World Athletics Championships 1983/400 m hurdles for men

World Athletics Championships 1983
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	34 athletes from 28 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 8th (semi-finals) August 9th (final)
Medalist Edwin Moses ( USA )   Harald Schmid ( FRG )   Alexander Charlow ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

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

34 athletes from 28 countries took part in the competition. The gold medal was won by American Olympic champion in 1976 Edwin Moses to 47.50 s, silver went to the Olympic bronze medalists from 1984 and two-time European champion ( 1978 / 1982 ) Harald Schmid from the Federal Republic of Germany with 48.61 s. The bronze medal went to Alexander Charlow from the Soviet Union with 49.03 s.

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Edwin Moses	47.13 s	Milan , Italy	3rd July 1980
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 47.50 seconds ( Edwin Moses , United States in the final on August 9, 1983).

Prelims

From the five preliminary runs, the first two of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

August 7, 1983

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Andre Phillips	United States	50.44 CR
2	Rik Tommelein	Belgium	50.99
3	Gary Oakes	United Kingdom	51.23
4th	Ian Newhouse	Canada	51.45
5	Meshak Munyoro	Kenya	53.25
6th	Paiwa Bogela	Papua New Guinea	54.68
	Alexandr Yazewitsch	Soviet Union	DNF

Run 2

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Alexander Charlow	Soviet Union	50.12 CR
2	Sven Nylander	Sweden	50.23
3	José Alonso	Spain	50.53
4th	Vladislav Pecen	Czechoslovakia	50.86
5	István Takács	Hungary	50.97
6th	Peter Rwamuhanda	Uganda	50.99

Run 3

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	David Lee	United States	50.15
2	Toma Tomov	Bulgaria	50.39
3	Karl Smith	Jamaica	50.64
4th	Thomas Futterknecht	Austria	50.68
5	Antônio Dias Ferreira	Brazil	50.76
6th	Stephen Sole	United Kingdom	51.80
7th	Ahmed Ghanem	Egypt	52.32

Run 4

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Edwin Moses	United States	49.54 CR
2	Daniel Ogidi	Nigeria	50.44
3	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	50.59
4th	Krasimir Demirev	Bulgaria	50.62
5	Greg role	Bahamas	50.92
6th	Rok Kopitar	Yugoslavia	52.34
	Carlos Azulay	Spain	DSQ

Run 5

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Harald Schmid	BR Germany	49.99
2	Ryszard Szparak	Poland	50.09
3	Franz Meier	Switzerland	50.09
4th	Ahmed Hamada	Bahrain	50.53
5	Petter Hesselberg	Norway	51.67
6th	Georgios Vamvakas	Greece	51.92
7th	David Charlton	Bahamas	52.02

Semifinals

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

Run 1

August 8, 1983

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Edwin Moses	United States	48.11 CR
2	Andre Phillips	United States	48.99
3	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	49.18
4th	Alexander Charlow	Soviet Union	49.75
5	Ahmed Hamada	Bahrain	50.04
6th	Franz Meier	Switzerland	50.31
7th	Rik Tommelein	Belgium	50.54
	Tomoa Tomov	Bulgaria	DNF

Run 2

space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Harald Schmid	BR Germany	48.57
2	David Lee	United States	48.63
3	Ryszard Szparak	Poland	49.17
4th	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.18
5	Daniel Ogidi	Nigeria	49.51
6th	José Alonso	Spain	49.91
7th	Karl Smith	Jamaica	49.99
8th	Krasimir Demirev	Bulgaria	50.91

final

• 

  World Champion Edwin Moses
  (in 1987)

August 9, 1983

space	train	athlete	country	Time (s)
	2	Edwin Moses	United States	47.50 CR
	7th	Harald Schmid	BR Germany	48.61
	1	Alexander Charlow	Soviet Union	49.03
4th	8th	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.06
5	6th	Andre Phillips	United States	49.24
6th	4th	David Lee	United States	49.32
7th	3	Amadou Dia Ba	Senegal	49.61
8th	5	Ryszard Szparak	Poland	49.78

• 

  Vice World Champion Harald Schmid
  (on the photo in 1981)

• 

  Fourth placed Sven Nylander
  in 2014

Video

• Men's 400m hurdles - Helsinki 1983 on youtube.com, accessed March 31, 2020

Web links and sources

• Results on the IAAF website , accessed on March 31, 2020
• Results on todor66.com, accessed March 31, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 152f, English), accessed on March 31, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 27, 2020