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Men's 110 metres hurdles at the 1983 World Championships
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Dates	11 August (heats) 11 August (semi-finals) 12 August (final)
Competitors	28
Winning time	13.42
Medalists
Greg Foster    United States   Arto Bryggare    Finland   Willie Gault    United States
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Events at the 1983 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
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Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
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High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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These are the official results of the men's 110 metres hurdles event at the 1983 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total number of 28 participating athletes, with four qualifying heats, two semi-finals and the final held on 12 August 1983.

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World Record	Renaldo Nehemiah (USA)	12.93	Zürich, Switzerland	August 19, 1981
Championship Record	New event

Results

Qualifying heats

The qualifying heats took place on 11 August, with the 28 athletes involved being split into 4 heats. The first 3 athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the next 4 fastest ( q ) qualified for the semifinals.

Wind: Heat 1: +1.1 m/s, Heat 2: +1.9 m/s, Heat 3: +1.9 m/s, Heat 4: +2.1 m/s

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mark McKoy	Canada (CAN)	13.53	Q, CR
2	Thomas Munkelt	East Germany (GDR)	13.61	Q
3	Ventsislav Radev	Bulgaria (BUL)	13.78	Q
4	Mark Holtom	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13.85	q
5	Béla Bodó	Hungary (HUN)	13.91	q
6	Modesto Castillo	Dominican Republic (DOM)	13.93	q
7	Tim Soper	New Zealand (NZL)	14.28

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Arto Bryggare	Finland (FIN)	13.44	Q, CR
2	Willie Gault	United States (USA)	13.66	Q
3	Alejandro Casañas	Cuba (CUB)	13.70	Q
4	Liviu Giurgian	Romania (ROM)	13.98
5	Stéphane Caristan	France (FRA)	14.10
6	Julius Ivan	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	14.28
7	Gary Bullard	Bahamas (BAH)	14.31

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Greg Foster	United States (USA)	13.41	Q, CR
2	György Bakos	Hungary (HUN)	13.61	Q
3	Javier Moracho	Spain (ESP)	13.62	Q
4	Andreas Oschkenat	East Germany (GDR)	13.80	q
5	Ion Oltean	Romania (ROM)	13.97
6	Yu Zhicheng	China (CHN)	14.43
7	San Chai Kim	Cambodia (CAM)	16.26

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sam Turner	United States (USA)	13.62w	Q
2	Don Wright	Australia (AUS)	13.70w	Q
3	Andrey Prokofyev	Soviet Union (URS)	13.90w	Q
4	Daniele Fontecchio	Italy (ITA)	14.05w
5	Wu Chin-jing	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	14.24w
6	Axel Schaumann	West Germany (FRG)	14.40w
7	Daniel Ololo	Gabon (GAB)	14.93 w

Semifinals

The semifinals took place on 12 August, with the 16 athletes involved being split into 2 heats. The first 4 athletes in each heat ( Q ) qualified for the final.

Wind: Heat 1: +0.9 m/s, Heat 2: –0.7 m/s

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Greg Foster	United States (USA)	13.22	Q, CR
2	Willie Gault	United States (USA)	13.48	Q
3	Thomas Munkelt	East Germany (GDR)	13.62	Q
4	György Bakos	Hungary (HUN)	13.66	Q
5	Andrey Prokofyev	Soviet Union (URS)	13.76
6	Mark Holtom	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13.79
7	Modesto Castillo	Dominican Republic (DOM)	14.23
	Alejandro Casañas	Cuba (CUB)		DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Arto Bryggare	Finland (FIN)	13.50	Q
2	Sam Turner	United States (USA)	13.65	Q
3	Mark McKoy	Canada (CAN)	13.73	Q
4	Ventsislav Radev	Bulgaria (BUL)	13.82	Q
5	Javier Moracho	Spain (ESP)	13.92
6	Andreas Oschkenat	East Germany (GDR)	13.93
7	Don Wright	Australia (AUS)	14.28
	Béla Bodó	Hungary (HUN)		DNS

Final

The final took place on August 12.

Wind: +1.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Greg Foster	United States (USA)	13.42
	Arto Bryggare	Finland (FIN)	13.46
	Willie Gault	United States (USA)	13.48
4	Mark McKoy	Canada (CAN)	13.56
5	Thomas Munkelt	East Germany (GDR)	13.66
6	György Bakos	Hungary (HUN)	13.68
7	Ventsislav Radev	Bulgaria (BUL)	13.73
8	Sam Turner	United States (USA)	13.82

References

1. World Athletics Statistics HandBook Oregon 2022. World Athletics (2013). Edited by Mark Butler. Retrieved on 2022-07-09.

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