World Athletics Championships 1983 / men's long jump

World Athletics Championships 1983
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 9th (qualification) August 10th (final)
Medalist Carl Lewis ( USA )   Jason Grimes ( USA )   Mike Conley Sr. ( USA )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The winner Carl Lewis

Mike Conley Sr., bronze medalist

The men's long jump at the 1983 World Athletics Championships took place on August 9-10, 1983 in Helsinki , Finland .

31 athletes from 25 countries took part in the competition. The US long jumpers recorded a triple success in this competition. The gold medal went to Carl Lewis with 8.55 m, silver went to Jason Grimes with 8.29 m, and the bronze medal went to Mike Conley Sr. with 8.12 m.

Records

Before the competition, the following records were in place:

World record	Bob Beamon	8.90 m	Olympic Games in Mexico City , Mexico	October 18, 1968
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 8.55 minutes ( Carl Lewis , United States , in the final on August 10, 1983).

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	Tailwind support greater than 2 m / s

qualification

August 9, 1983

The qualification distance was at least 7.90 m in order to move directly into the final. Eleven athletes made this mark or jumped further, they are highlighted in light blue. First another jumper with the greatest width of the remaining participants qualified for the final, because the number of athletes in the final should be at least twelve. In this case, two athletes with the next best distance were tied after qualifying. Both were eligible to participate in the final on the following day, they are highlighted in light green.

Group A

space	athlete	country	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Width (m) / wind (m / s)
1	Jason Grimes	United States	8.29	-	-	8.29 / +2.6
2	Gary Honey	Australia	x	8.12	-	8.12 / +1.5
3	Antonio Corgos	Spain	7.32	x	8.05	8.05 / +1.3
4th	Oganes Stepanjan	Soviet Union	7.82	7.88	8.01	8.01 / +0.8
5	Atanas Atanasov	Bulgaria	7.96	-	-	7.96 / +1.8
6th	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	7.88	7.89	7.90	7.90 / +0.2
7th	Nenad Stekic	Yugoslavia	7.88	7.88	7.64	7.88 / +1.5
8th	Lee Mu-tsai	Chinese Taipei	7.44	7.51	7.88	7.88 / +2.7
9	Lester Benjamin	Antigua and Barbuda	7.81	7.78	7.41	7.81 / +1.6
10	Stephen Walsh	New Zealand	x	x	7.75	7.75 / +2.3
11	Gyula Pálóczi	Hungary	7.42	7.70	7.40	7.70 / +2.4
12	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	x	7.70	7.40	7.70 / +2.4
13	Chan Kai-chiu	Hong Kong	x	x	7.31	7.31 / +0.9
14th	Bilanday Bodjona	Togo	7.15	6.91	6.82	7.15 / +1.9
	Steve Hanna	Bahamas				DNS
	Ian James	Canada
	Vlastimil Mařinec	Czechoslovakia

Group B

space	athlete	country	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	Width (m) / wind (m / s)
1	Carl Lewis	United States	8.37	-	-	8.37 / -1.3 CR
2	Yusuf Alli	Nigeria	8.11	-	-	8.11 / +0.8
3	László Szalma	Hungary	7.97	-	-	7.97 / +2.2
4th	Gheorghe Cojocaru	Romania	7.92	-	-	7.92 / +1.1
5	Jan Leitner	Czechoslovakia	7.90	-	-	7.90 / +3.6
6th	Sergey Rodin	Soviet Union	6.95	x	7.87	7.87 / +1.1
7th	Liu Yuhuang	People's Republic of China	x	x	7.77	7.77 / +2.2
8th	Joey Wells	Bahamas	6.44	7.69	x	7.69 / +2.5
9	René Gloor	Switzerland	x	7.68	x	7.68 / +0.5
10	Jarmo Kärnä	Finland	7.56	7.54	x	7.56 / +1.7
11	Marco Piochi	Italy	7.29	7.42	7.52	7.52 / +1.8
12	Bjorn Johansson	Sweden	5.78	7.51	6.96	7.51 / +0.6
13	Wilfredo Almonte	Dominican Republic	7.38	x	7.21	7.38 / +0.6
14th	Laoui Adnan Abou	Jordan	x	7.06	7.12	7.12 / +3.5
15th	Mohamed Abdulla Abdelaslam	Libya	x	6.76	6.54	6.76 / -1.3
16	Said Al Marhubi	Oman	x	6.20	5.80	6.20 / +1.8
	Atanas Chochev	Bulgaria	x	x	x	NM

final

August 10, 1983

space	athlete	country	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)	Width (m) / wind (m / s)
	Carl Lewis	United States	8.55	-	8.42	-	-	-	8.55 / +1.2 CR
	Jason Grimes	United States	8.29	x	8.23	8.29	x	8.17	8.29 / +0.6
	Mike Conley Sr.	United States	x	8.06	x	8.12	8.12	x	8.12 / +1.1
4th	László Szalma	Hungary	x	7.93	x	8.09	8.08	8.12	8.12 / +1.5
5	Nenad Stekic	Yugoslavia	7.80w	5.54w	7.94	5.99	7.76	8.09	8.09 / +1.1
6th	Gary Honey	Australia	7.86w	7.93	8.06	x	7.94	7.96	8.06 / +1.4
7th	Antonio Corgos	Spain	7.94w	7.79	7.92	7.91	8.06	x	8.06 / +03
8th	Yusuf Alli	Nigeria	7.89	x	7.89	7.85	7.89	7.74	7.89 / +0.6
9	Gheorghe Cojocaru	Romania	7.81w	7.88 w	7.70	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			7.88 / +2.6
10	Jan Leitner	Czechoslovakia	7.64	7.84 w	7.80				7.84 / +2.3
11	Oganes Stepanjan	Soviet Union	7.74	x	7.59				7.74 / -0.4
12	Atanas Atanasov	Bulgaria	7.52	7.69 w	7.54				7.69 / +2.1
13	Lee Mu-tsai	Chinese Taipei	7.57	6.89	7.09				7.57 / +0.2

Video

• The first world Championships in athletics. Finland. Helsinki 1983. Long jump. Carl Lewis. 8.55 m 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. 170, English), accessed on April 3, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 3, 2020