1983 World Athletics Championships

Host City	Helsinki
Country	FIN
Held	7 – 14 August 1983
Competitors	141
Countries	25

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	GDR	10	7	5	22
2	United States	USA	8	9	7	24
3	Soviet Union	URS	6	6	11	23
4	Czechoslovakia	TCH	4	3	2	9
5	Germany	GER	2	5	1	8
6	Great Britain	GBR	2	2	3	7
7	Poland	POL	2	1	1	4
8	Finland	FIN	1	1	1	3
=	Italy	ITA	1	1	1	3
=	Jamaica	JAM	1	1	1	3
11	Australia	AUS	1	0	0	1
=	Ireland	IRL	1	0	0	1
=	Mexico	MEX	1	0	0	1
=	Norway	NOR	1	0	0	1
15	Cuba	CUB	0	1	0	1
=	Ethiopia	ETH	0	1	0	1
=	Netherlands	NED	0	1	0	1
=	Romania	ROU	0	1	0	1
=	Spain	ESP	0	1	0	1
20	Bulgaria	BUL	0	0	3	3
21	Brazil	BRA	0	0	1	1
=	China	CHN	0	0	1	1
=	Greece	GRE	0	0	1	1
=	Morocco	MAR	0	0	1	1
=	Nigeria	NGR	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
100 m, Men	Carl Lewis	USA	Calvin Smith	USA	Emmit King	USA
200 m, Men	Calvin Smith	USA	Elliott Quow	USA	Pietro Mennea	ITA
400 m, Men	Bert Cameron	JAM	Mike Franks	USA	Sunder Nix	USA
800 m, Men	Willi Wülbeck	GER	Rob Druppers	NED	Joaquim Cruz	BRA
1,500 m, Men	Steve Cram	GBR	Steve Scott	USA	Saïd Aouita	MAR
5,000 m, Men	Eamonn Coghlan	IRL	Werner Schildhauer	GDR	Martti Vainio	FIN
10,000 m, Men	Alberto Cova	ITA	Werner Schildhauer	GDR	Hansjörg Kunze	GDR
Marathon, Men	Rob de Castella	AUS	Kebede Balcha	ETH	Waldemar Cierpinski	GDR
110 m Hurdles, Men	Greg Foster	USA	Arto Bryggare	FIN	Willie Gault	USA
400 m Hurdles, Men	Edwin Moses	USA	Harald Schmid	GER	Aleksandr Kharlov	URS
3,000 m Steeplechase, Men	Patriz Ilg	GER	Bogusław Mamiński	POL	Colin Reitz	GBR
4 x 100 m Relay, Men	United States	USA	Italy	ITA	Soviet Union	URS
4 x 400 m Relay, Men	Soviet Union	URS	Germany	GER	Great Britain	GBR
20 km Walk, Men	Ernesto Canto	MEX	Jozef Pribilinec	TCH	Yevgeny Yevsyukov	URS
50 km Walk, Men	Ronald Weigel	GDR	José Marín	ESP	Sergey Yung	URS
High Jump, Men	Hennadiy Avdieienko	URS	Tyke Peacock	USA	Zhu Jianhua	CHN
Pole Vault, Men	Sergey Bubka	URS	Konstantin Volkov	URS	Atanas Tarev	BUL
Long Jump, Men	Carl Lewis	USA	Jason Grimes	USA	Mike Conley	USA
Triple Jump, Men	Zdzisław Hoffmann	POL	Willie Banks	USA	Ajayi Agbebaku	NGR
Shot Put, Men	Edward Sarul	POL	Ulf Timmermann	GDR	Remigius Machura	TCH
Discus Throw, Men	Imrich Bugár	TCH	Luis Delís	CUB	Gejza Valent	TCH
Hammer Throw, Men	Sergey Litvinov	URS	Yury Sedykh	URS	Zdzisław Kwasny	POL
Javelin Throw, Men	Detlef Michel	GDR	Tom Petranoff	USA	Dainis Kūla	URS
Decathlon, Men	Daley Thompson	GBR	Jürgen Hingsen	GER	Siggi Wentz	GER
100 m, Women	Marlies Oelsner-Göhr	GDR	Marita Koch	GDR	Diane Williams	USA
200 m, Women	Marita Koch	GDR	Merlene Ottey	JAM	Kathy Smallwood-Cook	GBR
400 m, Women	Jarmila Kratochvílová	TCH	Taťána Kocembová	TCH	Mariya Pinigina	URS
800 m, Women	Jarmila Kratochvílová	TCH	Lyubov Gurina	URS	Yekaterina Podkopayeva	URS
1,500 m, Women	Mary Decker-Slaney	USA	Zamira Zaytseva	URS	Yekaterina Podkopayeva	URS
3,000 m, Women	Mary Decker-Slaney	USA	Brigitte Kraus	GER	Tatyana Kazankina	URS
Marathon, Women	Grete Andersen-Waitz	NOR	Marianne Dickerson	USA	Raisa Katyukova-Smekhnova	URS
100 m Hurdles, Women	Bettina Jahn	GDR	Kerstin Claus-Knabe	GDR	Ginka Zagorcheva	BUL
400 m Hurdles, Women	Yekaterina Fesenko	URS	Anna Kastetskaya	URS	Ellen Fiedler	GDR
4 x 100 m Relay, Women	East Germany	GDR	Great Britain	GBR	Jamaica	JAM
4 x 400 m Relay, Women	East Germany	GDR	Czechoslovakia	TCH	Soviet Union	URS
High Jump, Women	Tamara Bykova	URS	Ulrike Meyfarth	GER	Louise Ritter	USA
Long Jump, Women	Heike Drechsler	GDR	Anișoara Stanciu-Cușmir	ROU	Carol Lewis	USA
Shot Put, Women	Helena Fibingerová	TCH	Helma Knorscheidt	GDR	Ilona Schoknecht-Slupianek	GDR
Discus Throw, Women	Martina Hellmann	GDR	Galina Murašova	URS	Mariya Vergova-Petkova	BUL
Javelin Throw, Women	Tiina Lillak	FIN	Fatima Whitbread	GBR	Anna Verouli	GRE
Heptathlon, Women	Ramona Neubert	GDR	Sabine John	GDR	Anke Behmer	GDR