1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump

These are the official results of the Women's Long Jump event at the 1983 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total number of 34 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday 14 August 1983. The qualification mark was set at 6.40 metres.

Medalists

Gold	Heike Daute-Drechsler East Germany (GDR)
Silver	Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu Romania (ROU)
Bronze	Carol Lewis United States (USA)

Schedule

• All times are Eastern European Time (UTC+2)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
13.08.1983 – ??:??h	13.08.1983 – ??:??h
Final Round
14.08.1983 – ??:??h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
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	Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu (ROU)	7.43 m	June 4, 1983	Bucharest, Romania
Event Record	New event

Qualifying round

• Held on Saturday 1983-08-13

RANK	GROUP A	LENGTH
1.	Carol Lewis (USA)	6.78 m
2.	Heike Daute-Drechsler (GDR)	6.65 m
3.	Robyn Lorraway (AUS)	6.65 m
4.	Tatyana Proskuryakova (URS)	6.63 m
5.	Vali Ionescu-Constantin (ROU)	6.44 m
6.	Jarmila Nygrýnová-Strejčková (TCH)	6.40 m
7.	Shonel Ferguson (BAH)	6.29 m
8.	Lena Wallin (SWE)	6.19 m
9.	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia (BRA)	6.15 m
10.	Heidi Benserud (NOR)	5.92 m
11.	Jacinta Bartholomew (GRN)	5.77 m
12.	Marie-Ange Wirtz (SEY)	5.20 m
13.	Kim Mom (CAM)	4.90 m
—	Sabine Everts (FRG)	NM
—	Arja Jussila (FIN)	NM
—	Nicole Tombezogo (CAF)	NM
—	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	DNS

RANK	GROUP B	LENGTH
1.	Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu (ROU)	6.76 m
2.	Zsuzsa Vanyek (HUN)	6.60 m
3.	Eva Murková (TCH)	6.57 m
4.	Helga Radtke (GDR)	6.53 m
5.	Jennifer Innis (GUY)	6.45 m
6.	Beverly Kinch (GBR)	6.43 m
7.	Gwen Loud (USA)	6.37 m
8.	Madeline de Jesús (PUR)	6.12 m
9.	Halcyon McKnight (JAM)	6.03 m
10.	Huang Donghuo (CHN)	5.90 m
11.	Rose Phillips-King (IVB)	5.40 m
12.	Traore Mariam (UPV)	4.90 m
—	Mercy Mathews-Kuttan (IND)	NM
—	Christina Sussiek (FRG)	NM
—	Karen Nelson (CAN)	DNS
—	Glynis Nunn-Cearns (AUS)	DNS
—	Svetlana Zorina (URS)	DNS

Final

RANK	FINAL	LENGTH
	Heike Daute-Drechsler (GDR)	7.27 m
	Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu (ROU)	7.15 m
	Carol Lewis (USA)	7.04 m
4.	Tatyana Proskuryakova (URS)	7.02 m
5.	Beverly Kinch (GBR)	6.93 m
6.	Zsuzsa Vanyek (HUN)	6.81 m
7.	Eva Murková (TCH)	6.80 m
8.	Robyn Lorraway (AUS)	6.65 m
9.	Vali Ionescu-Constantin (ROU)	6.62 m
10.	Jarmila Nygrýnová-Strejčková (TCH)	6.56 m
11.	Jennifer Innis (GUY)	6.54 m
12.	Helga Radtke (GDR)	6.44 m

References

• Results (Archived 2009-09-09)