The
4 × 400 metres relay
The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, th ...
at the
1983 World Championships in Athletics
The 1st 1983 World Championships in Athletics were run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations and were held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland between 7 and 14 August 1983.
Summary
The overall med ...
was held at the
Helsinki Olympic Stadium
The Helsinki Olympic Stadium ( fi, Helsingin Olympiastadion; sv, Helsingfors Olympiastadion), located in the Töölö district about from the centre of the Finnish capital Helsinki, is the largest stadium in the country, nowadays mainly used f ...
on August 13 and August 14.
Medals
Records
Existing records at the start of the event.
Results
Heats
All times shown are in minutes.
Heat 1
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Alonzo Babers
Alonzo C. Babers (born October 31, 1961) is an American former athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics, in the 400 m and the 4 × 400 m relay.
Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Alonzo Babers was a military dependent who graduat ...
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Willie Smith,
Andre Phillips
André Lamar Phillips (born September 5, 1959) is a retired American track and field athlete who is best known for winning the 400 metres hurdles gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games.
Phillips spent most of his career in the shadow of his idol, ...
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Michael Franks) 3:06.62 Q
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Martin Weppler
Martin Weppler (born 21 February 1958) is a retired West German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.
Biography
He was born in Schramberg. He won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1978 European Championships togethe ...
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Jörg Vaihinger
Jörg Vaihinger (born 8 October 1962) is a retired West German
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the ...
,
Harald Schmid
Harald Schmid (; born 29 September 1957) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the sprints and hurdles. He was one of the best 400 metres hurdles runners in the world during his career. Career
Schmid won bronze with the We ...
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Hartmut Weber
Hartmut Weber (born 17 October 1960 in Kamen) is a retired German track and field athlete who competed in the 400 metres.
At the 1982 European Championships he won the gold medal with a lifetime best of 44.72 seconds. He also helped win the 4 ...
) 3:07.50 Q
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Stefano Malinverni,
Donato Sabia
Donato Sabia (11 September 1963 – 7 April 2020) was an Italian middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.
Biography
Donato Sabia was born in Potenza and won two medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitio ...
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Mauro Zuliani
Mauro Zuliani (born 23 July 1959 in Milan) is a former Italian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.
Biography
He won four medals at the International athletics competitions, three of these with national relays team. He participated at tw ...
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Roberto Ribaud) 3:07.90 Q
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Antônio Dias Ferreira
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Agberto Guimarães,
José Luíz Barbosa
José Luíz Barbosa, known as Zequinha Barbosa (born May 27, 1961) is a Brazilian former middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. José participated in 4 Olympic Games: 1984 Los Angeles; 1988 Soul Korea; 1992 Barcelona and 1996 A ...
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Gerson A. Souza) 3:08.25 Q
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Tommy Johansson,
Eric Josjö,
Sven Nylander
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Per-Erik Olsson) 3:08.33 q
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Mark Guthrie
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Career
After graduating from ...
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Douglas Hinds,
Tim Bethune,
Brian Saunders) 3:08.37 q
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Steve Griffiths,
George Walcott
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Early life
Born in Los Angeles, Califo ...
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Devon Morris
Devon Morris (born 22 January 1961) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He won this distance at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships, and his personal best time was 45.49 seconds, achieved during the 1987 ...
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Karl Smith) 3:09.06
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Jari Niemelä,
Mauri Siekkinen,
Matti Rusanen,
Hannu Mykrä) 3:09.23
Heat 2
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Gusztáv Menczer,
Sándor Újhelyi,
István Takács,
Sándor Vasvári) 3:09.95 Q
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Viktor Markin
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) is a former Soviet athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
After graduating from a ...
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Sergey Lovachov,
Aleksandr Troshchilo,
Nikolay Chernetskiy
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) 3:10.16 Q
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Kriss Akabusi
Kezie Uchechukwu Duru Akabusi , MBE (born 28 November 1958), known as Kriss Akabusi, is a British former sprint and hurdling track and field athlete.
His first international successes were with the British 4×400 metres relay team, winning a ...
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Garry Cook
Garry Peter Cook (born 10 January 1958) is a former British track and field athlete, who competed mainly in the 800 metres with a best time of 1:44.55 minutes.
Athletics career
He competed for Great Britain in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in L ...
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Todd Bennett
Todd Anthony Bennett (6 July 1962 – 16 July 2013) was a Great Britain, British athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.
Athletics career
Bennett competed for Great Britain in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United Stat ...
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Philip Brown) 3:10.19 Q
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Amadou Dia Ba,
Moussa Fall,
Babacar Niang
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Boubacar Diallo) 3:10.90 Q
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Bruce Frayne
Bruce Frayne (born 24 January 1958) is a retired Australian sprinter who specialized in the 200 and 400 metres. He was Australian Champion in the 200 metres 1980, 81, and 1983. He also won the 400 metres in 1984.
In 1981 he won Gold in the 4 × 4 ...
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Gary Minihan
Gary Minihan (born 24 January 1962) is an Australian retired sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.
At the 1982 Commonwealth Games he won a bronze medal in 400 metres and a silver medal in 4 × 400 metres relay.
He finished fourth with t ...
,
Paul Gilbert
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Darren Clark
Darren Edward Clark (born 6 September 1965 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian retired sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.
His personal best time of 44.38 seconds, achieved at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, is the current Oceanian ...
) 3:11.62
** DNS
** DNS
Heat 3
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Jacques Fellice,
Yann Quentrec,
Hector Llatser
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Aldo Canti
Aldo Canti (born 9 March 1961 in Montmorency, France) is a French and later Sammarinese former sprinter who competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Competition record
1Representing Europe
Personal bests
Outdoor
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) 3:06.99 Q
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Miroslav Zahořák,
Petr Břečka,
Dušan Malovec,
Ján Tomko) 3:07.03 Q
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Ryszard Wichrowski,
Ryszard Szparak,
Andrzej Stępień,
Ryszard Podlas
File:Ryszard Podlas (9004711791).jpg, Ryszard Podlas
Ryszard Podlas (born 29 July 1954) is a Polish Sprint (running), sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.
He was born in Białobrzezie and represented the club Technika Pracze. He won ...
) 3:07.18 Q
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Kazunori Asaba,
Tomoharu Isobe,
Hirofumi Koike,
Susumu Takano
is a Japanese former sprinter who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics, in the 1988 Summer Olympics, and in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Personal bests
Records
*200 metres
**Former Japanese record holder - 20.74 s (wind: -0.4 m/s) ...
) 3:07.23 Q
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Juan José Prado
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Antonio Sánchez,
Carlos Azulay,
Angel Heras) 3:07.42 q
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Elijah Bitok,
John Anzrah,
James Atuti,
Juma Ndiwa
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The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the X ...
) 3:07.48 q
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Georges Kablan Degnan
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The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as ...
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Rene Djedjemel Meledje,
Avognan Nogboum,
Gabriel Tiacoh
Gabriel Tiacoh (February 9, 1963 – April 2, 1992) was a sprinter from Côte d'Ivoire who specialised in the 400 metres. He is best known for winning his nation's first Olympic medal, in the 400 meters in 1984.
A former African recor ...
) 3:09.23
** (
John Goville,
Mike Okot,
Charles Mbazira,
Moses Kyeswa) DQ
Semi-finals
Heat 1
# (Alonzo Babers,
Sunder Nix
Sunder Lamont Nix (born December 2, 1961, in Birmingham, Alabama) was a 1984 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the men's 4x400 meter relay for the United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United St ...
, Willie Smith,
Edwin Moses
Edwin Corley Moses (born August 31, 1955) is an American former track and field athlete who won gold medals in the 400 m hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals (122 consecutive races) an ...
) 3:02.13 Q
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Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger,
Edgar Nakladal, Harald Schmid) 3:04.96 Q
# (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) 3:05.51 Q
# (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:05.70 Q
# (Brian Saunders, Douglas Hinds,
Ian Newhouse, Tim Bethune) 3:06.42
# (Tomoharu Isobe, Kazunori Asaba, Hirofumi Koike, Susumu Takano) 3:07.11
# (Moussa Fall, Babacar Niang,
Mathurin Barry, Amadou Dia Ba) 3:09.63
# (Gusztáv Menczer, Sándor Újhelyi, István Takács, Sándor Vasvári) 3:11.08
Heat 2
# (Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin) 3:03.75 Q
# (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:04.03 Q
# (Miroslav Zahořák, Petr Břečka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:04.32 Q
# (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Sven Nylander, Per-Erik Olsson) 3:04.32 Q
# (Antônio Dias Ferreira, Agberto Guimarães, José Luíz Barbosa, Gerson A. Souza) 3:04.46 (AR)
# (Jacques Fellice, Yann Quentrec, Hector Llatser, Aldo Canti) 3:05.09
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David Kitur
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In 1983, at the inaugural world championships he was part of the Kenyan 4x400 metres relay team, which reached semifinals.
He competed at the 1984 Su ...
, John Anzrah, James Atuti,
James Maina Boi
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He also competed in 4 x 400 ...
) 3:05.30
# (Juan José Prado, Antonio Sánchez, Carlos Azulay, Angel Heras) 3:09.68
Final
# (Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin) 3:00.79
# (Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Hartmut Weber) 3:01.83
# (
Ainsley Bennett, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:03.53
# (Miroslav Zahořák, Petr Břečka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:03.90
# (
Stefano Malinverni,
Donato Sabia
Donato Sabia (11 September 1963 – 7 April 2020) was an Italian middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.
Biography
Donato Sabia was born in Potenza and won two medals, at senior level, at the International athletics competitio ...
,
Mauro Zuliani
Mauro Zuliani (born 23 July 1959 in Milan) is a former Italian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.
Biography
He won four medals at the International athletics competitions, three of these with national relays team. He participated at tw ...
,
Roberto Ribaud) 3:05.10
# (Alonzo Babers, Sunder Nix, Willie Smith, Edwin Moses) 3:05.29
# (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Per-Erik Olsson,
Ulf Sedlacek) 3:08.57
** (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) DNF
References
IAAF results, heats
{{DEFAULTSORT:1983 World Championships In Athletics - Men's 4 X 400 Metres Relay
4 x 400 metres relay men
Relays at the World Athletics Championships