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1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres - Wikipedia

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Men's 400 metres
at the 1983 World Championships

Venue

Helsinki Olympic Stadium

Dates

7 August (heats)
8 August (quarter-finals)
9 August (semi-finals)
10 August (final)

Competitors

Winning time

45.05 CR

Medalists

	Bert Cameron	Jamaica
	Michael Franks	United States
	Sunder Nix	United States

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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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These are the official results of the men's 400 metres event at the 1983 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total number of 55 participating athletes, with seven qualifying heats and the final held on 10 August 1983. The winning margin was 0.17 seconds.

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record	Lee Evans (USA)	43.86	Mexico City, Mexico	October 18, 1968
Championship Record	New event

Results

Qualifying heats

The qualifying heats took place on 7 August, with the 55 athletes involved being split into 7 heats. The first 3 athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next 11 fastest ( q ) qualified for the quarter-finals.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sunder Nix	United States (USA)	46.19	Q, CR
2	Gerson A. Souza	Brazil (BRA)	46.43	Q
3	Philip Brown	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	46.60	Q
4	Isidro del Prado	Philippines (PHI)	46.92	q
5	Aldo Canti	France (FRA)	47.50
6	Gordan Hinds	Barbados (BAR)	47.55
7	Kenrick Camerud	Saint Kitts and Nevis (SKN)	49.68
	Paiwa Bogela	Papua New Guinea (PNG)		DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bert Cameron	Jamaica (JAM)	46.11	Q, CR
2	Ján Tomko	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	46.17	Q
3	Thomas Schönlebe	East Germany (GDR)	46.23	Q
4	Sándor Vasvári	Hungary (HUN)	46.69	q
5	Abu Alhassan	Ghana (GHA)	48.14
6	Salem Khalil Ibrahim	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	48.16
7	Ali Al Harazi	Yemen (YEM)	59.67
	Ángel Heras	Spain (ESP)		DQ

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Erwin Skamrahl	West Germany (FRG)	46.31	Q
2	Todd Bennett	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	46.58	Q
3	Douglas Hinds	Canada (CAN)	46.64	Q
4	Gary Minihan	Australia (AUS)	46.90	q
5	James Atuti	Kenya (KEN)	46.95	q
6	Dean Greenaway	British Virgin Islands (IVB)	48.26
	Emmanuel Bitanga	Cameroon (CMR)		DNS

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Michael Paul	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	46.33	Q
2	Moses Kyeswa	Uganda (UGA)	46.35	Q
3	Susumu Takano	Japan (JPN)	46.66	Q
4	Eliot Tabron	United States (USA)	46.68	q
5	Marcel Arnold	Switzerland (SUI)	47.44	q
6	David Sawyerr	Sierra Leone (SLE)	49.29
7	Lenford O'Garro	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VIN)	50.25
	Nafi Ahmed Mersal	Egypt (EGY)		DNF

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Martin Weppler	West Germany (FRG)	46.32	Q
2	Hassan El Kachief	Sudan (SUD)	46.61	Q
3	Viktor Markin	Soviet Union (URS)	46.74	Q
4	Gabriel Tiacoh	Ivory Coast (CIV)	47.11	q
5	Hector Daley	Panama (PAN)	47.19	q
6	Eric Josjö	Sweden (SWE)	47.25	q
7	Jean-Marie Rudasinqwa	Rwanda (RWA)	50.52
	Allan Ingraham	Bahamas (BAH)		DNS

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Michael Franks	United States (USA)	46.16	Q
2	Oddur Sigurdsson	Iceland (ISL)	47.09	Q
3	Christopher Madzokere	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	47.17	Q
4	Dušan Malovec	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	47.35	q
5	Moussa Fall	Senegal (SEN)	47.72
6	Joseph Ramotshabi	Botswana (BOT)	48.35
7	Agripa Mwausegha	Malawi (MAW)	49.02
	Sunday Uti	Nigeria (NGR)		DQ

Heat 7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hartmut Weber	West Germany (FRG)	45.74	Q, CR
2	Darren Clark	Australia (AUS)	46.26	Q
3	Mike Okot	Uganda (UGA)	46.69	Q
4	Matti Rusanen	Finland (FIN)	47.37	q
5	Adram M'Kumi	Tanzania (TAN)	49.22
6	Clive Williams	Belize (BIZ)	51.82
	Mike Solomon	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)		DNS
	Roberto Ribaud	Italy (ITA)		DQ

Quarterfinals

The qualifying heats took place on 8 August, with the 32 athletes involved being split into 4 heats. The first 4 athletes in each heat ( Q ) qualified for the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Michael Franks	United States (USA)	45.57	Q, CR
2	Philip Brown	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	45.80	Q
3	Thomas Schönlebe	East Germany (GDR)	45.86	Q
4	Martin Weppler	West Germany (FRG)	46.12	Q
5	Gary Minihan	Australia (AUS)	46.32
6	Mike Okot	Uganda (UGA)	46.38
7	Christopher Madzokere	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	46.74
	Dušan Malovec	Czechoslovakia (TCH)		DNF

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bert Cameron	Jamaica (JAM)	45.76	Q
2	Darren Clark	Australia (AUS)	45.84	Q
3	Erwin Skamrahl	West Germany (FRG)	45.90	Q
4	Gerson A. Souza	Brazil (BRA)	45.94	Q
5	Gabriel Tiacoh	Ivory Coast (CIV)	46.22
6	Eliot Tabron	United States (USA)	46.54
7	Isidro del Prado	Philippines (PHI)	46.71
8	Matti Rusanen	Finland (FIN)	47.69

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Hartmut Weber	West Germany (FRG)	46.01	Q
2	Moses Kyeswa	Uganda (UGA)	46.31	Q
3	Michael Paul	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	46.44	Q
4	Douglas Hinds	Canada (CAN)	46.62	Q
5	Susumu Takano	Japan (JPN)	47.06
6	James Atuti	Kenya (KEN)	47.59
7	Oddur Sigurdsson	Iceland (ISL)	48.09
	Marcel Arnold	Switzerland (SUI)		DNS

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Viktor Markin	Soviet Union (URS)	46.16	Q
2	Sunder Nix	United States (USA)	46.19	Q
3	Ján Tomko	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	46.24	Q
4	Todd Bennett	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	46.39	Q
5	Hector Daley	Panama (PAN)	46.42
6	Eric Josjö	Sweden (SWE)	46.97
7	Sándor Vasvári	Hungary (HUN)	47.34
	Hassan El Kachief	Sudan (SUD)		DNF

Semifinals

The semifinals took place on 9 August, with the 16 athletes involved being split into 2 heats. The first 4 athletes in each heat ( Q ) qualified for the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Michael Franks	United States (USA)	45.44	Q, CR
2	Hartmut Weber	West Germany (FRG)	45.61	Q
3	Thomas Schönlebe	East Germany (GDR)	45.67	Q
4	Michael Paul	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	45.83	Q
5	Ján Tomko	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	46.03
6	Todd Bennett	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	46.11
7	Darren Clark	Australia (AUS)	46.36
8	Martin Weppler	West Germany (FRG)	46.55

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bert Cameron	Jamaica (JAM)	45.48	Q
2	Erwin Skamrahl	West Germany (FRG)	45.61	Q
3	Gerson A. Souza	Brazil (BRA)	45.63	Q
4	Sunder Nix	United States (USA)	45.73	Q
5	Viktor Markin	Soviet Union (URS)	45.73
6.	Douglas Hinds	Canada (CAN)	46.52
7.	Moses Kyeswa	Uganda (UGA)	46.79
8.	Philip Brown	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	46.81

Final

The final took place on August 10.

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Bert Cameron	Jamaica (JAM)	45.05	CR
	5	Michael Franks	United States (USA)	45.22
	1	Sunder Nix	United States (USA)	45.24
4	7	Erwin Skamrahl	West Germany (FRG)	45.37
5	3	Hartmut Weber	West Germany (FRG)	45.49
6	6	Thomas Schönlebe	East Germany (GDR)	45.50
7	8	Michael Paul	Trinidad and Tobago (TRI)	45.80
8	2	Gerson A. Souza	Brazil (BRA)	45.91

References

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