1984 in athletics (track and field)

This page contains an overview of the year 1984 in athletics (track and field).

International Events

World records

Men

Event Athlete Mark Date Venue
Marathon  Steve Jones (GBR) 2:08:05 October 21 Chicago, United States
4 × 100 m Relay  United States (USA)
Sam Graddy
Ron Brown
Calvin Smith
Carl Lewis
37.83 August 11 Los Angeles
High Jump  Zhu Jianhua (CHN) 2.39m June 10 Eberstadt, West Germany
Hammer  Yuriy Syedikh (URS) 86.34m July 3 Cork, Ireland
Javelin (old)  Uwe Hohn (GDR) 104.80m July 20 Berlin, East Germany
Decathlon  Jürgen Hingsen (FRG) 8832 June 9 Mannheim, West Germany
 Daley Thompson (GBR) 8847 August 9 Los Angeles, United States

Women

EVENT ATHLETE MARK DATE VENUE
100 metres  Evelyn Ashford (USA) 10.76 August 22 Zürich
Mile  Natalya Artyomova (URS) 4:15.8 August 5 Leningrad
3,000 metres  Tatyana Kazankina (URS) 8:22.62 August 26 Leningrad
5,000 metres  Zola Pieterse (RSA) 15:01.83 January 5 Stellenbosch
 Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR) 14:58.89 June 28 Oslo
10,000 metres  Olga Bondarenko (URS) 31:13.78 June 24 Kiev
4 × 400 m Relay  East Germany (GDR)
Gesine Walther
Sabine Busch
Dagmar Neubauer
Marita Koch
3:15.92 June 3 Erfurt
400m Hurdles  Margarita Ponomaryova (URS) 53.58 June 22 Kiev
Half Marathon  Joan Benoit (USA) 1:08:34 September 16 Philadelphia
High Jump  Tamara Bykova (URS) 2.05m June 22 Kiev
 Lyudmila Andonova (BUL) 2.07m July 20 Berlin
Shot Put  Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) 22.53 May 27 Sochi
Heptathlon  Sabine John (GDR) 6946 May 6 Potsdam

Men's Best Year Performers

100 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 100 metres
RANK ATHLETE TIME DATE VENUE
1.  Mel Lattany (USA) 9.96 May 5 Athens, United States
2.  Carl Lewis (USA) 9.99 May 6 Houston, United States
3.  Marian Woronin (POL) 10.00 June 9 Warsaw, Poland
4.  Sam Graddy (USA) 10.09 May 12 Baton Rouge, United States
 Harvey Glance (USA) 10.09 August 22 Zürich, Switzerland

200 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 200 metres
RANK ATHLETE TIME DATE VENUE
1.  Carl Lewis (USA) 19.80 August 8 Los Angeles, United States
2.  Kirk Baptiste (USA) 19.96 August 8 Los Angeles, United States
3.  Albert Robinson (USA) 20.07 May 5 Indianapolis, United States
4  Pietro Mennea (ITA) 20.07 October 3 Brindisi, Italy
5.  Thomas Jefferson (USA) 20.26 August 8 Los Angeles, United States

400 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 400 metres
RANK ATHLETE TIME DATE VENUE
1.  Alonzo Babers (USA) 44.27 August 8 Los Angeles, United States
2.  Gabriel Tiacoh (CIV) 44.54 August 8 Los Angeles, United States
3.  Antonio McKay (USA) 44.71 June 21 Los Angeles, United States
4.  Darren Clark (AUS) 44.75 August 8 Los Angeles, United States
 Sunder Nix (USA) 44.75 August 8 Los Angeles, United States

800 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 800 metres
RANK ATHLETE TIME DATE VENUE
1.  Joaquim Cruz (BRA) 1:41.77 August 26 Köln, West Germany
2.  Sammy Koskei (KEN) 1:42.28 August 26 Köln, West Germany
3.  Johnny Gray (USA) 1:42.96 August 29 Koblenz, West Germany
4.  Agberto Guimarães (BRA) 1:43.63 August 29 Koblenz, West Germany
5.  Sebastian Coe (GBR) 1:43.64 August 6 Los Angeles, United States

1,500 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 1,500 metres
RANK ATHLETE TIME DATE VENUE
1.  Saïd Aouita (MAR) 3:31.54 July 6 Hengelo, Netherlands
2.  Sebastian Coe (GBR) 3:32.39 August 22 Zürich, Switzerland
3.  Steve Cram (GBR) 3:33.13 August 20 Budapest, Hungary
4.  Steve Scott (USA) 3:33.46 August 22 Zürich, Switzerland
5.  Pierre Délèze (SUI) 3:33.64 August 22 Zürich, Switzerland

5,000 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 5,000 metres
RANK ATHLETE TIME DATE VENUE
1.  Saïd Aouita (MAR) 13:04.78 June 13 Florence, Italy
2.  Markus Ryffel (SUI) 13:07.54 August 11 Los Angeles, United States
3.  António Leitão (POR) 13:09.20 August 11 Los Angeles, United States
4.  Wodajo Bulti (ETH) 13:10.08 June 13 Florence, Italy
5.  Tim Hutchings (GBR) 13:11.50 August 11 Los Angeles, United States

10,000 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 10,000 metres
RANK ATHLETE TIME DATE VENUE
1.  Fernando Mamede (POR) 27:13.81 July 2 Stockholm, Sweden
2.  Carlos Lopes (POR) 27:17.48 July 2 Stockholm, Sweden
3.  Hansjörg Kunze (GDR) 27:33.10 May 5 Potsdam, East Germany
4.  Mark Nenow (USA) 27:40.56 July 2 Stockholm, Sweden
5.  Martti Vainio (FIN) 27:41.75 June 13 Florence, Italy

Half Marathon

RANK ATHLETE TIME DATE VENUE
1.  Alberto Cova (ITA) 1:01:52 May 6 Milan, Italy

110m Hurdles

Main race this year: Olympic Games 110m Hurdles
RANK ATHLETE TIME DATE VENUE
1.  Greg Foster (USA) 13.15 August 22 Zürich, Switzerland
2.  Roger Kingdom (USA) 13.16 August 22 Zürich, Switzerland
3.  Tony Campbell (USA) 13.23 May 13 Westwood, United States
4.  Mark McKoy (CAN) 13.27 July 25 Walnut, United States
5.  Arto Bryggare (FIN) 13.35 August 5 Los Angeles, United States

400m Hurdles

Main race this year: Olympic Games 400m Hurdles
RANK ATHLETE TIME DATE VENUE
1.  Edwin Moses (USA) 47.32 August 29 Koblenz, West Germany
2.  Harald Schmid (FRG) 47.69 July 10 Lausanne, Switzerland
3.  Danny Harris (USA) 48.02 June 17 Los Angeles, United States
4.  Tony Rambo (USA) 48.16 June 17 Los Angeles, United States
5.  Tranel Hawkins (USA) 48.28 June 18 Los Angeles, United States

3,000m Steeplechase

Main race this year: Olympic Games 3,000m Steeplechase
RANK ATHLETE TIME DATE VENUE
1.  Joseph Mahmoud (FRA) 8:07.62 August 24 Brussels, Belgium
2.  Bogusław Mamiński (POL) 8:09.18 August 24 Brussels, Belgium
3.  Julius Korir (KEN) 8:11.80 August 10 Los Angeles, United States
4.  Brian Diemer (USA) 8:13.16 August 29 Koblenz, West Germany
5.  Colin Reitz (GBR) 8:13.78 July 21 Oslo, Norway

High Jump

Main competition this year: Olympic Games High Jump
RANK ATHLETE HEIGHT DATE VENUE
1.  Zhu Jianhua (CHN) 2.39 June 10 Eberstadt, West Germany
2.  Carlo Thränhardt (FRG) 2.37 February 24 West Berlin, West Germany
 Valeriy Sereda (URS) September 2 Rieti, Italy
4.  Igor Paklin (URS) 2.36 February 1 Milan, Italy
 Sergey Zasimovich (URS) May 5 Tashkent, Soviet Union
 Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) June 10 Eberstadt, West Germany

Long Jump

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Long Jump
RANK ATHLETE DISTANCE DATE VENUE
1.  Carl Lewis (USA) 8.79 January 27 New York, United States
2.  Larry Myricks (USA) 8.59 September 5 Rhede, United States
3.  Lutz Dombrowski (GDR) 8.50 July 27 Dresden, East Germany
4.  Konstantin Semykin (URS) 8.38 August 17 Moscow, Soviet Union
5.  Jaime Jefferson (CUB) 8.37 August 17 Moscow, Soviet Union

Triple Jump

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Triple Jump
RANK ATHLETE DISTANCE DATE VENUE
1.  Oleg Protsenko (URS) 17.52 June 21 Kiev, Soviet Union
2.  Aleksandr Yakovlyev (URS) 17.50 June 10 Sochi, Soviet Union
 Mike Conley (USA) June 17 Los Angeles, United States
4.  Gennadiy Valyukevich (URS) 17.47 July 19 Moscow, Soviet Union
5.  Lázaro Betancourt (CUB) 17.45 August 26 Cologne, West Germany

Discus

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Discus Throw
RANK ATHLETE DISTANCE DATE VENUE
1.  John Powell (USA) 71.26 June 9 San José, United States
 Ricky Bruch (SWE) November 15 Malmö, Sweden
3.  Art Burns (USA) 70.98 July 21 Eugene, United States
4.  Mac Wilkins (USA) 70.44 June 9 San José, United States
5.  Imrich Bugár (TCH) 70.26 September 8 Cagliari, Italy

Hammer

RANK ATHLETE DISTANCE DATE VENUE
1.  Yuriy Syedikh (URS) 86.34 July 3 Cork City, Ireland
2.  Sergey Litvinov (URS) 85.20 July 3 Cork City, Ireland
3.  Jüri Tamm (URS) 84.40 September 9 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
4.  Igor Nikulin (URS) 82.56 August 17 Moscow, Soviet Union
5.  Juha Tiainen (FIN) 81.52 June 11 Tampere, Finland

Shot Put

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Shot Put
RANK ATHLETE DISTANCE DATE VENUE
1.  Brian Oldfield (USA) 22.19 May 26 San José, United States
2.  Sergey Kasnauskas (URS) 22.09 August 23 Stayki, Soviet Union
3.  Udo Beyer (GDR) 22.04 June 11 Rehlingen, United States
4.  John Brenner (USA) 21.92 June 2 Eugene, United States
5.  Michael Carter (USA) 21.76 June 2 Eugene, United States

Javelin

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Javelin Throw
RANK ATHLETE DISTANCE DATE VENUE
1.  Uwe Hohn (GDR) 104.80 July 20 East Berlin, East Germany
2.  Detlef Michel (GDR) 93.68 June 2 Erfurt, East Germany
3.  Duncan Atwood (USA) 93.44 June 18 Los Angeles, United States
4.  Raimo Manninen (FIN) 93.42 July 1 Pihtipudas, Finland
5.  Einar Vilhjálmsson (ISL) 92.42 April 6 Austin, United States

Pole Vault

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Pole Vault
RANK ATHLETE HEIGHT DATE VENUE
1.  Sergey Bubka (URS) 5.94 August 31 Rome, Italy
2.  Thierry Vigneron (FRA) 5.91 August 31 Rome, Italy
3.  Konstantin Volkov (URS) 5.85 June 22 Kiev, Soviet Union
4.  Mike Tully (USA) 5.82 July 21 Eugene, United States
 Aleksandr Krupskiy (URS) August 20 Budapest, Hungary

Decathlon

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Decathlon
RANK ATHLETE POINTS DATE VENUE
1.  Jürgen Hingsen (FRG) 8798 June 9 Mannheim, West Germany
 Daley Thompson (GBR) August 9 Los Angeles, United States
3.  Uwe Freimuth (GDR) 8704 July 21 Potsdam, East Germany
4.  Grigoriy Degtyaryev (URS) 8652 June 22 Moscow, Soviet Union
5.  Aleksandr Apaychev (URS) 8642 June 3 Neubrandenburg, DDR

Women's Best Year Performers

100 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 100 metres
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.  Evelyn Ashford (USA) 10.76
2.  Marlies Göhr (GDR) 10.84
3.  Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 10.99
4.  Merlene Ottey (JAM) 11.01
5.  Lyudmila Kondratyeva (URS) 11.02

200 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 200 metres
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.  Marita Koch (GDR) 21.71
2.  Marlies Göhr (GDR) 21.74
3.  Valerie Brisco (USA) 21.81
4.  Bärbel Wöckel (GDR) 21.85
5.  Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 22.04

400 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 400 metres
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.  Marita Koch (GDR) 48.16
2.  Tatána Kocembová (TCH) 48.73
3.  Valerie Brisco (USA) 48.83
4.  Olga Bryzgina (URS) 48.98
5.  Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH) 49.02

800 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 800 metres
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.  Irina Podyalovskaya (URS) 1:55.69
2.  Nadezhda Olizarenko (URS) 1:56.09
3.  Lyubov Gurina (URS) 1:56.26
4.  Doina Melinte (ROU) 1:56.53
5.  Lyudmila Borisova (URS) 1:56.78

1,500 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 1,500 metres
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.  Nadezhda Ralldugina (URS) 3:56.63
2.  Yekaterina Podkopayeva (URS) 3:56.65
3.  Maricica Puică (ROU) 3:57.22
4.  Tatyana Pozdnyakova (URS) 3:57.70
5.  Galina Zakharova (URS) 3:57.72

Mile

RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.  Natalya Artyomova (URS) 4:15.8
2.  Ruth Wysocki (USA) 4:21.78
3.  Christina Cahill (GBR) 4:22.64
4.  Mary Slaney (USA) 4:22.92
5.  Christine Benning (GBR) 4:24.57

3,000 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 3,000 metres
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.  Tatyana Kazankina (URS) 8:22.62
2.  Svetlana Guskova (URS) 8:29.59
3.  Tatyana Pozdnyakova (URS) 8:32.0
4.  Maricica Puică (ROU) 8:33.57
5.  Mary Slaney (USA) 8:34.91

5,000 metres

RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.  Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR) 14:58.89
2.  Zola Pieterse (RSA) 15:01.83
3.  Aurora Cunha (POR) 15:09.07
4.  Angela Tooby (GBR) 15:22.50
5.  Brenda Webb (USA) 15:22.76

10,000 metres

RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.  Olga Bondarenko (URS) 31:13.78
2.  Galina Zakharova (URS) 31:15.00
3.  Zhanna Tursunova (URS) 31:53.53
4.  Lyubov Konyukhova (URS) 31:56.01
5.  Anna Domoradskaya (URS) 31:56.02

Half Marathon

RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.  Joan Benoit (USA) 1:08:34

100m Hurdles

Main race this year: Olympic Games 100m Hurdles
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.  Lucyna Kalek (POL) 12.43
2.  Vera Akimova (URS) 12.50
 Yordanka Donkova (BUL)
4.  Bettine Jahn (GDR) 12.53
5.  Sabine John (GDR) 12.54

400m Hurdles

Main race this year: Olympic Games 400m Hurdles
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS TIME
1.  Margarita Ponomaryova (URS) 53.58
2.  Marina Styepanova (URS) 53.67
3.  Yekaterina Grun (URS) 54.34
4.  Tatyana Pavlova (URS) 54.43
5.  Yelena Filipishina (URS) 54.56

High Jump

Main competition this year: Olympic Games High Jump
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS HEIGHT
1.  Lyudmila Andonova (BUL) 2.07
2.  Tamara Bykova (URS) 2.05
3.  Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) 2.02
4.  Sara Simeoni (ITA) 2.00
 Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)

Long Jump

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Long Jump
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.  Heike Drechsler (GDR) 7.40
2.  Galina Chistyakova (URS) 7.29
3.  Anişoara Cuşmir (ROU) 7.27
4.  Helga Radtke (GDR) 7.21
5.  Sabine John (GDR) 7.12

Discus

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Discus Throw
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.  Zdeňka Šilhavá (TCH) 74.56
2.  Irina Meszynski (GDR) 73.36
3.  Galina Savinkova (URS) 73.28
4.  Gisela Beyer (GDR) 73.10
5.  Martina Hellmann (GDR) 72.32

Shot Put

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Shot Put
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.  Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) 22.53
2.  Ilona Slupianek (GDR) 21.85
3.  Helena Fibingerová (TCH) 21.60
4.  Nunu Abashidze (URS) 21.53
5.  Ines Müller (GDR) 21.32

Javelin (old design)

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Javelin Throw
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS DISTANCE
1.  Petra Meier (GDR) 74.72
2.  Tiina Lillak (FIN) 74.24
3.  Anna Verouli (GRE) 72.70
4.  Antje Zöllkau (GDR) 72.16
5.  Fatima Whitbread (GBR) 71.68

Heptathlon

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Heptathlon
RANK 1984 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS POINTS
1.  Sabine John (GDR) 6946
2.  Natalya Shubenkova (URS) 6859
3.  Jane Frederick (USA) 6803
4.  Ramona Neubert (GDR) 6789
5.  Anke Behmer (GDR) 6775

Marathon

Year Rankings

Men

RANK ATHLETE TIME DATE VENUE
1.  Stephen Jones (WAL) 2:08:05 WR October 21 Chicago, United States
2.  Carlos Lopes (POR) 2:09:06 October 21 Chicago, United States
3.  Robert de Castella (AUS) 2:09:09 October 21 Chicago, United States
4.  Jörg Peter (GDR) 2:09:14 July 21 East Berlin, East Germany
5.  Carlos Lopes (POR) 2:09:21 August 12 Los Angeles, United States
6.  Michael Heilmann (GDR) 2:09:30 July 21 East Berlin, East Germany
7.  Ernest Seleke (RSA) 2:09:41 March 31 Port Elizabeth, South Africa
8.  John Treacy (IRL) 2:09:56 August 12 Los Angeles, United States
9.  Charlie Spedding (GBR) 2:09:57 May 13 London, United Kingdom
10.  Charlie Spedding (GBR) 2:09:58 August 12 Los Angeles, United States

Women

RANK ATHLETE TIME DATE VENUE
1.  Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR) 2:24:26 WR May 13 London, United Kingdom
2.  Joan Benoit (USA) 2:24:52 August 5 Los Angeles, United States
3.  Rosa Mota (POR) 2:26:01 October 21 Chicago, United States
4.  Grete Waitz (NOR) 2:26:18 August 5 Los Angeles, United States
5.  Katrin Dörre (GDR) 2:26:52 July 21 East Berlin, East Germany
6.  Rosa Mota (POR) 2:26:57 August 5 Los Angeles, United States
7.  Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR) 2:27:34 August 5 Los Angeles, United States
8.  Lisa Martin (AUS) 2:27:40 October 21 Chicago, United States
9.  Ingrid Kristiansen (NOR) 2:27:51 January 15 Houston, United States
10.  Lorraine Moller (NZL) 2:28:34 August 5 Los Angeles, United States

International Races

DATE MARATHON NATION MEN'S WINNER TIME WOMEN'S WINNER TIME
February 19 Los Angeles Marathon United States United States Tanzania Gidamis Shahanga 2:10:19 Canada Jacqueline Gareau 2:31:57
April 14 Rotterdam Marathon Netherlands Netherlands Tanzania Gidamis Shahanga 2:11:12 Netherlands Carla Beurskens 2:34:56
April 16 Boston Marathon United States United States England Geoff Smith 2:10:34 New Zealand Lorraine Moller 2:29:28
May 12 Amsterdam Marathon Netherlands Netherlands Netherlands Gerard Nijboer 2:14:28 Netherlands Eefje van Wissen 2:43:51
May 12 Paris Marathon France France Djibouti Hussein Ahmed Salah 2:11:58 France Sylviane Geffray 2:38:20
May 13 London Marathon United Kingdom United Kingdom England Charlie Spedding 2:09:57 Norway Ingrid Kristiansen 2:24:26
August 5 Olympic Marathon United States United States United States Joan Benoit 2:24:52
August 12 Olympic Marathon United States United States Portugal Carlos Lopes 2:09:58
September 30 Berlin Marathon West Germany West Germany Denmark John Skovbjerg 2:13:35 Hungary Agnes Jakab 2:39:32
October 21 Chicago Marathon United States United States Wales Stephen Jones 2:08:05 Portugal Rosa Mota 2:26:01
December 2 Fukuoka Marathon Japan Japan Japan Takeyuki Nakayama 2:10:00

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