1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump

These are the official results of the Women's Long Jump event at the 1983 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total number of 34 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday 14 August 1983. The qualification mark was set at 6.40 metres.

Medalists

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Gold   Heike Daute-Drechsler
East Germany (GDR)
Silver   Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu
Romania (ROU)
Bronze   Carol Lewis
United States (USA)

Schedule

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Qualification Round
Group A Group B
13.08.1983 – ??:??h 13.08.1983 – ??:??h
Final Round
14.08.1983 – ??:??h

Abbreviations

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  • All results shown are in metres
Q automatic qualification
q qualification by rank
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records

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Standing records prior to the 1983 World Athletics Championships
World Record   Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu (ROU) 7.43 m June 4, 1983   Bucharest, Romania
Event Record New event

Qualifying round

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  • Held on Saturday 1983-08-13
RANK GROUP A LENGTH
1.   Carol Lewis (USA) 6.78 m
2.   Heike Daute-Drechsler (GDR) 6.65 m
3.   Robyn Lorraway (AUS) 6.65 m
4.   Tatyana Proskuryakova (URS) 6.63 m
5.   Vali Ionescu-Constantin (ROU) 6.44 m
6.   Jarmila Nygrýnová-Strejčková (TCH) 6.40 m
7.   Shonel Ferguson (BAH) 6.29 m
8.   Lena Wallin (SWE) 6.19 m
9.   Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia (BRA) 6.15 m
10.   Heidi Benserud (NOR) 5.92 m
11.   Jacinta Bartholomew (GRN) 5.77 m
12.   Marie-Ange Wirtz (SEY) 5.20 m
13.   Kim Mom (CAM) 4.90 m
  Sabine Everts (FRG) NM
  Arja Jussila (FIN) NM
  Nicole Tombezogo (CAF) NM
  Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA) DNS


RANK GROUP B LENGTH
1.   Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu (ROU) 6.76 m
2.   Zsuzsa Vanyek (HUN) 6.60 m
3.   Eva Murková (TCH) 6.57 m
4.   Helga Radtke (GDR) 6.53 m
5.   Jennifer Innis (GUY) 6.45 m
6.   Beverly Kinch (GBR) 6.43 m
7.   Gwen Loud (USA) 6.37 m
8.   Madeline de Jesús (PUR) 6.12 m
9.   Halcyon McKnight (JAM) 6.03 m
10.   Donghuo Huang (CHN) 5.90 m
11.   Rose Phillips-King (IVB) 5.40 m
12.   Traore Mariam (UPV) 4.90 m
  Mercy Mathews-Kuttan (IND) NM
  Christina Sussiek (FRG) NM
  Karen Nelson (CAN) DNS
  Glynis Nunn-Cearns (AUS) DNS
  Svetlana Zorina (URS) DNS

Final

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RANK FINAL LENGTH
    Heike Daute-Drechsler (GDR) 7.27 m
    Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu (ROU) 7.15 m
    Carol Lewis (USA) 7.04 m
4.   Tatyana Proskuryakova (URS) 7.02 m
5.   Beverly Kinch (GBR) 6.93 m
6.   Zsuzsa Vanyek (HUN) 6.81 m
7.   Eva Murková (TCH) 6.80 m
8.   Robyn Lorraway (AUS) 6.65 m
9.   Vali Ionescu-Constantin (ROU) 6.62 m
10.   Jarmila Nygrýnová-Strejčková (TCH) 6.56 m
11.   Jennifer Innis (GUY) 6.54 m
12.   Helga Radtke (GDR) 6.44 m

References

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