1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres
at the 1983 World Championships
Men's 100 metres ; at the 1983 World Championships
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Dates	7 August (heats and quarter-finals); 8 August (semi-finals and final)
Competitors	67
Winning time	10.07 CR
Medalists
	1987 →

Last updated October 03, 2025

The men's 100 metres at the 1983 IAAF World Championships was held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland on 7 and 8 August 2022. 67 athletes from 49 nations entered to the competition

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record	Calvin Smith (USA)	9.93	Colorado Springs, USA	July 3, 1983
Championship Record	New event

Results

Qualifying heats

The qualifying heats took place on 7 August, with the 67 athletes involved being split into 9 heats. The first 3 athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next 5 fastest ( q ) qualified for the quarter-finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Luke Watson	Great Britain & N.I.	10.64	Q, CR
2	Valentin Atanasov	Bulgaria	10.66	Q
3	Lester Benjamin	Antigua and Barbuda	10.76	Q
4	Mohamed Purnomo	Indonesia	10.76
5	Thurston Ross	Trinidad and Tobago	11.08
6	Peni Bati	Fiji	11.11
–	Şükrü Çaprazlı	Turkey	DNS
			Wind: –1.0 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Juan Núñez	Dominican Republic	10.38	Q, CR
2	Innocent Egbunike	Nigeria	10.44	Q
3	Ben Johnson	Canada	10.45	Q
4	Everard Samuels	Jamaica	10.57	q
5	Sheikh Omar Faye	Gambia	10.76
6	Hwang Chian-Shin	Chinese Taipei	10.82
7	John Albertie	Saint Lucia	10.90
8	Joske Teabuge	Nauru	12.20
			Wind: +1.8 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Carl Lewis	United States	10.34	Q, CR
2	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain & N.I.	10.44	Q
3	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba	10.47	Q
4	Earl Haley	Guyana	10.77
5	Earle Laing	Jamaica	10.91
6	Pit Rapuan	Malaysia	11.03
7	Vicente Daniel Ibrahim	Mozambique	11.20
			Wind: +1.2 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Desai Williams	Canada	10.31	Q, CR
2	Paul Narracott	Australia	10.38	Q
3	Frank Emmelmann	East Germany	10.40	Q
4	Jouko Hassi	Finland	10.58
5	Gregory Simons	Bermuda	10.78
6	Moussa Savadogo	Mali	10.88
7	Alan Zammit	Malta	11.25
8	José Flores	Honduras	11.31
			Wind: –0.2 m/s

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Calvin Smith	United States	10.30	Q, CR
2	Ferenc Kiss	Hungary	10.45	Q
3	Marian Woronin	Poland	10.50	Q
4	Robson da Silva	Brazil	10.51	q
5	Joseph Leota	Samoa	10.92
6	Georges Taniel	Vanuatu	11.02
7	Nguyễn Trương Hòa	Vietnam	11.16
			Wind: +0.7 m/s

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	10.33	Q
2	Emmit King	United States	10.41	Q
3	Thomas Schröder	East Germany	10.41	Q
4	Gerrard Keating	Australia	10.57	q
5	Kosmas Stratos	Greece	10.65
6	Christopher Madzokere	Zimbabwe	10.84
7	Rubén Inácio	Angola	10.92
			Wind: –0.5 m/s

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Allan Wells	Great Britain & N.I.	10.37	Q
2	Christian Haas	West Germany	10.39	Q
3	Chidi Imoh	Nigeria	10.55	Q
4	Nikolay Sidorov	Soviet Union	10.59
5	Wilfredo Almonte	Dominican Republic	10.72
6	Giorgio Mautino	Peru	10.85
7	Banana Jarjue	Gambia	11.04
8	Trevor Davis	Anguilla	11.53
			Wind: +1.8 m/s

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	10.22	Q
2	Christopher Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago	10.33	Q
3	Ernest Obeng	Ghana	10.35	Q
4	István Tatár	Hungary	10.45	q
5	Harouna Pale	Upper Volta (UPV)	10.58
6	Neville Hodge	U.S. Virgin Islands	10.59
7	Laoui Adnan Abou	Jordan	11.17
			Wind: +2.3 m/s

Heat 9

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba	10.24	Q, CR
2	Tony Sharpe	Canada	10.31	Q
3	Viktor Bryzgin	Soviet Union	10.33	Q
4	Antoine Richard	France	10.34	q
5	Suchart Chairsuvaparb	Thailand	10.63
6	Jean-Yves Mallat	Lebanon	11.04
7	Mohamad Ismail Bakaki	Afghanistan	12.33
–	Lee Kuo-Sheng	Chinese Taipei	DNS
			Wind: +1.3 m/s

Quarter-finals

The quarter-finals took place on 7 August, with the 32 athletes involved being split into 4 heats. The first 4 athletes in each heat ( Q ) qualified for the semifinals.