba	0	1	0	1
5=	Ethiopia	0	1	0	1
5=	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
5=	Romania	0	1	0	1
5=	Spain	0	1	0	1
0.	Bulgaria	0	0	3	3
1=	Brazil	0	0	1	1
1=	China	0	0	1	1
1=	Greece	0	0	0	1
1=	Morocco	0	0	1	1
1=	Nigeria	0	0	1	1

Track

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00 m Men	Carl Lewis, USA	Calvin Smith, USA	Emmit King, USA
00 m Women	Marlies Ghr, East Germany	Marita Koch, East Germany	Diane Williams, USA
00 m Hurdles Women	Bettine Jahn, East Germany	Kerstin Knabe, East Germany	Ginka Zagorcheva, Bulgaria
10 m Hurdles Men	Greg Foster, USA	Arto Bryggare, Finland	Willie Gault, USA
00 m Men	Calvin Smith, USA	Elliott Quow, USA	Pietro Mennea, Italy
00 m Women	Marita Koch, East Germany	Merlene Ottey, Jamaica	Kathy Cook, Great Britain
00 m Men	Bert Cameron, Jamaica	Mike Franks, USA	Sunder Nix, USA
00 m Women	Jarmila Kratochvlov, Czechoslovakia	Tatna Kocembov, Czechoslovakia	Mariya Pinigina, USSR
00 m Hurdles Men	Edwin Moses, USA	Harald Schmid, West Germany	Aleksandr Kharlov, USSR
00 m Hurdles Women	Brbel Broschat, East Germany	Ellen Neumann, East Germany	Petra Pfaff, East Germany
00 m Men	Willi Wlbeck, West Germany	Rob Druppers, Netherlands	Joaquim Cruz, Brazil
00 m Women	Jarmila Kratochvlov, Czechoslovakia	Lyubov Gurina, USSR	Yekaterina Podkopayeva, USSR
500 m Men	Steve Cram, Great Britain	Steve Scott, USA	Sad Aouita, Morocco
500 m Women	Mary Decker, USA	Zamira Zaytseva, USSR	Yekaterina Podkopayeva, USSR
000 m Women	Mary Decker, USA	Brigitte Kraus, West Germany	Tatyana Kazankina, USSR
,000 m Steeplechase Men	Patriz Ilg, West Germany	Boguslaw Maminski, Poland	Colin Reitz, Great Britain
,000 m Men	Eamonn Coghlan, Ireland	Werner Schildhauer, East Germany	Martti Vainio, Finland
0,000 m Men	Alberto Cova, Italy	Werner Schildhauer, East Germany	Hansjrg Kunze, East Germany
arathon Men	Rob de Castella, Australia	Kebebe Balcha, Ethiopia	Waldemar Cierpinski, East Germany
arathon Women	Grete Waitz, Norway	Marianne Dickerson, USA	Raisa Smekhnova, USSR
0 km Walk Men	Ernesto Canto, Mexico	Jozef Pribilinec, Czechoslovakia	Yevgeniy Yevsyukov, USSR
0 km Walk Men	Ronald Weigel, East Germany	Jos Marn, Spain	Sergey Yung, USSR
x 100 m Relay Men	USA	Italy	USSR
x 100 m Women	East Germany	Great Britain	Jamaica
x 400 m Men	USSR	West Germany	Great Britain
x 400 m Women	East Germany	Czechoslovakia	USSR

Field

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a href="/encyclopedia/Long-Jump" title="Long Jump">Long Jump Men	Carl Lewis, USA	Jason Grimes, USA	Mike Conley, USA
a href="/encyclopedia/Long-Jump" title="Long Jump">Long Jump Women	Heike Daute, East Germany	Anisoara Cusmir, Romania	Carol Lewis, USA
a href="/encyclopedia/Triple-Jump" title="Triple Jump">Triple Jump Men	Zdzislaw Hoffmann, Poland	Wille Banks, USA	Ajayi Agbebaku, Nigeria
a href="/encyclopedia/high-jump" title="high jump">high jump Men	Gennadiy Avdeyenko, USSR	Tyke Peacock, USA	Zhu Jianhua, China
a href="/encyclopedia/high-jump" title="high jump">high jump Women	Tamara Bykova, USSR	Ulrike Meyfarth, West Germany	Louise Ritter, USA
a href="/encyclopedia/javelin-throw" title="javelin throw">javelin throw Men	Detlef Michel, East Germany	Tom Petranoff, USA	Dainis Kla, USSR
a href="/encyclopedia/javelin-throw" title="javelin throw">javelin throw Women	Tiina Lillak, Finland	Fatima Whitbread, Great Britain	Anna Verouli, Greece
a href="/encyclopedia/Discus" title="Discus">Discus Men	Imrich Bugr, Czechoslovakia	Luis Dels, Cuba	Gejza Valent, Czechoslovakia
a href="/encyclopedia/Discus" title="Discus">Discus Women	Martina Opitz, East Germany	Galina Murashova, USSR	Maria Petkova, Bulgaria
ammer Men	Sergey Litvinov, USSR	Yuriy Sedykh, USSR	Zdzislaw Kwasny, Poland
a href="/encyclopedia/Shot-Put" title="Shot Put">Shot Put Men	Edward Sarul, Poland	Ulf Timmermann, East Germany	Remigius Machura, Czechoslovakia
a href="/encyclopedia/Shot-Put" title="Shot Put">Shot Put Women	Helena Fibingerov, Czechoslovakia	Helma Knorscheidt, East Germany	Ilona Slupianek, East Germany
a href="/encyclopedia/pole-vault" title="pole vault">pole vault Men	Sergey Bubka, USR	Konstantin Volkov, USSR	Atanas Tarev, Bulgaria
a href="/encyclopedia/Heptathlon" title="Heptathlon">Heptathlon Women	Ramona Neubert, East Germany	Sabine Paetz, East Germany	Anke Vater, East Germany
a href="/encyclopedia/Decathlon" title="Decathlon">Decathlon Men	Daley Thompson, Great Britain	Jrgen Hingsen, West Germany	Siegfried Wentz, West Germany

References

http://www2.iaaf.org/results/past/WCH83/index.html

1983 World Championships In Athletics

Medal Winners

Medal table by country

Track

Field

References

See Also