1983 Athletics World Championships |  |
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Events |
World Champions |
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| 100 m W |  | GDR | Marlies Göhr | ||
| 100 m M |  | USA | Carl Lewis | ||
| 200 m W | | GDR | Marita Koch | ||
| 200 m M | | USA | Calvin Smith | ||
| 400 m W |  | TCH | Jarmila Kratochvilová | ||
| 400 m M |  | JAM | Bert Cameron | ||
| 800 m W | | TCH | Jarmila Kratochvilová | ||
| 800 m M |  | FRG | Willi Wülbeck | ||
| 1500 m W | | USA | Mary Decker-Slaney | ||
| 1500 m M |  | GBR | Stephen Cram | ||
| 3000 m W | | USA | Mary Decker-Slaney | ||
| 5000 m M |  | IRL | Eamonn Coghlan | ||
| 10000 m M |  | ITA | Alberto Cova | ||
| Marathon W |  | NOR | Grete Waitz | ||
| Marathon M |  | AUS | Robert de Castella | ||
| 100 m hurdles W | | GDR | Bettine Jahn | ||
| 110 m hurdles M | | USA | Greg Foster | ||
| 400 m hurdles W |  | URS | Yekaterina Fesenko-Grun | ||
| 400 m hurdles M | | USA | Edwin Moses | ||
| 3000 m steeplechase M | | FRG | Patriz Ilg | ||
| 20 km walk M |  | MEX | Ernesto Canto | ||
| 50 km walk M | | GDR | Ronald Weigel | ||
| High jump W | | URS | Tamara Bykova | ||
| High jump M | | URS | Gennady Avdeyenko | ||
| Long jump W | | GDR | Heike Drechsler | ||
| Long jump M | | USA | Carl Lewis | ||
| Triple jump M |  | POL | Zdzislaw Hoffmann | ||
| Pole vault M | | URS | Sergey Bubka | ||
| Javelin throw W |  | FIN | Tiina Lillak | ||
| Javelin throw M | | GDR | Detlef Michel | ||
| Discus throw W | | GDR | Martina Hellmann | ||
| Discus throw M | | TCH | Imrich Bugar | ||
| Hammer throw M | | URS | Sergey Litvinov | ||
| Shot put W | | TCH | Helena Fibingerova | ||
| Shot put M | | USA | Dave Laut | ||
| Heptathlon W | | GDR | Ramona Neubert | ||
| Decathlon M | | GBR | Daley Thompson | ||
| 4x100 m W | | GDR | Marlies Göhr | ||
| Ingrid Auerswald | |||||
| Silke Gladisch Möller | |||||
| Marita Koch | |||||
| 4x100 m M | | USA | Willie Gault | ||
| Calvin Smith | |||||
| Emmit King | |||||
| Carl Lewis | |||||
| 4x400 m W | | GDR | Dagmar Neubauer | ||
| Sabine Busch | |||||
| Gesine Walther | |||||
| Marita Koch | |||||
| 4x400 m M | | URS | Viktor Markin | ||
| Nikolay Chernetskiy | |||||
| Sergey Lovachov | |||||
| Aleksandr Troshchilo | |||||
