World Athletics Championships 1983 / men's high jump

World Athletics Championships 1983
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	35 athletes from 26 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th (qualification) August 13th (final)
Medalist Hennadij Avdjejenko ( URS )   Tyke Peacock ( USA )   Zhu Jianhua ( CHN )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

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

35 athletes from 26 countries took part in the competition. The gold medal was won by Hennadij Awdjejenko from the Soviet Union with 2.32 m, silver went to the American Tyke Peacock with 2.32 m, and the bronze medal went to the Chinese world record holder Zhu Jianhua with 2.29 m.

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Zhu Jianhua	2.37 m	Beijing , People's Republic of China	June 11, 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 2.34 m. In the final on August 9, two athletes jumped this height:

• World Champion Hennadij Awdjejenko , Soviet Union
• Vice World Champion Tyke Peacock , United States

qualification

August 12, 1983

The qualifying height was 2.24 m to move directly into the final. Three athletes made this mark, they are highlighted in light blue. The remaining jumpers who were allowed to take part in the final - the number of athletes should be at least twelve - are those with the highest jumped height below the qualification height (2.21 m), they are highlighted in light green. This 2.21 m was mastered by fourteen participants, so that a total of seventeen athletes competed for the final on the following day.

Group A

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Leo Williams	United States	2.21
2	Francisco Centelles	Cuba	2.21
3	Takao Sakamoto	Japan	2.18
4th	Takashi katamine	Japan	2.18
5	Othmane Belfaa	Algeria	2.15
	Moussa case	Senegal	2.15
7th	Eugen-Cristian Popescu	Romania	2.15
8th	Roberto Cabrejas	Spain	2.15
	Clarence Saunders	Bermuda	2.15
	Wolfgang Tschirk	Australia	2.15
11	Jouko Kilpi	Finland	2.10
	Constantin Militaru	Romania	2.10
13	Gianni Davito	Italy	2.10
14th	Alain Metellus	Canada	2.10
15th	Liu Chin-Chiang	Chinese Taipei	2.00
16	Alphonse Gaglozoun	Benin	1.95
	France-Henry Lisette	Mauritius	1.95
	Ardeshir Ghandoomi	Iran	NM
	Joseph Rajo	Sudan	DNS

Group B

space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Igor Paklin	Soviet Union	2.24 CR
	Milton Ottey	Canada	2.24 CR
	Zhu Jianhua	People's Republic of China	2.24 CR
4th	Carlo Thränhardt	BR Germany	2.21
	Hennadij Avdjejenko	Soviet Union	2.21
	Sorin Matei	Romania	2.21
	Valery Sereda	Soviet Union	2.21
	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	2.21
	Dwight Stones	United States	2.21
10	Jacek Wszoła	Poland	2.21
	Luca Toso	Italy	2.21
12	Paul Frommeyer	BR Germany	2.21
13	Eddy Annys	Belgium	2.21
	Dietmar Mögenburg	BR Germany	2.21
15th	Tyke Peacock	United States	2.21
16	Roland Dalhauser	Switzerland	2.15
17th	Dariusz Biczysko	Poland	2.15
18th	Franck Verzy	France	2.10
	Stephen Wray	Bahamas	2.10

Legend

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

-	Omitted height
x	Failed attempt
O	Skipped height

final

August 13, 1983

space	Athlete	country	2.10 m	2.15 m	2.19 m	2.23 m	2.26 m	2.29 m	2.32 m	2.34 m	Height (m)
	Hennadij Avdjejenko	Soviet Union	-	O	O	O	O	xo	O	xxx	2.32 CR
	Tyke Peacock	United States	-	O	O	xo	O	O	xx o	xxx	2.32 CR
	Zhu Jianhua	People's Republic of China	-	O	O	O	O	O	xxx		2.29
4th	Dietmar Mögenburg	BR Germany	-	O	O	xo	-	O	xxx		2.29
	Igor Paklin	Soviet Union	O	O	O	O	xo	O	xxx		2.29
6th	Dwight Stones	United States	-	O	O	O	O	xx o	xxx		2.29
7th	Carlo Thränhardt	BR Germany	-	O	O	O	O	-	xxx		2.26
8th	Valery Sereda	Soviet Union	O	O	xo	O	O	xxx			2.26
9	Milton Ottey	Canada	-	xo	O	O	O	xxx			2.26
10	Luco Toso	Italy	O	xo	O	xxo	xx o	xxx			2.26
11	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden									2.23
12	Leo Williams	United States									2.23
13	Jacek Wszoła	Poland									2.23
14th	Eddy Annys	Belgium									2.19
15th	Francisco Centelles	Cuba									2.19
16	Paul Frommeyer	BR Germany	xo	xo	x o	xxx					2.19
17th	Sorin Matei	Romania									2.15

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  The former world record holder and two-time Olympic bronze medalist ( 1972 / 1976 ) Dwight Stones (here in 1976) finished sixth

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  Patrik Sjöberg (on the photo in 2011) , at the beginning of a successful career, came in eleventh place

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  Jacek Wszoła (in 2007) , Olympic champion 1976, Olympic second in 1980 and ex-world record holder, reached thirteenth place

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  Sorin Matei (1993) finished seventeenth in this final

Videos

• The first world Championships in athletics. Finland. Helsinki 1983. High jump. Men. Adveenko G. URS on youtube.com, accessed April 3, 2020
• The first world Championships in athletics. Finland. Helsinki 1983. High jump. Men. Peacock T. USA on youtube.com, accessed April 3, 2020
• The first world Championships in athletics. Finland. Helsinki 1983. High jump. Men. Zhu J. PRC. Fail on youtube.com, accessed April 3, 2020

Web links and sources

• Results on the IAAF website , accessed on April 3, 2020
• Results on todor66.com, accessed April 3, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 158f, English), accessed on April 3, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5,000 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 3, 2020