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I World Championship, Helsinki 1983
Women, Track
100 m
1 Marlies Göhr GDR 10.97 CR
2 Marita Koch GDR 11.02  
3 Diane Williams USA 11.06  
4 Merlene Ottey JAM 11.19  
5 Angela Bailey CAN 11.20  
6 Helinä Marjamaa FIN 11.24  
7 Angela Taylor CAN 11.30  
Evelyn Ashford USA DNF  
200 m
1 Marita Koch GDR 22.13 CR
2 Merlene Ottey JAM 22.19  
3 Kathy Cook GBR 22.37  
4 Florence Griffith USA 22.46  
5 Grace Jackson JAM 22.63  
6 Anelia Nuneva BUL 22.68  
7 Angela Bailey CAN 22.93  
8 Ewa Kasprzyk POL 23.03  
400 m
1 Jarmila Kratochvilova TCH 47.99 WR
2 Tatana Kocembova TCH 48.59  
3 Maria Pinigina URS 49.19  
4 Gabriele Bussmann FRG 49.75  
5 Marita Payne CAN 50.06  
6 Irina Baskakova URS 50.48  
7 Dagmar Rübsam GDR 50.48  
8 Rosalyn Bryant USA 50.66  
800 m
1 Jarmila Kratochvilova TCH 1.54.68 CR
2 Lyubov Gurina URS 1.56.11  
3 Yekaterina Podkopayeva URS 1.57.58  
4 Margit Klinger FRG 1.58.11  
5 Robin Campbell USA 2.00.03  
6 Doina Melinte ROU 2.00.13  
7 Milena Matejkovicova TCH 2.01.72  
8 Antje Schröder GDR 2.02.13  
1500 m
1 Mary Decker USA 4.00.90 CR
2 Zamira Zaytseva URS 4.01.19  
3 Yekaterina Podkopayeva URS 4.02.25  
4 Ravilya Agletdinova URS 4.02.67  
5 Wendy Sly GBR 4.04.14  
6 Doina Melinte ROU 4.04.42  
7 Gabriella Dorio ITA 4.04.73  
8 Brit McRoberts CAN 4.05.73  
3000 m
1 Mary Decker USA 8.34.62 CR
2 Brigitte Kraus FRG 8.35.11  
3 Tatyana Kazankina URS 8.35.13  
4 Svetlana Ulmasova URS 8.35.55  
5 Wendy Sly GBR 8.37.06  
6 Agnese Possamai ITA 8.37.96  
7 Jane Furniss GBR 8.45.69  
8 Natalya Artemova URS 8.47.98  
Marathon (42.195 km.)
1 Grete Waitz NOR 2.28.09 CR
2 Marianne Dickerson USA 2.31.09  
3 Raisa Smekhnova URS 2.31.13  
4 Rosa Mota POR 2.31.50  
5 Jacqueline Gareau CAN 2.32.35  
6 Laura Fogli ITA 2.33.31  
7 Regina Joyce IRL 2.33.52  
8 Tuija Toivonen FIN 2.34.14  
100 m Hurdles
1 Bettina Jahn-Gärtz GDR 12.35w  
2 Kerstin Knabe GDR 12.42w  
3 Ginka Zagorcheva BUL 12.62w  
4 Natalya Petrova URS 12.67w  
5 Shirley Strong GBR 12.78w  
6 Yelena Biserova URS 12.80w  
7 Cornelia Riefstahl GDR 12.94w  
8 Benita Fitzgerald USA 12.99w  
400 m Hurdles
1 Yekaterina Fesenko URS 54.14  
2 Anna Ambraziene URS 54.15  
3 Ellen Fiedler GDR 54.55  
4 Petra Pfaff GDR 54.64  
5 Petra Krug GDR 54.76  
6 Anne Louise Skoglund SWE 54.80  
7 Susan Morley GBR 56.04  
8 Christina Cojocaru ROU 56.26  
Relays
4 x 100 m
1 East Germany 41.76  
  Möller, Koch, Lange, Göhr  
2 Great Britain 42.71  
  Baptiste, Cook, Callender, Thomas  
3 Jamaica 42.73  
  Hodges, Pusey, Cuthbert, Ottey  
4 Bulgaria 42.93  
5 Canada 43.05  
6 Soviet Union 43.22  
7 France 43.40  
8 Czechoslovakia 43.78  
4 x 400 m
1 East Germany 3.19.73  
  Walther, Busch, Koch, Neubauer  
2 Czechoslovakia 3.20.32  
  Slaninová, Matejkovicová, Moravciková, Kratochvílová  
3 Soviet Union 3.21.16  
  Vinogradova, Ivanova, Baskakova, Pinigina  
4 Canada 3.27.41  
5 United States 3.27.57  
6 West Germany 3.29.43  
7 Bulgaria 3.30.36  
8 Romania 3.35.61