1983 World Championships in Athletics

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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.

Contents

1 Medal Winners

1.1 Medal table by country
1.2 Track
1.3 Field

2 References

3 See Also

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Medal Winners

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Medal table by country

Position	Country:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	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

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Track

Event:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
100 m Men	Carl Lewis, USA	Calvin Smith, USA	Emmit King, USA
100 m Women	Marlies G�hr, 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 Kratochv�lov�, Czechoslovakia	Tat�na Kocembov�, Czechoslovakia	Mariya Pinigina, USSR
400 m Hurdles Men	Edwin Moses, USA	Harald Schmid, West Germany	Aleksandr Kharlov, USSR
400 m Hurdles Women	B�rbel Broschat, East Germany	Ellen Neumann, East Germany	Petra Pfaff, East Germany
800 m Men	Willi W�lbeck, West Germany	Rob Druppers, Netherlands	Joaquim Cruz, Brazil
800 m Women	Jarmila Kratochv�lov�, Czechoslovakia	Lyubov Gurina, USSR	Yekaterina Podkopayeva, USSR
1500 m Men	Steve Cram, Great Britain	Steve Scott, USA	Sa�d 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	Hansj�rg 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	Jos� Mar�n, 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

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Field

Event:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
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 K�la, USSR
javelin throw Women	Tiina Lillak, Finland	Fatima Whitbread, Great Britain	Anna Verouli, Greece
Discus Men	Imrich Bug�r, Czechoslovakia	Luis Del�s, 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 Fibingerov�, 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	J�rgen Hingsen, West Germany	Siegfried Wentz, West Germany