1st IAAF World Championship HELSINKI FIN 1983, 7-14 Aug Helsinki 1983
            JAVELIN men                
QUALIFICATION               Day: 10 Aug [Wed]  Time: 10:00 (A), 11:40 (B)
Q(limit - 84.00)                                
group-A: (9) group-B: (9)
303 Tafelmeier Q [7] x 88.86   2 372 Michel Q [8] 90.40     1
910 Petranoff Q [6] 85.68     5 916 Roggy Q [4] 73.30 86.16   3
242 Utriainen Q [5] 76.18 84.22   8 849 Puuste Q [2] 82.18 85.86   4
834 Kula q [2] 78.58 x 83.16 9 290 Eldebrink Q [1] 85.64     6
880 Ewaliko q [9] 82.68 79.38 76.46 11 751 Adamec Q [7] 83.42 84.54   7
213 Aho q [4] 72.60 81.92 79.66 12 588 Olsen q [3] 82.72 x 83.10 10
454 VILHJALMSSON Einar 60 ISL [8] 81.72 77,08 x 13 222 HÄRKÖNEN Arto 59 FIN [9] 81.42 80.22 77.76 14
748 MALEKWA Zakayo 51 TAN [1] 72.92 x 72.80 17 592 O'ROURKE Michael 55 NZL [6] 75.32 x x 15
407 TREVOR Modeste 60 GRN [3] x 51.84 x 18 113 BABITS Laslo 58 CAN [5] 74.16 x x 16
                                   
FINAL                   Day: 30 Aug [Sun]  Time: 18:55
1 MICHEL Detlef   55 DDR 89.48
2 PETRANOFF Tom   58 USA 85.60
3 KULA Dainis   59 SOV 85.58
4 PUUSTE Heino 55 SOV 84.56
5 OLSEN Per Erling 58 NOR 83.54
6 ELDEBRINK Kenth 55 SWE 83.28
7 ADAMEC Zdenek 56 CZE 81.30
8 TAFELMEIER Klaus   58 GER 80.42
9 ROGGY Bob 56 USA 79.84
10 AHO Aimo 51 FIN 79.34
11 EWALIKO Rod 54 USA 77.74
12 UTRIAINEN Esa 53 FIN 76.66
series: Ewaliko 76.58 76.46 77.74 <    
Eldebrink 83.28 78.84 x 78.94 x 77.26
Kula 85.58 80.70 82.78 82.42 83.08 x
Adamec 81.30 x x x 75.62 x
Olsen x 81.72 83.54 77.60 74.92 x
Michel 88.96 89.48 88.74 x x 86.70
Petranoff 80.38 85.60 85.30 x x x
Roggy 79.84 78.02 74.82 <    
Aho 79.34 x 78.08 <    
Tafelmeier 75.06 80.42 x x x x
Puuste 77.04 78.86 84.56 79.00 70.16 81.66
Utriainen x 76.66 x <    
                                   
World list 6 Aug 1983                                
SB PB SB PB
1 Tom Petranoff USA 99,72 88,40 -82 15 Rod Ewaliko   USA 88,50 88,70 -80
2 Detlef Michel DDR 96,72 94,52 -82 16 Viktor Yevsyukov SOV 88,10 87,50 -82
3 Heino Puuste SOV 94,20 90,72 -82 17 Ramon Gonzalez CUB 87,90 75,02 -82
4 Dainis Kula SOV 91,88 92,06 -80 18 Raimo Manninen FIN 87,86 87,58 -81
5 Klaus Tafelmeier GER 91,44 89,78 -79 19 Arto Härkönen   FIN 87,80 91,04 -81
6 Koos van der Merwe RSA 91,24 88,62 -82 20 Dariusz Adamus POL 87,54 87,24 -81
7 Pentti Sinersaari FIN 90,90 93,84 -79 21 Stanislaw Gorak POL 87,40 84,08 -82
8 Einar Vilhjalmsson ISL 90,66 81,22 -81 22 Aimo Aho   FIN 87,28 89,42 -77
9 Mike O'Rourke NZL 90,58 89,58 -81 23 Esa Utriainen   FIN 87,28 90,94 -79
10 Mike Barnett USA 90,36 80,86 -82 24 Janis Zirnis SOV 87,20 89,48 -81
11 Per-Erling Olsen NOR 90,30 88,02 -81 25 Kent Eldebrink SWE 86,86 90,00 -81
12 Jorma Markus FIN 89,72 90,18 -82 26 Herman Potgieter RSA 86,78 88,62 -78
13 Agostino Ghesini ITA 89,12 82,52 -81 27 Gerald Weiss DDR 86,28 89,56 -81
14 Vasiliy Yershov SOV 89,02 89,00 -75 28 Laslo Babits   CAN 86,08 84,88 -82