World Athletics Championships 1983 / women's heptathlon

World Athletics Championships 1983
discipline	Heptathlon
gender	Women
Attendees	26 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 8th and 9th
Medalists Ramona Neubert ( GDR )   Sabine Paetz ( GDR )   Anke Vater ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The heptathlon for women in the 1983 World Championships in Athletics took place on 8 and 9 August 1983 in Helsinki , Finland instead.

26 athletes from 19 countries took part in the competition. The athletes from the GDR were able to record a triple success. The gold medal was won by the reigning European champion Ramona Neubert with 6714 points according to the then current rating (today's rating: 6770 P). Silver went to the Vice European Champion from 1982 Sabine Paetz with 6662 points (today: 6713 P). Anke Vater secured the bronze medal with 6532 points (today: 6525 P).

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

	Surname	Points 1971 value.	Points 1985 value.	achieved in	achieved on
World record	Ramona Neubert	6836 P	6935 P	Moscow , Soviet Union	June 19, 1983
World Cup record	There were still no World Cup records, the event was held for the first time.

World champion Ramona Neubert from the GDR set her first world championship record in the competition on August 8th and 9th with 6714 points (today's rating: 6770 P).

execution

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

• Day 1 (August 8th): 100 m hurdles , high jump , shot put , 200 m
• Day 2 (August 9th): long jump , javelin throw , 800 m

Evaluation was based on the points table from 1971. For orientation and classification of the performance, the points achieved in 1985 according to the current evaluation system are also listed. After that, ranks thirteen and fourteen 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

8/9 August 1983

space	athlete	country	Points (valid value.)	Points (1985 value.)	100 Hur (s)	High (m)	Ball ( noun )	200 m (s)	Far (m)	Spear (noun)	800 m (min)
	Ramona Neubert	German Democratic Republic	6714 CR	6770	13.29	1.80	15.38	23.27	6.67	45.12	2:11:34
	Sabine Paetz	German Democratic Republic	6662	6713	13.11	1.83	14.23	23.60	6.68	44.52	2: 11.59
	Anke father	German Democratic Republic	6532	6525	13.58	1.86	14.05	23.49	6.32	37.84	2: 05.64
4th	Sabine Everts	BR Germany	6398	6388	13.50	1.86	12.32	23.82	6.46	36.36	2: 6.80
5	Valentina Dimitrova	Bulgaria	6362	6344	14.21	1.80	15.67	25.08	6.11	44.60	2: 08.10
6th	Ekaterina Smirnova	Soviet Union	6321	6277	13.36	1.83	13.77	24.48	5.66	45.76	2: 10.98
7th	Glynis Nunn	Australia	6195	6131	13.17	1.74	12.98	24.02	6.31	32.64	2: 10.96
8th	Tineke Hidding	Netherlands	6155	6104	13.77	1.77	12.22	24.19	6.30	38.62	2: 12.46
9	Annette Tånnander	Sweden	5977	5932	14.00	1.83	11.86	26.10	6.09	45.24	2: 17.86
10	Marcela Koblasová	Czechoslovakia	5965	5888	14.17	1.74	14.99	25.15	6.04	40.58	2: 24.96
11	Marlene Harmon	United States	5925	5833	14.17	1.74	11.91	24.92	6.17	36.06	2: 12.16
12	Kristine Tånnander	Sweden	5922	5811	14.25	1.80	12.70	25.13	5.58	39.36	2: 12.38
13	Anne Kyllönen	Finland	5866	5763	14.33	1.80	12.87	25.77	5.88	36.16	2: 13.77
14th	Corinne Schneider	Switzerland	5851	5770	14.62	1.83	12.06	25.81	5.73	46.22	2: 19.68
15th	Florence Picaut	France	5766	5659	13.85	1.80	12.08	25.64	5.90	32.98	2: 19.22
16	Terry Genge	New Zealand	5739	5607	13.99	1.59	11.96	25.21	5.92	39.26	2: 14.53
17th	Helena Otahalová	Czechoslovakia	5721	5583	14.10	1.74	12.92	24.95	5.58	38.68	2: 26.42
18th	Melitta Aigner	Austria	5629	5471	15.39	1.65	14.13	26.18	5.52	42.88	2: 16.47
19th	Dalila Tayebi	Algeria	4976	4759	15.55	1.65	9.95	25.72	5.71	26.46	2: 31.55
20th	Patricia Meigham	Guatemala	3955	3659	17.96	1.41	8.23	26.08	4.10	19.86	2: 20.10
DNF	Jane Frederick	United States	5431	5375	13.72	1.83	14.75	25.16	6.00	45.62	DNS
	Judy Livermore	United Kingdom	4733	4798	13.23	1.92	13.85	24.93	6.16	NM	DNS
	Conceição Geremias	Brazil	4367	4330	14.03	1.74	13.35	24.88	5.85	NM	DNS
	Jackie Joyner	United States	3719	3793	13.69	1.86	12.73	23.73	DNS
	Zeina Mina el-Jas	Lebanon	1255	1351	16.15	1.53	DNS
	Natalia Schubenkova	Soviet Union	0851	0961	14.12	DNS

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  Vice World Champion and Vice European Champion from 1982 Sabine Paetz (right) next to bronze medalist Anke Vater (in 1983)

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  Tineke Hidding (photo from 2010) came in eighth

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  Jackie Joyner, at the beginning of a very successful sports career, did not compete here on the second day

Web links and sources

• Results on the website of the IAAF (English)
• Results on todor66.com, accessed April 14, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Championships in Doha, p. 352 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on April 14, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Heptathlon women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 14, 2020