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1983 in the sport of athletics

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This article contains an overview of the year 1983 in athletics.

1983 in athletics
Major world eventsWorld Championship in Athletics
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International Events

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World records

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Men

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EVENTATHLETEMARKDATEVENUE
100 metres  Calvin Smith (USA)9.933 JulyAir Force Academy, CO, USA
1500 m  Sydney Maree (USA)3:31.2428 AugustKöln, West Germany
1500 m  Steve Ovett (GBR)3:30.774 SeptemberRieti, Italy
400m Hurdles  Ed Moses (USA)47.0231 AugustKoblenz, West Germany
4x100m Relay  United States (USA)
• Emmit King
• Willie Gault
• Calvin Smith
• Carl Lewis		37.8610 AugustHelsinki
High Jump  Zhu Jianhua (CHN)2.37m11 JuneBeijing, PR China
 Zhu Jianhua (CHN)2.38m22 SeptemberShanghai, PR China
Pole Vault  Pierre Quinon (FRA)5.82m28 AugustKöln, West Germany
Pole Vault  Thierry Vigneron (FRA)5.83m1 SeptemberRome, Italy
Shot Put  Udo Beyer (GDR)22.22m25 JuneLos Angeles, United States
Discus  Yuriy Dumchev (URS)71.86m29 MayMoscow, Soviet Union
Hammer  Sergey Litvinov (URS)84.14m21 JuneMoscow, Soviet Union
Javelin (old)  Tom Petranoff (USA)99.72m15 MayWestwood, United States
Decathlon  Jürgen Hingsen (FRG)88254-5 JuneBernhausen, West Germany
Half Marathon  Paul Cummings (USA)1:01:3225 SeptemberDayton, Ohio, United States

Women

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EVENTATHLETEMARKDATEVENUE
100 metres  Marlies Göhr (GDR)10.818 JuneEast Berlin
 Evelyn Ashford (USA)10.793 JulyColorado Springs
400 metres  Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)47.9910 AugustHelsinki
800 metres  Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)1:53.2826 JulyMunich
10,000 metres  Lyudmila Baranova (URS)31:35.0129 MayKrasnodar
 Raysa Sadreydinova (URS)31:27.587 SeptemberOdessa
400m Hurdles  Anna Ambrazienė (URS)54.0211 JuneMoscow
4x100m Relay  East Germany (GDR)
• Silke Möller
• Marita Koch
• Ingrid Auerswald
• Marlies Göhr		41.5331 JulyEast Berlin
High Jump  Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG)2.03m21 AugustLondon
 Tamara Bykova (URS)2.04m25 AugustPisa, Italy
Heptathlon  Ramona Neubert (GDR)693518-19 JuneMoscow
Half Marathon  Joan Benoit (USA)1:09:1018 SeptemberPhiladelphia

Men's Best Year Performers

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100 metres

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Main race this year: World Championships 100 metres
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Calvin Smith (USA)9.93
2.  Carl Lewis (USA)9.97
3.  Mel Lattany (USA)10.03
4.  Leandro Peñalver (CUB)10.06
 Ron Brown (USA)
 Emmit King (USA)

200 metres

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Main race this year: World Championships 200 metres
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Carl Lewis (USA)19.75
2.  Calvin Smith (USA)19.99
3.  Larry Myricks (USA)20.03
4.  Elliott Quow (USA)20.16
5.  Mel Lattany (USA)20.22

400 metres

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Main race this year: World Championships 400 metres
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Erwin Skamrahl (FRG)44.50
2.  Bert Cameron (JAM)44.62
3.  James Rolle (USA)44.73
4.  Chris Whitlock (USA)44.80
5.  Sunder Nix (USA)44.87

800 metres

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Main race this year: World Championships 800 metres
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Steve Cram (GBR)1:43.61
2.  Willi Wülbeck (FRG)1:43.65
3.  Sebastian Coe (GBR)1:43.80
4.  Peter Elliott (GBR)1:43.98
5.  Joaquim Cruz (BRA)1:44.04

1,500 metres

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Main race this year: World Championships 1,500 metres
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Steve Ovett (GBR)3:30.77
2.  Sydney Maree (USA)3:31.24
3.  Steve Cram (GBR)3:31.66
4.  Saïd Aouita (MAR)3:32.54
5.  Steve Scott (USA)3:32.71

Mile

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RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Steve Scott (USA)3:49.21
2.  John Walker (NZL)3:49.73
3.  Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)3:49.98
4.  Sydney Maree (USA)3:50.30
5.  Steve Ovett (GBR)3:50.49

3,000 metres

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RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Doug Padilla (USA)7:35.84
2.  Eamonn Coghlan (IRL)7:38.39
3.  António Leitão (POR)7:39.69
4.  Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)7:39.71
5.  Dragan Zdravković (YUG)7:40.49

5,000 metres

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Main race this year: World Championships 5,000 metres
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Fernando Mamede (POR)13:08.54
2.  António Leitão (POR)13:14.13
3.  Doug Padilla (USA)13:17.69
4.  Antonio Prieto (ESP)13:18.53
5.  Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)13:18.86

10,000 metres

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Main race this year: World Championships 10,000 metres
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Carlos Lopes (POR)27:23.44
2.  Werner Schildhauer (GDR)27:24.95
3.  Fernando Mamede (POR)27:25.13
4.  Hansjörg Kunze (GDR)27:30.69
5.  Nick Rose (GBR)27:31.19

Half Marathon

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RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Paul Cummings (USA)1:01:32 WR

Marathon

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Main race this year: World Championships Marathon
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Robert de Castella (AUS)2:08:37
2.  Toshihiko Seko (JPN)2:08:38
3.  Carlos Lopes (POR)2:08:39
4.  Takeshi So (JPN)2:08:55
 Juma Ikangaa (TAN)

110m Hurdles

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Main race this year: World Championships 110m Hurdles
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Greg Foster (USA)13.11
2.  Sam Turner (USA)13.17
3.  Tonie Campbell (USA)13.32
4.  Arto Bryggare (FIN)13.44
 Roger Kingdom (USA)

400m Hurdles

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Main race this year: World Championships 400m Hurdles
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Edwin Moses (USA)47.02
2.  Andre Phillips (USA)47.78
3.  David Patrick (USA)48.05
4.  David Lee (USA)48.42
5.  Harald Schmid (FRG)48.49

3,000m Steeplechase

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Main race this year: World Championships 3,000m Steeplechase
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Henry Marsh (USA)8:12.37
2.  Bogusław Mamiński (POL)8:12.62
3.  Patriz Ilg (FRG)8:15.06
4.  Graeme Fell (GBR)8:15.16
5.  Joseph Mahmoud (FRA)8:15.59

High Jump

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Main competition this year: World Championships High Jump
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSHEIGHT
1.  Zhu Jianhua (CHN)2.38 WR
2.  Valeriy Sereda (URS)2.35
3.  Paul Frommeyer (FRG)2.34
 Carlo Thränhardt (FRG)
 Eddy Annys (BEL)

Long Jump

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Main competition this year: World Championships Long Jump
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSDISTANCE
1.  Carl Lewis (USA)8.79
2.  Jason Grimes (USA)8.39
3.  Sergey Rodin (URS)8.33
 Reginald Kelly (USA)
5.  Aleksandr Beskrovniy (URS)8.28

Triple Jump

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Main competition this year: World Championships Triple Jump
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSDISTANCE
1.  Vasiliy Grishchenkov (URS)17.55
2.  Aleksandr Beskrovniy (URS)17.53
3.  Zdzislaw Hoffmann (POL)17.42
4.  Lázaro Betancourt (CUB)17.40
5.  Ken Lorraway (AUS)17.35

Discus

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Main competition this year: World Championships Discus Throw
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSDISTANCE
1.  Yuriy Dumchev (URS)71.86 WR
2.  Ben Plucknett (USA)71.32
3.  Art Burns (USA)71.18
4.  Luis Delís (CUB)71.06
5.  Imrich Bugár (TCH)70.72

Hammer

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Main article: 1983 Hammer Throw Year Ranking
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSDISTANCE
1.  Sergey Litvinov (URS)84.14
2.  Igor Nikulin (URS)82.92
3.  Yuriy Tarasyuk (URS)81.18
4.  Juha Tiainen (FIN)81.02
5.  Yuriy Syedikh (URS)80.94

Shot Put

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Main competition this year: World Championships Shot Put
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSDISTANCE
1.  Udo Beyer (GDR)22.22 WR
2.  Dave Laut (USA)21.94
3.  Edward Sarul (POL)21.68
4.  Kevin Akins (USA)21.61
5.  Mike Lehmann (USA)21.43

Javelin (old design)

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Main competition this year: World Championships Javelin Throw
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSDISTANCE
1.  Tom Petranoff (USA)99.72
2.  Detlef Michel (GDR)96.72
3.  Heino Puuste (URS)94.20
4.  Dainis Kula (URS)91.88
5.  Klaus Tafelmeier (FRG)91.44

Pole Vault

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Main competition this year: World Championships Pole Vault
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSHEIGHT
1.  Thierry Vigneron (FRA)5.83
2.  Pierre Quinon (FRA)5.82
3.  Billy Olson (USA)5.80
4.  Jeff Buckingham (USA)5.76
5.  Brad Pursley (USA)5.75

Decathlon

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Main competition this year: World Championships Decathlon
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSPOINTS
1.  Jürgen Hingsen (FRG)8779 WR
2.  Siegfried Wentz (FRG)8718
3.  Daley Thompson (GBR)8666
4.  Grigoriy Degtyaryev (URS)8538
5.  Uwe Freimuth (GDR)8501

Women's Best Year Performers

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100 metres

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Main race this year: World Championships 100 metres
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Evelyn Ashford (USA)10.79 WR
2.  Marlies Göhr (GDR)10.81 WR
3.  Marita Koch (GDR)10.83
4.  Diane Williams (USA)10.94
5.  Silke Gladisch (GDR)11.03

200 metres

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Main race this year: World Championships 200 metres
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Marita Koch (GDR)21.82
2.  Evelyn Ashford (USA)21.88
3.  Chandra Cheeseborough (USA)21.99
4.  Merlene Ottey (JAM)22.19
5.  Florence Griffith (USA)22.23

400 metres

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Main race this year: World Championships 400 metres
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)47.99 WR
2.  Tatána Kocembová (TCH)48.59
3.  Mariya Pinigina (URS)49.19
4.  Gaby Bußmann (FRG)49.75
5.  Marita Payne (CAN)50.06

800 metres

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Main race this year: World Championships 800 metres
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)1:53.28 WR
2.  Yekaterina Podkopayeva (URS)1:55.96
3.  Lyubov Gurina (URS)1:56.11
4.  Zamira Zaytseva (URS)1:56.21
5.  Tatyana Providokhina (URS)1:56.81

1,500 metres

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Main race this year: World Championships 1,500 metres
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Mary Decker (USA)3:57.12
2.  Ravilya Agletdinova (URS)3:59.31
3.  Fiţa Lovin (ROU)4:00.12
4.  Yekaterina Podkopayeva (URS)4:00.3
5.  Maria Radu (ROU)4:00.62

3,000 metres

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Main race this year: World Championships 3,000 metres
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Tatyana Kazankina (URS)8:32.08
2.  Alla Yushina (URS)8:34.02
3.  Galina Zakharova (URS)8:34.60
4.  Mary Decker (USA)8:34.62
5.  Svetlana Guskova (URS)8:35.06

5,000 metres

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RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Zola Budd (RSA)15:10.65
2.  Anna Domoradskaya (URS)15:19.0

10,000 metres

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RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Raysa Sadreydinova (URS)31:27.58 WR
2.  Lyudmila Baranova (URS)31:35.01 WR
3.  Tatyana Pozdnyakova (URS)31:48.94
4.  Olga Bondarenko (URS)31:49.44
5.  Aurora Cunha (POR)31:52.85

Half Marathon

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RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Joan Benoit (USA)1:09:10

Marathon

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Main race this year: World Championships Marathon
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Joan Benoit (USA)2:22:43
2.  Grete Waitz (NOR)2:25:17
3.  Julie Brown (USA)2:26:26
4.  Mary O'Connor (NZL)2:28:20
5.  Charlotte Teske (FRG)2:28:32

100m Hurdles

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Main race this year: World Championships 100m Hurdles
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Bettine Jahn (GDR)12.42
2.  Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL)12.49
3.  Kerstin Knabe (GDR)12.62
4.  Yordanka Donkova (BUL)12.65
5.  Cornelia Riefstahl (GDR)12.72

400m Hurdles

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Main race this year: World Championships 400m Hurdles
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSTIME
1.  Anna Ambrazienė (URS)54.02 WR
2.  Yekaterina Fesenko (URS)54.14
3.  Ellen Fiedler (GDR)54.20
4.  Petra Pfaff (GDR)54.64
5.  Yelena Filipishina (URS)54.72

High Jump

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Main competition this year: World Championships High Jump
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSHEIGHT
1.  Tamara Bykova (URS)2.04 WR
2.  Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG)2.03 WR
3.  Louise Ritter (USA)2.01
4.  Kerstin Brandt (GDR)1.99
5.  Larisa Kositsyna (URS)1.98
 Silvia Costa (CUB)
 Valentina Poluyko (URS)

Long Jump

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Main competition this year: World Championships Long Jump
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSDISTANCE
1.  Anişoara Cuşmir (ROU)7.43
2.  Heike Daute (GDR)7.14
3.  Svetlana Zorina (URS)7.04
 Tatyana Proskuryakova (URS)
5.  Margarita Butkiené (URS)7.00

Discus

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Main competition this year: World Championships Discus Throw
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSDISTANCE
1.  Galina Savinkova (URS)73.26
2.  Gisela Beyer (GDR)70.96
3.  Mariya Petkova (BUL)70.74
4.  Martina Hellmann (GDR)70.26
5.  Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)70.00

Shot Put

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Main competition this year: World Championships Shot Put
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSDISTANCE
1.  Ilona Slupianek (GDR)22.40
2.  Helena Fibingerová (TCH)21.46
3.  Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH)21.05
4.  Mihaela Loghin (ROU)20.95
5.  Nunu Abashidze (URS)20.94

Javelin (old design)

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Main competition this year: World Championships Javelin Throw
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSDISTANCE
1.  Tiina Lillak (FIN)74.76
2.  Tessa Sanderson (GBR)73.58
3.  Sofia Sakorafa (GRE)72.28
4.  Antje Zöllkau (GDR)71.00
5.  Anna Verouli (GRE)70.90

Heptathlon

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Main competition this year: World Championships Heptathlon
RANK1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERSPOINTS
1.  Ramona Neubert (GDR)6935 WR
2.  Sabine Paetz (GDR)6713
3.  Lyudmila Kolyadina (URS)6541
4.  Yekaterina Smirnova (URS)6536
5.  Anke Vater (GDR)6531

Births

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Deaths

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References

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