World Athletics Championships 1983 / Women's long jump

World Athletics Championships 1983
discipline	Long jump
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 24 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 13th (qualification) August 14th (final)
Medalists Heike Daute ( GDR )   Anișoara Cușmir ( ROU )   Carol Lewis ( USA )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's long jump at the 1983 World Athletics Championships took place on August 13-14, 1983 in Helsinki , Finland .

30 athletes from 24 countries took part in the competition. Heike Daute , later Heike Drechsler, from the GDR , who was at the beginning of a highly successful career, won the gold medal with 7.27 m . Silver went to the Romanian Vice European Champion from 1982 and world record holder Anișoara Cușmir with 7.15 m . The bronze medal went to the American Carol Lewis with 7.04 m.

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Anișoara Cușmir	7.43 m	Bucharest , Romania	June 4th 1983
World championship record	There were still no World Cup records, the event was held for the first time.

New world championship
record : The top distances of the three medal winners were all supported by too much tailwind support. The highest maturity for the best list in this competition was 7.02 m. It was achieved in the final on August 13th by the winner Heike Daute from the GDR , later Heike Drechsler (2nd attempt), and by fourth-placed Tatjana Proskurjakowa from the Soviet Union (6th attempt).

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the best jumps are named. The permitted limit is two meters per second. With stronger wind support, the distance will be counted for the competition, but will not be included in the lists of records and the best.

Legend

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

-	Missed attempt
x	Failed attempt
w	Wind support too strong

qualification

August 13, 1983

Thirty athletes competed in two groups to qualify. The qualification distance was at least 6.40 m in order to move directly into the final. Twelve athletes made this mark or jumped further, they are highlighted in light blue. Thus the number of participants planned for the final was reached, the final field did not have to be filled any further.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Result (m) / wind (m / s)
1	Carol Lewis	United States	x	6.78	-	6.78 / +1.6 CR
2	Heike Daute	German Democratic Republic	6.65	-	-	6.65 / +1.1
	Robyn Lorraway	Australia	6.65	-	-	6.65 / +1.6
4th	Tatiana Proskuryakova	Soviet Union	6.63	-	-	6.63 / +1.8
5	Vali Ionescu	Romania	6.44	-	-	6.44 / -0.9
6th	Jarmila Strejčková	Czechoslovakia	6.23	6.40	-	6.40 / +0.5
7th	Shonel Ferguson	Bahamas	6.29 w	6.24	5.97	6.29 / +5.7
8th	Lena Wallin	Sweden	6.19	5.84	5.86	6.19 / +0.9
9	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia	Brazil	6.15 w	6.08	6.03	6.15 / +2.6
10	Heidi Benserud	Norway	5.82	5.92	5.66	5.92 / +1.2
11	Jacinta Bartholomew	Grenada	5.65	5.72	5.77 w	5.77 / +2.4
12	Marie-Ange Wirtz	Seychelles	4.93	4.71	5.20	5.20 / +1.6
13	Kim mom	Kampuchea	4.90	4.90 w	4.83	4.90 / +2.1
	Sabine Everts	BR Germany	x	x	x	NM
	Arja Jussila	Finland	x	x	x
	Nicole Tomwaso	Central African Republic	x	x	x
	Jackie Joyner	United States				DNS

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Result (m) / wind (m / s)
1	Anișoara Cușmir	Romania	6.76 w	-	-	6.76 / +2.4
2	Zsuzsa Vanyek	Hungary	6.60	-	-	6.60 / +0.7
3	Eva Murková	Czechoslovakia	6.57	-	-	6.57 / +0.3
4th	Helga Radtke	German Democratic Republic	6.53	-	-	6.53 / +1.9
5	Jennifer Inniss	Guyana	6.45	-	-	6.45 / +1.2
6th	Beverly Kinch	United Kingdom	6.43	-	-	6.43 / +0.4
7th	Gwen Loud	United States	Attempts not listed in the sources			6.37 / +1.3
8th	Madeline de Jesús	Puerto Rico	6.12 w	6.10	6.09	6.12 / +2.9
9	Halcyon McKnight	Jamaica	6.03	x	x	6.03 / +0.8
10	Huang Donghuo	People's Republic of China	x	x	5.90	5.90 / +1.6
11	Rose Phillips-King	British Virgin Islands	5.31	5.18	5.40 w	5.40 / +2.3
12	Mariam Traore	Upper Volta	x	4.90	4.77	4.90 / +1.4
	Mercy Kuttan	India	x	x	x	NM
	Christina Sussiek	BR Germany	x	x	x
	Karen Nelson	Canada				DNS
	Glynis Nunn	Australia
	Svetlana Zorina	Soviet Union

final

August 14, 1983

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)	Result (m) / wind (m / s)
	Heike Daute	German Democratic Republic	6.91w	7.02 CR	7.27 w	7.16w	6.79	7.26w	7.27 / +2.2
	Anișoara Cușmir	Romania	7.00	6.87	7.15 w	7.02w	x	6.99	7.15 / +2.3
	Carol Lewis	United States	6.93	6.89	x	7.04 w	6.69	6.73	7.04 / +4.3
4th	Tatiana Proskuryakova	Soviet Union	6.83	6.91w	x	6.98	6.96w	7.02 CR	7.02 / +1.4
5	Beverly Kinch	United Kingdom	6.90	6.81	6.93 w	6.82	6.82w	6.87	6.93 / +4.6
6th	Zsuzsa Vanyek	Hungary	6.81	6.54w	6.41w	4.88w	6.81	x	6.81 / +1.4
7th	Eva Murková	Czechoslovakia	x	x	6.80 w	x	6.71	6.72w	6.80 / +3.3
8th	Robyn Lorraway	Australia	6.65	x	x	x	x	x	6.65 / +0.8
9	Vali Ionescu	Romania	6.62	x	x	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			6.62 / +1.1
10	Jarmila Strejčková	Czechoslovakia	6.43	6.56	4.47	6.56 / +0.9
11	Jennifer Inniss	Guyana	6.54	x	6.34	6.54 / +1.1
12	Helga Radtke	German Democratic Republic	6.37	6.35	6.44	6.44 / +1.9

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  The winner Heike Daute (1984), later Heike Drechsler

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  Vice World Champion Anișoara Cușmir, Vice European Champion from 1982 and world record holder

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  Vali Ionescu, reigning European champion, came in ninth place

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  Helga Radtke reached number twelve

Web links and sources

• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 13, 2020
• Results on todor66.com, accessed April 13, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, p. 320 (PDF 10.3 MB, English), accessed on April 13, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 13, 2020