1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Events at the
1983 World Championships
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men
10,000 m men
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase		 men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men women
20 km walk men
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

The 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 13 and August 14.

Medals

Gold: Silver: Bronze:
 Soviet Union
Sergey Lovachov
Aleksandr Troshchilo
Nikolay Chernetskiy
Viktor Markin		  West Germany
Erwin Skamrahl
Jörg Vaihinger
Harald Schmid
Hartmut Weber		  Great Britain
Ainsley Bennett
Garry Cook
Todd Bennett
Philip Brown

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record  United States (USA) 2:56.16 Mexico City, Mexico October 20, 1968
Championship Record New event

Results

Heats

All times shown are in minutes.

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)

DNF = did not finish | DNS = did not start | DQ = disqualification | NM = no mark (i.e. no valid result) | Q = qualification by place in heat | q = qualification by overall place

Heat 1

  1.  United States (Alonzo Babers, Willie Smith, Andre Phillips, Michael Franks) 3:06.62 Q
  2.  West Germany (Martin Weppler, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Hartmut Weber) 3:07.50 Q
  3.  Italy (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:07.90 Q
  4.  Brazil (Antônio Dias Ferreira, Agberto Guimarães, José Luiz Barbosa, Gerson A. Souza) 3:08.25 Q
  5.  Sweden (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Sven Nylander, Per-Erik Olsson) 3:08.33 q
  6.  Canada (Mark Guthrie, Douglas Hinds, Tim Bethune, Brian Saunders) 3:08.37 q
  7.  Jamaica (Steve Griffiths, George Walcott, Devon Morris, Karl Smith) 3:09.06
  8.  Finland (Jari Niemelä, Mauri Siekkinen, Matti Rusanen, Hannu Mykrä) 3:09.23

Heat 2

  1.  Hungary (Gusztav Menczer, Sándor Újhelyi, István Takács, Sándor Vasvári) 3:09.95 Q
  2.  Soviet Union (Viktor Markin, Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy) 3:10.16 Q
  3.  Great Britain (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:10.19 Q
  4.  Senegal (Amadou Dia Ba, Moussa Fall, Babacar Niang, Boubacar Diallo) 3:10.90 Q
  5.  Australia (Bruce Frayne, Gary Minihan, Paul Gilbert, Darren Clark) 3:11.62

Heat 3

  1.  France (Jacques Fellice, Yann Quentrec, Hector Llaster, Aldo Canti) 3:06.99 Q
  2.  Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Zahorak, Petr Brecka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:07.03 Q
  3.  Poland (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) 3:07.18 Q
  4.  Japan (Kazunori Asaba, Tomoharu Isobe, Hirofumi Koike, Susumu Takano) 3:07.23 Q
  5.  Spain (Juan José Prado, Antonio Sánchez, Carlos Azulay, Angel Heras) 3:07.42 q
  6.  Kenya (Elijah Bitok, John Anzrah, James Atuti, Juma Ndiwa) 3:07.48 q
  7.  Ivory Coast (Georges Kablan Degnan, Rene Djedjemel Meledje, Avognan Nogboum, Gabriel Tiacoh) 3:09.23

Semi-finals

Heat 1

  1.  United States (Alonzo Babers, Sunder Nix, Willie Smith, Edwin Moses) 3:02.13 Q
  2.  West Germany (Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Edgar Nakladal, Harald Schmid) 3:04.96 Q
  3.  Poland (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) 3:05.51 Q
  4.  Italy (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:05.70 Q
  5.  Canada (Brian Saunders, Douglas Hinds, Ian Newhouse, Tim Bethune) 3:06.42
  6.  Japan (Tomoharu Isobe, Kazunori Asaba, Hirofumi Koike, Susumu Takano) 3:07.11
  7.  Senegal (Moussa Fall, Babacar Niang, Mathurin Barry, Amadou Dia Ba) 3:09.63
  8.  Hungary (Gusztav Menczer, Sándor Újhelyi, István Takács, Sándor Vasvári) 3:11.08

Heat 2

  1.  Soviet Union (Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin) 3:03.75 Q
  2.  Great Britain (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:04.03 Q
  3.  Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Zahorak, Petr Brecka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:04.32 Q
  4.  Sweden (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Sven Nylander, Per-Erik Olsson) 3:04.32 Q
  5.  Brazil (Antônio Dias Ferreira, Agberto Guimarães, José Luiz Barbosa, Gerson A. Souza) 3:04.46 (AR)
  6.  France (Jacques Fellice, Yann Quentrec, Hector Llaster, Aldo Canti) 3:05.09
  7.  Kenya (David Kitur, John Anzrah, James Atuti, James Maina Boi) 3:05.30
  8.  Spain (Juan José Prado, Antonio Sánchez, Carlos Azulay, Angel Heras) 3:09.68

Final

  1.  Soviet Union (Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin) 3:00.79
  2.  West Germany (Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Hartmut Weber) 3:01.83
  3.  Great Britain (Ainsley Bennett, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:03.53
  4.  Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Zahorak, Petr Brecka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:03.90
  5.  Italy (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:05.10
  6.  United States (Alonzo Babers, Sunder Nix, Willie Smith, Edwin Moses) 3:05.29
  7.  Sweden (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Per-Erik Olsson, Ulf Sedlacek) 3:08.57

References

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