1983 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

Alpine skiing Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for ...

Alpine Skiing World Cup The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang and the alpine ski team directors from France ( ...

: ** Men's overall season champion:

Phil Mahre Phillip Ferdinand Mahre (born May 10, 1957) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer, widely regarded as one of the greatest American skiers of all time. His total of 27 World Cup race wins is fourth among Americans, only behind Lindsey Vonn, Mik ...

, United States ** Women's overall season champion: Tamara McKinney, United States

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...

Super Bowl XVII Super Bowl XVII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion 1982 Miami Dolphins season, Miami Dolphins and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion 1982 Washington Redskins season, Washington Reds ...

– the

Washington Redskins The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area. The Commanders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) N ...

(NFC) won 27–17 over the

Miami Dolphins The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team based in the Miami metropolitan area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member team of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team pla ...

(AFC) **Location: Rose Bowl **Attendance: 103,667 **MVP:

John Riggins Robert John Riggins (born August 4, 1949), nicknamed "Riggo" and "Diesel", is an American former professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Jets and Washington Redskins. He played col ...

, RB (Washington) * January 3 –

Tony Dorsett Anthony Drew Dorsett Sr. (born April 7, 1954) is a former American football running back who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos. From Western Pennsylvania, Dorsett attended the ...

sets NFL record for longest run from scrimmage by rushing for 99 yard touchdown. * January 26 – death of

Paul "Bear" Bryant Paul William "Bear" Bryant (September 11, 1913 – January 26, 1983) was an American college football player and coach. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest college football coaches of all time, and best known as the head coach of t ...

, noted college football coach *

Sugar Bowl The Sugar Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played in New Orleans, Louisiana. Played annually since January 1, 1935, it is tied with the Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl as the second-oldest bowl games in the country, surpassed onl ...

(1982 season): ** The

Penn State Nittany Lions The Penn State Nittany Lions are the athletic teams of Pennsylvania State University, except for the women's basketball team, known as the Lady Lions. The school colors are navy blue and white. The school mascot is the Nittany Lion. The interc ...

won 27-23 over the

Georgia Bulldogs The Georgia Bulldogs are the athletic teams that represent the University of Georgia. The female athletic teams are sometimes referred to as Lady Bulldogs. The Bulldogs compete in NCAA Division I and are members of the Southeastern Conference ( ...

to win the college football

national championship A national championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or competition, contest within a league of a particular nation or nation state. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the be ...

Michigan Panthers The Michigan Panthers were a professional American football team based in the Detroit, Michigan area. The Panthers competed in the United States Football League (USFL) as a member of the Western Conference and Central Division. The team played i ...

win

United States Football League The United States Football League (USFL) was a professional American football league that played for three seasons, 1983 through 1985. The league played a spring/summer schedule in each of its active seasons. The 1986 season was scheduled to be ...

Championship, 24-22 over Philadelphia Stars * October 31 – death of

George Halas George Stanley Halas Sr. (; February 2, 1895October 31, 1983), nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything", was an American professional football player, coach, and team owner. He was the founder and owner of the National Football League's Chic ...

Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Bears have won nine NF ...

founder and coach

Artistic gymnastics Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The Artistic Gymnastics World Championships are the world championships for artistic gymnastics governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG). The first edition of the championships was held in 1903, exclusively for male gymnas ...

– ** Men's all-around champion:

Dmitry Bilozerchev Dmitry Vladimirovich Bilozerchev (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Билозерчев, born 22 December 1966 in Moscow) is a Russian gymnastics coach and retired gymnast who represented the Soviet Union. One of the most accompl ...

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

** Women's all-around champion:

Natalia Yurchenko , nickname= , country= , formercountry= Russia , birth_date= , birth_place=Norilsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union , hometown=Russia , death_date= , death_place= , height=155 cm (5'1") , discipline=Artistic gymnastics , level=Senior Elite Gymnast , n ...

** Men's team competition champion:

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

** Women's team competition champion:

Association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

* World Club Championship – Grêmio (Brazil) 2-1

Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football section. Though the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of three ...

(Germany) *

UEFA Champions League The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...

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Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

1-0

Juventus Juventus Football Club (from la, iuventūs, 'youth'; ), colloquially known as Juve (), is a professional Association football, football club based in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, that competes in the Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football leagu ...

* Copa Libertadores de América – Two legs; 1st leg

Peñarol Club Atlético Peñarol (; English: ''Peñarol Athletic Club'') —also known as ''Carboneros'', ''Aurinegros,'' and (familiarly) ''Manyas''— is a Uruguayan sports club from Montevideo. The name "Peñarol" comes from the Peñarol neigh ...

1-1 Grêmio; 2nd leg Grêmio 2-1 Peñarol; Grêmio won 3-2 on aggregate *

UEFA Cup A cup is an open-top used to hold hot or cold liquids for pouring or drinking; while mainly used for drinking, it also can be used to store Solid, solids for pouring (e.g., sugar, flour, grains, salt). Cups may be made of glass, metal, porcela ...

– Two legs; 1st leg

Anderlecht Anderlecht (, ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and Saint-Gilles, as well as the ...

1-0 Benfica; 2nd leg Benfica 1-1 Anderlecht; Anderlecht won 2-1 on aggregate *

Cup Winners' Cup The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. The cup was, chronologically, the second seasonal inter-European club competition organised by UEFA. The tournam ...

–

Aberdeen Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...

2-1

Real Madrid Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (, meaning ''Royal Madrid Football Club''), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid. Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...

(AET) * Super Cup – Two legs; 1st leg Hamburg 0-0 Aberdeen; 2nd leg Aberdeen 2-0 Hamburg; Aberdeen won 2-0 on aggregate * England - FA Cup –

Manchester United Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of City of Salford, Salford to ...

won 2 - 2 (aet); 4 - 0 (replay) over

Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club (), commonly referred to simply as Brighton, is an English professional football club based in the city of Brighton and Hove. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league ...

FIFA FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was found ...

decided to give to Mexico the right to host the

Football World Cup 1986 The 1986 FIFA World Cup was the 13th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June 1986. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-tea ...

after Colombia announced the reject to celebrate the event. *

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

–

Dundee United Dundee United Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in the city of Dundee. The club name is usually abbreviated to Dundee United. Formed in 1909, originally as Dundee Hibernian, the club changed to the present name in 1 ...

won the First Division for the first time in their history. They won the league at their rivals home ground

Dens Park Dens Park, officially known as Kilmac Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Dundee, Scotland, which is the home of club Dundee F.C. and has a capacity of . Tannadice Park, the home of rivals Dundee United, is just 200 yards ...

Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...

Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competi ...

* January 18 –

International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...

(IOC) restores medals to the family of

Jim Thorpe James Francis Thorpe ( Sac and Fox (Sauk): ''Wa-Tho-Huk'', translated as "Bright Path"; May 22 or 28, 1887March 28, 1953) was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native ...

* February 27 – Ireland's

Eamonn Coghlan Eamonn Christopher Coghlan (born 21 November 1952) is an Irish former track and field athlete who specialised in middle distance track events and the 5,000 metres. He is a three-time Olympian and former world champion in the 5,000 m. He se ...

sets a new World Indoor Record for the mile, clocking 3:49.78 at

East Rutherford East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the borough's population was 10,022, reflecting an increase of 1,109 (+12.4%) from the 8,913 counted in the 2010 census.

in New Jersey * August 7 – 14 – The inaugural

World Championships in Athletics The World Athletics Championships (until 2019 known as the World Championships in Athletics) are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics (formerly IAAF, International Association of Athletics Federations). Alongside the Ol ...

are held in

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

** June 18 – achieve an amazing win in a top-of-the-ladder clash with , winning 34.16 (220) to 10.10 (70) and more than doubling the previous biggest loss by an eventual minor premier of 69 points. ** July 23 – Fitzroy with 12.6 (78) and St. Kilda with 7.1 (43) kick a record quarter aggregate of 19.7 (121) during the second quarter. ** August 5 – ’s Kevin Bartlett became the first player to play 400 VFL games against . Only

Michael Tuck Michael Tuck (born 24 June 1953) is a seven-time premiership-winning player, Australian rules footballer with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) / Australian Football League (AFL). His 426 career games was a VFL/ ...

Brent Harvey Brent Harvey (born 14 May 1978), often known by his nickname "Boomer", is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He holds the record for most matches playe ...

and

Dustin Fletcher Dustin Fletcher (born 7 May 1975) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played his entire 23-season career for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is widely acknowledged as one of the fines ...

have since equalled his achievement. **

Hawthorn Hawthorn or Hawthorns may refer to: Plants * '' Crataegus'' (hawthorn), a large genus of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae * ''Rhaphiolepis'' (hawthorn), a genus of about 15 species of evergreen shrubs and small trees in the family Rosace ...

wins the 87th VFL Premiership, beating

Essendon Essendon may refer to: Australia *Electoral district of Essendon *Electoral district of Essendon and Flemington * Essendon, Victoria **Essendon railway station **Essendon Airport * Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League United Ki ...

20.20 (140) to 8.9 (57) **

Brownlow Medal The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal (and informally as "Charlie"), is awarded to the " best and fairest" player in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the home-and-away season, as determined by votes cast by ...

awarded to

Ross Glendinning Ross William Glendinning (born 17 September 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the East Perth Football Club in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) and for the North Melbourne Football Club and the We ...

(

North Melbourne North Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne local government area. North Melbourne recorded a population of 14,953 at the ...

)

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

* January 12 – Brooks Robinson and

Juan Marichal Juan Antonio Marichal Sánchez (born October 20, 1937), nicknamed "the Dominican Dandy", is a Dominican former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three teams from 1960 to 1975, almost entirely the San Francisco Giant ...

are elected to the

Hall of Fame A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or Wiktionary:fame, fame in their field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actu ...

. Robinson, winner of 16 straight

Gold Glove Awards The Rawlings Gold Glove Award, usually referred to as simply the Gold Glove, is the award given annually to the Major League Baseball (MLB) players judged to have exhibited superior individual fielding performances at each fielding position in bo ...

and hero of the

1970 World Series The 1970 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1970 season. The 67th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League champion Baltimore Orioles (108–54 in the regula ...

, becomes the 14th player elected in his first year of eligibility. Marichal, the winningest

Latin American Latin Americans ( es, Latinoamericanos; pt, Latino-americanos; ) are the citizens of Latin American countries (or people with cultural, ancestral or national origins in Latin America). Latin American countries and their diasporas are multi-eth ...

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

in major league history, won 20 or more games six times and had an ERA of 2.50 or less six times. *

World Series The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, contested since 1903 between the champion teams of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). The winner of the World ...

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Baltimore Orioles The Baltimore Orioles are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore. The Orioles compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League East, East division. As one of the American L ...

win their most recent World Series 4 games to 1 over the Philadelphia Phillies

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

NCAA Men's Basketball Championship The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as NCAA March Madness and commonly called March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college basketball teams from ...

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North Carolina State North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...

wins 54-52 over

Houston Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship The NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 women's college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic ...

** University of Southern California(USC) wins 69–67 over Louisiana Tech *

NBA Finals The NBA Finals is the annual championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Eastern and Western Conference champions play a best-of-seven game series to determine the league champion. The team that wins the series is awa ...

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Philadelphia 76ers The Philadelphia 76ers, colloquially known as the Sixers, are an American professional basketball team based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The 76ers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eas ...

won 4 games to 0 over

the Los Angeles Lakers The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Lakers play their ...

National Basketball League (Australia) The National Basketball League (NBL) is a men's Professional sports#Basketball, professional basketball list of basketball leagues, league in Australasia, currently composed of 10 teams: 9 in Australia and 1 in New Zealand. It is the premier ...

Finals Final, Finals or The Final may refer to: *Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event ** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...

: **

Canberra Cannons The Canberra Cannons are a defunct basketball team that competed in Australia's National Basketball League (NBL). They went into financial administration in 2003 and were relocated to Newcastle, where they became the Hunter Pirates. After t ...

defeated the

West Adelaide Bearcats West Adelaide Bearcats is a NBL1 Central club based in Adelaide, South Australia. The club fields both a men's and women's team. The club is a division of the overarching West Adelaide Basketball Club (WABC), the major administrative basketball o ...

75–73 in the final. *

Philippine Basketball League The Philippine Basketball League (PBL) was a commercial semi-professional basketball league in the Philippines. The league was composed of several commercial teams with several collegiate and provincial stars. History The PBL was formed on Ma ...

, as predecessor for

PBA Developmental League The PBA Developmental League, or PBA D-League, is the Philippine Basketball Association's official minor league basketball organization. History The PBA D-League was conceptualized after the collapse of the proposed merger between the Philip ...

, first officially game held on May 6.

Boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

* May 31 – death of

Jack Dempsey William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983), nicknamed Kid Blackie and The Manassa Mauler, was an American professional boxer who competed from 1914 to 1927, and reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926. ...

, former world heavyweight champion * May 20 – for the first time ever, two world Heavyweight champions defend their titles the same night, at the same place:

Larry Holmes Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 2002 and was world heavyweight champion from 1978 until 1985. He grew up in Easton, Pennsylvania, which led to his boxing nickname of the "Eas ...

retains the WBC title defeating future two time world champion

Tim Witherspoon Tim Witherspoon (born December 27, 1957) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1979 to 2003. He was a two-time world heavyweight champion, having held the WBC title in 1984, and the WBA title in 1986. Witherspoon also wo ...

, and

Michael Dokes Michael Marshall Dokes (August 10, 1958 – August 11, 2012) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 1997, and held the WBA heavyweight title from 1982 to 1983. As an amateur he won a silver medal in the heavyweight division ...

retains his WBA title with a 15-round draw (tie) against former world champion Mike Weaver. * June 16 –

Roberto Durán Roberto Durán Samaniego (born June 16, 1951) is a Panamanian former professional boxer who competed from 1968 to 2001. He held world championships in four weight classes: lightweight, welterweight, light middleweight and middleweight, as wel ...

wins his third world title, knocking out WBA world Jr. Middleweight champion Davey Moore in eight rounds. * November 10 –

Marvin Hagler Marvelous Marvin Hagler (born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler; May 23, 1954 – March 13, 2021) was an American professional boxer and film actor. He competed in boxing from 1973 to 1987 and reigned as the undisputed champion of the middleweight divisi ...

retains his unified world Middleweight title with a 15-round unanimous decision over

. It was 1983's most anticipated bout.

Canadian football Canadian football () is a team sport, sport played in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed oval-shaped ball into the opposing team's sco ...

Grey Cup The Grey Cup (french: Coupe Grey) is both the championship game of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing in the namesake championship of professional Canadian football. The game is contested be ...

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Toronto Argonauts The Toronto Argonauts (officially the Toronto Argonaut Football Club and colloquially known as the Argos) are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL), based in Toronto, Ontario ...

won 18–17 over the

B.C. Lions The BC Lions are a professional Canadian football team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Lions compete in the West Division (CFL), West Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL), and play their home games at BC Place. The Lions playe ...

Vanier Cup The Vanier Cup (french: Coupe Vanier) is the championship of Canadian university football. It is organized by U Sports football and is currently played between the winners of the Uteck Bowl and the Mitchell Bowl. It is named after Georges Vanier, ...

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Calgary Dinos The Calgary Dinos are the athletic teams that represent the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. They were known as the "Dinosaurs" but usually referred to as the "Dinos" until 1999, when the name was officially shortened. Some of its venue ...

won 31–21 over the Queen's Golden Gaels

Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

Cricket World Cup The Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Men's Cricket World Cup) is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), e ...

– India beat

West Indies The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea that includes 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies and other territories in three major archipelagos: the Greater A ...

by 43 runs. Yessir *

Asian Cricket Council The Asian Cricket Council also known as ACC is a cricket organisation which was established in 1983, to promote and develop the sport of cricket in Asia. Subordinate to the International Cricket Council, the council is the continent's regional ...

formed.

Cycling Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from two ...

* 1983 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia won by Giuseppe Saronni of Italy * 1983 Tour de France, Tour de France – Laurent Fignon of France * 1983 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race – Greg LeMond of the United States

Dogsled racing

* Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Champion – ** Rick Mackey won with lead dogs: ''Preacher'' & ''Jody''

Field hockey

* 1983 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship, Men's European Nations Cup held at Amstelveen won by the Netherlands * 1983 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy, Men's Champions Trophy held at Karachi won by Australia * Field hockey at the 1983 Pan American Games, Pan American Games (Men's Competition) held in Caracas won by Canada * 1983 Women's Hockey World Cup, Women's World Cup held in Kuala Lumpur won by the Netherlands

Figure skating

* 1983 World Figure Skating Championships, World Figure Skating Championships – ** Men's champion: Scott Hamilton (figure skater), Scott Hamilton, United States ** Ladies’ champion: Rosalynn Sumners, United States ** Pair skating champions: Elena Valova & Oleg Kimovich Vasiliev, Oleg Vasiliev, Soviet Union ** Ice dancing champions: Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean, Great Britain

Gaelic Athletic Association

* Camogie ** 1983 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, All-Ireland Camogie Champion: Cork GAA, Cork ** 1983 National Camogie League, National Camogie League: Dublin GAA, Dublin * Gaelic football ** 1983 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship – Dublin GAA, Dublin 1-10 died Galway GAA, Galway 1-8 ** 1982–83 National Football League (Ireland), National Football League – Down GAA, Down 1-8 died Armagh GAA, Armagh 0-8 * Ladies' Gaelic football ** All-Ireland Senior Football Champion: Kerry GAA, Kerry ** National Football League: Kerry GAA, Kerry * Hurling ** 1983 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship – Kilkenny GAA, Kilkenny 3-18 died Cork GAA, Cork 1-13 ** 1982–83 National Hurling League, National Hurling League – Kilkenny GAA, Kilkenny 2–14 beat Limerick GAA, Limerick 2–12

Golf

Men's professional * 1983 Masters Tournament, Masters Tournament – Seve Ballesteros * 1983 U.S. Open (golf), U.S. Open – Larry Nelson * 1983 Open Championship, British Open – Tom Watson (golfer), Tom Watson * 1983 PGA Championship, PGA Championship – Hal Sutton * PGA Tour money leader – Hal Sutton ($426,668) * Champions Tour, Senior PGA Tour money leader – Don January ($237,571) * 1983 Ryder Cup, Ryder Cup – United States won 14½ - 13½ over Europe in team golf. Men's amateur * The Amateur Championship, British Amateur – Philip Parkin * United States Amateur Championship (men's golf), U.S. Amateur – Jay Sigel Women's professional * 1983 Nabisco Dinah Shore, Nabisco Dinah Shore – Amy Alcott * 1983 LPGA Championship, LPGA Championship – Patty Sheehan * 1983 U.S. Women's Open, U.S. Women's Open – Jan Stephenson * 1983 Peter Jackson Classic, Classique Peter Jackson Classic – Hollis Stacy * LPGA, LPGA Tour money leader – JoAnne Carner ($291,404)

Harness racing

* Ralph Hanover wins the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers, United States Pacing Triple Crown races – * # Cane Pace – Ralph Hanover * # Little Brown Jug (horse racing), Little Brown Jug – Ralph Hanover * # Messenger Stakes – Ralph Hanover * Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Trotters, United States Trotting Triple Crown races – * # Hambletonian Stakes, Hambletonian – Duenna (horse), Duenna * # Yonkers Trot – Joie De Vie * # Kentucky Futurity – Power Seat * Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship – ** Pacers: Gammalite ** Trotters: Scotch Notch

Horse racing

* February 8 – champion racehorse Shergar is kidnapped from Ballymany Stud, near the Curragh in County Kildare, Ireland. No trace of the horse has ever been found. Steeplechases * Cheltenham Gold Cup – Bregawn * 1983 Grand National, Grand National – Corbiere (horse), Corbiere Flat races * Australia – 1983 Melbourne Cup, Melbourne Cup won by Kiwi (horse), Kiwi * Canada – Queen's Plate won by Bompago * France – 1983 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe won by All Along * Ireland – Irish Derby Stakes won by Shareef Dancer * Japan – Japan Cup won by Stanerra * Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, English Triple Crown Races: *# 2,000 Guineas Stakes – Lomond (horse), Lomond *# 1983 Epsom Derby, The Derby – Teenoso *# St. Leger Stakes – Sun Princess (horse), Sun Princess * Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, United States Triple Crown Races: *# 1983 Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Derby – Sunny's Halo *# 1983 Preakness Stakes, Preakness Stakes – Deputed Testimony *# Belmont Stakes – Caveat (horse), Caveat

Ice hockey

* Art Ross Trophy as the National Hockey League, NHL’s leading scorer during the regular season: Wayne Gretzky, 1982–83 Edmonton Oilers season, Edmonton Oilers * Hart Memorial Trophy for the National Hockey League, NHL’s Most Valuable Player: Wayne Gretzky, 1982–83 Edmonton Oilers season, Edmonton Oilers * 1983 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup – 1982–83 New York Islanders season, New York Islanders win 4-0 over 1982–83 Edmonton Oilers season, the Edmonton Oilers * 1983 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Hockey Championship – ** Men's champion: Soviet Union defeated Czechoslovakia ** 1983 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Junior Men's champion: Soviet Union, USSR defeated Czechoslovakia

Motorsport

Radiosport

* First European High Speed Telegraphy Championships held in Moscow, Russia.

Rugby league

*1983 KB Cup *1983 New Zealand rugby league season *1983 NSWRFL season *1982–83 Rugby Football League season / 1983–84 Rugby Football League season *1983 State of Origin series

Rugby union

* 89th 1983 Five Nations Championship, Five Nations Championship series is shared by France national rugby union team, France and Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland

Snooker

* 1983 World Snooker Championship, World Snooker Championship – Steve Davis beats Cliff Thorburn 18-6 * Snooker world rankings, World rankings – Steve Davis becomes Snooker world number ones, world number one for 1983/84

Swimming (sport), Swimming

* Swimming at the 1983 Pan American Games, Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela

Tennis

* Grand Slam in tennis men's results: * # 1983 Australian Open – Men's singles, Australian Open – Mats Wilander * # 1983 French Open – Men's singles, French Open – Yannick Noah * # 1983 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles, Wimbledon championships – John McEnroe * # 1983 US Open – Men's singles, U.S. Open – Jimmy Connors * Grand Slam in tennis women's results: * # 1983 Australian Open – Women's singles, Australian Open – Martina Navratilova * # 1983 French Open – Women's singles, French Open – Chris Evert * # 1983 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, Wimbledon championships – Martina Navratilova * # 1983 US Open – Women's singles, U.S. Open – Martina Navratilova * 1983 Davis Cup, Davis Cup – Australia won 3-2 over Sweden.

Volleyball

* Asian Volleyball Championships held in Japan: both 1983 Asian Men's Volleyball Championship, men's and 1983 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship, women's tournaments won by Japan * Men's European Volleyball Championship, European Volleyball Championship held in East Germany won by USSR (1983 Men's European Volleyball Championship, men) and DDR (1983 Women's European Volleyball Championship, women) * Volleyball at the 1983 Pan American Games held in Caracas won by Brazil (men) and Cuba (women)

Water polo

* 1983 FINA Men's Water Polo World Cup held in Malibu, California, Malibu, California won by USSR * Water polo at the 1983 Pan American Games, Men's competition at Pan American Games in Caracas won by USA * 1983 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup held in Sainte-Foy, Quebec City, Canada, won by the Netherlands

Yacht racing

* ''Australia II'', of the Royal Perth Yacht Club, wins the America's Cup over ''Liberty'', from the New York Yacht Club, 1983 America's Cup, 4 races to 3; the victory breaks a 132-year winning streak by the NYYC through 25 Cup challenges, the longest-running unbeaten streak in all of sports

Multi-sport events

* Ninth 1983 Pan American Games, Pan American Games held in Caracas, Venezuela * Ninth 1983 Mediterranean Games, Mediterranean Games held in Casablanca, Morocco * Twelfth 1983 Summer Universiade, Summer Universiade held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada * Eleventh 1983 Winter Universiade, Winter Universiade held in Sofia, Bulgaria

Awards

* Associated Press Athlete of the Year#List of award winners, Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year – Carl Lewis, Track and field * Associated Press Athlete of the Year#List of award winners, Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year – Martina Navratilova, Tennis

References

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