World Athletics Championships 1983/200 m men

World Athletics Championships 1983
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	52 athletes from 42 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th (preliminary / quarter-finals) August 13th (semi-finals) August 14th (final)
Medalist Calvin Smith ( USA )   Elliott Quow ( USA )   Pietro Mennea ( ITA )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's 200-meter run at the 1983 World Athletics Championships took place on August 12, 13 and 14, 1983 in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital, Helsinki .

52 athletes from 42 countries took part in the competition. The US sprinters achieved a double victory in this competition. World champion was Calvin Smith , who had won silver over 100 meters two days earlier and on the final day as a member of the US sprint relay came to a second gold medal. Second place went to Elliott Quow . The bronze medal, the Italian Olympic champion in 1980 , Olympic bronze medalist from 1972 and two-time European champion ( 1974 / 1978 ) Pietro Mennea .

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Pietro Mennea	19.72 s	Mexico City , Mexico	September 12, 1979
World championship record	There were still no World Cup records, the event was held for the first time

The world championship record was gradually increased to 20.14 seconds ( Calvin Smith , USA in the final on August 14, 1983).

Prelims

August 12, 1983

From the eight preliminary runs, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and also the eight fastest - highlighted in light green - qualified for the quarter-finals.

Run 1

Wind: +1.8 m / s

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Frank Emmelmann	GDR	20.95 CR
2	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	21.07
3	Bruce Frayne	Australia	21.15
4th	Christopher Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago	21.24
5	Hector Daley	Panama	21.49
6th	Earl Haley	Guyana	21.55
7th	Moussa Savadogo	Mali	22.33
8th	Awudu Nuhu	Ghana	22.93

Run 2

Wind: +1.8 m / s

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.80 CR
2	Sergey Sokolov	Soviet Union	20.94
3	Paul Narracott	Australia	21.08
4th	Luis Schneider	Chile	21.23
5	Batuello Giorgio Mautiño	Peru	21.78
6th	Hoa Nguyen Truong	Vietnam	22.68
7th	Gervais Kirolo	Central African Republic	23.10

Run 3

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	João Batista da Silva	Brazil	20.93
2	Vladimir Muravyov	Soviet Union	21.12
3	Desai Williams	Canada	21.36
4th	Mohamed Yudi Purnomo	Indonesia	21.88
5	Joseph Leota	Samoa	22.33
6th	Nagib Salem Ahmed	Yemen	23.22
7th	Colin Bradford	Jamaica	24.15

Run 4

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Carlo Simionato	Italy	20.76 CR
2	Elliott Quow	United States	21.01
3	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	21.14
4th	Ángel Heras	Spain	21.29
5	Roland Jokl	Austria	21.30
6th	David Sawyerr	Sierra Leone	22.23
7th	John Albertie	St. Lucia	22.53

Run 5

Wind: –2.1 m / s

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Allan Wells	Great Britain	21.14
2	Boubacar Diallo	Senegal	21.17
3	Christopher Madzokere	Zimbabwe	21.68
4th	Dean Greenaway	British Virgin Islands	22.24
	Juan Núñez	Dominican Republic	DNS
	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy
	Tony Sharpe	Canada

Run 6

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Calvin Smith	United States	21.10
2	Leroy Reid	Jamaica	21.13
3	Patrick Barré	France	21.34
4th	Jang Jae-keun	South Korea	21.39
5	Gustavo Capart	Argentina	21.66
6th	Rubén Inácio	Angola	22.33
7th	Trevor Davis	Anguilla	22.80

Run 7

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Innocent Egbunike	Nigeria	21.28
2	Istvan Nagy	Hungary	21.50
3	Andreas Rizzi	BR Germany	21.51
4th	Oumar Fye	Gambia	22.30
5	Sikendar Iqbal	Pakistan	22.91
	Peni Bati	Fiji	DNS
	Donald Quarrie	Jamaica

Run 8

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Jean-Jacques Boussemart	France	20.99
2	Luke Watson	Great Britain	21.20
3	Alfred Nyambane	Kenya	21.21
4th	Neville Hodge	American Virgin Islands	21.38
5	Larry Myricks	United States	21.74
6th	Georges Taniel	Vanuatu	22.28
7th	José Flores	Honduras	22.94

Quarter finals

August 12, 1983

From the four quarter-finals, the first four of each run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

Run 1

Wind: +2.1 m / s (no CR recognition due to the strong tail wind)

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Calvin Smith	United States	20.60
2	João Batista da Silva	Brazil	20.65
3	Allan Wells	Great Britain	20.81
4th	Jean-Jacques Boussemart	France	20.86
5	Ángel Heras	Spain	21.25
6th	Earl Haley	Guyana	21.39
7th	Luis Schneider	Chile	21.39
	Jang Jae-keun	South Korea	DNS

Run 2

Wind: -1.6 m / s

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Carlo Simionato	Italy	20.75 CR
2	Desai Williams	Canada	20.87
3	Boubacar Diallo	Senegal	20.97
4th	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	20.99
5	Patrick Barré	France	21.12
6th	Paul Narracott	Australia	21.34
7th	Aldred Nyambane	Kenya	21.55
8th	Christopher Madzokere	Zimbabwe	21.55

Run 3

Wind: -0.4 m / s

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Frank Emmelmann	GDR	20.78
2	Leroy Reid	Jamaica	20.88
3	Innocent Egbunike	Nigeria	20.91
4th	Sergey Sokolov	Soviet Union	20.93
5	Atlee Mahorn	Canada	21.13
6th	Christopher Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago	21.14
7th	Andreas Rizzi	BR Germany	21.37
8th	Istvan Nagy	Hungary	21.52

Run 4

Wind: +1.6 m / s

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.68 CR
2	Vladimir Muravyov	Soviet Union	20.70
3	Elliott Quow	United States	20.80
4th	Bruce Frayne	Australia	20.97
5	Luke Watson	Great Britain	20.99
6th	Roland Jokl	Australia	21.24
7th	Neville Hodge	American Virgin Islands	21.38
	Hector Daley	Panama	DNS

Semifinals

August 13, 1983

From the two semi-finals, the first four of each run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: +3.4 m / s (no CR recognition due to the strong tail wind)

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	João Batista da Silva	Brazil	20.56
2	Frank Emmelmann	GDR	20.63
3	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.68
4th	Elliott Quow	United States	20.69
5	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain	20.69
6th	Desai Williams	Canada	20.71
7th	Leroy Reid	Jamaica	20.89
8th	Sergey Sokolov	Soviet Union	20.89

As sixth of his run, Jean-Jacques Boussemart missed the final

Run 2

Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Calvin Smith	United States	20.29 CR
2	Carlo Simionato	Italy	20.60
3	Innocent Egbunike	Nigeria	20.63
4th	Allan Wells	Great Britain	20.63
5	Vladimir Muravyov	Soviet Union	20.71
6th	Jean-Jacques Boussemart	France	20.76
7th	Bruce Frayne	Australia	20.94
8th	Boubacar Diallo	Senegal	20.96

final

• 

  Pietro Mennea, 1980 Olympic champion, 1972 Olympic third and two-time European champion ( 1974 / 1978 ), won the bronze medal

• 

  Frank Emmelmann (left) took fifth place

August 14, 1983, 2:45 p.m.

Wind: +1.2 m / s

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
	3	Calvin Smith	United States	20.14 CR
	6th	Elliott Quow	United States	20.41
	5	Pietro Mennea	Italy	20.51
4th	4th	Allan Wells	Great Britain	20.52
5	7th	Frank Emmelmann	GDR	20.55
6th	2	Innocent Egbunike	Nigeria	20.63
7th	1	Carlo Simionato	Italy	20.69
8th	8th	João Batista da Silva	Brazil	20.80

Video

• 1983 World Champs 200m Final men on youtube.com, accessed March 28, 2020

Web links and sources

• 1st IAAF World Championships in Athletics at iaaf.org, accessed on March 17, 2020
• Men 200m at todor66.com, accessed March 17, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 97), in English, accessed on March 17, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 17, 2020