1983 World Championships in Athletics
Track
1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

1983 World Championships in Athletics

Section Title: Track
Table Section Text: 1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze

100 m details	Marlies Göhr (GDR)	10.97 (CR)	Marita Koch (GDR)	11.02	Diane Williams (USA)	11.06

200 m details	Marita Koch (GDR)	22.13	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	22.19	Kathy Cook (GBR)	22.37

400 m details	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	47.99 (WR)	Taťána Kocembová (TCH)	48.59 (PB)	Mariya Pinigina (URS)	49.19

800 m details	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	1:54.68	Lyubov Gurina (URS)	1:56.11	Yekaterina Podkopayeva (URS)	1:57.58

1,500 m details	Mary Decker (USA)	4:00.90	Zamira Zaytseva (URS)	4:01.19	Yekaterina Podkopayeva (URS)	4:02.25

3,000 m details	Mary Decker (USA)	8:34.62	Brigitte Kraus (FRG)	8:35.11	Tatyana Kazankina (URS)	8:35.13

Marathon details	Grete Waitz (NOR)	2:28:09	Marianne Dickerson (USA)	2:31:09	Raisa Smekhnova (URS)	2:31:13

100 m hurdles details	Bettine Jahn (GDR)	12.35	Kerstin Knabe (GDR)	12.42	Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL)	12.62

400 m hurdles details	Yekaterina Fesenko (URS)	54.14	Ana Ambrazienė (URS)	54.15	Ellen Fiedler (GDR)	54.55

4 × 100 m relay details	East Germany (GDR) Silke Gladisch Marita Koch Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr	41.76	Great Britain (GBR) Joan Baptiste Kathy Cook Beverley Callender Shirley Thomas	42.71	Jamaica (JAM) Leleith Hodges Jacqueline Pusey Juliet Cuthbert Merlene Ottey	42.73

4 × 400 m relay details	East Germany (GDR) Kerstin Walther Sabine Busch Marita Koch Dagmar Rübsam Undine Bremer* Ellen Fiedler*	3:19.73	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Taťána Kocembová Milena Matějkovičová Zuzana Moravčíková Jarmila Kratochvílová	3:20.32	Soviet Union (URS) Yelena Korban Marina Ivanova Irina Baskakova Mariya Pinigina	3:21.16

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Sentence(s)

Jarmila Kratochvílová set a world record of 47.99 seconds in the 400 metres event.

final_sentence: Jarmila Kratochvílová set a world record of 47.99 seconds in the 400 metres event.