1983 in athletics | |
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This article contains an overview of the year 1983 in athletics.
EVENT | ATHLETE | MARK | DATE | VENUE |
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100 metres | Marlies Göhr (GDR) | 10.81 | 8 June | East Berlin |
Evelyn Ashford (USA) | 10.79 | 3 July | Colorado Springs | |
400 metres | Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH) | 47.99 | 10 August | Helsinki |
800 metres | Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH) | 1:53.28 | 26 July | Munich |
10,000 metres | Lyudmila Baranova (URS) | 31:35.01 | 29 May | Krasnodar |
Raysa Sadreydinova (URS) | 31:27.58 | 7 September | Odessa | |
400m Hurdles | Anna Ambrazienė (URS) | 54.02 | 11 June | Moscow |
4x100m Relay | East Germany (GDR) • Silke Möller • Marita Koch • Ingrid Auerswald • Marlies Göhr | 41.53 | 31 July | East Berlin |
High Jump | Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) | 2.03m | 21 August | London |
Tamara Bykova (URS) | 2.04m | 25 August | Pisa, Italy | |
Heptathlon | Ramona Neubert (GDR) | 6935 | 18-19 June | Moscow |
Half Marathon | Joan Benoit (USA) | 1:09:10 | 18 September | Philadelphia |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Calvin Smith (USA) | 9.93 |
2. | Carl Lewis (USA) | 9.97 |
3. | Mel Lattany (USA) | 10.03 |
4. | Leandro Peñalver (CUB) | 10.06 |
Ron Brown (USA) | ||
Emmit King (USA) |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Carl Lewis (USA) | 19.75 |
2. | Calvin Smith (USA) | 19.99 |
3. | Larry Myricks (USA) | 20.03 |
4. | Elliott Quow (USA) | 20.16 |
5. | Mel Lattany (USA) | 20.22 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Erwin Skamrahl (FRG) | 44.50 |
2. | Bert Cameron (JAM) | 44.62 |
3. | James Rolle (USA) | 44.73 |
4. | Chris Whitlock (USA) | 44.80 |
5. | Sunder Nix (USA) | 44.87 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Steve Cram (GBR) | 1:43.61 |
2. | Willi Wülbeck (FRG) | 1:43.65 |
3. | Sebastian Coe (GBR) | 1:43.80 |
4. | Peter Elliott (GBR) | 1:43.98 |
5. | Joaquim Cruz (BRA) | 1:44.04 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Steve Ovett (GBR) | 3:30.77 |
2. | Sydney Maree (USA) | 3:31.24 |
3. | Steve Cram (GBR) | 3:31.66 |
4. | Saïd Aouita (MAR) | 3:32.54 |
5. | Steve Scott (USA) | 3:32.71 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Steve Scott (USA) | 3:49.21 |
2. | John Walker (NZL) | 3:49.73 |
3. | Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) | 3:49.98 |
4. | Sydney Maree (USA) | 3:50.30 |
5. | Steve Ovett (GBR) | 3:50.49 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Doug Padilla (USA) | 7:35.84 |
2. | Eamonn Coghlan (IRL) | 7:38.39 |
3. | António Leitão (POR) | 7:39.69 |
4. | Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) | 7:39.71 |
5. | Dragan Zdravković (YUG) | 7:40.49 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Fernando Mamede (POR) | 13:08.54 |
2. | António Leitão (POR) | 13:14.13 |
3. | Doug Padilla (USA) | 13:17.69 |
4. | Antonio Prieto (ESP) | 13:18.53 |
5. | Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) | 13:18.86 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Carlos Lopes (POR) | 27:23.44 |
2. | Werner Schildhauer (GDR) | 27:24.95 |
3. | Fernando Mamede (POR) | 27:25.13 |
4. | Hansjörg Kunze (GDR) | 27:30.69 |
5. | Nick Rose (GBR) | 27:31.19 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Paul Cummings (USA) | 1:01:32WR |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Robert de Castella (AUS) | 2:08:37 |
2. | Toshihiko Seko (JPN) | 2:08:38 |
3. | Carlos Lopes (POR) | 2:08:39 |
4. | Takeshi So (JPN) | 2:08:55 |
Juma Ikangaa (TAN) |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Greg Foster (USA) | 13.11 |
2. | Sam Turner (USA) | 13.17 |
3. | Tonie Campbell (USA) | 13.32 |
4. | Arto Bryggare (FIN) | 13.44 |
Roger Kingdom (USA) |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Edwin Moses (USA) | 47.02 |
2. | Andre Phillips (USA) | 47.78 |
3. | David Patrick (USA) | 48.05 |
4. | David Lee (USA) | 48.42 |
5. | Harald Schmid (FRG) | 48.49 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Henry Marsh (USA) | 8:12.37 |
2. | Bogusław Mamiński (POL) | 8:12.62 |
3. | Patriz Ilg (FRG) | 8:15.06 |
4. | Graeme Fell (GBR) | 8:15.16 |
5. | Joseph Mahmoud (FRA) | 8:15.59 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | HEIGHT |
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1. | Zhu Jianhua (CHN) | 2.38WR |
2. | Valeriy Sereda (URS) | 2.35 |
3. | Paul Frommeyer (FRG) | 2.34 |
Carlo Thränhardt (FRG) | ||
Eddy Annys (BEL) |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Carl Lewis (USA) | 8.79 |
2. | Jason Grimes (USA) | 8.39 |
3. | Sergey Rodin (URS) | 8.33 |
Reginald Kelly (USA) | ||
5. | Aleksandr Beskrovniy (URS) | 8.28 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Vasiliy Grishchenkov (URS) | 17.55 |
2. | Aleksandr Beskrovniy (URS) | 17.53 |
3. | Zdzislaw Hoffmann (POL) | 17.42 |
4. | Lázaro Betancourt (CUB) | 17.40 |
5. | Ken Lorraway (AUS) | 17.35 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Yuriy Dumchev (URS) | 71.86WR |
2. | Ben Plucknett (USA) | 71.32 |
3. | Art Burns (USA) | 71.18 |
4. | Luis Delís (CUB) | 71.06 |
5. | Imrich Bugár (TCH) | 70.72 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Sergey Litvinov (URS) | 84.14 |
2. | Igor Nikulin (URS) | 82.92 |
3. | Yuriy Tarasyuk (URS) | 81.18 |
4. | Juha Tiainen (FIN) | 81.02 |
5. | Yuriy Syedikh (URS) | 80.94 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Udo Beyer (GDR) | 22.22WR |
2. | Dave Laut (USA) | 21.94 |
3. | Edward Sarul (POL) | 21.68 |
4. | Kevin Akins (USA) | 21.61 |
5. | Mike Lehmann (USA) | 21.43 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Tom Petranoff (USA) | 99.72 |
2. | Detlef Michel (GDR) | 96.72 |
3. | Heino Puuste (URS) | 94.20 |
4. | Dainis Kula (URS) | 91.88 |
5. | Klaus Tafelmeier (FRG) | 91.44 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | HEIGHT |
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1. | Thierry Vigneron (FRA) | 5.83 |
2. | Pierre Quinon (FRA) | 5.82 |
3. | Billy Olson (USA) | 5.80 |
4. | Jeff Buckingham (USA) | 5.76 |
5. | Brad Pursley (USA) | 5.75 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | POINTS |
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1. | Jürgen Hingsen (FRG) | 8779WR |
2. | Siegfried Wentz (FRG) | 8718 |
3. | Daley Thompson (GBR) | 8666 |
4. | Grigoriy Degtyaryev (URS) | 8538 |
5. | Uwe Freimuth (GDR) | 8501 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Evelyn Ashford (USA) | 10.79WR |
2. | Marlies Göhr (GDR) | 10.81WR |
3. | Marita Koch (GDR) | 10.83 |
4. | Diane Williams (USA) | 10.94 |
5. | Silke Gladisch (GDR) | 11.03 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Marita Koch (GDR) | 21.82 |
2. | Evelyn Ashford (USA) | 21.88 |
3. | Chandra Cheeseborough (USA) | 21.99 |
4. | Merlene Ottey (JAM) | 22.19 |
5. | Florence Griffith (USA) | 22.23 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH) | 47.99WR |
2. | Tatána Kocembová (TCH) | 48.59 |
3. | Mariya Pinigina (URS) | 49.19 |
4. | Gaby Bußmann (FRG) | 49.75 |
5. | Marita Payne (CAN) | 50.06 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH) | 1:53.28WR |
2. | Yekaterina Podkopayeva (URS) | 1:55.96 |
3. | Lyubov Gurina (URS) | 1:56.11 |
4. | Zamira Zaytseva (URS) | 1:56.21 |
5. | Tatyana Providokhina (URS) | 1:56.81 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Mary Decker (USA) | 3:57.12 |
2. | Ravilya Agletdinova (URS) | 3:59.31 |
3. | Fiţa Lovin (ROU) | 4:00.12 |
4. | Yekaterina Podkopayeva (URS) | 4:00.3 |
5. | Maria Radu (ROU) | 4:00.62 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Tatyana Kazankina (URS) | 8:32.08 |
2. | Alla Yushina (URS) | 8:34.02 |
3. | Galina Zakharova (URS) | 8:34.60 |
4. | Mary Decker (USA) | 8:34.62 |
5. | Svetlana Guskova (URS) | 8:35.06 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Zola Budd (RSA) | 15:10.65 |
2. | Anna Domoradskaya (URS) | 15:19.0 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Raysa Sadreydinova (URS) | 31:27.58WR |
2. | Lyudmila Baranova (URS) | 31:35.01WR |
3. | Tatyana Pozdnyakova (URS) | 31:48.94 |
4. | Olga Bondarenko (URS) | 31:49.44 |
5. | Aurora Cunha (POR) | 31:52.85 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Joan Benoit (USA) | 1:09:10 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Joan Benoit (USA) | 2:22:43 |
2. | Grete Waitz (NOR) | 2:25:17 |
3. | Julie Brown (USA) | 2:26:26 |
4. | Mary O'Connor (NZL) | 2:28:20 |
5. | Charlotte Teske (FRG) | 2:28:32 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Bettine Jahn (GDR) | 12.42 |
2. | Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL) | 12.49 |
3. | Kerstin Knabe (GDR) | 12.62 |
4. | Yordanka Donkova (BUL) | 12.65 |
5. | Cornelia Riefstahl (GDR) | 12.72 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | TIME |
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1. | Anna Ambrazienė (URS) | 54.02WR |
2. | Yekaterina Fesenko (URS) | 54.14 |
3. | Ellen Fiedler (GDR) | 54.20 |
4. | Petra Pfaff (GDR) | 54.64 |
5. | Yelena Filipishina (URS) | 54.72 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | HEIGHT |
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1. | Tamara Bykova (URS) | 2.04WR |
2. | Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) | 2.03WR |
3. | Louise Ritter (USA) | 2.01 |
4. | Kerstin Brandt (GDR) | 1.99 |
5. | Larisa Kositsyna (URS) | 1.98 |
Silvia Costa (CUB) | ||
Valentina Poluyko (URS) |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Anişoara Cuşmir (ROU) | 7.43 |
2. | Heike Daute (GDR) | 7.14 |
3. | Svetlana Zorina (URS) | 7.04 |
Tatyana Proskuryakova (URS) | ||
5. | Margarita Butkiené (URS) | 7.00 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Galina Savinkova (URS) | 73.26 |
2. | Gisela Beyer (GDR) | 70.96 |
3. | Mariya Petkova (BUL) | 70.74 |
4. | Martina Hellmann (GDR) | 70.26 |
5. | Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH) | 70.00 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Ilona Slupianek (GDR) | 22.40 |
2. | Helena Fibingerová (TCH) | 21.46 |
3. | Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH) | 21.05 |
4. | Mihaela Loghin (ROU) | 20.95 |
5. | Nunu Abashidze (URS) | 20.94 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | DISTANCE |
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1. | Tiina Lillak (FIN) | 74.76 |
2. | Tessa Sanderson (GBR) | 73.58 |
3. | Sofia Sakorafa (GRE) | 72.28 |
4. | Antje Zöllkau (GDR) | 71.00 |
5. | Anna Verouli (GRE) | 70.90 |
RANK | 1983 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS | POINTS |
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1. | Ramona Neubert (GDR) | 6935WR |
2. | Sabine Paetz (GDR) | 6713 |
3. | Lyudmila Kolyadina (URS) | 6541 |
4. | Yekaterina Smirnova (URS) | 6536 |
5. | Anke Vater (GDR) | 6531 |
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