1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres
at the 1983 World Championships

Venue

Helsinki Olympic Stadium

Dates

7 August (heats and quarter-finals)
8 August (semi-finals and final)

Competitors

Winning time

10.07 CR

Medalists

	Carl Lewis	United States
	Calvin Smith	United States
	Emmit King	United States

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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
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 100 metres at the 1983 IAAF World Championships was held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland on 7 and 8 August 2022. 67 athletes from 49 nations entered to the competition

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record	Calvin Smith (USA)	9.93	Colorado Springs, USA	July 3, 1983
Championship Record	New event

Results

Qualifying heats

The qualifying heats took place on 7 August, with the 67 athletes involved being split into 9 heats. The first 3 athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next 5 fastest ( q ) qualified for the quarter-finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Luke Watson	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.64	Q, CR
2	Valentin Atanasov	Bulgaria (BUL)	10.66	Q
3	Lester Benjamin	Antigua and Barbuda (ANT)	10.76	Q
4	Mohamed Purnomo	Indonesia (INA)	10.76
5	Thurston Ross	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	11.08
6	Peni Bati	Fiji (FIJ)	11.11
–	Şükrü Çaprazlı	Turkey (TUR)	DNS
			Wind: –1.0 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Juan Núñez	Dominican Republic (DOM)	10.38	Q, CR
2	Innocent Egbunike	Nigeria (NGR)	10.44	Q
3	Ben Johnson	Canada (CAN)	10.45	Q
4	Everard Samuels	Jamaica (JAM)	10.57	q
5	Sheikh Omar Faye	Gambia (GAM)	10.76
6	Hwang Chian-Shin	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	10.82
7	John Albertie	Saint Lucia (LCA)	10.90
8	Joske Teabuge	Nauru (NRU)	12.20
			Wind: +1.8 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	10.34	Q, CR
2	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.44	Q
3	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba (CUB)	10.47	Q
4	Earl Haley	Guyana (GUY)	10.77
5	Earle Laing	Jamaica (JAM)	10.91
6	Pit Rapuan	Malaysia (MAS)	11.03
7	Vicente Daniel Ibrahim	Mozambique (MOZ)	11.20
			Wind: +1.2 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Desai Williams	Canada (CAN)	10.31	Q, CR
2	Paul Narracott	Australia (AUS)	10.38	Q
3	Frank Emmelmann	East Germany (GDR)	10.40	Q
4	Jouko Hassi	Finland (FIN)	10.58
5	Gregory Simons	Bermuda (BER)	10.78
6	Moussa Savadogo	Mali (MLI)	10.88
7	Alan Zammit	Malta (MLT)	11.25
8	José Flores	Honduras (HON)	11.31
			Wind: –0.2 m/s

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Calvin Smith	United States (USA)	10.30	Q, CR
2	Ferenc Kiss	Hungary (HUN)	10.45	Q
3	Marian Woronin	Poland (POL)	10.50	Q
4	Robson da Silva	Brazil (BRA)	10.51	q
5	Joseph Leota	Samoa (SAM)	10.92
6	Georges Taniel	Vanuatu (VAN)	11.02
7	Nguyễn Trương Hòa	Vietnam (VIE)	11.16
			Wind: +0.7 m/s

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy (ITA)	10.33	Q
2	Emmit King	United States (USA)	10.41	Q
3	Thomas Schröder	East Germany (GDR)	10.41	Q
4	Gerrard Keating	Australia (AUS)	10.57	q
5	Kosmas Stratos	Greece (GRE)	10.65
6	Christopher Madzokere	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	10.84
7	Rubén Inácio	Angola (ANG)	10.92
			Wind: –0.5 m/s

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Allan Wells	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.37	Q
2	Christian Haas	West Germany (FRG)	10.39	Q
3	Chidi Imoh	Nigeria (NGR)	10.55	Q
4	Nikolay Sidorov	Soviet Union (URS)	10.59
5	Wilfredo Almonte	Dominican Republic (DOM)	10.72
6	Giorgio Mautino	Peru (PER)	10.85
7	Banana Jarjue	Gambia (GAM)	11.04
8	Trevor Davis	Anguilla (AIA)	11.53
			Wind: +1.8 m/s

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica (JAM)	10.22	Q
2	Christopher Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	10.33	Q
3	Ernest Obeng	Ghana (GHA)	10.35	Q
4	István Tatár	Hungary (HUN)	10.45	q
5	Harouna Pale	Upper Volta (UPV)	10.58
6	Neville Hodge	U.S. Virgin Islands (ISV)	10.59
7	Laoui Adnan Abou	Jordan (JOR)	11.17
			Wind: +2.3 m/s

Heat 9

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba (CUB)	10.24	Q, CR
2	Tony Sharpe	Canada (CAN)	10.31	Q
3	Viktor Bryzgin	Soviet Union (URS)	10.33	Q
4	Antoine Richard	France (FRA)	10.34	q
5	Suchart Chairsuvaparb	Thailand (THA)	10.63
6	Jean-Yves Mallat	Lebanon (LIB)	11.04
7	Mohamad Ismail Bakaki	Afghanistan (AFG)	12.33
–	Lee Kuo-Sheng	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	DNS
			Wind: +1.3 m/s

Quarter-finals

The quarter-finals took place on 7 August, with the 32 athletes involved being split into 4 heats. The first 4 athletes in each heat ( Q ) qualified for the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Calvin Smith	United States (USA)	10.27	Q
2	Tony Sharpe	Canada (CAN)	10.36	Q
3	Paul Narracott	Australia (AUS)	10.37	Q
4	Thomas Schröder	East Germany (GDR)	10.45	Q
5	Ernest Obeng	Ghana (GHA)	10.51
6	Innocent Egbunike	Nigeria (NGR)	10.52
7	Luke Watson	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.57
8	Everard Samuels	Jamaica (JAM)	10.65
			Wind: +1.1 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	10.20	Q, CR
2	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica (JAM)	10.37	Q
3	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.41	Q
4	Frank Emmelmann	East Germany (GDR)	10.46	Q
5	Christopher Brathwaite	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	10.57
6	Robson da Silva	Brazil (BRA)	10.66
7	Marian Woronin	Poland (POL)	10.72
8	Lester Benjamin	Antigua and Barbuda (ANT)	10.86
			Wind: +0.8 m/s

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Desai Williams	Canada (CAN)	10.31	Q
2	Allan Wells	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.37	Q
3	Juan Núñez	Dominican Republic (DOM)	10.39	Q
4	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba (CUB)	10.44	Q
5	Chidi Imoh	Nigeria (NGR)	10.45
6	Viktor Bryzhin	Soviet Union (URS)	10.55
7	Gerrard Keating	Australia (AUS)	10.59
8	István Tatár	Hungary (HUN)	10.65
			Wind: –1.1 m/s

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Emmit King	United States (USA)	10.30	Q
2	Christian Haas	West Germany (FRG)	10.36	Q
3	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba (CUB)	10.38	Q
4	Ben Johnson	Canada (CAN)	10.40	Q
5	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy (ITA)	10.44
6	Antoine Richard	France (FRA)	10.44
7	Ferenc Kiss	Hungary (HUN)	10.53
8	Valentin Atanasov	Bulgaria (BUL)	10.63
			Wind: –1.2 m/s

Semifinals

The semifinals took place on 8 August, with the 16 athletes involved being split into 2 heats. The first 4 athletes in each heat ( Q ) qualified for the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Calvin Smith	United States (USA)	10.22	Q
2	Allan Wells	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.35	Q
3	Juan Núñez	Dominican Republic (DOM)	10.36	Q
4	Emmit King	United States (USA)	10.36	Q
5	Frank Emmelmann	East Germany (GDR)	10.40
6	Ben Johnson	Canada (CAN)	10.44
7	Tony Sharpe	Canada (CAN)	10.44
8	Leandro Peñalver	Cuba (CUB)	10.47
			Wind: –0.8 m/s

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	10.28	Q
2	Paul Narracott	Australia (AUS)	10.38	Q
3	Desai Williams	Canada (CAN)	10.39	Q
4	Christian Haas	West Germany (FRG)	10.39	Q
5	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica (JAM)	10.40
6	Cameron Sharp	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.43
7	Osvaldo Lara	Cuba (CUB)	10.46
8	Thomas Schröder	East Germany (GDR)	10.52
			Wind: –1.0 m/s

Final

The final took place on August 8.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Carl Lewis	United States (USA)	10.07	CR
	Calvin Smith	United States (USA)	10.21
	Emmit King	United States (USA)	10.24
4	Allan Wells	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.27
5	Juan Núñez	Dominican Republic (DOM)	10.29
6	Christian Haas	West Germany (FRG)	10.32
7	Paul Narracott	Australia (AUS)	10.33
8	Desai Williams	Canada (CAN)	10.36
			Wind: –0.3 m/s

References

Results

v t e 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships
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v t e World champions in men's 100 metres
1983: Carl Lewis (USA) 1987: Carl Lewis (USA) 1991: Carl Lewis (USA) 1993: Linford Christie (GBR) 1995: Donovan Bailey (CAN) 1997: Maurice Greene (USA) 1999: Maurice Greene (USA) 2001: Maurice Greene (USA) 2003: Kim Collins (SKN) 2005: Justin Gatlin (USA) 2007: Tyson Gay (USA) 2009: Usain Bolt (JAM) 2011: Yohan Blake (JAM) 2013: Usain Bolt (JAM) 2015: Usain Bolt (JAM) 2017: Justin Gatlin (USA) 2019: Christian Coleman (USA) 2022: Fred Kerley (USA) 2023: Noah Lyles (USA)

World champions in men's 100 metres

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