1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

These are the official results of men's shot put at the 1983 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total number of 20 participating athletes, with the final held on 7 August 1983.

Medalists

Gold	Edward Sarul Poland (POL)
Silver	Ulf Timmermann East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Remigius Machura Czechoslovakia (TCH)

Schedule

• All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
07.08.1983 – 11:00h	07.08.1983 – 11:00h
Final Round
07.08.1983 – 19:00h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1983 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Udo Beyer  (GDR)	22.22 m	June 25, 1983	Los Angeles, United States
Event Record	New event
Broken records during the 1983 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Dave Laut  (USA)	21.08 m	August 7, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Event Record	Ulf Timmermann  (GDR)	21.16 m	August 7, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Event Record	Edward Sarul  (POL)	21.39 m	August 7, 1983	Helsinki, Finland

Final

RANK	FINAL	DISTANCE
	Edward Sarul  (POL)	21.39 m
	Ulf Timmermann  (GDR)	21.16 m
	Remigius Machura  (TCH)	20.98 m
4.	Dave Laut  (USA)	20.60 m
5.	Jānis Bojārs  (URS)	20.32 m
6.	Udo Beyer  (GDR)	20.09 m
7.	Alessandro Andrei  (ITA)	20.07 m
8.	Aulis Akonniemi  (FIN)	19.85 m
9.	Vladimir Milić  (YUG)	19.71 m
10.	Mike Lehmann  (USA)	19.69 m
11.	Josef Kubeš  (TCH)	19.67 m
12.	Ivan Ivančić  (YUG)	19.52 m

Qualification

• Held on Sunday 1983-08-07

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Dave Laut  (USA)	21.08 m
2.	Remigius Machura  (TCH)	20.76 m
3.	Ulf Timmermann  (GDR)	20.10 m
4.	Jānis Bojārs  (URS)	20.04 m
5.	Vladimir Milić  (YUG)	19.66 m
6.	Aulis Akonniemi  (FIN)	19.65 m
7.	Alessandro Andrei  (ITA)	19.57 m
8.	Bishop Dolegiewicz  (CAN)	18.68 m
9.	Ahmed Kamel Shatta  (EGY)	16.73 m
—	Adnan Houry  (SYR)	NM

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Edward Sarul  (POL)	20.82 m
2.	Udo Beyer  (GDR)	20.29 m
3.	Mike Lehmann  (USA)	19.88 m
4.	Ivan Ivančić  (YUG)	19.74 m
5.	Josef Kubeš  (TCH)	19.73 m
6.	Kevin Akins  (USA)	19.48 m
7.	Erwin Weitzl  (AUT)	19.23 m
8.	Werner Günthör  (SUI)	19.18 m
9.	Bruno Pauletto  (CAN)	18.32 m
10.	Sergey Smirnov  (URS)	18.03 m

See also

• 1980 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Moscow)
• 1983 Shot Put Year Ranking
• 1984 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships Shot Put (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Seoul)

References

• Results
• IAAF results