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This article contains an overview of the year 1981 in athletics 1981 in athleticsMajor world eventsN A 19801982 Contents 1 International events 2 Men s Best Year Performers 2 1 100 metres 2 2 200 metres 2 3 400 metres 2 4 800 metres 2 5 1 500 metres 2 6 Mile 2 7 3 000 metres 2 8 5 000 metres 2 9 10 000 metres 2 10 Half Marathon 2 11 Marathon 2 12 110m Hurdles 2 13 400m Hurdles 2 14 3 000m Steeplechase 2 15 High Jump 2 16 Long Jump 2 17 Triple Jump 2 18 Discus 2 19 Hammer 2 20 Shot Put 2 21 Pole Vault 2 22 Javelin old design 2 23 Decathlon 3 Women s Best Year Performers 3 1 100 metres 3 2 200 metres 3 3 400 metres 3 4 800 metres 3 5 1 500 metres 3 6 Mile 3 7 3 000 metres 3 8 5 000 metres 3 9 10 000 metres 3 10 Marathon 3 11 100m Hurdles 3 12 400m Hurdles 3 13 High Jump 3 14 Long Jump 3 15 Discus 3 16 Shot Put 3 17 Javelin old design 3 18 Heptathlon 4 Births 4 1 January 4 2 February 4 3 March 4 4 April 4 5 May 4 6 July 4 7 August 4 8 September 4 9 October 4 10 November 4 11 December 5 Deaths 6 ReferencesInternational events editAsian Championships Central American and Caribbean Championships European Indoor Championships South American Championships Universiade World Cross Country ChampionshipsMen s Best Year Performers edit100 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Carl Lewis USA 10 002 nbsp Mel Lattany USA 10 043 nbsp James Sanford USA 10 054 nbsp Stanley Floyd USA 10 105 nbsp Jeff Phillips USA 10 11200 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp James Sanford USA 20 202 nbsp Mel Lattany USA 20 213 nbsp Allan Wells GBR 20 264 nbsp Frank Emmelmann GDR 20 335 nbsp Dwayne Evans USA 20 34400 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Bert Cameron JAM 44 582 nbsp Cliff Wiley USA 44 703 nbsp Zeke Jefferson USA 44 864 nbsp Leslie Kerr USA 44 905 nbsp Howard Henley USA 44 92800 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Sebastian Coe GBR 1 41 732 nbsp Joaquim Cruz BRA 1 44 33 nbsp Olaf Beyer GDR 1 44 314 nbsp Mike Boit KEN 1 44 495 nbsp James Robinson USA 1 44 631 500 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Steve Ovett GBR 3 31 572 nbsp Sebastian Coe GBR 3 31 953 nbsp Steve Scott USA 3 31 964 nbsp Sydney Maree USA 3 32 305 nbsp Thomas Wessinghage FRG 3 33 49Mile edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Sebastian Coe GBR 3 47 332 nbsp Steve Ovett GBR 3 48 403 nbsp Sydney Maree USA 3 48 834 nbsp Mike Boit KEN 3 49 455 nbsp Jose Luis Gonzalez ESP 3 49 673 000 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Steve Scott USA 7 36 692 nbsp Thomas Wessinghage FRG 7 36 753 nbsp Henry Rono KEN 7 41 414 nbsp Sydney Maree USA 7 43 425 nbsp Eamonn Coghlan IRL 7 44 995 000 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Henry Rono KEN 13 06 202 nbsp Hansjorg Kunze GDR 13 10 403 nbsp Valeriy Abramov URS 13 11 994 nbsp Thomas Wessinghage FRG 13 13 475 nbsp Julian Goater GBR 13 15 5910 000 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Fernando Mamede POR 27 27 72 nbsp Werner Schildhauer GDR 27 38 433 nbsp Mohamed Kedir ETH 27 39 444 nbsp Alberto Salazar USA 27 40 695 nbsp Henry Rono KEN 27 40 78Half Marathon edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Herb Lindsay USA 1 01 47Marathon edit Main article 1981 Marathon Year Ranking 110m Hurdles edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Renaldo Nehemiah USA 12 932 nbsp Greg Foster USA 13 033 nbsp Alejandro Casanas CUB 13 364 nbsp Sam Turner USA 13 385 nbsp Dedy Cooper USA 13 40400m Hurdles edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Edwin Moses USA 47 142 nbsp Andre Phillips USA 48 103 nbsp David Lee USA 48 534 nbsp Harald Schmid FRG 48 645 nbsp Bart Williams USA 48 813 000m Steeplechase edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Patriz Ilg FRG 8 12 132 nbsp Mariano Scartezzini ITA 8 13 323 nbsp Boguslaw Maminski POL 8 16 664 nbsp Amos Korir KEN 8 18 575 nbsp Henry Marsh USA 8 18 58High Jump edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS HEIGHT1 nbsp Jeff Woodard USA 2 33 nbsp Aleksey Demyanyuk URS 3 nbsp Roland Dalhauser SUI 2 31 nbsp Gerd Nagel FRG nbsp Dwight Stones USA Long Jump edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE1 nbsp Carl Lewis USA 8 622 nbsp Larry Myricks USA 8 453 nbsp Henry Lauterbach GDR 8 354 nbsp Winfried Klepsch FRG 8 215 nbsp Atanas Chochev BUL 8 19Triple Jump edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE1 nbsp Willie Banks USA 17 562 nbsp Joao Carlos de Oliveira BRA 17 373 nbsp Zou Zhenxian CHN 17 344 nbsp Keith Connor GBR 17 315 nbsp Shamil Abbyasov URS 17 30Discus edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE1 nbsp John Powell USA 69 982 nbsp Wolfgang Schmidt GDR 69 603 nbsp Al Oerter USA 68 764 nbsp Art Swarts USA 68 325 nbsp Art Burns USA 67 86Hammer edit Main article 1981 Hammer Throw Year Ranking RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE1 nbsp Klaus Ploghaus FRG 80 562 nbsp Yuriy Syedikh URS 80 183 nbsp Sergey Litvinov URS 79 604 nbsp Roland Steuk GDR 78 725 nbsp Karl Hans Riehm FRG 78 72Shot Put edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE1 nbsp Brian Oldfield USA 22 022 nbsp Udo Beyer GDR 21 693 nbsp Dave Laut USA 21 604 nbsp Mike Carter USA 21 205 nbsp Yevgeniy Mironov URS 21 11Pole Vault edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS HEIGHT1 nbsp Vladimir Polyakov URS 5 81 nbsp Thierry Vigneron FRA 3 nbsp Konstantin Volkov URS 5 754 nbsp Philippe Houvion FRA 5 70 nbsp Jean Michel Bellot FRA nbsp Sergey Kulibaba URS nbsp Aleksandr Krupskiy URS Javelin old design edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE1 nbsp Detlef Michel GDR 92 482 nbsp Pentti Sinersaari FIN 91 983 nbsp Arto Harkonen FIN 91 044 nbsp Dainis Kula URS 90 545 nbsp Seppo Hovinen FIN 90 38Decathlon edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS POINTS1 nbsp Rainer Pottel GDR 83342 nbsp Yuriy Kutsenko URS 82813 nbsp Uwe Freimuth GDR 82214 nbsp Dariusz Ludwig POL 82045 nbsp Atanas Andonov BUL 8220Women s Best Year Performers edit100 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Evelyn Ashford USA 10 902 nbsp Merlene Ottey JAM 11 073 nbsp Jarmila Kratochvilova TCH 11 09 nbsp Marlies Gohr GDR 5 nbsp Angella Taylor CAN 11 12200 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Evelyn Ashford USA 21 842 nbsp Jarmila Kratochvilova TCH 21 973 nbsp Barbel Wockel GDR 22 074 nbsp Merlene Ottey JAM 22 355 nbsp Gesine Walther GDR 22 42400 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Jarmila Kratochvilova TCH 48 612 nbsp Marita Koch GDR 49 273 nbsp Irina Nazarova RUS 50 504 nbsp Gaby Bussmann FRG 50 835 nbsp Dagmar Rubsam GDR 50 98800 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Lyudmila Veselkova URS 1 56 982 nbsp Martina Steuk GDR 1 57 163 nbsp Fiţa Lovin ROU 1 57 424 nbsp Tamara Sorokina URS 1 57 555 nbsp Hildegard Korner GDR 1 57 561 500 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Olga Dvirna URS 3 57 782 nbsp Maricica Puică ROU 3 58 293 nbsp Zamira Zaytseva URS 3 58 704 nbsp Tamara Sorokina URS 3 58 895 nbsp Anna Bukis POL 3 59 67Mile edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Lyudmila Veselkova URS 4 20 892 nbsp Maricica Puică ROU 4 21 403 nbsp Fiţa Lovin ROU 4 21 824 nbsp Zamira Zaytseva URS 4 22 55 nbsp Svetlana Ulmasova URS 4 23 83 000 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Maricica Puică ROU 8 34 302 nbsp Tatyana Pozdnyakova URS 8 34 803 nbsp Alla Yushina URS 8 38 344 nbsp Olga Dvirna URS 8 44 65 nbsp Grete Waitz NOR 8 44 645 000 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Paula Fudge GBR 15 14 512 nbsp Yelena Sipatova URS 15 24 63 nbsp Ellen Tittel FRG 15 34 7610 000 metres edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Yelena Sipatova URS 32 17 192 nbsp Yelena Tsukhlo URS 32 20 403 nbsp Anna Oyun URS 32 36 004 nbsp Maria Klyukina URS 32 37 405 nbsp Marina Danilyuk URS 32 46 56Marathon edit Main article 1981 Marathon Year Ranking 100m Hurdles edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Tatyana Anisimova URS 12 682 nbsp Kerstin Knabe GDR 12 853 nbsp Danuta Perka POL 12 93 1 4 nbsp Lucyna Kalek POL 12 97400m Hurdles edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME1 nbsp Ellen Neumann GDR 54 792 nbsp Natalya Tsyruk URS 55 493 nbsp Ana Kasteckaja URS 55 51 2 4 nbsp Petra Pfaff GDR 55 545 nbsp Genowefa Blaszak POL 55 78High Jump edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS HEIGHT1 nbsp Pam Spencer USA 1 97 m2 nbsp Charmaine Gale RSA 1 96 m nbsp Kerstin Dedner GDR nbsp Sara Simeoni ITA nbsp Ulrike Meyfarth FRG nbsp Tamara Bykova URS Long Jump edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE1 nbsp Jodi Anderson USA 6 96 m2 nbsp Anisoara Cusmir ROU 6 91 m nbsp Heike Daute GDR 4 nbsp Ramona Neubert GDR 6 90 m5 nbsp Sigrid Ulbricht GDR 6 89 mDiscus edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE1 nbsp Evelin Jahl GDR 71 46 m2 nbsp Mariya Petkova BUL 71 30 m3 nbsp Valentina Kharchenko URS 69 86 m4 nbsp Galina Savinkova URS 69 70 m5 nbsp Florenţa Crăciunescu ROU 68 98 mShot Put edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE1 nbsp Ilona Slupianek GDR 21 61 m2 nbsp Helena Fibingerova TCH 21 57 m3 nbsp Ines Muller GDR 21 14 m4 nbsp Verzhinia Veselinova BUL 21 09 m5 nbsp Margitta Droese GDR 21 08 mJavelin old design edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE1 nbsp Antoaneta Todorova BUL 71 88 m2 nbsp Tessa Sanderson GBR 68 86 m3 nbsp Ute Hommola GDR 67 24 m4 nbsp Petra Felke GDR 66 60 m5 nbsp Tiina Lillak FIN 66 34 mHeptathlon edit RANK 1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS POINTS1 nbsp Ramona Neubert GDR 67882 nbsp Sabine Everts FRG 63653 nbsp Malgorzata Nowak POL 63334 nbsp Yekaterina Gordiyenko URS 62955 nbsp Jane Frederick USA 6291Births editJanuary edit January 8 Mesias Zapata Ecuadorian race walker January 14 Hyleas Fountain American heptathlete January 18 Naoyuki Daigo Japanese high jumper January 24 Jong Yong Ok North Korean long distance runner January 27 Fabrizio Schembri Italian triple jumper January 29 Rose Richmond American long jumperFebruary edit February 12 Amarilys Almestica Puerto Rican hammer thrower February 13 Rosibel Garcia Colombian middle distance runner February 15 Rita Jeptoo Kenyan marathon runner February 16 Jesse de Lima Brazilian high jumper February 17 Shi Na Chinese race walker February 19 Shellene Williams Jamaican sprinter February 25 Marek Plawgo Polish athleteMarch edit March 11 Yelena Konevtseva Russian hammer thrower March 13 Stefan Wenk German javelin thrower March 22 Aliaksandr Parkhomenka Belarusian decathlete March 28 Yuniel Hernandez Cuban hurdlerApril edit April 13 Moushaumi Robinson American sprinter April 19 Kazuhiro Maeda Japanese long distance runnerMay edit May 6 Rui Pedro Silva Portuguese distance runner May 15 Merja Korpela Finnish hammer thrower May 20 Jana Tucholke German discus thrower May 21 Anna Rogowska Polish pole vaulter May 28 Kamil Kalka Polish race walker May 31 Eileen O Keefe Irish hammer throwerJuly edit July 9 Rutger Smith Dutch discus thrower and shot putter July 13 Ineta Radevica Latvian long and triple jumper July 24 Carys Parry Welsh hammer thrower July 30 Daria Onysko Polish sprinterAugust edit August 15 Yoshiko Fujinaga Japanese long distance runner August 30 Aleksandr Vashchyla Belarusian hammer throwerSeptember edit September 6 Brandon Simpson Jamaican athlete September 7 Eyerusalem Kuma Ethiopian distance runner September 12 Greg Nixon American sprinter September 15 Tomas Intas Lithuanian javelin throwerOctober edit October 3 Anna Omarova Russian shot putter October 18 Ji Young Jun South Korean long distance runnerNovember edit November 8 Jessica Augusto Portuguese long distance runner November 18 Kimberly Barrett Jamaica Puerto Rican shot putter November 21 Werknesh Kidane Ethiopian long distance runnerDecember edit December 8 Gabriel Ortiz Mexican race walker December 22 Marina Kuptsova Russian high jumperDeaths editApril 25 Paul Bontemps 76 French long distance runner b 1902 August 2 Delfo Cabrera 62 Argentine long distance runner b 1919 References edit World Top Performers GBR Athletics Retrieved 14 April 2018 permanent dead link World Top Performers GBR Athletics Retrieved 14 April 2018 Year Lists Association of Road Racing Statisticians Year 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