1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

These are the official results of the Men's 20 kilometres race walk event at the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. The race was held on 7 August 1983.

Medalists

Gold	Ernesto Canto Mexico (MEX)
Silver	Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Bronze	Yevgeniy Yevsyukov Soviet Union (URS)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1983 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Domingo Colin (MEX)	1:19.35	April 27, 1980	Cherkasy, Soviet Union
Event Record	New event
Broken records during the 1983 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	1:20.49	August 7, 1983	Helsinki, Finland

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Time	Note
	Ernesto Canto (MEX)	1:20:49
	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	1:20:59
	Yevgeniy Yevsyukov (URS)	1:21:08
4	Josep Marín (ESP)	1:21:21
5	Gérard Lelièvre (FRA)	1:21:37	NR
6	Pavol Blažek (TCH)	1:21:54
7	Maurizio Damilano (ITA)	1:21:57
8	Guillaume LeBlanc (CAN)	1:22:04	NR
9	Raúl González (MEX)	1:22:06
10	Roland Wieser (GDR)	1:22:14
11	Anatoliy Gorshkov (URS)	1:22:34
12	Reima Salonen (FIN)	1:22:51
13	Pyotr Pochenchuk (URS)	1:24:55
14	Ralf Kowalsky (GDR)	1:25:13
15	Dave Smith (AUS)	1:25:23
16	Enrique Vera (MEX)	1:25:27
17	Alik Basriev (BUL)	1:25:49
18	Carlo Mattioli (ITA)	1:25:53
19	Jim Heiring (USA)	1:25:55
20	Marcel Jobin (CAN)	1:26:13
21	Erling Andersen (NOR)	1:26:39
22	Michael Bonke (GDR)	1:26:57
23	José Pinto (POR)	1:27:10
24	Alessandro Pezzatini (ITA)	1:27:15
25	Phil Vesty (GBR)	1:27:20
26	Martial Fesselier (FRA)	1:27:39
27	Roman Mrázek (TCH)	1:27:46
28	Jordi Llopart (ESP)	1:27:49
29	Simon Baker (AUS)	1:28:09
30	Willi Sawall (AUS)	1:28:16
31	Per Rasmussen (SWE)	1:28:51
32	Matti Katila (FIN)	1:29:14
33	Lars Ove Moen (NOR)	1:29:16
34	Francisco Botonero (ESP)	1:29:42
35	Abdelwahab Ferguene (ALG)	1:29:53
36	Tim Lewis (USA)	1:30:10
37	Roger Mills (GBR)	1:30:25
38	Shemsu Hassan (ETH)	1:30:36
39	Kevin Taylor (NZL)	1:30:38
40	Li Guangxing (CHN)	1:31:02
41	Ian McCombie (GBR)	1:31:14
42	Ram Chand (IND)	1:31:32
43	Jiang Shaohong (CHN)	1:31:43
44	Petri Makela (FIN)	1:32:21
45	Benamar Kachkouche (ALG)	1:32:33
46	Takehiro Sonohara (JPN)	1:33:45
47	Sergio Gutierrez (CRC)	1:33:59
48	Joseph Martens (BEL)	1:34:39
49	Santiago Fonseca (HON)	1:35:07
50	Shane Donelly (NZL)	1:35:21
51	Osvaldo Morejon (BOL)	1:36:37
52	Per Nielsen (DEN)	1:38:52
53	Stefano Casali (SMR)	1:39:41
54	Nadarajan Rengasamy (SIN)	1:51:35
55	Uaongo Areai (COK)	2:05:13
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Marco Evoniuk (USA)	DNF
—	François Lapointe (CAN)	DNF
—	Keith Olsthoom (NZL)	DNF
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
—	Bo Gustafsson (SWE)	DSQ
—	Burhan Vurgun (TUR)	DSQ
DID NOT START (DNS)
—	Jan Staaf (SWE)	DNS
—	Zhang Fuxin (CHN)	DNS

See also

• 1978 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Prague)
• 1980 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Moscow)
• 1982 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Athens)
• 1983 Race Walking Year Ranking
• 1984 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Seoul)

References

• Results
• Leichtathletik-Statistiek-Seite