1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

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 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

Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:
Soviet Union Sergey Lovachov Aleksandr Troshchilo Nikolay Chernetskiy Viktor Markin	West Germany Erwin Skamrahl Jörg Vaihinger Harald Schmid Hartmut Weber	Great Britain Ainsley Bennett Garry Cook Todd Bennett Philip Brown

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record	United States (USA)	2:56.16	Mexico City, Mexico	October 20, 1968
Championship Record	New event

Results

Heats

All times shown are in minutes.

Heat 1

1.  United States (Alonzo Babers, Willie Smith, Andre Phillips, Michael Franks) 3:06.62 Q
2.  West Germany (Martin Weppler, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Hartmut Weber) 3:07.50 Q
3.  Italy (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:07.90 Q
4.  Brazil (Antônio Dias Ferreira, Agberto Guimarães, José Luíz Barbosa, Gerson A. Souza) 3:08.25 Q
5.  Sweden (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Sven Nylander, Per-Erik Olsson) 3:08.33 q
6.  Canada (Mark Guthrie, Douglas Hinds, Tim Bethune, Brian Saunders) 3:08.37 q
7.  Jamaica (Steve Griffiths, George Walcott, Devon Morris, Karl Smith) 3:09.06
8.  Finland (Jari Niemelä, Mauri Siekkinen, Matti Rusanen, Hannu Mykrä) 3:09.23

Heat 2

1.  Hungary (Gusztáv Menczer, Sándor Újhelyi, István Takács, Sándor Vasvári) 3:09.95 Q
2.  Soviet Union (Viktor Markin, Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy) 3:10.16 Q
3.  Great Britain (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:10.19 Q
4.  Senegal (Amadou Dia Ba, Moussa Fall, Babacar Niang, Boubacar Diallo) 3:10.90 Q
5.  Australia (Bruce Frayne, Gary Minihan, Paul Gilbert, Darren Clark) 3:11.62

• •  Ghana DNS
  •  Bahamas DNS

Heat 3

1.  France (Jacques Fellice, Yann Quentrec, Hector Llatser, Aldo Canti) 3:06.99 Q
2.  Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Zahořák, Petr Břečka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:07.03 Q
3.  Poland (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) 3:07.18 Q
4.  Japan (Kazunori Asaba, Tomoharu Isobe, Hirofumi Koike, Susumu Takano) 3:07.23 Q
5.  Spain (Juan José Prado, Antonio Sánchez, Carlos Azulay, Angel Heras) 3:07.42 q
6.  Kenya (Elijah Bitok, John Anzrah, James Atuti, Juma Ndiwa) 3:07.48 q
7.  Ivory Coast (Georges Kablan Degnan, Rene Djedjemel Meledje, Avognan Nogboum, Gabriel Tiacoh) 3:09.23

• •  Uganda (John Goville, Mike Okot, Charles Mbazira, Moses Kyeswa) DQ

Semi-finals

Heat 1

1.  United States (Alonzo Babers, Sunder Nix, Willie Smith, Edwin Moses) 3:02.13 Q
2.  West Germany (Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Edgar Nakladal, Harald Schmid) 3:04.96 Q
3.  Poland (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) 3:05.51 Q
4.  Italy (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:05.70 Q
5.  Canada (Brian Saunders, Douglas Hinds, Ian Newhouse, Tim Bethune) 3:06.42
6.  Japan (Tomoharu Isobe, Kazunori Asaba, Hirofumi Koike, Susumu Takano) 3:07.11
7.  Senegal (Moussa Fall, Babacar Niang, Mathurin Barry, Amadou Dia Ba) 3:09.63
8.  Hungary (Gusztáv Menczer, Sándor Újhelyi, István Takács, Sándor Vasvári) 3:11.08

Heat 2

1.  Soviet Union (Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin) 3:03.75 Q
2.  Great Britain (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:04.03 Q
3.  Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Zahořák, Petr Břečka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:04.32 Q
4.  Sweden (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Sven Nylander, Per-Erik Olsson) 3:04.32 Q
5.  Brazil (Antônio Dias Ferreira, Agberto Guimarães, José Luíz Barbosa, Gerson A. Souza) 3:04.46 (AR)
6.  France (Jacques Fellice, Yann Quentrec, Hector Llatser, Aldo Canti) 3:05.09
7.  Kenya (David Kitur, John Anzrah, James Atuti, James Maina Boi) 3:05.30
8.  Spain (Juan José Prado, Antonio Sánchez, Carlos Azulay, Angel Heras) 3:09.68

Final

1.  Soviet Union (Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin) 3:00.79
2.  West Germany (Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Hartmut Weber) 3:01.83
3.  Great Britain (Ainsley Bennett, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:03.53
4.  Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Zahořák, Petr Břečka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:03.90
5.  Italy (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:05.10
6.  United States (Alonzo Babers, Sunder Nix, Willie Smith, Edwin Moses) 3:05.29
7.  Sweden (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Per-Erik Olsson, Ulf Sedlacek) 3:08.57

• •  Poland (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) DNF

References

• IAAF results, heats
• IAAF results, semi-finals
• IAAF results, final

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