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IAAF World Championships
Helsinki FIN
14 Aug 1983
Road
Marathon
Record quality course
Men: -65.30 sec (-1.54 sec/km)
Total: 63
Men: 63
Women:
IAAF World Championships

Results (men)

Finished Time Flags Given name Surname Alternate name Citizenship Birth date Prize money Actions
1 2:10:03 Rob deCastella AUS 27 Feb 1957
2 2:10:27 Kebede Balcha ETH 07 Sep 1951
3 2:10:37 Waldemar Cierpinski GER 03 Aug 1950
4 2:10:38 Kjell-Erik Stahl SWE 17 Feb 1946
5 2:10:42 Agapius Masong TAN 12 Apr 1960
6 2:10:57 Armand Parmentier BEL 15 Feb 1954
7 2:11:05 Gianni Poli ITA 05 Nov 1957
8 2:11:15 Hugh Jones ENG 01 Nov 1955
9 2:11:24 Karel Lismont BEL 08 Mar 1949
10 2:11:29 Stig-Roar Husby NOR 12 Sep 1954
11 2:11:30 Art Boileau CAN 09 Oct 1957
12 2:11:34 Juan-Carlos Traspaderne ESP 02 Sep 1956
13 2:11:47 Marco Marchei ITA 02 Aug 1954
14 2:12:11 Pertti Tiainen FIN 15 Nov 1954
15 2:13:11 Juma Ikangaa TAN 19 Jul 1957
16 2:13:20 Ryszard Marczak POL 25 Nov 1945
17 2:13:34 Svend-Erik Kristensen DEN 24 Jun 1956
18 2:13:38 Ron Tabb USA 07 Aug 1954
19 2:14:10 Henrik Jørgensen DEN 10 Oct 1961
20 2:14:20 Hans-Joachim Truppel GER 24 Mar 1951
21 2:14:46 Ricardo Ortega Sanchez Pinilla ESP 29 Jun 1953
22 2:14:57 Tommy Persson SWE 23 Dec 1954
23 2:14:58 Bruno Lafranchi SUI 19 Jul 1955
24 2:15:43 David Edge CAN 11 Nov 1954
25 2:15:50 Yuriy Pleshkov RUS 16 Oct 1954
26 2:16:02 Oyvind Dahl NOR 12 May 1951
27 2:16:06 Paul Ballinger NZL 25 Mar 1953
28 2:16:55 Jürgen Eberding GER 03 Dec 1955
29 2:16:59 Gerard Nijboer NED 18 Aug 1955
30 2:17:11 Frederik Vandervennet BEL 18 Dec 1952
31 2:17:31 Trevor Wright NZL 23 Sep 1946
32 2:17:56 Mehmet Terzi TUR 05 May 1955
33 2:18:27 Delfim Moreira POR 11 Dec 1955
34 2:18:51 Jong-Hyong Lee PRK 03 Nov 1956
35 2:18:56 Yoshihiro Nishimura JPN 24 May 1957
36 2:19:21 Cidalio Caetano POR 22 Jan 1952
37 2:19:44 Johan Skovbjerg DEN 22 Jan 1956
38 2:20:25 Jeffrey Coole AUS 25 Jan 1953
39 2:20:38 Benji Durden USA 28 Aug 1951
40 2:20:43 Chang-Sik So PRK 15 Jun 1959
42 2:21:37 Hideki Kita JPN 28 Sep 1952
44 2:21:56 Henrik Sandström FIN 28 Apr 1952
45 2:22:07 Rudi Verriet NED 29 Dec 1956
46 2:23:25 Dominique Chauvelier FRA 03 Aug 1956
47 2:24:04 Djama Robleh DJI 1958
48 2:25:02 Gerard Helme ENG 28 Mar 1957
49 2:26:42 Samuel Hlawe SWZ 21 Jul 1951
50 2:27:05 Jan-Ivar Westlund SWE 01 Nov 1953
51 2:27:30 Carlos Carvahal CHI 19 Nov 1954
52 2:27:37 Don Greig NZL 23 Oct 1956
53 2:28:30 Luis Tipan ECU 08 Feb 1954
55 2:30:58 Jan Fjaerestad NOR 28 Feb 1954
56 2:31:31 Carlos Tavares daSilva POR 03 Aug 1953
59 2:34:00 Chang-ming Chen TPE 02 Dec 1955
DNF DNF Ed Mendoza USA 04 Dec 1952
DNF DNF Ahmed Saleh Houssein DJI 1956
DNF DNF Martti Kiilholma FIN 03 Jun 1950
DNF DNF Michael Gratton ENG 28 Nov 1954
DNF DNF Gianpaolo Messina ITA 10 Sep 1957
DNF DNF Santiago delaParte delasCuevas ESP 18 Aug 1948
DNF DNF Gerhard Hartmann AUT 12 Jan 1955
DNF DNF Yair Karni ISR 27 May 1951
DNF DNF Koshiro Kawaguchi JPN 15 Aug 1953
DNF DNF Louis Kenny IRL 08 Nov 1956
DNF DNF Alfredo Maravilla ARG 22 May 1957
DNF DNF Dereje Nedi ETH 10 Oct 1955
DNF DNF Peter Quance CAN 07 Mar 1955
DNF DNF Ralf Salzmann GER 06 Feb 1955
DNF DNF Carlos Victorino MEX 14 Feb 1958
DNF DNF Antonio Villanueva MEX 25 Jul 1940
DNF DNF Grenville Wood AUS 03 Feb 1955
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