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1983 World Championships in Athletics Helsinki, Finland

1983 1st IAAF World Championships - Helsinki - Women's 400m

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Category: 1983 World Championships in Athletics Helsinki, Finland
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Host City: Helsinki, Finland Format: First round (First 5 & 7 fastest to second round) (Aug 7)
Dates: 7–14 August 1983 Format: Second round (First 4 to semi-finals) (Aug 8)
Nations participating: 153 Format: Semi-finals (First 4 to final) (Aug 9)
Athletes participating: 1,355
    Main venue: Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Overview by IAAF   Helsinki Olympic Stadium 
Kratochvílová had already made a big impression in Helsinki: one day before the final she easily took the 800m title just 33 minutes after winning her one-lap semi-final. She had also been obliged to run two preliminary races on each of the first two days of the championships. On the fourth day she was able to concentrate on the 400m final alone. Drawn in lane 3, she started very positively by closing the stagger on Pinigina. Kratochvílová’s team-mate, Kocembová, also started quickly in lane 1. A tremendous third 100m brought the muscular Czech into the straight with a lead of five metres. Kocembová momentarily gained on her compatriot, but Kratochvílová powered on to win in the fantastic time of 47.99. It was the first world record to be set at an IAAF World Championship. “The world record came as a complete surprise,” said Kratochvílová, “I never think about such things, only about the finish line and how to be the first to cross it.”

These are the official results of the Women's 400 metres event at the 1983 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total number of 35 participating athletes, with five qualifying heats and the final held on Wednesday 10 August 1983.

Jarmila Kratochvílová in lane 3 spent much of the race chasing Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina to her outside, while Taťána Kocembová quickly made up the stagger on Rosalyn Bryant between the two Czech teammates. Kratochvílová finally made up the stagger on Pinigina in the middle of the final turn and came onto the home stretch barely two metres up on the Soviet and a metre up on her teammate. She widened that to four metres by the finish and Kocembová opened up a similar gap on Pinigina.

Each of the top four competitors in this race set their lifetime best, Kratochvílová only being beaten once with 1985's still standing world record 47.60 by Marita Koch. In addition to Kratochvílová remaining the #2 performer in history, Kocembová is #5, Pinigina is #15. Almost forgotten is #56 Gaby Bußmann, still under 50 seconds.

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record  Marita Koch (GDR) 48.16 Athens, Greece September 8, 1982
Championship Record New event
 
 
  400m 10 August
  Final
1 Jarmila Kratochvílová TCH 26 Jan 51 47.99
2 Tatána Slaninová TCH 2 May 62 48.59
3 Mariya Pinigina URS 9 Feb 58 49.19
4 Gaby Bussmann FRG 8 Oct 59 49.75
5 Marita Payne CAN 7 Oct 60 50.06
6 Irina Baskakova URS 25 Aug 56 50.48
7 Dagmar Neubauer GDR 3 Jun 62 50.48
8 Rosalyn Bryant USA 7 Jan 56 50.66
  Semifinals 9 August
  Heat 1
1 Jarmila Kratochvilova TCH 51,08
2 Gaby Bussmann FRG 51,22
3 Irina Baskakova URS 51,26
4 Dagmar Rubsam-Neubauer GDR 51,52
5 Charmaine Crooks CAN 51,96
6 Denean Howard-Hill USA 52,06
7 Judit Forgacs HUN 52,74
8 Rositsa Stamenova BUL 53,09
  Heat 2
1 Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina URS 50,07
2 Tatana Kocembova TCH 50,45
3 Marita Payne-Wiggins CAN 50,78
4 Rosalyn Bryant USA 51,04
5 Sabine Busch GDR 51,09
6 Michelle Scutt GBR 51,88
7 Molly Killingbeck CAN 51,97
8 Katya Ilieva BUL 52,34
  Quarterfinals 8 August
  Heat 1
1 Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina URS 51,05
2 Rosalyn Bryant USA 51,44
3 Sabine Busch GDR 51,46
4 Charmaine Crooks CAN 51,57
5 Denise Robertson-Boyd AUS 52,03
6 Cathy Rattray-Williams JAM 53,78
- Margarita Grun URU DNS
- Cornelia Baptiste STL DNS
  Heat 2
1 Irina Baskakova URS 51,07
2 Gaby Bussmann FRG 51,15
3 Dagmar Rubsam-Neubauer GDR 51,62
4 Molly Killingbeck CAN 52,25
5 Roberta Belle USA 53,43
6 Elanga Buala PNG 56,96
7 Iyiechia Petrus ISV 57,24
- Hala El Moughrabi SYR DNS
  Heat 3
1 Marita Payne-Wiggins CAN 52,23
2 Katya Ilieva BUL 52,37
3 Jarmila Kratochvilova TCH 52,40
4 Michelle Scutt GBR 52,70
5 June Griffith GUY 53,47
6 Leticia Athanas TAN 56,92
7 Irina Ambulo PAN 58,33
- Sandra Liburd STK DNS
  Heat 4
1 Tatana Kocembova TCH 51,88
2 Judit Forgacs HUN 52,18
3 Rositsa Stamenova BUL 52,22
4 Denean Howard-Hill USA 52,34
5 Erica Rossi ITA 53,88
6 Patricia Meigha GUA 59,85
- Eucaris Caicedo COL DNS
- Fatalmoudou Toure MLI DNS
  Heats 7 August
  Heat 1
1 Jarmila Kratochvilova TCH 52,42
2 Molly Killingbeck CAN 52,62
3 Roberta Belle USA 53,01
4 Michelle Scutt GBR 53,30
5 Erica Rossi ITA 53,51
6 Hala El Moughrabi SYR 59,58
7 Marjorie Gentle BIZ 1.04.00
  Heat 2
1 Rositsa Stamenova BUL 53,81
2 Gaby Bussmann FRG 53,93
3 June Griffith GUY 54,02
4 Eucaris Caicedo COL 55,09
5 Judit Forgacs HUN 55,15
6 Leticia Athanas TAN 56,54
7 Sandra Liburd STK 1.02.46
  Heat 3
1 Tatana Kocembova TCH 52,74
2 Denean Howard-Hill USA 52,78
3 Katya Ilieva BUL 53,21
4 Cathy Rattray-Williams JAM 53,40
5 Elanga Buala PNG 57,37
6 Fatalmoudou Toure MLI 59,37
- Florence Gaza SOL DNS
  Heat 4
1 Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina URS 52,49
2 Charmaine Crooks CAN 53,83
3 Dagmar Rubsam-Neubauer GDR 54,47
4 Denise Robertson-Boyd AUS 54,70
5 Iyiechia Petrus ISV 55,87
6 Margarita Grun URU 56,84
7 Cornelia Baptiste STL 1.00.79
  Heat 5
1 Sabine Busch GDR 53,16
2 Irina Baskakova URS 53,45
3 Rosalyn Bryant USA 53,64
4 Marita Payne-Wiggins CAN 53,96
5 Irina Ambulo PAN 56,08
6 Patricia Meigha GUA 58,07
- Rose Tata-Muya KEN DNS
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Heat 1 07 AUG 1983

Order / LaneATHLETECOUNTRYPBSB 1983
  Roberta Belle USA USA    
  Hala El Moughrabi SYR SYR    
  Marjorie Gentle BIZ BIZ    
  Molly Killingbeck CAN CAN    
  Jarmila Kratochvílová TCH TCH 48.45 48.45
  Erica Rossi ITA ITA 52.01  
  Michelle Scutt GBR GBR    

Heat 2 07 AUG 1983

Order / LaneATHLETECOUNTRYPBSB 1983
  Leticia Athanas TAN TAN    
  Gaby Bussmann FRG FRG    
  Eucaris Caicedo COL COL    
  Judit Forgács HUN HUN    
  June Griffith GUY GUY 51.37  
  Sandra Liburd SKN SKN    
  Rositsa Stamenova BUL BUL    

Heat 3 07 AUG 1983

Order / LaneATHLETECOUNTRYPBSB 1983
  Elanga Buala PNG PNG    
  Florence Gaza SOL SOL    
  Denean Howard-Hill USA USA 50.87  
  Katya Ilieva BUL BUL    
  Tatána Kocembová TCH TCH 50.43i 50.43i
  Cathy Rattray-Williams JAM JAM    
  Fatalmoudou Toure MLI MLI    

Heat 4 07 AUG 1983

Order / LaneATHLETECOUNTRYPBSB 1983
  Cornelia Baptiste LCA LCA    
  Charmaine Crooks CAN CAN    
  Margarita Grun URU URU    
  Mariya Kulchunova-Pinigina URS URS 51.80  
  Iyiechia Petrus ISV ISV    
  Denise Robertson-Boyd AUS AUS    
  Dagmar Rübsam-Neubauer GDR GDR 50.98  

Heat 5 07 AUG 1983

Order / LaneATHLETECOUNTRYSB 1983
  Irina Ambulo PAN PAN  
  Irina Baskakova URS URS  
  Rosalyn Bryant USA USA  
  Sabine Busch GDR GDR  
  Patricia Meighan GUA GUA  
  Marita Payne-Wiggins CAN CAN  
  Rose Tata-Muya KEN KEN

 

 

 

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