1983_IAAF_World_Cross_Country_Championships
1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
International athletics championship event
The 1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Gateshead, England, at the Riverside Park on March 20, 1983. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald[1] and in the Evening Times.[2]
Quick Facts Organisers, Edition ...
| 1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships | |
|---|---|
| Organisers | IAAF |
| Edition | 11th |
| Date | March 20 |
| Host city | Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England  |
| Venue | Riverside Park |
| Events | 3 |
| Distances | 11.994 km – Senior men 8.033 km – Junior men 4.072 km – Senior women |
| Participation | 431 athletes from 35 nations |
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Complete results for men,[3] junior men,[4] women,[5] medallists, [6] and the results of British athletes[7] were published.
More information Event, Gold ...
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual | ||||||
| Senior men (11.994 km) |
Bekele Debele Ethiopia | 36:52 | Carlos Lopes Portugal | 36:52 | Some Muge Kenya | 36:52 |
| Junior men (8.033 km) |
Fesseha Abebe Ethiopia | 24:58 | Angaso Telega Ethiopia | 24:59 | Jonathan Richards England | 25:07 |
| Senior women (4.072 km) |
Grete Waitz Norway | 13:29 | Alison Wiley Canada | 13:37 | Tatyana Pozdnyakova Soviet Union | 13:37 |
| Team | ||||||
| Senior men | Ethiopia | 104 |  United States | 170 | Kenya | 191 |
| Junior men | Ethiopia | 13 |  Spain | 41 | England | 58 |
| Senior women | United States | 31 | Soviet Union | 41 | Canada | 53 |
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Senior men's race (11.994 km)
More information Rank, Athlete ...
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bekele Debele | Ethiopia | 36:52 |
 | Carlos Lopes | Portugal | 36:52 |
 | Some Muge | Kenya | 36:52 |
| 4 | Alberto Salazar | United States | 36:53 |
| 5 | Antonio Prieto | Spain | 36:56 |
| 6 | Rob de Castella |  Australia | 37:00 |
| 7 | Dave Clarke | England | 37:05 |
| 8 | Ezequiel Canario | Portugal | 37:10 |
| 9 | Pat Porter | United States | 37:12 |
| 10 | Alberto Cova |  Italy | 37:17 |
| 11 | Nat Muir |  Scotland | 37:24 |
| 12 | Mehmet Yürdadön |  Turkey | 37:24 |
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More information Rank, Team ...
| Rank | Team | Points | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia
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104 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States
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170 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kenya
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191 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Australia | 193 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Spain | 206 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Portugal | 302 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Italy | 306 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | England | 318 | ||||||||||||||||||
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- Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Junior men's race (8.033 km)
More information Rank, Athlete ...
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fesseha Abebe | Ethiopia | 24:58 |
| Angaso Telega | Ethiopia | 24:59 |
| Jonathan Richards | England | 25:07 |
| 4 | Gonfa Negere | Ethiopia | 25:22 |
| 5 | José Manuel Albentosa | Spain | 25:35 |
| 6 | Teka Mekonnen | Ethiopia | 25:40 |
| 7 | Cyrille Laventure |  France | 25:51 |
| 8 | Marc Olesen | Canada | 25:53 |
| 9 | Asfaw Tadesse | Ethiopia | 25:57 |
| 10 | Richard Carter | England | 26:06 |
| 11 | José Manuel García | Spain | 26:10 |
| 12 | Antonio Pérez | Spain | 26:15 |
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More information Rank, Team ...
| Rank | Team | Points | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia
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13 | ||||||||||||
| Spain
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41 | ||||||||||||
| England
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58 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Canada | 107 | ||||||||||||
| 5 |  Tunisia | 139 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | United States | 145 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Portugal | 151 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Italy | 166 | ||||||||||||
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- Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
Senior women's race (4.072 km)
More information Rank, Athlete ...
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grete Waitz | Norway | 13:29 |
| Alison Wiley | Canada | 13:37 |
| Tatyana Pozdnyakova | Soviet Union | 13:37 |
| 4 | Joan Benoit | United States | 13:57 |
| 5 | Betty Springs | United States | 14:00 |
| 6 | Svetlana Ulmasova | Soviet Union | 14:01 |
| 7 | Francine Peeters |  Belgium | 14:03 |
| 8 | Fiţa Lovin |  Romania | 14:04 |
| 9 | Margaret Groos | United States | 14:04 |
| 10 | Aurora Cunha | Portugal | 14:06 |
| 11 | Alla Yushina | Soviet Union | 14:08 |
| 12 | Nancy Rooks | Canada | 14:09 |
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More information Rank, Team ...
| Rank | Team | Points | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States
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31 | ||||||||||||
| Soviet Union
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41 | ||||||||||||
| Canada
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53 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | England | 94 | ||||||||||||
| 5 |  Romania | 98 | ||||||||||||
| 6 |  New Zealand | 122 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Portugal | 122 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Norway | 149 | ||||||||||||
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- Note: Athletes in parentheses did not score for the team result
More information Rank, Nation ...
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ethiopia (ETH) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 2 |  United States (USA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Norway (NOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Soviet Union (URS) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6 | Portugal (POR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 8 | Kenya (KEN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (8 entries) | 6 | 6 | 4 | 16 | |
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- Note: Totals include both individual and team medals, with medals in the team competition counting as one medal.
An unofficial count yields the participation of 431 athletes from 35 countries, one senior man athlete less than the official number published.[7]
Algeria (13)
Australia (14)
Belgium (18)
Canada (20)
China (6)
Chinese Taipei (2)
Comoros (1)
Denmark (8)
Djibouti (3)
England (20)
Ethiopia (15)
France (21)
Ireland (20)
Israel (4)
Italy (17)
Kenya (9)
Kuwait (5)
Morocco (6)
Netherlands (14)
New Zealand (15)
Northern Ireland (20)
Norway (11)
Palestine (1)
Portugal (21)
Romania (5)
Scotland (21)
Soviet Union (11)
Spain (21)
Sweden (15)
Switzerland (8)
Tunisia (11)
Turkey (6)
United States (21)
Wales (21)
West Germany (7)
- Gillon, Doug (21 March 1933), Men from the mountains clean up - A glimpse into the seemingly bottomless well of talented distance runners in Ethiopia was given at Gateshead yesterday, when the men from the mountains swept the boards in the world cross country championships..., Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved 21 October 2013
- Bekele's bombshell - Seeing 20-year-old Ethiopian soldier Bekele Debele win the world cross-country title by beating such stars as Alberto Salazar, and Carlos Lopes it was almost impossible to believe he took up running seriously only a year ago..., Evening Times, 21 March 1933, p. 12, retrieved 21 October 2013
- Magnusson, Tomas (24 March 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.0km CC Men - Gateshead Riverside Park Date: Sunday, March 20, 1983, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 21 October 2013
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - Magnusson, Tomas (24 March 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 8.0km CC Men - Gateshead Riverside Park Date: Sunday, March 20, 1983, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 21 October 2013
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - Magnusson, Tomas (8 February 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 4.1km CC Women - Gateshead Riverside Park Date: Sunday, March 20, 1983, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 21 October 2013
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved 9 October 2013
- 36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS (PDF), IAAF, p. 2ff, archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013, retrieved 9 October 2013