World Athletics Championships 1983 / 10,000 m men

World Athletics Championships 1983
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	34 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 9th (final)
Medalist Alberto Cova ( ITA )   Werner Schildhauer ( GDR )   Hansjörg Kunze ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's 10,000 meter run at the 1983 World Athletics Championships took place on August 7 and 9, 1983 in Helsinki , Finland .

34 athletes from 25 countries took part in the competition. The gold medal was won by the reigning European champion Alberto Cova in 28: 01.04 min, silver went to the two-time vice European champion from 1982 ( 5000 / 10,000 meters) Werner Schildhauer with 28: 01.18 min. Hansjörg Kunze won the bronze medal with a time of 28: 01.26 minutes.

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Henry Rono	27: 22.4 min	Vienna , Austria	June 11, 1978
World championship record	There were still no World Cup records, the event was held for the first time.

The Portuguese Fernando Mamede , in fourteenth place in the final, set the now valid World Cup record of 27: 45.54 minutes in the first run on August 7th .

Prelims

August 7, 1983

From the two preliminary runs, the first nine of each run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Rodolfo Gómez came in tenth place in his lead and was eliminated

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	27: 45.54 CR
2	Alberto Cova	Italy	27: 46.61
3	Gidamis Shahanga	Tanzania	27: 46.93
4th	Werner Schildhauer	German Democratic Republic	27: 47.03
5	Antonio Prieto	Spain	27: 47.34
6th	Steve Jones	United Kingdom	27: 47.57
7th	Bekele Debele	Ethiopia	27: 49.30
8th	Mark Nenow	United States	27: 52.41
9	Henrik Jørgensen	Denmark	28: 06.74
10	Rodolfo Gomez	Mexico	28: 25.38
11	John Treacy	Ireland	28: 35.58
12	Roy Andersen	Norway	29: 03.45
13	Boualem Rahoui	Algeria	29: 10.95
14th	Domingo Tibaduiza	Colombia	29: 23.86
15th	Antoine Nivyobizi	Burundi	30: 45.10
16	Romon Lopez	Paraguay	31: 27.10
	Markus Ryffel	Switzerland	DNF
	Mehmet Yurdadön	Turkey	DNS

Run 2

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Hansjörg Kunze	German Democratic Republic	28: 04.69
2	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	28: 05.62
3	Nick Rose	United Kingdom	28: 06.05
4th	Christoph Herle	BR Germany	28: 06.71
5	Mohamed Kedir	Ethiopia	28: 07.16
6th	Martti Vainio	Finland	28: 07.47
7th	José Gomez	Mexico	28: 07.57
8th	Bill McChesney	United States	28: 08.13
9	Alberto Salazar	United States	28: 10.10
10	Steve Binns	United Kingdom	28: 12.79
11	Peter Butler	Canada	28: 13.16
12	Zakariah Barie	Tanzania	28: 22.06
13	Ahmed Musa Jouda	Sudan	28: 38.03
14th	Kunimitsu Itō	Japan	29: 49.04
15th	Ronald Lanzoni	Costa Rica	30: 18.60
16	Said Toumane	Comoros	34: 24.62
	Stanislav Rozman	Yugoslavia	DNF
	Berhanu Girma	Ethiopia	DNS

final

The reigning European champion Alberto Cova (on the photo in 1994) became world champion

August 9, 1983

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
	Alberto Cova	Italy	28: 01.04
	Werner Schildhauer	German Democratic Republic	28: 01.18
	Hansjörg Kunze	German Democratic Republic	28: 01.26
4th	Martti Vainio	Finland	28: 01.37
5	Gidamis Shahanga	Tanzania	28: 01.93
6th	Carlos Lopes	Portugal	28: 06.78
7th	Nick Rose	United Kingdom	28: 07.53
8th	Christoph Herle	BR Germany	28: 09.05
9	Mohamed Kedir	Ethiopia	28: 09.92
10	Bekele Debele	Ethiopia	28: 11.13
11	Antonio Prieto	Spain	28: 11.57
12	Steve Jones	United Kingdom	28: 15.03
13	Mark Nenow	United States	28: 17.28
14th	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	28: 18.39
15th	Bill McChesney	United States	28: 34.46
16	José Gomez	Mexico	28: 42.61
17th	Alberto Salazar	United States	28: 48.42
	Henrik Jørgensen	Denmark	DNS

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  Werner Schildhauer, two-time vice European champion in 1982 , won silver

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  Bronze medalist Hansjörg Kunze

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  Carlos Lopes, second in the 1976 Olympics , finished sixth

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  Steve Jones came in twelfth place

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  Alberto Salazar (here in 2008) reached seventeenth place

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  Henrik Jørgensen did not appear in the final

Videos

• World Athletics Championships 10,000m Final, Helsinki 1983 on youtube.com, accessed March 28, 2020
• World Athletics Championship 10,000m Heats 1 & 2, Helsinki 1983 on youtube.com, accessed March 28, 2020

Web links and sources

• Home to the World Cup in 1983 on the website of the IAAF (Engl.)
• Video: World Athletics Championships 10,000m Final, Helsinki 1983 , published on youtube.com in 2012, accessed September 14, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 28, 2020