1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres explained

Event:	Men's 400 metres
Competition:	1983 World Championships
Venue:	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Dates:	7 August (heats) 8 August (quarter-finals) 9 August (semi-finals) 10 August (final)
Competitors:	55
Win Value:	45.05
Gold:	Bert Cameron
Goldnoc:	JAM
Silver:	Michael Franks
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Sunder Nix
Bronzenoc:	USA
Next:	1987

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		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	Time	Notes
1	Sunder Nix	46.19	Q,
2	Gerson A. Souza	46.43	Q
3	Philip Brown	46.60	Q
4	Isidro del Prado	46.92	q
5	Aldo Canti	47.50
6	Gordan Hinds	47.55
7	Kenrick Camerud	49.68
	Paiwa Bogela

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Bert Cameron	46.11	Q,
2	Ján Tomko	46.17	Q
3	Thomas Schönlebe	46.23	Q
4	Sándor Vasvári	46.69	q
5	Abu Alhassan	48.14
6	Salem Khalil Ibrahim	48.16
7	Ali Al Harazi	59.67
	Ángel Heras

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Erwin Skamrahl	46.31	Q
2	Todd Bennett	46.58	Q
3	Douglas Hinds	46.64	Q
4	Gary Minihan	46.90	q
5	James Atuti	46.95	q
6	Dean Greenaway	48.26
	Emmanuel Bitanga

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Michael Paul	46.33	Q
2	Moses Kyeswa	46.35	Q
3	Susumu Takano	46.66	Q
4	Eliot Tabron	46.68	q
5	Marcel Arnold	47.44	q
6	David Sawyerr	49.29
7	Lenford O'Garro	50.25
	Nafi Ahmed Mersal

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Martin Weppler	46.32	Q
2	Hassan El Kachief	46.61	Q
3	Viktor Markin	46.74	Q
4	Gabriel Tiacoh	47.11	q
5	Hector Daley	47.19	q
6	Eric Josjö	47.25	q
7	Jean-Marie Rudasinqwa	50.52
	Allan Ingraham

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Michael Franks	46.16	Q
2	Oddur Sigurdsson	47.09	Q
3	Christopher Madzokere	47.17	Q
4	Dušan Malovec	47.35	q
5	Moussa Fall	47.72
6	Joseph Ramotshabi	48.35
7	Agripa Mwausegha	49.02
	Sunday Uti

Heat 7

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Hartmut Weber	45.74	Q,
2	Darren Clark	46.26	Q
3	Mike Okot	46.69	Q
4	Matti Rusanen	47.37	q
5	Adram M'Kumi	49.22
6	Clive Williams	51.82
	Mike Solomon
	Roberto Ribaud

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	Time	Notes
1	Michael Franks	45.57	Q,
2	Philip Brown	45.80	Q
3	Thomas Schönlebe	45.86	Q
4	Martin Weppler	46.12	Q
5	Gary Minihan	46.32
6	Mike Okot	46.38
7	Christopher Madzokere	46.74
	Dušan Malovec

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Bert Cameron	45.76	Q
2	Darren Clark	45.84	Q
3	Erwin Skamrahl	45.90	Q
4	Gerson A. Souza	45.94	Q
5	Gabriel Tiacoh	46.22
6	Eliot Tabron	46.54
7	Isidro del Prado	46.71
8	Matti Rusanen	47.69

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Hartmut Weber	46.01	Q
2	Moses Kyeswa	46.31	Q
3	Michael Paul	46.44	Q
4	Douglas Hinds	46.62	Q
5	Susumu Takano	47.06
6	James Atuti	47.59
7	Oddur Sigurdsson	48.09
	Marcel Arnold

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Viktor Markin	46.16	Q
2	Sunder Nix	46.19	Q
3	Ján Tomko	46.24	Q
4	Todd Bennett	46.39	Q
5	Hector Daley	46.42
6	Eric Josjö	46.97
7	Sándor Vasvári	47.34
	Hassan El Kachief

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	Time	Notes
1	Michael Franks	45.44	Q,
2	Hartmut Weber	45.61	Q
3	Thomas Schönlebe	45.67	Q
4	Michael Paul	45.83	Q
5	Ján Tomko	46.03
6	Todd Bennett	46.11
7	Darren Clark	46.36
8	Martin Weppler	46.55

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Time	Notes
1	Bert Cameron	45.48	Q
2	Erwin Skamrahl	45.61	Q
3	Gerson A. Souza	45.63	Q
4	Sunder Nix	45.73	Q
5	Viktor Markin	45.73
6.	Douglas Hinds	46.52
7.	Moses Kyeswa	46.79
8.	Philip Brown	46.81

Final

The final took place on August 10.

Rank	Lane	Name	Time
	4	Bert Cameron	45.05
	5	Michael Franks	45.22
	1	Sunder Nix	45.24
4	7	Erwin Skamrahl	45.37
5	3	Hartmut Weber	45.49
6	6	Thomas Schönlebe	45.50
7	8	Michael Paul	45.80
8	2	Gerson A. Souza	45.91

References

Results