The overall medal table was a closely contested affair. East Germany took the most gold medals (10) over the first championships and finished with a total of 22 medals. The United States had the next largest number of golds, with eight, and also had the greatest overall medal haul, having won 24 medals altogether. The Soviet Union won one more medal than the East Germans and had six golds, although almost half of their podium finishers were bronze medalists. Twenty-five nations reached the medal tally at the inaugural competition, with all six continents being represented. During the early 1980s this was the top venue in which Soviet Bloc athletes competed against American athletes due to the American-led boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow and the retaliatory Soviet Bloc boycott of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
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1983, world, championships, athletics, world, championships, athletics, finnish, yleisurheilun, maailmanmestaruuskilpailut, 1983, swedish, världsmästerskapen, friidrott, 1983, were, under, auspices, international, association, athletics, federations, were, hel. The 1st World Championships in Athletics Finnish Yleisurheilun maailmanmestaruuskilpailut 1983 Swedish Varldsmasterskapen i friidrott 1983 were run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations and were held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki Finland between 7 and 14 August 1983 1st World Championships in AthleticsHost cityHelsinki FinlandNations153Athletes1 355Events41Dates7 14 August 1983Opened byPresident Mauno KoivistoMain venueHelsinki Olympic Stadium 1980 Sittard1987 Rome Contents 1 Summary 2 Men s results 2 1 Track 2 2 Field 3 Women s results 3 1 Track 3 2 Field 4 Medal table 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksSummary edit nbsp The championships at Helsinki Olympic Stadium August 1983 nbsp Carl Lewis at the championshipsThe overall medal table was a closely contested affair East Germany took the most gold medals 10 over the first championships and finished with a total of 22 medals The United States had the next largest number of golds with eight and also had the greatest overall medal haul having won 24 medals altogether The Soviet Union won one more medal than the East Germans and had six golds although almost half of their podium finishers were bronze medalists Twenty five nations reached the medal tally at the inaugural competition with all six continents being represented During the early 1980s this was the top venue in which Soviet Bloc athletes competed against American athletes due to the American led boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow and the retaliatory Soviet Bloc boycott of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles Carl Lewis won both the 100 metres and the long jump and finished the competition by anchoring the 4 100 metres relay team to a world record time along with the 200 metres champion Calvin Smith and bronze medallists Emmit King and Willie Gault Jarmila Kratochvilova dominated the 400 metres and 800 metres events setting a world record of 47 99 seconds Mary Decker enjoyed her best competition performance taking the golds in the women s 1500 metres and 3000 metres Other prominent athletes included Marita Koch who won the 200 m and both relay golds as well as the 100 m silver medal Sergey Bubka won the first of his six consecutive World Championship gold medals in the pole vault Men s results editTrack edit nbsp postage stamp from Finland issued in 19831983 1987 1991 1993 1995 Games Gold Silver Bronze100 mdetails Carl Lewis nbsp United States 10 07 Calvin Smith nbsp United States 10 21 Emmit King nbsp United States 10 24200 mdetails Calvin Smith nbsp United States 20 14 Elliott Quow nbsp United States 20 41 Pietro Mennea nbsp Italy 20 51400 mdetails Bert Cameron nbsp Jamaica 45 05 Michael Franks nbsp United States 45 22 Sunder Nix nbsp United States 45 24800 mdetails Willi Wulbeck nbsp West Germany 1 43 65 Rob Druppers nbsp Netherlands 1 44 20 Joaquim Cruz nbsp Brazil 1 44 271 500 mdetails Steve Cram nbsp Great Britain 3 41 59 Steve Scott nbsp United States 3 41 87 Said Aouita nbsp Morocco 3 42 025 000 mdetails Eamonn Coghlan nbsp Ireland 13 28 53 Werner Schildhauer nbsp East Germany 13 30 20 Martti Vainio nbsp Finland 13 30 3410 000 mdetails Alberto Cova nbsp Italy 28 01 04 Werner Schildhauer nbsp East Germany 28 01 18 Hansjorg Kunze nbsp East Germany 28 01 26Marathondetails Rob de Castella nbsp Australia 2 10 03 Kebede Balcha nbsp Ethiopia 2 10 27 Waldemar Cierpinski nbsp East Germany 2 10 37110 m hurdlesdetails Greg Foster nbsp United States 13 42 Arto Bryggare nbsp Finland 13 46 Willie Gault nbsp United States 13 48400 m hurdlesdetails Edwin Moses nbsp United States 47 50 Harald Schmid nbsp West Germany 48 61 Aleksandr Kharlov nbsp Soviet Union 49 033 000 m st details Patriz Ilg nbsp West Germany 8 15 06 Boguslaw Maminski nbsp Poland 8 17 03 Colin Reitz nbsp Great Britain 8 17 7520 km walk details Ernesto Canto nbsp Mexico 1 20 49 Jozef Pribilinec nbsp Czechoslovakia 1 20 59 Yevgeniy Yevsyukov nbsp Soviet Union 1 21 0850 km walkdetails Ronald Weigel nbsp East Germany 3 43 08 Jose Marin nbsp Spain 3 46 32 Sergey Yung nbsp Soviet Union 3 49 034 100 m relaydetails nbsp United States USA Emmit KingWillie GaultCalvin SmithCarl Lewis 37 86 WR nbsp Italy ITA Stefano TilliCarlo SimionatoPierfrancesco PavoniPietro Mennea 38 37 NR nbsp Soviet Union URS Andrey ProkofyevNikolay SidorovVladimir MuravyovViktor Bryzgin 38 414 400 m relaydetails nbsp Soviet Union URS Sergey LovachovAleksandr TroshchiloNikolay ChernetskiyViktor Markin 3 00 79 nbsp West Germany FRG Erwin SkamrahlJorg VaihingerHarald SchmidHartmut Weber Martin Weppler Edgar Nakladal 3 01 83 nbsp Great Britain GBR Ainsley BennettGarry CookTodd BennettPhil Brown Kriss Akabusi 3 03 53WR world record AR area record CR championship record GR games record NR national record OR Olympic record PB personal best SB season best WL world leading in a given season Note Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds Field edit 1983 1987 1991 1993 1995 Games Gold Silver BronzeLong jumpdetails Carl Lewis nbsp United States 8 55 Jason Grimes nbsp United States 8 29 Mike Conley nbsp United States 8 12Triple jumpdetails Zdzislaw Hoffmann nbsp Poland 17 42 Willie Banks nbsp United States 17 18 Ajayi Agbebaku nbsp Nigeria 17 18High jumpdetails Hennadiy Avdyeyenko nbsp Soviet Union 2 32 Tyke Peacock nbsp United States 2 32 Zhu Jianhua nbsp China 2 29Pole vaultdetails Sergey Bubka nbsp Soviet Union 5 70 Konstantin Volkov nbsp Soviet Union 5 60 Atanas Tarev nbsp Bulgaria 5 60Shot putdetails Edward Sarul nbsp Poland 21 39 Ulf Timmermann nbsp East Germany 21 16 Remigius Machura nbsp Czechoslovakia 20 98Discus throwdetails Imrich Bugar nbsp Czechoslovakia 67 72 Luis Delis nbsp Cuba 67 36 Gejza Valent nbsp Czechoslovakia 66 08Hammer throwdetails Sergey Litvinov nbsp Soviet Union 82 68 Yuriy Sedykh nbsp Soviet Union 80 94 Zdzislaw Kwasny nbsp Poland 79 42Javelin throwdetails Detlef Michel nbsp East Germany 89 48 Tom Petranoff nbsp United States 85 60 Dainis Kula nbsp Soviet Union 85 58Decathlondetails Daley Thompson nbsp Great Britain 8666 Jurgen Hingsen nbsp West Germany 8561 Siegfried Wentz nbsp West Germany 8478WR world record AR area record CR championship record GR games record NR national record OR Olympic record PB personal best SB season best WL world leading in a given season Women s results editTrack edit 1983 1987 1991 1993 1995 Games Gold Silver Bronze100 mdetails Marlies Gohr nbsp East Germany 10 97 CR Marita Koch nbsp East Germany 11 02 Diane Williams nbsp United States 11 06200 mdetails Marita Koch nbsp East Germany 22 13 Merlene Ottey nbsp Jamaica 22 19 Kathy Cook nbsp Great Britain 22 37400 mdetails Jarmila Kratochvilova nbsp Czechoslovakia 47 99 WR Tatana Kocembova nbsp Czechoslovakia 48 59 PB Mariya Pinigina nbsp Soviet Union 49 19800 mdetails Jarmila Kratochvilova nbsp Czechoslovakia 1 54 68 Lyubov Gurina nbsp Soviet Union 1 56 11 Yekaterina Podkopayeva nbsp Soviet Union 1 57 581 500 mdetails Mary Decker nbsp United States 4 00 90 Zamira Zaytseva nbsp Soviet Union 4 01 19 Yekaterina Podkopayeva nbsp Soviet Union 4 02 253 000 mdetails Mary Decker nbsp United States 8 34 62 Brigitte Kraus nbsp West Germany 8 35 11 Tatyana Kazankina nbsp Soviet Union 8 35 13Marathondetails Grete Waitz nbsp Norway 2 28 09 Marianne Dickerson nbsp United States 2 31 09 Raisa Smekhnova nbsp Soviet Union 2 31 13100 m hurdlesdetails Bettine Jahn nbsp East Germany 12 35 Kerstin Knabe nbsp East Germany 12 42 Ginka Zagorcheva nbsp Bulgaria 12 62400 m hurdlesdetails Yekaterina Fesenko nbsp Soviet Union 54 14 Ana Ambraziene nbsp Soviet Union 54 15 Ellen Fiedler nbsp East Germany 54 554 100 m relaydetails nbsp East Germany GDR Silke GladischMarita KochIngrid AuerswaldMarlies Gohr 41 76 nbsp Great Britain GBR Joan BaptisteKathy CookBeverley CallenderShirley Thomas 42 71 nbsp Jamaica JAM Leleith HodgesJacqueline PuseyJuliet CuthbertMerlene Ottey 42 734 400 m relaydetails nbsp East Germany GDR Kerstin WaltherSabine BuschMarita KochDagmar RubsamUndine Bremer Ellen Fiedler 3 19 73 nbsp Czechoslovakia TCH Tatana KocembovaMilena MatejkovicovaZuzana MoravcikovaJarmila Kratochvilova 3 20 32 nbsp Soviet Union URS Yelena KorbanMarina IvanovaIrina BaskakovaMariya Pinigina 3 21 16WR world record AR area record CR championship record GR games record NR national record OR Olympic record PB personal best SB season best WL world leading in a given season Note Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds Field edit 1983 1987 1991 1993 1995 Games Gold Silver BronzeLong jumpdetails Heike Daute nbsp East Germany 7 27 Anisoara Cusmir nbsp Romania 7 15 Carol Lewis nbsp United States 7 04High jumpdetails Tamara Bykova nbsp Soviet Union 2 01 Ulrike Meyfarth nbsp West Germany 1 99 Louise Ritter nbsp United States 1 95Shot putdetails Helena Fibingerova nbsp Czechoslovakia 21 05 Helma Knorscheidt nbsp East Germany 20 70 Ilona Slupianek nbsp East Germany 20 56Discus throwdetails Martina Opitz nbsp East Germany 68 94 Galina Murasova nbsp Soviet Union 67 44 Mariya Petkova nbsp Bulgaria 66 44Javelin throwdetails Tiina Lillak nbsp Finland 70 82 Fatima Whitbread nbsp Great Britain 69 14 Anna Verouli nbsp Greece 65 72Heptathlondetails Ramona Neubert nbsp East Germany 6714 Sabine Paetz nbsp East Germany 6662 Anke Vater nbsp East Germany 6532WR world record AR area record CR championship record GR games record NR national record OR Olympic record PB personal best SB season best WL world leading in a given season Medal table edit nbsp Marathon bronze medallist and reigning Olympic champion Waldemar Cierpinski DDR celebrates with gold medal winner Robert de Castella AUS Host nation Finland RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal1 nbsp East Germany GDR 1075222 nbsp United States USA 897243 nbsp Soviet Union URS 6611234 nbsp Czechoslovakia TCH 43295 nbsp West Germany FRG 25186 nbsp Great Britain GBR 22377 nbsp Poland POL 21148 nbsp Finland FIN 1113 nbsp Italy ITA 1113 nbsp Jamaica JAM 111311 nbsp Australia AUS 1001 nbsp Ireland IRL 1001 nbsp Mexico MEX 1001 nbsp Norway NOR 100115 nbsp Cuba CUB 0101 nbsp Ethiopia ETH 0101 nbsp Netherlands NED 0101 nbsp Romania ROU 0101 nbsp Spain ESP 010120 nbsp Bulgaria BUL 003321 nbsp Brazil BRA 0011 nbsp China CHN 0011 nbsp Greece GRE 0011 nbsp Morocco MAR 0011 nbsp Nigeria NGR 0011Totals 25 entries 414141123Source 1 See also edit1983 in athletics track and field References editIAAFExternal links edit nbsp Media related to 1983 World Championships in Athletics at Wikimedia Commons Summary at SVT s open archive Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1983 World Championships in Athletics amp oldid 1171644923, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
