Events at the 1983 World Championships
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200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
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TheMen's Marathon at the inaugural1983 World Championships inHelsinki, Finland was held on August 14, 1983.

Gold	Robert de Castella Australia(AUS)
Silver	Kebede Balcha Ethiopia(ETH)
Bronze	Waldemar Cierpinski East Germany(GDR)

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Standing records prior to the 1983 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Robert de Castella (AUS)	2:08:18	December 6, 1981	Fukuoka, Japan
Event Record	New event
Season Best	Robert de Castella (AUS)	2:08:37	April 9, 1983	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Broken records at the 1983 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Robert de Castella (AUS)	2:10:03	August 14, 1983	Helsinki, Finland

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Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Robert de Castella (AUS)	2:10:03
	Kebede Balcha (ETH)	2:10:27
	Waldemar Cierpinski (GDR)	2:10:37
4	Kjell-Erik Ståhl (SWE)	2:10:38	NR
5	Agapius Masong (TAN)	2:10:42
6	Armand Parmentier (BEL)	2:10:57
7	Gianni Poli (ITA)	2:11:05	NR
8	Hugh Jones (GBR)	2:11:15
9	Karel Lismont (BEL)	2:11:24
10	Stig Roar Husby (NOR)	2:11:29	NR
11	Art Boileau (CAN)	2:11:30
12	Juan Carlos Traspaderne (ESP)	2:11:34	NR
13	Marco Marchei (ITA)	2:11:47
14	Pertti Tiainen (FIN)	2:12:11
15	Juma Ikangaa (TAN)	2:13:11
16	Ryszard Marczak (POL)	2:13:20
17	Svend-Erik Kristensen (DEN)	2:13:34
18	Ron Tabb (USA)	2:13:38
19	Henrik Jørgensen (DEN)	2:14:10
20	Hans Joachim Truppel (GDR)	2:14:20
21	Ricardo Ortega (ESP)	2:14:46
22	Tommy Persson (SWE)	2:14:57
23	Bruno Lafranchi (SUI)	2:14:58
24	Dave Edge (CAN)	2:15:43
25	Yuriy Pleshkov (URS)	2:15:50
26	Øyvind Dahl (NOR)	2:16:02
27	Paul Ballinger (NZL)	2:16:06
28	Jürgen Eberding (GDR)	2:16:55
29	Gerard Nijboer (NED)	2:16:59
30	Frederik Vandervennet (BEL)	2:17:11
31	Trevor Wright (NZL)	2:17:31
32	Mehmet Terzi (TUR)	2:17:56
33	Delfim Moreira (POR)	2:18:27
34	Li Jong-Hyong (PRK)	2:18:51
35	Yoshihiro Nishimura (JPN)	2:18:56
36	Cidálio Caetano (POR)	2:19:21
37	John Skøvbjerg (DEN)	2:19:44
38	Jeff Coole (AUS)	2:20:25
39	Benji Durden (USA)	2:20:38
40	So Chang-Sik (PRK)	2:20:43
41	Wilson Theleso (BOT)	2:21:36	NR
42	Hideki Kita (JPN)	2:21:37
43	Baikuntha Manandhar (NEP)	2:21:43
44	Henrik Sandström (FIN)	2:21:56
45	Rudi Verriet (NED)	2:22:07
46	Dominique Chauvelier (FRA)	2:23:25
47	Djama Robleh (DJI)	2:24:04
48	Gerry Helme (GBR)	2:25:02
49	Sam Hlawe (SWZ)	2:26:42
50	Jan-Iwar Westlund (SWE)	2:27:05
51	Carlos Carvajal (CHI)	2:27:30
52	Don Greig (NZL)	2:27:37
53	Luis Tipán (ECU)	2:28:30
54	Palmireno Benjamin Campos (BRA)	2:29:41
55	Jan Fjærestad (NOR)	2:30:58
56	Tavares Silva (POR)	2:31:31
57	Syrja Dalipi (ALB)	2:31:40
58	Raymond Swan (BER)	2:33:20
59	Chang-Ming Chen (TPE)	2:34:00
60	Ágúst Þorsteinsson (ISL)	2:34:05
61	José Jaime Hernández (ESA)	2:34:26
62	Michael Lekhelsi (LES)	2:52:01
63	Said Toumane (COM)	3:03:10
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Ahmet Altun (TUR)	DNF
—	Santiago de la Parte (ESP)	DNF
—	Mike Gratton (GBR)	DNF
—	Gerhard Hartmann (AUT)	DNF
—	Yair Karni (ISR)	DNF
—	Koshiro Kawaguchi (JPN)	DNF
—	Louis Kenny (IRL)	DNF
—	Ramón López (PAR)	DNF
—	Alfredo Maravilla (ARG)	DNF
—	Ed Mendoza (USA)	DNF
—	Giampaolo Messina (ITA)	DNF
—	Dereje Nedi (ETH)	DNF
—	Peter Quance (CAN)	DNF
—	Ahmed Salah (DJI)	DNF
—	Carlos Victorino (MEX)	DNF
—	Grenville Wood (AUS)	DNF
—	Antonio Villanueva (MEX)	DNF
—	Ralf Salzmann (FRG)	DNF

• 1983 Marathon Year Ranking
• Men's Olympic Marathon (1984)

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• Leichatletik-Statistik-Seite

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