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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.
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Medal Winners
Medal table by country
| Position | Country: | Total: | |||
| 1. | East Germany | 11 | 8 | 6 | 25 |
| 2. | USA | 8 | 9 | 7 | 24 |
| 3. | USSR | 5 | 5 | 10 | 20 |
| 4. | Czechoslovakia | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 5. | West Germany | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 6. | Great Britain | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 7. | Poland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 8= | Finland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8= | Italy | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8= | Jamaica | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11= | Australia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11= | Ireland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11= | Mexico | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11= | Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15= | Cuba | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15= | Ethiopia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15= | Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15= | Romania | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15= | Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 20. | Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 21= | Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21= | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21= | Greece | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 21= | Morocco | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 21= | Nigeria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Track
| Event: | |||
| 100 m Men | Carl Lewis, USA | Calvin Smith, USA | Emmit King , USA |
| 100 m Women | Marlies Göhr , East Germany | Marita Koch, East Germany | Diane Williams, USA |
| 100 m Hurdles Women | Bettine Jahn , East Germany | Kerstin Knabe , East Germany | Ginka Zagorcheva , Bulgaria |
| 110 m Hurdles Men | Greg Foster, USA | Arto Bryggare , Finland | Willie Gault , USA |
| 200 m Men | Calvin Smith, USA | Elliott Quow , USA | Pietro Mennea, Italy |
| 200 m Women | Marita Koch, East Germany | Merlene Ottey, Jamaica | Kathy Cook , Great Britain |
| 400 m Men | Bert Cameron , Jamaica | Mike Franks , USA | Sunder Nix, USA |
| 400 m Women | Jarmila Kratochvílová , Czechoslovakia | Tatána Kocembová , Czechoslovakia | Mariya Pinigina , USSR |
| 400 m Hurdles Men | Edwin Moses, USA | Harald Schmid , West Germany | Aleksandr Kharlov , USSR |
| 400 m Hurdles Women | Bärbel Broschat , East Germany | Ellen Neumann , East Germany | Petra Pfaff , East Germany |
| 800 m Men | Willi Wülbeck , West Germany | Rob Druppers , Netherlands | Joaquim Cruz, Brazil |
| 800 m Women | Jarmila Kratochvílová , Czechoslovakia | Lyubov Gurina , USSR | Yekaterina Podkopayeva , USSR |
| 1500 m Men | Steve Cram, Great Britain | Steve Scott, USA | Saïd Aouita , Morocco |
| 1500 m Women | Mary Decker, USA | Zamira Zaytseva , USSR | Yekaterina Podkopayeva , USSR |
| 3000 m Women | Mary Decker, USA | Brigitte Kraus , West Germany | Tatyana Kazankina , USSR |
| 3,000 m Steeplechase Men | Patriz Ilg , West Germany | Boguslaw Maminski , Poland | Colin Reitz , Great Britain |
| 5,000 m Men | Eamonn Coghlan, Ireland | Werner Schildhauer , East Germany | Martti Vainio , Finland |
| 10,000 m Men | Alberto Cova, Italy | Werner Schildhauer , East Germany | Hansjörg Kunze , East Germany |
| Marathon Men | Rob de Castella , Australia | Kebebe Balcha , Ethiopia | Waldemar Cierpinski, East Germany |
| Marathon Women | Grete Waitz, Norway | Marianne Dickerson , USA | Raisa Smekhnova , USSR |
| 20 km Walk Men | Ernesto Canto , Mexico | Jozef Pribilinec , Czechoslovakia | Yevgeniy Yevsyukov , USSR |
| 50 km Walk Men | Ronald Weigel , East Germany | José Marín , Spain | Sergey Yung , USSR |
| 4 x 100 m Relay Men | USA | Italy | USSR |
| 4 x 100 m Women | East Germany | Great Britain | Jamaica |
| 4 x 400 m Men | USSR | West Germany | Great Britain |
| 4 x 400 m Women | East Germany | Czechoslovakia | USSR |
Field
| Event: | |||
| Long Jump Men | Carl Lewis, USA | Jason Grimes , USA | Mike Conley, USA |
| Long Jump Women | Heike Daute , East Germany | Anisoara Cusmir , Romania | Carol Lewis , USA |
| Triple Jump Men | Zdzislaw Hoffmann , Poland | Wille Banks , USA | Ajayi Agbebaku , Nigeria |
| high jump Men | Gennadiy Avdeyenko , USSR | Tyke Peacock , USA | Zhu Jianhua , China |
| high jump Women | Tamara Bykova , USSR | Ulrike Meyfarth, West Germany | Louise Ritter , USA |
| javelin throw Men | Detlef Michel , East Germany | Tom Petranoff , USA | Dainis Kûla , USSR |
| javelin throw Women | Tiina Lillak , Finland | Fatima Whitbread, Great Britain | Anna Verouli , Greece |
| Discus Men | Imrich Bugár , Czechoslovakia | Luis Delís , Cuba | Gejza Valent , Czechoslovakia |
| Discus Women | Martina Opitz , East Germany | Galina Murashova , USSR | Maria Petkova , Bulgaria |
| Hammer Men | Sergey Litvinov , USSR | Yuriy Sedykh, USSR | Zdzislaw Kwasny , Poland |
| Shot Put Men | Edward Sarul , Poland | Ulf Timmermann, East Germany | Remigius Machura , Czechoslovakia |
| Shot Put Women | Helena Fibingerová , Czechoslovakia | Helma Knorscheidt , East Germany | Ilona Slupianek , East Germany |
| pole vault Men | Sergey Bubka, USR | Konstantin Volkov , USSR | Atanas Tarev , Bulgaria |
| Heptathlon Women | Ramona Neubert , East Germany | Sabine Paetz , East Germany | Anke Vater , East Germany |
| Decathlon Men | Daley Thompson, Great Britain | Jürgen Hingsen , West Germany | Siegfried Wentz , West Germany |
References
See Also
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