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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 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

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

Intermediates※

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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	Chand Ram (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※

• 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)
• 1984 Men's Friendship Games 20km Walk (Moscow)
• 1986 Men's European Championships 20km Walk (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Men's Olympic 20km Walk (Seoul)

References※

• Results
• Leichtathletik-Statistiek-Seite