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
[edit]Records
[edit]Existing records at the start of the event.
World Record | ![]() |
2:56.16 | Mexico City, Mexico | October 20, 1968 |
Championship Record | New event |
Results
[edit]Heats
[edit]All times shown are in minutes.
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) |
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
[edit]United States (Alonzo Babers, Willie Smith, Andre Phillips, Michael Franks) 3:06.62 Q
West Germany (Martin Weppler, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Hartmut Weber) 3:07.50 Q
Italy (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:07.90 Q
Brazil (Antônio Dias Ferreira, Agberto Guimarães, José Luíz Barbosa, Gerson A. Souza) 3:08.25 Q
Sweden (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Sven Nylander, Per-Erik Olsson) 3:08.33 q
Canada (Mark Guthrie, Douglas Hinds, Tim Bethune, Brian Saunders) 3:08.37 q
Jamaica (Steve Griffiths, George Walcott, Devon Morris, Karl Smith) 3:09.06
Finland (Jari Niemelä, Mauri Siekkinen, Matti Rusanen, Hannu Mykrä) 3:09.23
Heat 2
[edit]Hungary (Gusztáv Menczer, Sándor Újhelyi, István Takács, Sándor Vasvári) 3:09.95 Q
Soviet Union (Viktor Markin, Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy) 3:10.16 Q
Great Britain (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:10.19 Q
Senegal (Amadou Dia Ba, Moussa Fall, Babacar Niang, Boubacar Diallo) 3:10.90 Q
Australia (Bruce Frayne, Gary Minihan, Paul Gilbert, Darren Clark) 3:11.62
Heat 3
[edit]France (Jacques Fellice, Yann Quentrec, Hector Llatser, Aldo Canti) 3:06.99 Q
Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Zahořák, Petr Břečka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:07.03 Q
Poland (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) 3:07.18 Q
Japan (Kazunori Asaba, Tomoharu Isobe, Hirofumi Koike, Susumu Takano) 3:07.23 Q
Spain (Juan José Prado, Antonio Sánchez, Carlos Azulay, Angel Heras) 3:07.42 q
Kenya (Elijah Bitok, John Anzrah, James Atuti, Juma Ndiwa) 3:07.48 q
Ivory Coast (Georges Kablan Degnan, Rene Djedjemel Meledje, Avognan Nogboum, Gabriel Tiacoh) 3:09.23
Semi-finals
[edit]Heat 1
[edit]United States (Alonzo Babers, Sunder Nix, Willie Smith, Edwin Moses) 3:02.13 Q
West Germany (Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Edgar Nakladal, Harald Schmid) 3:04.96 Q
Poland (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) 3:05.51 Q
Italy (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:05.70 Q
Canada (Brian Saunders, Douglas Hinds, Ian Newhouse, Tim Bethune) 3:06.42
Japan (Tomoharu Isobe, Kazunori Asaba, Hirofumi Koike, Susumu Takano) 3:07.11
Senegal (Moussa Fall, Babacar Niang, Mathurin Barry, Amadou Dia Ba) 3:09.63
Hungary (Gusztáv Menczer, Sándor Újhelyi, István Takács, Sándor Vasvári) 3:11.08
Heat 2
[edit]Soviet Union (Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin) 3:03.75 Q
Great Britain (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:04.03 Q
Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Zahořák, Petr Břečka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:04.32 Q
Sweden (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Sven Nylander, Per-Erik Olsson) 3:04.32 Q
Brazil (Antônio Dias Ferreira, Agberto Guimarães, José Luíz Barbosa, Gerson A. Souza) 3:04.46 (AR)
France (Jacques Fellice, Yann Quentrec, Hector Llatser, Aldo Canti) 3:05.09
Kenya (David Kitur, John Anzrah, James Atuti, James Maina Boi) 3:05.30
Spain (Juan José Prado, Antonio Sánchez, Carlos Azulay, Angel Heras) 3:09.68
Final
[edit]Soviet Union (Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin) 3:00.79
West Germany (Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Hartmut Weber) 3:01.83
Great Britain (Ainsley Bennett, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:03.53
Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Zahořák, Petr Břečka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:03.90
Italy (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:05.10
United States (Alonzo Babers, Sunder Nix, Willie Smith, Edwin Moses) 3:05.29
Sweden (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Per-Erik Olsson, Ulf Sedlacek) 3:08.57
Poland (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) DNF