The 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 13 and August 14.
Medals Gold: Silver: Bronze:Sergey LovachovAleksandr TroshchiloNikolay ChernetskiyViktor MarkinErwin SkamrahlJörg VaihingerHarald SchmidHartmut WeberAinsley BennettGarry CookTodd BennettPhilip Brown
Records Existing records at the start of the event. World Record2:56.16Mexico City, MexicoOctober 20, 1968Championship RecordNew event
Results
Heats All times shown are in minutes.
Heat 1 (Alonzo Babers, Willie Smith, Andre Phillips, Michael Franks) 3:06.62 Q (Martin Weppler, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Hartmut Weber) 3:07.50 Q (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:07.90 Q (Antônio Dias Ferreira, Agberto Guimarães, José Luíz Barbosa, Gerson A. Souza) 3:08.25 Q (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Sven Nylander, Per-Erik Olsson) 3:08.33 q (Mark Guthrie, Douglas Hinds, Tim Bethune, Brian Saunders) 3:08.37 q (Steve Griffiths, George Walcott, Devon Morris, Karl Smith) 3:09.06 (Jari Niemelä, Mauri Siekkinen, Matti Rusanen, Hannu Mykrä) 3:09.23
Heat 2 (Gusztáv Menczer, Sándor Újhelyi, István Takács, Sándor Vasvári) 3:09.95 Q (Viktor Markin, Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy) 3:10.16 Q (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:10.19 Q (Amadou Dia Ba, Moussa Fall, Babacar Niang, Boubacar Diallo) 3:10.90 Q (Bruce Frayne, Gary Minihan, Paul Gilbert, Darren Clark) 3:11.62 DNS DNS
Heat 3 (Jacques Fellice, Yann Quentrec, Hector Llatser, Aldo Canti) 3:06.99 Q (Miroslav Zahořák, Petr Břečka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:07.03 Q (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) 3:07.18 Q (Kazunori Asaba, Tomoharu Isobe, Hirofumi Koike, Susumu Takano) 3:07.23 Q (Juan José Prado, Antonio Sánchez, Carlos Azulay, Angel Heras) 3:07.42 q (Elijah Bitok, John Anzrah, James Atuti, Juma Ndiwa) 3:07.48 q (Georges Kablan Degnan, Rene Djedjemel Meledje, Avognan Nogboum, Gabriel Tiacoh) 3:09.23 (John Goville, Mike Okot, Charles Mbazira, Moses Kyeswa) DQ
Semi-finals
Heat 1 (Alonzo Babers, Sunder Nix, Willie Smith, Edwin Moses) 3:02.13 Q (Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Edgar Nakladal, Harald Schmid) 3:04.96 Q (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) 3:05.51 Q (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:05.70 Q (Brian Saunders, Douglas Hinds, Ian Newhouse, Tim Bethune) 3:06.42 (Tomoharu Isobe, Kazunori Asaba, Hirofumi Koike, Susumu Takano) 3:07.11 (Moussa Fall, Babacar Niang, Mathurin Barry, Amadou Dia Ba) 3:09.63 (Gusztáv Menczer, Sándor Újhelyi, István Takács, Sándor Vasvári) 3:11.08
Heat 2 (Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin) 3:03.75 Q (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:04.03 Q (Miroslav Zahořák, Petr Břečka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:04.32 Q (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Sven Nylander, Per-Erik Olsson) 3:04.32 Q (Antônio Dias Ferreira, Agberto Guimarães, José Luíz Barbosa, Gerson A. Souza) 3:04.46 (AR) (Jacques Fellice, Yann Quentrec, Hector Llatser, Aldo Canti) 3:05.09 (David Kitur, John Anzrah, James Atuti, James Maina Boi) 3:05.30 (Juan José Prado, Antonio Sánchez, Carlos Azulay, Angel Heras) 3:09.68
Final (Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin) 3:00.79 (Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Hartmut Weber) 3:01.83 (Ainsley Bennett, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:03.53 (Miroslav Zahořák, Petr Břečka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:03.90 (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:05.10 (Alonzo Babers, Sunder Nix, Willie Smith, Edwin Moses) 3:05.29 (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Per-Erik Olsson, Ulf Sedlacek) 3:08.57 (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) DNF
References IAAF results, heats IAAF results, semi-finals IAAF results, final