World Athletics Championships 1983 / Men's Decathlon

1st World Athletics Championships 1983
discipline	Decathlon
gender	Men
Attendees	36 athletes from 28 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th / 13th August
Medalist Daley Thompson ( GBR )   Jürgen Hingsen ( Federal Republic of Germany )   Siegfried Wentz ( Federal Republic of Germany )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's decathlon at the 1st World Athletics Championships in 1983 took place on August 12 and 13, 1983 in Helsinki , Finland .

In this competition the German decathletes won two medals with silver and bronze. World champion was the British Olympic champion in 1980 , European champion in 1982 and vice European champion in 1978, Daley Thompson . Second place went to the Vice European Champion from 1982 and world record holder Jürgen Hingsen . Siegfried Wentz came in third place .

Records

	Surname	Points valid from 1964 to 1983.	Points valid from 1985 onwards.	achieved in	achieved on
World record	Jürgen Hingsen	8779	8825	Filderstadt , FR Germany	4th / 5th June 1983
World Cup record	There were still no World Cup records, the event was held for the first time.

World champion Daley Thompson from Great Britain set a first world championship record in the competition on August 12th and 13th with 8666 points .

execution

The decathlon was carried out according to the same rules as today. The ten disciplines took place over two days.

• Day 1 (August 12): 100 m , long jump , shot put , high jump , 400 m
• Day 2 (August 13): 110 m hurdles , discus throw , pole vault , javelin throw , 1500 m

The scoring was based on the points table from 1964. For orientation and classification of the performances, the scores achieved according to the current scoring system from 1984/85 are also listed for comparison. After that, ranks seven and eight should have been swapped. However, these comparisons are only indicative, because the different standards of the time must apply as a basis. At the subsequent world championships, the current valuation was used.

Results

space	athlete	country	Points (valid value.)	Points (1985 value.)	100 m (s)	Far (m)	Ball ( noun )	High (m)	400 m (s)	110 hour (s)	Disk (noun)	Rod (noun)	Spear (noun)	1500 m (min)
	Daley Thompson	GBR	8666	8714	10.60	7.88	15.35	2.03	48.12	14.37 w	44.46	5.10	65.24	4: 29.72
	Jürgen Hingsen	FRG	8561	8599	10.95	7.75	15.66	2.00	48.08	14.36 w	43.30	4.90	67.42	4: 21.59
	Siegfried Wentz	FRG	8478	8513	10.94	7.24	15.11	2.00	48.09	14.13 w	44.98	4.70	75.08	4: 28.52
4th	Uwe Freimuth	GDR	8433	8469	11.05	7.43	15.25	2.00	48.43	14.89 w	48.64	4.80	70.48	4: 28.61
5	Stephan Niklaus	SUI	8212	8207	10.69	7.06	14.88	2.03	48.12	15.06 w	48.74	4.20	73.94	4: 49.35
6th	Alexander Nevsky	URS	8201	8176	11.07	7.20	14.90	2.00	49.35	14.63 w	49.08	4.20	64.50	4: 19.90
7th	Torsten Voss	GDR	8167	8140	10.69	7.48	14.12	2.03	48.02	14.49 w	38.10	4.60	60.08	4: 31.19
8th	Steffen Grummt	GDR	8149	8142	11.18	7.26	16.14	1.91	48.97	14.61 w	46.98	4.50	64.54	4: 32.56
9	Guido Kratschmer	FRG	8096	8059	10.86	7.35	14.99	1.94	48.61	14.29 w	46.56	4.60	52.24	4: 36.43
10	Dariusz Ludwig	POLE	7982	7957	11.17	7.29	13.77	2.00	48.84	15.33 w	43.90	4.70	62.00	4: 26.05
11	Trond Skramstad	NOR	7827	7775	11.20	6.90	13.53	2.00	49.13	14.90	38.18	4.50	59.78	4: 18.18
12	Robert de Wit	NED	7769	7715	11.36	6.70	12.73	1.97	49.46	14.76	42.28	4.60	59.70	4: 18.92
13	Martin Machura	TCH	7639	7568	11.17	7.27	14.45	2.00	50.24	16.23	48.08	4.40	54.68	4: 56.76
14th	Conny Silfver	SWE	7527	7464	11.41	6.64	14.80	1.91	51.55	15.00	41.70	4.40	60.08	4: 36.94
15th	Thrainn Hafsteinsson	ISL	7356	7277	11.73	6.53	13.80	1.82	50.47	15.81	48.58	4.10	56.28	4: 22.72
16	Joško Vlašić	YUG	7329	7261	11.55	6.99	13.33	1.85	51.01	15.01	39.38	4.00	58.46	4: 29.25
17th	Ángel Díaz	GUA	6239	6191	11.65	6.37	8.98	1.91	52.01	16.15	25.70	3.50	50.90	4: 29.42
18th	Niulolo Pelesikoti	TGA	5332	5278	11.80	6.47	10.76	1.67	53.13	16.65	33.70	3.40	NM	5: 08.32
	Harri Sundell	FIN	DNF		11.11	7.23	13.95	2.06	49.49	14.72	42.10	4.30	NM	DNF
	Claudio Escauriza	PAR			11.41	6.77	13.23	1.85	52.98	17.77	38.74	4.00	DNS
	John Crist	United States			11.42	6.76	12.89	1.88	51.67	DNF	42.02	DNS
	Konstantin Achapkin	URS			11.02	7.44	13.73	1.94	49.43	DNF	DNS
	Grigory Degtyaryov	URS			11.01	7.41	15.03	NM	DNS
	Mark Anderson	United States			11.39	6.83	13.61	DNS
	Ahmed Mahour Bacha	ALG			11.64	6.69	DNS

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  World Champion Daley Thompson (shown here in 2007) - 1980 Olympic Champion, 1982 European Champion and 1978  Vice European Champion

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  Vice World Champion Jürgen Hingsen - Vice European Champion from 1982 and world record holder

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  Torsten Voss came in seventh - he still had great successes ahead of him

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  Guido Kratschmer came in ninth place - he was second in the 1976 Olympics and third in the 1974 European Championship

Video

• 1983 DECATHLON World Championships Thompson Hingsen Wentz on youtube.com, accessed April 7, 2020

Web links and sources

• Results on the website of the IAAF (English)
• Results on todor66.com (English)
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Championships in Doha (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 207)

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Decathlon , accessed April 7, 2020