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1983 in the sport of athletics

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Field	Value
Title	1983 in athletics
Major world competitions	World Championship in Athletics
Previous	1982
Next	1984

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

International Events

Asian Championships
Balkan Games
Central American and Caribbean Championships
European Indoor Championships
Mediterranean Games
Pan American Games
South American Championships
World Championships
World Cross Country Championships
World Student Games

World records

Men

EVENT	ATHLETE	MARK	DATE	VENUE
100 metres	Calvin Smith	9.93	3 July	Air Force Academy, CO, USA
1500 m	Sydney Maree	3:31.24	28 August	Köln, West Germany
1500 m	Steve Ovett	3:30.77	4 September	Rieti, Italy
400m Hurdles	Ed Moses	47.02	31 August	Koblenz, West Germany
4x100m Relay	USA
• Emmit King
• Willie Gault
• Calvin Smith
• Carl Lewis	37.86	10 August	Helsinki
High Jump	Zhu Jianhua	2.37m	11 June	Beijing, PR China
Zhu Jianhua	2.38m	22 September	Shanghai, PR China
Pole Vault	Pierre Quinon	5.82m	28 August	Köln, West Germany
Pole Vault	Thierry Vigneron	5.83m	1 September	Rome, Italy
Shot Put	Udo Beyer	22.22m	25 June	Los Angeles, United States
Discus	Yuriy Dumchev	71.86m	29 May	Moscow, Soviet Union
Hammer	Sergey Litvinov	84.14m	21 June	Moscow, Soviet Union
Javelin (old)	Tom Petranoff	99.72m	15 May	Westwood, United States
Decathlon	Jürgen Hingsen	8825	4-5 June	Bernhausen, West Germany
Half Marathon	Paul Cummings	1:01:32	25 September	Dayton, Ohio, United States

Women

EVENT	ATHLETE	MARK	DATE	VENUE
100 metres	Marlies Göhr	10.81	8 June	East Berlin
Evelyn Ashford	10.79	3 July	Colorado Springs
400 metres	Jarmila Kratochvílová	47.99	10 August	Helsinki
800 metres	Jarmila Kratochvílová	1:53.28	26 July	Munich
10,000 metres	Lyudmila Baranova	31:35.01	29 May	Krasnodar
Raysa Sadreydinova	31:27.58	7 September	Odessa
400m Hurdles	Anna Ambrazienė	54.02	11 June	Moscow
4x100m Relay	GDR
• Silke Möller
• Marita Koch
• Ingrid Auerswald
• Marlies Göhr	41.53	31 July	East Berlin
High Jump	Ulrike Meyfarth	2.03m	21 August	London
Tamara Bykova	2.04m	25 August	Pisa, Italy
Heptathlon	Ramona Neubert	6935	18-19 June	Moscow
Half Marathon	Joan Benoit	1:09:10	18 September	Philadelphia

Men's Best Year Performers

[[100 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 100 metres

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Calvin Smith	9.93
2.	Carl Lewis	9.97
3.	Mel Lattany	10.03
4.	Leandro Peñalver	10.06
Ron Brown
Emmit King

[[200 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 200 metres

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Carl Lewis	19.75
2.	Calvin Smith	19.99
3.	Larry Myricks	20.03
4.	Elliott Quow	20.16
5.	Mel Lattany	20.22

[[400 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 400 metres

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Erwin Skamrahl	44.50
2.	Bert Cameron	44.62
3.	James Rolle	44.73
4.	Chris Whitlock	44.80
5.	Sunder Nix	44.87

[[800 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 800 metres

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Steve Cram	1:43.61
2.	Willi Wülbeck	1:43.65
3.	Sebastian Coe	1:43.80
4.	Peter Elliott	1:43.98
5.	Joaquim Cruz	1:44.04

[[1500 metres|1,500 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 1,500 metres

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Steve Ovett	3:30.77
2.	Sydney Maree	3:31.24
3.	Steve Cram	3:31.66
4.	Saïd Aouita	3:32.54
5.	Steve Scott	3:32.71

[[Mile run world record progression|Mile]]

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Steve Scott	3:49.21
2.	John Walker	3:49.73
3.	Thomas Wessinghage	3:49.98
4.	Sydney Maree	3:50.30
5.	Steve Ovett	3:50.49

[[3000 metres|3,000 metres]]

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Doug Padilla	7:35.84
2.	Eamonn Coghlan	7:38.39
3.	António Leitão	7:39.69
4.	Thomas Wessinghage	7:39.71
5.	Dragan Zdravković	7:40.49

[[5000 metres|5,000 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 5,000 metres

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Fernando Mamede	13:08.54
2.	António Leitão	13:14.13
3.	Doug Padilla	13:17.69
4.	Antonio Prieto	13:18.53
5.	Thomas Wessinghage	13:18.86

[[10000 metres|10,000 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 10,000 metres

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Carlos Lopes	27:23.44
2.	Werner Schildhauer	27:24.95
3.	Fernando Mamede	27:25.13
4.	Hansjörg Kunze	27:30.69
5.	Nick Rose	27:31.19

[[Half Marathon]]

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Paul Cummings	1:01:32 WR

[[Marathon (sport)|Marathon]]

:Main race this year: World Championships Marathon

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Robert de Castella	2:08:37
2.	Toshihiko Seko	2:08:38
3.	Carlos Lopes	2:08:39
4.	Takeshi So	2:08:55
Juma Ikangaa

[[Hurdling|110m Hurdles]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 110m Hurdles

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Greg Foster	13.11
2.	Sam Turner	13.17
3.	Tonie Campbell	13.32
4.	Arto Bryggare	13.44
Roger Kingdom

[[Hurdling|400m Hurdles]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 400m Hurdles

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Edwin Moses	47.02
2.	Andre Phillips	47.78
3.	David Patrick	48.05
4.	David Lee	48.42
5.	Harald Schmid	48.49

[[Steeplechase (athletics)|3,000m Steeplechase]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 3,000m Steeplechase

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Henry Marsh	8:12.37
2.	Bogusław Mamiński	8:12.62
3.	Patriz Ilg	8:15.06
4.	Graeme Fell	8:15.16
5.	Joseph Mahmoud	8:15.59

[[High Jump]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships High Jump

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Zhu Jianhua	2.38 WR
2.	Valeriy Sereda	2.35
3.	Paul Frommeyer	2.34
Carlo Thränhardt
Eddy Annys

[[Long Jump]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Long Jump

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Carl Lewis	8.79
2.	Jason Grimes	8.39
3.	Sergey Rodin	8.33
Reginald Kelly
5.	Aleksandr Beskrovniy	8.28

[[Triple Jump]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Triple Jump

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Vasiliy Grishchenkov	17.55
2.	Aleksandr Beskrovniy	17.53
3.	Zdzislaw Hoffmann	17.42
4.	Lázaro Betancourt	17.40
5.	Ken Lorraway	17.35

[[Discus throw|Discus]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Discus Throw

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Yuriy Dumchev	71.86 WR
2.	Ben Plucknett	71.32
3.	Art Burns	71.18
4.	Luis Delís	71.06
5.	Imrich Bugár	70.72

[[Hammer throw|Hammer]]

Main article: 1983 Hammer Throw Year Ranking

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Sergey Litvinov	84.14
2.	Igor Nikulin	82.92
3.	Yuriy Tarasyuk	81.18
4.	Juha Tiainen	81.02
5.	Yuriy Syedikh	80.94

[[Shot Put]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Shot Put

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Udo Beyer	22.22 WR
2.	Dave Laut	21.94
3.	Edward Sarul	21.68
4.	Kevin Akins	21.61
5.	Mike Lehmann	21.43

[[Javelin throw|Javelin (old design)]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Javelin Throw

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Tom Petranoff	99.72
2.	Detlef Michel	96.72
3.	Heino Puuste	94.20
4.	Dainis Kula	91.88
5.	Klaus Tafelmeier	91.44

[[Pole Vault]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Pole Vault

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Thierry Vigneron	5.83
2.	Pierre Quinon	5.82
3.	Billy Olson	5.80
4.	Jeff Buckingham	5.76
5.	Brad Pursley	5.75

[[Decathlon]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Decathlon

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Jürgen Hingsen	8779 WR
2.	Siegfried Wentz	8718
3.	Daley Thompson	8666
4.	Grigoriy Degtyaryev	8538
5.	Uwe Freimuth	8501

Women's Best Year Performers

[[100 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 100 metres

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Evelyn Ashford	10.79 WR
2.	Marlies Göhr	10.81 WR
3.	Marita Koch	10.83
4.	Diane Williams	10.94
5.	Silke Gladisch	11.03

[[200 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 200 metres

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Marita Koch	21.82
2.	Evelyn Ashford	21.88
3.	Chandra Cheeseborough	21.99
4.	Merlene Ottey	22.19
5.	Florence Griffith	22.23

[[400 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 400 metres

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Jarmila Kratochvílová	47.99 WR
2.	Tatána Kocembová	48.59
3.	Mariya Pinigina	49.19
4.	Gaby Bußmann	49.75
5.	Marita Payne	50.06

[[800 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 800 metres

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Jarmila Kratochvílová	1:53.28 WR
2.	Yekaterina Podkopayeva	1:55.96
3.	Lyubov Gurina	1:56.11
4.	Zamira Zaytseva	1:56.21
5.	Tatyana Providokhina	1:56.81

[[1500 metres|1,500 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 1,500 metres

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Mary Decker	3:57.12
2.	Ravilya Agletdinova	3:59.31
3.	Fiţa Lovin	4:00.12
4.	Yekaterina Podkopayeva	4:00.3
5.	Maria Radu	4:00.62

[[3000 metres|3,000 metres]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 3,000 metres

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Tatyana Kazankina	8:32.08
2.	Alla Yushina	8:34.02
3.	Galina Zakharova	8:34.60
4.	Mary Decker	8:34.62
5.	Svetlana Guskova	8:35.06

[[5000 metres|5,000 metres]]

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Zola Budd	15:10.65
2.	Anna Domoradskaya	15:19.0

[[10000 metres|10,000 metres]]

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Raysa Sadreydinova	31:27.58 WR
2.	Lyudmila Baranova	31:35.01 WR
3.	Tatyana Pozdnyakova	31:48.94
4.	Olga Bondarenko	31:49.44
5.	Aurora Cunha	31:52.85

[[Half Marathon]]

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Joan Benoit	1:09:10

[[Marathon (sport)|Marathon]]

:Main race this year: World Championships Marathon

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Joan Benoit	2:22:43
2.	Grete Waitz	2:25:17
3.	Julie Brown	2:26:26
4.	Mary O'Connor	2:28:20
5.	Charlotte Teske	2:28:32

[[Hurdling|100m Hurdles]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 100m Hurdles

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Bettine Jahn	12.42
2.	Ginka Zagorcheva	12.49
3.	Kerstin Knabe	12.62
4.	Yordanka Donkova	12.65
5.	Cornelia Riefstahl	12.72

[[Hurdling|400m Hurdles]]

:Main race this year: World Championships 400m Hurdles

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Anna Ambrazienė	54.02 WR
2.	Yekaterina Fesenko	54.14
3.	Ellen Fiedler	54.20
4.	Petra Pfaff	54.64
5.	Yelena Filipishina	54.72

[[High Jump]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships High Jump

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Tamara Bykova	2.04 WR
2.	Ulrike Meyfarth	2.03 WR
3.	Louise Ritter	2.01
4.	Kerstin Brandt	1.99
5.	Larisa Kositsyna	1.98
Silvia Costa
Valentina Poluyko

[[Long Jump]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Long Jump

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Anişoara Cuşmir	7.43
2.	Heike Daute	7.14
3.	Svetlana Zorina	7.04
Tatyana Proskuryakova
5.	Margarita Butkiené	7.00

[[Discus throw|Discus]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Discus Throw

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Galina Savinkova	73.26
2.	Gisela Beyer	70.96
3.	Mariya Petkova	70.74
4.	Martina Hellmann	70.26
5.	Zdeňka Šilhavá	70.00

[[Shot Put]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Shot Put

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Ilona Slupianek	22.40
2.	Helena Fibingerová	21.46
3.	Zdeňka Šilhavá	21.05
4.	Mihaela Loghin	20.95
5.	Nunu Abashidze	20.94

[[Javelin throw|Javelin (old design)]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Javelin Throw

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Tiina Lillak	74.76
2.	Tessa Sanderson	73.58
3.	Sofia Sakorafa	72.28
4.	Antje Zöllkau	71.00
5.	Anna Verouli	70.90

[[Heptathlon]]

:Main competition this year: World Championships Heptathlon

RANK	1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Ramona Neubert	6935 WR
2.	Sabine Paetz	6713
3.	Lyudmila Kolyadina	6541
4.	Yekaterina Smirnova	6536
5.	Anke Vater	6531

Births

January 4 — Laura Douglas, Welsh hammer thrower
January 7 — Marc Burns, Trinidad and Tobago athlete
January 7 — Stéphanie Falzon, French hammer thrower
January 11 — Cui Zhide, Chinese race walker
January 16 — Trevell Quinley, American long jumper
January 26 — Arturo Casado, Spanish middle distance runner
January 28 — Chiara Rosa, Italian shot putter
February 1 — Alice Timbilili, Kenyan distance runner
February 2 — Athanasia Perra, Greek triple jumper
March 10 — Yelena Bolsun, Russian sprinter
March 14 — Jiang Qiuyan, Chinese race walker
March 21 — Martina Hrašnová, Slovak hammer thrower
March 21 — Jussi Heikkilä, Finnish hurdler
March 22 — André Pollmächer, German long-distance runner
March 23 — Mo Farah, Somali-British distance runner
March 28 — Jurica Grabušić, Croatian hurdler
April 25 — Nick Willis, New Zealand middle distance runner
May 5 — Mabel Gay, Cuban triple jumper
June 4 — Satoshi Osaki, Japanese long-distance runner
July 12 — Yarelis Barrios, Cuban discus thrower
July 18 — Mikk Pahapill, Estonian decathlete
July 20 — Ignisious Gaisah, Ghanaian athlete
August 2 — Zuzana Malíková, Slovak race walker
August 4 — Fábio Gomes da Silva, Brazilian pole vaulter
September 2 — Tatyana Kozlova, Russian race walker
September 11 — Vivian Cheruiyot, Kenyan distance runner
September 14 — Mestawet Tufa, Ethiopian distance runner
October 2 — Michael Kipyego, Kenyan runner
October 5 — Hamid Ezzine, Moroccan long-distance runner
October 6 — Leonid Andreev, Uzbekistani decathlete and pole vaulter
October 8 — Mihkel Kukk, Estonian javelin thrower
October 10 — Dong Jimin, Chinese race walker
October 22 — Mika Vasara, Finnish shot putter
October 22 — Li Zhuhong, Chinese long-distance runner
November 19 — Meseret Defar, Ethiopian distance runner
December 2 — Yelena Priyma, Russian hammer thrower
December 6 — Urszula Piwnicka, Polish javelin thrower
December 8 — Aliaksandr Kazulka, Belarusian hammer thrower
December 9 — Diana Pickler, American heptathlete
December 13 — Janeth Jepkosgei, Kenyan middle distance runner
December 22 — Viola Kibiwot, Kenyan middle distance runner
December 27 — Tomo Morimoto, Japanese long-distance runner

Deaths

January 21 — Antonio Siddi (59), Italian athlete (b. 1923)
January 24 — Juan Carlos Zabala (71), Argentine athlete (b. 1911)
February 14 — Lina Radke (79), German athlete (b. 1903)
September 12 — Sabin Carr (79), American pole vaulter (b. 1904)

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