World Athletics Championships 1983 / men's hammer throw

World Athletics Championships 1983
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	33 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 8 (qualification) August 9 (final)
Medalist Sergei Litvinov ( URS )   Jurij Sjedych ( URS )   Zdzisław Kwaśny ( POL )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's hammer throw at the 1983 World Athletics Championships took place in Helsinki , Finland on August 8 and 9, 1983 .

33 athletes from 19 countries took part in the competition. The gold medal was won by the Olympic runner-up in 1980 , third in the European Championship in 1982 and world record holder Sergei Litvinow from the Soviet Union with 82.68 m. Silver went to 80.94 meters to his compatriot Yuri Sjedych , the two-time Olympic champion ( 1976 / 1980 ) and two-time European champion ( 1978 / 1982 ). The bronze medal went to Zdzisław Kwaśny from Poland with 79.42 m.

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Sergei Litvinov	84.14 m	Moscow , Soviet Union	June 21, 1983
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 82.68 m ( Sergei Litvinow , Soviet Union , in the final on August 9, 1983).

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	Missed attempt
x	Failed attempt

qualification

August 8, 1983

The qualification distance was at least 73.50 m in order to move directly into the final. Eleven athletes passed this mark or threw on, they are highlighted in light blue. Another thrower (highlighted in light green) - the number of athletes should be at least twelve - qualified with the next best distance for the final on the following day.

Group A

space	athlete	country	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Width (m)
1	Zdzisław Kwaśny	Poland	73.08	73.36	75.78	75.78
2	Yury Sjedych	Soviet Union	75.52	-	-	75.52
3	Juha Tiainen	Finland	72.66	75.02	-	75.02
4th	Emanuil Djulgerov	Bulgaria	74.74	-	-	74.74
5	Klaus Ploghaus	BR Germany	74.46	-	-	74.46
6th	Igor Nikulin	Soviet Union	74.06	-		74.06
7th	Roland Steuk	German Democratic Republic	73.68	-	-	73.68
8th	Frantisek Vrbka	Czechoslovakia	68.06	71.72	70.34	71.72
9	Robert Weir	United Kingdom	71.62	70.72	68.24	71.62
10	Shigenobu Murofushi	Japan	71.42	x	x	71.42
11	Ed Burke	United States	67.72	69.12	68.70	69.12
12	Matthew Mileham	United Kingdom	x	67.12	x	67.12
13	Kjell Bystedt	Sweden	65.84	64.72	65.86	65.86
14th	Hakim Toumi	Algeria	65.54	63.92	63.98	65.54
15th	Xie Yingqi	People's Republic of China	65.54	65.54	63.04	65.54
16	Declan Hegarty	Ireland	65.46	x	64.12	65.46
	Henryk Królak	Poland	x	x	x	NM

Group B

Ralf Haber fell by the wayside during qualification without a valid attempt

space	athlete	country	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Width (m)
1	Sergei Litvinov	Soviet Union	78.50	-	-	78.50 CR
2	Gunther Rodehau	German Democratic Republic	71.28	74.86	-	74.86
3	Karl-Hans Riehm	BR Germany	74.56	-	-	74.56
4th	Harri Huhtala	Finland	73.22	74.28	-	74.28
5	Christoph Sahner	BR Germany	73.44	x	72.42	73.44
6th	Giampaolo Urlando	Italy	72.06	69.86	x	72.06
7th	Christopher Black	United Kingdom	x	71.18	x	71.18
8th	Mariusz Tomaszewski	Poland	70.62	x	69.44	70.62
9	Dave McKenzie	United States	69.24	67.22	69.94	69.94
10	Richard Olsen	Norway	67.62	68.58	x	68.58
11	John McArdle	United States	x	64.44	66.18	66.18
12	Hans Lotz	Australia	x	66.14	65.42	66.14
13	Fatmir Bajraktari	Albania	61.22	61.72	64.48	64.48
	Jiří Chamrád	Czechoslovakia	x	x	x	NM
	Ralf Haber	German Democratic Republic	x	x	x
	Johann Lindner	Austria	x	x	x

final

August 9, 1983

space	athlete	country	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)	Width (m)
	Sergei Litvinov	Soviet Union	82.68	82.04	73.54	80.90	80.26	81.84	82.68 CR
	Yury Sjedych	Soviet Union	79.22	79.76	80.64	80.94	78.96	x	80.94
	Zdzisław Kwaśny	Poland	77.38	79.42	79.16	76.44	76.40	x	79.42
4th	Igor Nikulin	Soviet Union	77.86	78.46	x	78.96	79.34	77.74	79.34
5	Gunther Rodehau	German Democratic Republic	x	76.04	74.80	77.08	75.36	76.12	77.08
6th	Klaus Ploghaus	BR Germany	76.96	76.12	75.26	x	76.76	76.94	76.96
7th	Karl-Hans Riehm	BR Germany	76.92	x	76.70	74.82	73.74	x	76.92
8th	Emanuil Djulgerov	Bulgaria	76.22	74.58	76.64	76.12	x	75.38	76.64
9	Juha Tiainen	Finland	73.52	74.54	75.60	not in the final of the eight best throwers			75.60
10	Harri Huhtala	Finland	74.52	75.46	73.96				75.46
11	Christoph Sahner	BR Germany	70.60	71.26	72.86				72.86
12	Roland Steuk	German Democratic Republic	72.10	x	x				72.10

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  Gunther Rodehau came in fifth

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  The twelfth-placed Roland Steuk

Video

• 1983 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS FINAL HAMMER THROW (25 attempts) on youtube.com, accessed April 6, 2020

Web links and sources

• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 6, 2020
• Results on todor66.com, accessed April 6, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 195, English), accessed on April 6, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer throw men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 6, 2020