1983 Dünya Atletizm Şampiyonası 7-14 Ağustos 1983 tarihlerinde Finlandiya'nın başkenti Helsinki'de yapılan IAAF Dünya Atletizm Şampiyonaları'nın birincisi.
Yarışma | Altın | Gümüş | Bronz |
100 m | Carl Lewis
| 10.07 | Calvin Smith
| 10.21 | Emmit King
| 10.24 |
200 m | Calvin Smith
| 20.14 | Elliott Quow
| 20.41 | Pietro Mennea
| 20.51 |
400 m | Bert Cameron
| 45.05 | Mike Franks
| 45.22 | Sunder Nix
| 45.24 |
800 m | Willi Wülbeck
| 1:43.65 | Rob Druppers
| 1:44.20 | Joaquim Cruz
| 1:44.27 |
1.500 m | Steve Cram
| 3:41.59 | Steve Scott
| 3:41.87 | Saïd Aouita
| 3:42.02 |
5.000 m | Eamonn Coghlan
| 13:28.53 | Werner Schildhauer
| 13:30.20 | Martti Vainio
| 13:30.34 |
10.000 m | Alberto Cova
| 28:01.04 | Werner Schildhauer
| 28:01.18 | Hansjörg Kunze
| 28:01.26 |
Maraton | Rob de Castella
| 2:10:03 | Kebebe Balcha
| 2:10:27 | Waldemar Cierpinski
| 2:10:37 |
110 m engelli | Greg Foster
| 13.42 | Arto Bryggare
| 13.46 | Willie Gault
| 13.48 |
400 m engelli | Edwin Moses
| 47.50 | Harald Schmid
| 48.61 | Aleksandr Kharlov
| 49.03 |
3.000 m su engelli | Patriz Ilg
| 8:15.06 | Bogusław Mamiński
| 8:17.03 | Colin Reitz
| 8:17.75 |
20 km yürüyüş | Ernesto Canto
| 1:20:49 | Jozef Pribilinec
| 1:20:59 | Yevgeniy Yevsyukov
| 1:21:08 |
50 km yürüyüş | Ronald Weigel
| 3:43:08 | José Marín
| 3:43:42 | Sergey Yung
| 3:49:03 |
4 x 100 m | Emmit King, Willie Gault, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis
| 37.86 WR | Stefano Tilli, Carlo Simmionato, Pierfrancesco Pavoni, Pietro Mennea
| 38.37 NR | Andrey Prokofyev, Nikolay Sidorov, Vladimir Muravyov, Viktor Bryzgin
| 38.41 |
4 x 400 m | Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin | 3:00.79 | Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Helmut Weber | 3:01.83 | Ainsley Bennett, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Phil Brown | 3:03.53 |
Yarışma | Altın | Gümüş | Bronz |
100 m | Marlies Göhr
| 10.97 CR | Marita Koch
| 11.02 | Diane Williams
| 11.06 |
200 m | Marita Koch
| 22.13 | Merlene Ottey
| 22.19 | Kathy Smallwood-Cook
| 22.37 |
400 m | Jarmila Kratochvílová
| 47.99 WR | Taťána Kocembová
| 48.59 PB | Mariya Pinigina
| 49.19 |
800 m | Jarmila Kratochvílová
| 1:54.68 | Lyubov Gurina
| 1:56.11 | Yekaterina Podkopayeva
| 1:57.58 |
1500 m | Mary Decker
| 4:00.90 | Zamira Zaytseva
| 4:01.19 | Yekaterina Podkopayeva
| 4:02.25 |
3000 m | Mary Decker
| 8:34.62 | Brigitte Kraus
| 8:35.11 | Tatyana Kazankina
| 8:35.13 |
Maraton | Grete Waitz
| 2:28:09 | Marianne Dickerson
| 2:31:09 | Raisa Smekhnova
| 2:31:13 |
100 m engelli | Bettine Jahn
| 12.35 | Kerstin Knabe
| 12.42 | Ginka Zagorcheva
| 12.62 |
400 m engelli | Yekaterina Fesenko
| 54.14 | Ana Ambraziené
| 54.15 | Ellen Fiedler
| 54.55 |
4 x 100 m | Silke Gladisch-Möller, Marita Koch, Ingrid Auerswald-Lange, Marlies Göhr
| 41.76 | Joan Baptiste, Kathy Smallwood-Cook, Beverley Callendar, Shirley Thomas
| 42.71 | Leleith Hodges, Jacqueline Pusey, Juliet Cuthbert, Merlene Ottey
| 42.73 |
4 x 400 m | Gesine Walther, Sabine Busch, Marita Koch, Dagmar Rübsam
| 3:19.73 | Taťána Kocembová, Milena Matejkovičová-Strnadová, Zuzana Moravčíková, Jarmila Kratochvílová
| 3:20.32 | Yelena Korban, Marina Kharlamova, Irina Baskakova, Mariya Pingina
| 3:21.16 |