1983 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

1983 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	11th
Date	September 24–25
Host city	Bergen, Vestlandet, Norway
Nations participating	18
Athletes participating	169
Races	3
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The 1983 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held on 24 and 25 September 1983 in the streets of Bergen, Norway. The event was also known as IAAF Race Walking World Cup.

Complete results were published.^[1]

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
Men's 20 km walk	Jozef Pribilinec  Czechoslovakia	1:19:30	Ernesto Canto  Mexico	1:19:41	Anatoliy Solomin  Soviet Union	1:19:43
Men's 50 km walk	Raúl González  Mexico	3:45:37	Sergey Yung  Soviet Union	3:48:46	Viktor Dorovskikh  Soviet Union	3:49:47
Lugano Cup (Men)
Team (Men)	Soviet Union	231 pts	Italy	189 pts	Mexico	146 pts
Women
Women's 10 km walk	Xu Yongjiu  China	45:14	Natalya Sharipova  Soviet Union	45:26	Susan Cook  Australia	45:27
Eschborn Cup (Women)
Team (Women)	China	132 pts	Soviet Union	130 pts	Australia	124 pts

Results

Men's 20 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Jozef Pribilinec  TCH	1:19:30
02 !	Ernesto Canto  MEX	1:19:41
03 !	Anatoliy Solomin  URS	1:19:43
4	Maurizio Damilano  ITA	1:20:10
5	Yevgeniy Yevsyukov  URS	1:20:30
6	Marcelino Colín  MEX	1:20:40
7	Carlo Mattioli  ITA	1:21:11
8	Anatoliy Gorshkov  URS	1:21:26
9	Pavol Blažek  TCH	1:21:37
10	Sergey Protschin  URS	1:22:03
11	Guillaume LeBlanc  CAN	1:24:17
12	Giorgio Damilano  ITA	1:24:27
13	Stanisław Rola  POL	1:24:39
14	Simon Baker  AUS	1:24:43
15	Erling Andersen  NOR	1:24:50
16	Jim Heiring  USA	1:24:51
17	Zhang Fuxin  CHN	1:25:23
18	Andrew Jachno  AUS	1:25:51
19	Martial Fesselier  FRA	1:26:01
20	Roman Mrázek  TCH	1:26:16
21	Philip Vesty  GBR	1:26:20
22	Alessandro Pezzatini  ITA	1:26:22
23	Jiang Shaohong  CHN	1:27:22
24	Todd Scully  USA	1:27:29
25	Zhang Yanlong  CHN	1:27:35
26	Francisco Botonero  ESP	1:27:48
27	Robert Mildenberger  FRG	1:27:50
28	Guang Xinli  CHN	1:28:09
29	Ivo Pták  TCH	1:28:12
30	Michael Woods  AUS	1:28:18
31	José Marín  ESP	1:28:24
32	Ian McCombie  GBR	1:28:28
33	Roger Mills  GBR	1:28:33
34	Tim Lewis  USA	1:28:57
35	Wolfgang Wiedemann  FRG	1:29:23
36	Jaroslaw Kazmierski  POL	1:29:33
37	Zdzisław Szlapkin  POL	1:29:56
38	Felix Gómez  MEX	1:30:11
39	Sam Schick  USA	1:30:26
40	Allan King  GBR	1:30:30
41	Andrés Marin  ESP	1:30:45
42	Helmut Boeck  CAN	1:31:45
43	Jean-Marie Neff  FRA	1:31:48
44	Zbigniew Wiśniowski  POL	1:32:00
45	Dominique Guebey  FRA	1:33:05
46	Alfons Schwarz  FRG	1:33:19
47	Jan Rolstad  NOR	1:35:25
48	Tor-Ivar Guttulsrød  NOR	1:35:32
49	Daniel Levesque  CAN	1:36:17
50	Luis Maroto  ESP	1:38:59
—	Dave Smith  AUS	DQ
—	Franz-Josef Weber  FRG	DQ
—	Enrique Vera  MEX	DQ
—	Lars Ove Moen  NOR	DQ

Men's 50 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Raúl González  MEX	3:45:37
02 !	Sergey Yung  URS	3:48:46
03 !	Viktor Dorovskikh  URS	3:49:47
4	Jorge Llopart  ESP	3:52:57
5	Gérard Lelièvre  FRA	3:54:55
6	Sergey Zimbaljuk  URS	3:56:56
7	Paolo Grecucci  ITA	3:57:14
8	Ivan Tichonov  URS	3:58:14
9	Chris Maddocks  GBR	4:02:28
10	Manuel Alcalde  ESP	4:04:50
11	Jan Klos  POL	4:05:25
12	Jean-Claude Corré  FRA	4:05:32
13	Lars Ove Moen  NOR	4:06:02
14	Karl Degener  FRG	4:06:46
15	Paolo Ghedina  ITA	4:07:14
16	Dennis Jackson  GBR	4:07:58
17	Jürgen Meyer  FRG	4:09:12
18	Daniel O'Connor  USA	4:09:50
19	Denis Terraz  FRA	4:09:57
20	Heinrich Schubert  FRG	4:11:20
21	Adam Urbanowski  POL	4:11:37
22	Barry Graham  GBR	4:12:18
23	Tom Edwards  USA	4:13:30
24	Samuel Ginés  ESP	4:14:59
25	Tim Erickson  AUS	4:15:13
26	Grzegorz Ledzion  POL	4:16:37
27	Giacomo Poggi  ITA	4:16:46
28	Arturo Bravo  MEX	4:18:03
29	Dai Mingxi  CHN	4:18:17
30	Paul Blagg  GBR	4:19:17
31	Štefan Rebo  TCH	4:23:27
32	Luboš Mackanic  TCH	4:25:53
33	Qian Ku  CHN	4:26:05
34	Jean-Pierre Saint-Martin  FRA	4:26:20
35	Stanisław Korneluk  POL	4:29:55
36	Wayne Glusker  USA	4:31:41
37	Miroslav Svoboda  TCH	4:32:37
38	Ragner Hofnes  NOR	4:33:40
39	Duncan Knox  AUS	4:35:13
—	Bill Dyer  AUS	DQ
—	Martin Archambault  CAN	DQ
—	Qiu Shiyong  CHN	DQ
—	Wang Chuntang  CHN	DQ
—	Walter Schwoche  FRG	DQ
—	Sandro Bellucci  ITA	DQ
—	Pedro Aroche  MEX	DQ
—	Martín Bermúdez  MEX	DQ
—	Marco Evoniuk  USA	DQ
—	Michael Harvey  AUS	DNF
—	François Lapointe  CAN	DNF
—	Erling Andersen  NOR	DNF
—	Kåre Sandvik  NOR	DNF
—	Pavel Szikora  TCH	DNF

Team (Men)

Place	Country	Points
01 !	Soviet Union	231 pts
02 !	Italy	189 pts
03 !	Mexico	146 pts
4	Czechoslovakia	138 pts
5	United Kingdom	137 pts
6	Spain	135 pts
7	France	131 pts
8	Poland	126 pts
9	United States	120 pts
10	West Germany	116 pts
11	Australia	100 pts
12	China	96 pts
13	Norway	74 pts
14	Canada	41 pts
—	East Germany	DNS

Women's 10 km

Place	Athlete	Time
01 !	Xu Yongjiu  CHN	45:14
02 !	Natalya Sharipova  URS	45:26
03 !	Susan Cook  AUS	45:27
4	Sally Pierson  AUS	45:40
5	Siv Gustavsson  SWE	46:21
6	Guan Ping  CHN	46:29
7	Lyudmila Khrustyeva  URS	46:39
8	Vera Osipova  URS	46:49
9	Yu Heping  CHN	46:59
10	Ann Peel  CAN	47:02
11	Eva Karlsson  SWE	47:10
12	Rosa Underova  URS	47:16
13	Fröydis Hilsen  NOR	47:37
14	Ann Jansson  SWE	47:42
15	Rachel Thompson  AUS	47:51
16	Maryanne Torellas  USA	47:53
17	Suzanne Griesbach  FRA	47:57
18	Giuliana Salce  ITA	48:58
19	Irene Bateman  GBR	49:00
20	Ann Ryan  AUS	49:05
21	Sam Miller  USA	49:20
22	Maria Grazia Cogoli  ITA	49:25
23	Mia Kjølberg  NOR	49:32
24	Antonella Marangoni  ITA	49:43
25	Jill Barrett  GBR	49:47
26	Ginney Lovell/Birch  GBR	49:52
27	Teresa Palacios  ESP	50:02
28	Gunhild Kristiansen  DEN	50:18
29	Mari Cruz Díaz  ESP	50:19
30	Line Viken  NOR	50:24
31	Jeanine Gosselin  FRA	50:24
32	Monica Gunnarsson  SWE	50:32
33	Torunn Syvertsen  NOR	50:42
34	Monique Boueroux  FRA	51:09
35	Kazimiera Mróz-Mosio  POL	51:10
36	Vivianne Humbert  FRA	51:15
37	Ingrid Adam  FRG	51:45
38	Margot Vetterli   SUI	51:47
39	Micheline Daneau  CAN	51:52
40	Beata Bączyk  POL	51:52
41	Susan Liers-Westerfield  USA	51:54
42	Brenda Lupton  GBR	51:54
43	Kataryzna Figurowska  POL	52:05
44	Yolanda Fernández  ESP	52:06
45	Karin Jensen  DEN	52:18
46	Pier Carola Pagani  ITA	52:20
47	Lucyna Rokitowska  POL	52:36
48	Helena Åström  FIN	52:41
49	Brigitte Buck  FRG	52:48
50	Renate Bauch  FRG	53:25
51	Debbi Lawrence  USA	53:49
52	Sari Essayah  FIN	53:54
53	Nancy Sweazey  CAN	53:56
54	Edith Sappl   SUI	54:27
55	Lene Cassidy  DEN	54:32
56	Ulla Kristiansen  DEN	54:40
57	Begoña Miranda  ESP	54:56
58	Monica Robertson  FIN	55:44
59	Sirpa Kniivilä  FIN	56:09
60	Corinne Aviolat   SUI	58:04
61	Jutta Schwoche  FRG	58:32
62	Suzi Darballey   SUI	61:51
—	Joni Bender  CAN	DQ
—	Yan Hong  CHN	DQ

Team (Women)

Place	Country	Points
01 !	China	132 pts
02 !	Soviet Union	130 pts
03 !	Australia	126 pts
4	Sweden	118 pts
5	Italy	88 pts
6	Norway	86 pts
7	United Kingdom	82 pts
8	United States	77 pts
9	France	72 pts
10	Canada	59 pts
11	Spain	57 pts
12	Poland	44 pts
13	Denmark	36 pts
14	West Germany	32 pts
15	Switzerland	21 pts
16	Finland	17 pts

Participation

The participation of 169 athletes (105 men/64 women) from 18 countries is reported.^[1]

Qualifying Rounds

From 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds for the men's competition with the first two winners proceeding to the final. This year, the German Democratic Republic, Italy, the Soviet Union, México, Norway, the United States, Australia, China, and Canada proceeded directly to the final.

Zone 1 London, United Kingdom, June 11 Rank Nation Points 1  United Kingdom 41 pts 2  Spain 39 pts 3  Finland 38 pts 4  Sweden 37 pts

Zone 2 Bar-le-Duc, France, June 18/19 Rank Nation Points 1  France 78 pts 2  West Germany 69 pts 3  Belgium 27 pts 4   Switzerland 15 pts 5  Luxembourg 8 pts

Zone 3 Trnava, Czechoslovakia, June 18 Rank Nation Points 1  Czechoslovakia 55 pts 2  Poland 48 pts 3  Hungary 43 pts 4  Austria 6 pts

See also

• 1983 Race Walking Year Ranking

References

External links

• IAAF World Race Walking Cup 1961-2006 Facts & Figures - IAAF.org