1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

Heats

All times shown are in minutes.

Heat 1

1.  United States (Alonzo Babers, Willie Smith, Andre Phillips, Michael Franks) 3:06.62 Q
2.  West Germany (Martin Weppler, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Hartmut Weber) 3:07.50 Q
3.  Italy (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:07.90 Q
4.  Brazil (Antônio Dias Ferreira, Agberto Guimarães, José Luiz Barbosa, Gerson A. Souza) 3:08.25 Q
5.  Sweden (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Sven Nylander, Per-Erik Olsson) 3:08.33 q
6.  Canada (Mark Guthrie, Douglas Hinds, Tim Bethune, Brian Saunders) 3:08.37 q
7.  Jamaica (Steve Griffiths, George Walcott, Devon Morris, Karl Smith) 3:09.06
8.  Finland (Jari Niemelä, Mauri Siekkinen, Matti Rusanen, Hannu Mykrä) 3:09.23

Heat 2

1.  Hungary (Gusztáv Menczer, Sándor Újhelyi, István Takács, Sándor Vasvári) 3:09.95 Q
2.  Soviet Union (Viktor Markin, Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy) 3:10.16 Q
3.  Great Britain (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:10.19 Q
4.  Senegal (Amadou Dia Ba, Moussa Fall, Babacar Niang, Boubacar Diallo) 3:10.90 Q
5.  Australia (Bruce Frayne, Gary Minihan, Paul Gilbert, Darren Clark) 3:11.62

Heat 3

1.  France (Jacques Fellice, Yann Quentrec, Hector Llaster, Aldo Canti) 3:06.99 Q
2.  Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Zahorak, Petr Brecka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:07.03 Q
3.  Poland (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) 3:07.18 Q
4.  Japan (Kazunori Asaba, Tomoharu Isobe, Hirofumi Koike, Susumu Takano) 3:07.23 Q
5.  Spain (Juan José Prado, Antonio Sánchez, Carlos Azulay, Angel Heras) 3:07.42 q
6.  Kenya (Elijah Bitok, John Anzrah, James Atuti, Juma Ndiwa) 3:07.48 q
7.  Ivory Coast (Georges Kablan Degnan, Rene Djedjemel Meledje, Avognan Nogboum, Gabriel Tiacoh) 3:09.23

Heat 1

1.  United States (Alonzo Babers, Sunder Nix, Willie Smith, Edwin Moses) 3:02.13 Q
2.  West Germany (Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Edgar Nakladal, Harald Schmid) 3:04.96 Q
3.  Poland (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stępień, Ryszard Podlas) 3:05.51 Q
4.  Italy (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:05.70 Q
5.  Canada (Brian Saunders, Douglas Hinds, Ian Newhouse, Tim Bethune) 3:06.42
6.  Japan (Tomoharu Isobe, Kazunori Asaba, Hirofumi Koike, Susumu Takano) 3:07.11
7.  Senegal (Moussa Fall, Babacar Niang, Mathurin Barry, Amadou Dia Ba) 3:09.63
8.  Hungary (Gusztáv Menczer, Sándor Újhelyi, István Takács, Sándor Vasvári) 3:11.08

Heat 2

1.  Soviet Union (Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin) 3:03.75 Q
2.  Great Britain (Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:04.03 Q
3.  Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Zahorak, Petr Brecka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:04.32 Q
4.  Sweden (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Sven Nylander, Per-Erik Olsson) 3:04.32 Q
5.  Brazil (Antônio Dias Ferreira, Agberto Guimarães, José Luiz Barbosa, Gerson A. Souza) 3:04.46 (AR)
6.  France (Jacques Fellice, Yann Quentrec, Hector Llaster, Aldo Canti) 3:05.09
7.  Kenya (David Kitur, John Anzrah, James Atuti, James Maina Boi) 3:05.30
8.  Spain (Juan José Prado, Antonio Sánchez, Carlos Azulay, Angel Heras) 3:09.68

Final

1.  Soviet Union (Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin) 3:00.79
2.  West Germany (Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Hartmut Weber) 3:01.83
3.  Great Britain (Ainsley Bennett, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:03.53
4.  Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Zahorak, Petr Brecka, Dušan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:03.90
5.  Italy (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:05.10
6.  United States (Alonzo Babers, Sunder Nix, Willie Smith, Edwin Moses) 3:05.29
7.  Sweden (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Per-Erik Olsson, Ulf Sedlacek) 3:08.57