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1981 in the sport of athletics
Overview of the events of 1981 in the sport of athletics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article contains an overview of the year 1981 in athletics.
International events
Men's Best Year Performers
100 metres
200 metres
400 metres
800 metres
1,500 metres
Mile
3,000 metres
5,000 metres
10,000 metres
Half Marathon
Marathon
110m Hurdles
400m Hurdles
3,000m Steeplechase
High Jump
Long Jump
Triple Jump
Discus
Hammer
Shot Put
Pole Vault
Javelin (old design)
Decathlon
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Women's Best Year Performers
100 metres
200 metres
400 metres
800 metres
1,500 metres
Mile
3,000 metres
5,000 metres
10,000 metres
Marathon
100m Hurdles
400m Hurdles
High Jump
Long Jump
Discus
Shot Put
Javelin (old design)
Heptathlon
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Births
January
- January 8 – Mesías Zapata, Ecuadorian race walker
- January 14 – Hyleas Fountain, American heptathlete
- January 18 – Naoyuki Daigo, Japanese high jumper
- January 24 – Jong Yong-Ok, North Korean long-distance runner
- January 27 – Fabrizio Schembri, Italian triple jumper
- January 29 – Rose Richmond, American long jumper
February
- February 12 – Amarilys Alméstica, Puerto Rican hammer thrower
- February 13 – Rosibel García, Colombian middle-distance runner
- February 15 – Rita Jeptoo, Kenyan marathon runner
- February 16 – Jessé de Lima, Brazilian high jumper
- February 17 – Shi Na, Chinese race walker
- February 19 – Shellene Williams, Jamaican sprinter
- February 25 – Marek Plawgo, Polish athlete
March
- March 11 – Yelena Konevtseva, Russian hammer thrower
- March 13 – Stefan Wenk, German javelin thrower
- March 22 – Aliaksandr Parkhomenka, Belarusian decathlete
- March 28 – Yuniel Hernández, Cuban hurdler
April
- April 13 – Moushaumi Robinson, American sprinter
- April 19 – Kazuhiro Maeda, Japanese long-distance runner
May
- May 6 – Rui Pedro Silva, Portuguese distance runner
- May 15 – Merja Korpela, Finnish hammer thrower
- May 20 – Jana Tucholke, German discus thrower
- May 21 – Anna Rogowska, Polish pole vaulter
- May 28 – Kamil Kalka, Polish race walker
- May 31 – Eileen O'Keefe, Irish hammer thrower
July
- July 9 – Rutger Smith, Dutch discus thrower and shot putter
- July 13 – Ineta Radēviča, Latvian long and triple jumper
- July 24 – Carys Parry, Welsh hammer thrower
- July 30 – Daria Onyśko, Polish sprinter
August
- August 15 – Yoshiko Fujinaga, Japanese long-distance runner
- August 30 – Aleksandr Vashchyla, Belarusian hammer thrower
September
- September 6 – Brandon Simpson, Jamaican athlete
- September 7 – Eyerusalem Kuma, Ethiopian distance runner
- September 12 – Greg Nixon, American sprinter
- September 15 – Tomas Intas, Lithuanian javelin thrower
October
- October 3 – Anna Omarova, Russian shot putter
- October 18 – Ji Young-Jun, South Korean long-distance runner
November
- November 8 – Jéssica Augusto, Portuguese long-distance runner
- November 18 – Kimberly Barrett, Jamaica-Puerto Rican shot putter
- November 21 – Werknesh Kidane, Ethiopian long-distance runner
December
- December 8 – Gabriel Ortiz, Mexican race walker
- December 22 – Marina Kuptsova, Russian high jumper
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Deaths
- April 25 – Paul Bontemps (76), French long-distance runner (b. 1902)
- August 2 – Delfo Cabrera (62), Argentine long-distance runner (b. 1919)
References
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