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Events at the 1983 World Championships
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These are the official results of the men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 1983 World Championships held on 12 August 1983 in Helsinki, Finland.

Medalists

Gold	Ronald Weigel East Germany (GDR)
Silver	Josep Marín Spain (ESP)
Bronze	Sergey Yung Soviet Union (URS)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Records

Standing records prior to the 1983 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Josep Marín (ESP)	3:40:46	March 13, 1983	Valencia, Spain
Event Record	New event

Intermediates

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Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Ronald Weigel (GDR)	3:43:08
	Josep Marín (ESP)	3:46:32
	Sergey Yung (URS)	3:49:03
4	Reima Salonen (FIN)	3:52:53
5	Raúl González (MEX)	3:53:51
6	François Lapointe (CAN)	3:53:57
7	Sandro Bellucci (ITA)	3:55:38
8	Viktor Dorovskikh (URS)	3:56:02
9	Marco Evoniuk (USA)	3:56:57
10	Bengt Simonsen (SWE)	3:57:25
11	Pavol Szikora (TCH)	3:59:03
12	László Sator (HUN)	3:59:27
13	Lars Ove Moen (NOR)	4:00:50
14	Seppo Immonen (FIN)	4:02:00
15	Manuel Alcalde (ESP)	4:03:10
16	José Pinto (POR)	4:03:47
17	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	4:06:49
18	Karl Degener (FRG)	4:06:51
19	Lennart Mether (SWE)	4:07:46
20	Miklós Domján (HUN)	4:08:11
21	Felix Goméz (MEX)	4:09:22
22	Dominique Guebey (FRA)	4:09:40
23	Dan O'Connor (USA)	4:18:41
24	Dai Mingxi (CHN)	4:30:28
25	Zhang Fuxin (CHN)	4:35:46
26	Osvaldo Morejón (BOL)	4:35:58
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Bohdan Bułakowski (POL)	DNF
—	Bo Gustafsson (SWE)	DNF
—	Jim Heiring (USA)	DNF
—	Gérard Lelièvre (FRA)	DNF
—	Jordi Llopart (ESP)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Nikolay Udovenko (URS)	DSQ
—	Bogusław Duda (POL)	DSQ
—	Dietmar Meisch (GDR)	DSQ
—	Erling Andersen (NOR)	DSQ
—	Martín Bermúdez (MEX)	DSQ

See also

• 1978 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Prague)
• 1980 Men's Olympic 50km Walk (Moscow)
• 1982 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Athens)
• 1984 Men's Olympic 50km Walk (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships 50km Walk (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Men's Olympic 50km Walk (Seoul)

References

1. José Marín at Tilastopaja (registration required)
2. Pekola, Tapio; et al. (1983). Yleisurheilun MM-kisakirja Helsinki '83 (in Finnish). Juoksija. ISBN 951-9465-05-7.

Notes

1. Erroneously given by several sources as 3:43:42.

External links

• Results

• Events at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics
• Racewalking at the World Athletics Championships