World Athletics Championships 1983 / women's javelin

World Athletics Championships 1983
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	22 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 12 (qualification) August 13 (final)
Medalists Tiina Lillak ( FIN )   Fatima Whitbread ( GBR )   Anna Verouli ( GRE )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

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

22 athletes from 17 countries took part in the competition. The gold medal went to the Finn Tiina Lillak with 70.82 m, silver went to the Briton Fatima Whitbread with 69.14 m, and the bronze medal went to the reigning European champion Anna Verouli from Greece with 65.72 m.

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Tiina Lillak	74.76 m	Tampere , Finland	June 13, 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 70.82 m ( Tiina Lillak , Finland, in the final on August 13).

Legend

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

-	Missed attempt
x	Failed attempt

qualification

August 12, 1983

22 athletes competed in two groups to qualify. The qualification distance was at least 62.00 m in order to move directly into the final. Ten athletes made this mark or threw on, they are highlighted in light blue. The remaining throwers who were allowed to take part in the final - the number of athletes should be at least twelve - are those with the highest thrown distance below the qualification distance, they are highlighted in light green. At least 60.98 m had to be achieved.

Group A

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Width (m)
1	Tessa Sanderson	United Kingdom	64.80	-	-	64.80
2	Petra Felke	German Democratic Republic	60.08	57.80	64.46	64.46
3	Mayra Vila	Cuba	53.44	60.46	62.78	62.78
4th	Tuula Laaksalo	Finland	62.06	-	-	62.06
5	Karin Bergdahl	Sweden	60.64	x	59.14	60.64
6th	Ingrid Thyssen	BR Germany	58.84	56.16	59.70	59.70
7th	Elena Burgarová	Czechoslovakia	57.30	58.48	56.40	58.48
8th	Monique Lapres	Canada	51.48	54.70	48.70	54.70
9	Xin Xiaoli	People's Republic of China	49.70	44.62	52.52	52.52
10	Jennifer Pace	Malta	40.72	41.96	41.52	41.96
	Sofia Sakorafa	Greece				DNS

Group B

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Width (m)
1	Tiina Lillak	Finland	58.14	69.16	-	69.16 CR
2	Anna Verouli	Greece	68.50	-	-	68.50
3	Antje Kempe	German Democratic Republic	62.74	-	-	62.74
4th	Éva Ráduly-Zörgő	Romania	61.92	59.14	60.54	61.92
5	Karin Smith	United States	61.48	58.90	58.92	61.48
6th	Beate Peters	BR Germany	57.10	60.00	61.18	61.18
7th	María Caridad Colón	Cuba	60.98	x	55.08	60.98
8th	Fatima Whitbread	United Kingdom	x	57.34	60.96	60.96
9	Fausta Quintavalla	Italy	59.34	53.68	58.00	59.34
10	Emi Matsui	Japan	x	55.52	53.10	55.52
11	Mereoni Vibose	Fiji	49.00	48.48	49.44	49.44
12	Norsham Yoon	Malaysia	40.40	x	37.00	40.40

final

August 13, 1983

space	Athlete	country	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)	Width (m)
	Tiina Lillak	Finland	67.34	59.04	63.24	63.56	67.46	70.82 CR	70.82 CR
	Fatima Whitbread	United Kingdom	69.14	x	64.48	x	61.78	x	69.14
	Anna Verouli	Greece	x	61.74	62.38	63.08	65.72	x	65.72
4th	Tessa Sanderson	United Kingdom	64.76	63.66	63.94	64.10	64.00	59.74	64.76
5	Éva Ráduly-Zörgő	Romania	63.38	60.32	57.36	60.92	63.86	61.80	63.86
6th	Tuula Laaksalo	Finland	50.50	62.44	x	56.52	x	59.04	62.44
7th	Beate Peters	BR Germany	59.22	x	62.42	x	59.30	x	62.42
8th	María Caridad Colón	Cuba	61.52	62.04	56.96	57.34	57.88	56.32	62.04
9	Petra Felke	German Democratic Republic	x	61.82	62.02	not in the final of the eight best throwers			62.02
10	Karin Smith	United States	59.76	x	59.76				59.76
11	Antje Kempe	German Democratic Republic	58.82	x	54.84				58.82
12	Mayra Vila	Cuba	57.60	53.72	57.80				57.80

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  The winner Tiina Lillak
  (in 1983 World Cup )

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  Vice World Champion Fatima Whitbread

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  Fourth place for Tessa Sanderson - the following year she became Olympic champion

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  Éva Ráduly-Zörgő (here in 2009) took fifth place

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  Petra Felke, at the beginning of her international career, came in ninth place

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  The Vice European Champion from 1982 Antje Kempe had to be satisfied with eleventh place here

Video

• 1983 World Championships women's javelin throw on youtube.com, accessed April 14, 2020

Web links and sources

• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 14, 2020
• Results on todor66.com, accessed April 14, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 346f, English), accessed on April 14, 2020

Individual evidence

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