World Athletics Championships 1983/400 m for women

World Athletics Championships 1983
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	33 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 8th (quarter-finals) August 9th (semi-finals) August 10th (final)
Medalists Jarmila Kratochvílová ( TCH )   Taťána Kocembová ( TCH )   Marija Pinigina ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's 400-meter race at the 1983 World Athletics Championships took place on August 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1983 in Helsinki , Finland .

33 athletes from 25 countries took part in the competition. The runners from Czechoslovakia achieved a double victory. The gold medal was won by the Olympic runner-up in 1980 and vice European champion from 1982 Jarmila Kratochvílová after 47.99 s, with which she set a new world record. The day before, she had already become world champion over 800 meters . Silver went with 48.59 s to the EM -Third 1982 taťána kocembová . On the final day, the two victorious Czech women secured the silver medal together with their country's 4 x 400 meter relay . The Soviet athlete Marija Pinigina , formerly Marija Kultschunowa, came in third place with 49.19 s and later won a second bronze medal with the 4 x 400 meter relay of the USSR.

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Marita Koch	48.16 s	Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982
World championship record	There were still no World Cup records, the event was held for the first time.

The World Cup record was gradually increased to 47.99 seconds ( Jarmila Kratochvílová , Czechoslovakia , in the final on August 10, 1983). With this, world champion Jarmila Kratochvílová set a new world record and was the first female runner to stay below the 48-second mark.

Prelims

August 7, 1983

From the five preliminary runs, the first five of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the seven fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the quarter-finals. Only two of the runners who competed here were eliminated; it would have been possible to skip the quarter-finals without any problems.

Run 1

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Czechoslovakia	52.42 s CR
2	Molly Killingbeck	Canada	52.62 s
3	Roberta Belle	United States	53.01 s
4th	Michelle Scutt	United Kingdom	53.30 s
5	Erica Rossi	Italy	53.51 s
6th	Hala El-Moughrabi	Syria	59.58 s
7th	Marjorie Gentle	Belize	1: 04.00 min

Run 2

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Rositsa Stamenova	Bulgaria	53.81 s
2	Gaby Bussmann	BR Germany	53.93 s
3	June Griffith	Guyana	54.02 s
4th	Eucaris Caicedo	Colombia	55.09 s
5	Judit Forgács	Hungary	55.15 s
6th	Leticia Athanas	Tanzania	56.54 s
7th	Sandra Liburd	St. Christopher Nevis Anguilla	1: 02.46 min

Run 3

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Taťána Kocembová	Czechoslovakia	52.74 s
2	Denean Howard	United States	52.78 s
3	Katja Iliewa	Bulgaria	53.21
4th	Cathy Rattray	Jamaica	53.40 s
5	Elanga Buala	Papua New Guinea	57.37 s
6th	Fatalmoudou Touré	Mali	59.37 s
	Florence Gaza	Solomon Islands	DNS

Run 4

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Marija Pinigina	Soviet Union	52.49 s
2	Charmaine Crooks	Canada	53.83 s
3	Dagmar Rübsam	German Democratic Republic	54.47 s
4th	Denise Boyd	Australia	54.70 s
5	Iyiechia Peter	American Virgin Islands	55.87 s
6th	Margarita Grun	Uruguay	56.84 s
7th	Cornelia Baptiste	St. Lucia	1: 00.79 min

Run 5

space	Athlete	country	time
1	Sabine Busch	German Democratic Republic	53.16 s
2	Irina Baskakova	Soviet Union	53.45 s
3	Rosalyn Bryant	United States	53.64 s
4th	Marita Payne	Canada	53.96 s
5	Irina Ambulo	Panama	56.08 s
6th	Patricia Meigha	Guatemala	58.07 s
	Rose Tata-Muya	Kenya	DNS

Quarter finals

August 8, 1983

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

Run 1

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Marija Pinigina	Soviet Union	51.05 CR
2	Rosalyn Bryant	United States	51.44
3	Sabine Busch	German Democratic Republic	51.46
4th	Charmaine Crooks	Canada	51.57
5	Denise Boyd	Australia	52.03
6th	Cathy Rattray	Jamaica	53.78
	Margarita Grun	Uruguay	DNS
	Cornelia Baptiste	St. Lucia

Run 2

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Irina Baskakova	Soviet Union	51.07
2	Gaby Bussmann	BR Germany	51.15
3	Dagmar Rübsam	German Democratic Republic	51.62
4th	Molly Killingbeck	Canada	52.25
5	Roberta Belle	United States	53.43
6th	Elanga Buala	Papua New Guinea	56.96
7th	Iyiechia Peter	American Virgin Islands	57.24
	Hala El-Moughrabi	Syria	DNS

Run 3

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Marita Payne	Canada	52.23
2	Katja Iliewa	Bulgaria	52.37
3	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Czechoslovakia	52.40
4th	Michelle Scutt	United Kingdom	52.70
5	June Griffith	Guyana	53.47
6th	Leticia Athanas	Tanzania	56.92
7th	Irina Ambulo	Panama	58.33
	Sandra Liburd	St. Christopher Nevis Anguilla	DNS

Run 4

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Taťána Kocembová	Czechoslovakia	51.88
2	Judit Forgács	Hungary	52.18
3	Rositsa Stamenova	Bulgaria	52.22
4th	Denean Howard	United States	52.34
5	Erica Rossi	Italy	53.88
6th	Patricia Meigha	Guatemala	59.85
	Eucaris Caicedo	Colombia	DNS
	Fatalmoudou Touré	Mali

Semifinals

Charmaine Crooks (here in 2013) missed the final by one place

August 9, 1983

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

Run 1

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Czechoslovakia	51.08
2	Gaby Bussmann	BR Germany	51.22
3	Irina Baskakova	Soviet Union	51.26
4th	Dagmar Rübsam	German Democratic Republic	51.52
5	Charmaine Crooks	Canada	51.96
6th	Denean Howard	United States	52.06
7th	Judit Forgács	Hungary	52.74
8th	Rositsa Stamenova	Bulgaria	53.09

Sabine Busch was four hundredths of a second missing to be in the final

Run 2

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Marija Pinigina	Soviet Union	50.07 CR
2	Taťána Kocembová	Czechoslovakia	50.45
3	Marita Payne	Canada	50.78
4th	Rosalyn Bryant	United States	51.04
5	Sabine Busch	German Democratic Republic	51.09
6th	Michelle Scutt	United Kingdom	51.88
7th	Molly Killingbeck	Canada	51.97
8th	Katja Iliewa	Bulgaria	52.34

final

World champion Jarmila Kratochvílová (on the photo in 2010) , Olympic runner-up in 1980 and vice European champion in 1982 , was already world champion in the 800 meters and won silver with her 4 x 400 meter relay

August 10, 1983

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Czechoslovakia	47.99 WR
	Taťána Kocembová	Czechoslovakia	48.59
	Marija Pinigina	Soviet Union	49.19
4th	Gaby Bussmann	BR Germany	49.75
5	Marita Payne	Canada	50.06
6th	Irina Baskakova	Soviet Union	50.48
7th	Dagmar Rübsam	German Democratic Republic	50.48
8th	Rosalyn Bryant	United States	50.66

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  Vice World Champion taťána kocembová, 1982 EM -Third, won on the final day with her 4-by-400-meter relay again Silver

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  Dagmar Rübsam, later Dagmar Neubauer, reached seventh place - on the final day she was still gold with her 4 x 400 meter relay

Video

• World Record, Women's 400m Final, IAAF World Championships Helsinki 1983 from youtube.com, accessed April 11, 2020

Web links and sources

• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 11, 2020
• Results on todor66.com, accessed April 11, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, p. 261 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on April 11, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 11, 2020