1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump

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
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

These are the official results of the Women's Long Jump event at the 1983 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total number of 34 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday 14 August 1983. The qualification mark was set at 6.40 metres.

Gold	Heike Daute-Drechsler East Germany (GDR)
Silver	Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu Romania (ROU)
Bronze	Carol Lewis United States (USA)

• All times are Eastern European Time (UTC+2)

• All results shown are in metres

Standing records prior to the 1983 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu (ROU)	7.43 m	June 4, 1983	Bucharest, Romania
Event Record	New event

• Held on Saturday 1983-08-13

RANK	GROUP A	LENGTH
1.	Carol Lewis (USA)	6.78 m
2.	Heike Daute-Drechsler (GDR)	6.65 m
3.	Robyn Lorraway (AUS)	6.65 m
4.	Tatyana Proskuryakova (URS)	6.63 m
5.	Vali Ionescu-Constantin (ROU)	6.44 m
6.	Jarmila Nygrýnová-Strejčková (TCH)	6.40 m
7.	Shonel Ferguson (BAH)	6.29 m
8.	Lena Wallin (SWE)	6.19 m
9.	Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia (BRA)	6.15 m
10.	Heidi Benserud (NOR)	5.92 m
11.	Jacinta Bartholomew (GRN)	5.77 m
12.	Marie-Ange Wirtz (SEY)	5.20 m
13.	Kim Mom (CAM)	4.90 m
—	Sabine Everts (FRG)	NM
—	Arja Jussila (FIN)	NM
—	Nicole Tombezogo (CAF)	NM
—	Jackie Joyner-Kersee (USA)	DNS

RANK	GROUP B	LENGTH
1.	Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu (ROU)	6.76 m
2.	Zsuzsa Vanyek (HUN)	6.60 m
3.	Eva Murková (TCH)	6.57 m
4.	Helga Radtke (GDR)	6.53 m
5.	Jennifer Innis (GUY)	6.45 m
6.	Beverly Kinch (GBR)	6.43 m
7.	Gwen Loud (USA)	6.37 m
8.	Madeline de Jesús (PUR)	6.12 m
9.	Halcyon McKnight (JAM)	6.03 m
10.	Huang Donghuo (CHN)	5.90 m
11.	Rose Phillips-King (IVB)	5.40 m
12.	Traore Mariam (UPV)	4.90 m
—	Mercy Mathews-Kuttan (IND)	NM
—	Christina Sussiek (FRG)	NM
—	Karen Nelson (CAN)	DNS
—	Glynis Nunn-Cearns (AUS)	DNS
—	Svetlana Zorina (URS)	DNS

RANK	FINAL	LENGTH
	Heike Daute-Drechsler (GDR)	7.27 m
	Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu (ROU)	7.15 m
	Carol Lewis (USA)	7.04 m
4.	Tatyana Proskuryakova (URS)	7.02 m
5.	Beverly Kinch (GBR)	6.93 m
6.	Zsuzsa Vanyek (HUN)	6.81 m
7.	Eva Murková (TCH)	6.80 m
8.	Robyn Lorraway (AUS)	6.65 m
9.	Vali Ionescu-Constantin (ROU)	6.62 m
10.	Jarmila Nygrýnová-Strejčková (TCH)	6.56 m
11.	Jennifer Innis (GUY)	6.54 m
12.	Helga Radtke (GDR)	6.44 m

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