1981 in athletics (track and field)

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This page contains an overview of the year 1981 in athletics (track and field).

[edit] International Events

• Asian Championships
• Central American and Caribbean Championships
• European Indoor Championships
• South American Championships
• World Cross Country Championships

[edit] World Records

[edit] Men

[edit] Women

[edit] Men's Best Year Performers

[edit] 100 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Carl Lewis (USA)	10.00
2.	Mel Lattany (USA)	10.04
3.	James Sanford (USA)	10.05
4.	Stanley Floyd (USA)	10.10
5.	Jeff Phillips (USA)	10.11

[edit] 200 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	James Sanford (USA)	20.20
2.	Mel Lattany (USA)	20.21
3.	Allan Wells (GBR)	20.26
4.	Frank Emmelmann (GDR)	20.33
5.	Dwayne Evans (USA)	20.34

[edit] 400 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Bert Cameron (JAM)	44.58
2.	Cliff Wiley (USA)	44.70
3.	Zeke Jefferson (USA)	44.86
4.	Leslie Kerr (USA)	44.90
5.	Howard Henley (USA)	44.92

[edit] 800 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Sebastian Coe (GBR)	1:41.73
2.	Joaquim Cruz (BRA)	1:44.3
3.	Olaf Beyer (GDR)	1:44.31
4.	Mike Boit (KEN)	1:44.49
5.	James Robinson (USA)	1:44.63

[edit] 1,500 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Steve Ovett (GBR)	3:31.57
2.	Sebastian Coe (GBR)	3:31.95
3.	Steve Scott (USA)	3:31.96
4.	Sydney Maree (USA)	3:32.30
5.	Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)	3:33.49

[edit] Mile

RANK	1982 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Sebastian Coe (GBR)	3:47.33
2.	Steve Ovett (GBR)	3:48.40
3.	Sydney Maree (USA)	3:48.83
4.	Mike Boit (KEN)	3:49.45
5.	José Luis González (ESP)	3:49.67

[edit] 3,000 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Steve Scott (USA)	7:36.69
2.	Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)	7:36.75
3.	Henry Rono (KEN)	7:41.41
4.	Sydney Maree (USA)	7:43.42
5.	Eamonn Coghlan (IRL)	7:44.99

[edit] 5,000 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Henry Rono (KEN)	13:06.20
2.	Hansjörg Kunze (GDR)	13:10.40
3.	Valeriy Abramov (URS)	13:11.99
4.	Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)	13:13.47
5.	Julian Goater (GBR)	13:15.59

[edit] 10,000 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Fernando Mamede (POR)	27:27.7
2.	Werner Schildhauer (GDR)	27:38.43
3.	Mohamed Kedir (ETH)	27:39.44
4.	Alberto Salazar (USA)	27:40.69
5.	Henry Rono (KEN)	27:40.78

[edit] Half Marathon

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Herb Lindsay (USA)	1:01:47

[edit] Marathon

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Robert de Castella (AUS)	2:08:18
2.	Toshihiko Seko (JPN)	2:09:27
3.	John Graham (GBR)	2:09:28
4.	Dick Beardsley (USA)	2:09:36
5.	Kunimitsu Ito (JPN)	2:09:37

[edit] 110m Hurdles

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Renaldo Nehemiah (USA)	12.93
2.	Greg Foster (USA)	13.03
3.	Alejandro Casañas (CUB)	13.36
4.	Sam Turner (USA)	13.38
5.	Dedy Cooper (USA)	13.40

[edit] 400m Hurdles

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Edwin Moses (USA)	47.14
2.	Andre Phillips (USA)	48.10
3.	David Lee (USA)	48.53
4.	Harald Schmid (FRG)	48.64
5.	Bart Williams (USA)	48.81

[edit] 3,000m Steeplechase

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Patriz Ilg (FRG)	8:12.13
2.	Mariano Scartezzini (ITA)	8:13.32
3.	Bogusław Mamiński (POL)	8:16.66
4.	Amos Korir (KEN)	8:18.57
5.	Henry Marsh (USA)	8:18.58

[edit] High Jump

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Jeff Woodard (USA)	2.33
	Aleksey Demyanyuk (URS)
3.	Roland Dalhäuser (SUI)	2.31
	Gerd Nagel (FRG)
	Dwight Stones (USA)

[edit] Long Jump

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Carl Lewis (USA)	8.62
2.	Larry Myricks (USA)	8.45
3.	Henry Lauterbach (GDR)	8.35
4.	Winfried Klepsch (FRG)	8.21
5.	Atanas Chochev (BUL)	8.19

[edit] Triple Jump

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Willie Banks (USA)	17.56
2.	João Carlos de Oliveira (BRA)	17.37
3.	Zou Zhenxian (CHN)	17.34
4.	Keith Connor (GBR)	17.31
5.	Shamil Abbyasov (URS)	17.30

[edit] Discus

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	John Powell (USA)	69.98
2.	Wolfgang Schmidt (GDR)	69.60
3.	Al Oerter (USA)	68.76
4.	Art Swarts (USA)	68.32
5.	Art Burns (USA)	67.86

[edit] Hammer

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Klaus Ploghaus (FRG)	80.56
2.	Yuriy Syedikh (URS)	80.18
3.	Sergey Litvinov (URS)	79.60
4.	Roland Steuk (GDR)	78.72
5.	Karl-Hans Riehm (FRG)	78.72

[edit] Shot Put

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Brian Oldfield (USA)	22.02
2.	Udo Beyer (GDR)	21.69
3.	Dave Laut (USA)	21.60
4.	Mike Carter (USA)	21.20
5.	Yevgeniy Mironov (URS)	21.11

[edit] Pole Vault

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Vladimir Polyakov (URS)	5.81
	Thierry Vigneron (FRA)
3.	Konstantin Volkov (URS)	5.75
4.	Philippe Houvion (FRA)	5.70
	Jean-Michel Bellot (FRA)
	Sergey Kulibaba (URS)
	Aleksandr Krupskiy (URS)

[edit] Javelin (old design)

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Detlef Michel (GDR)	92.48
2.	Pentti Sinersaari (FIN)	91.98
3.	Arto Härkönen (FIN)	91.04
4.	Dainis Kula (URS)	90.54
5.	Seppo Hovinen (FIN)	90.38

[edit] Decathlon

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Rainer Pottel (GDR)	8334
2.	Yuriy Kutsenko (URS)	8281
3.	Uwe Freimuth (GDR)	8221
4.	Dariusz Ludwig (POL)	8204
5.	Atanas Andonov (BUL)	8220

[edit] Women's Best Year Performers

[edit] 100 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Evelyn Ashford (USA)	10.90
2.	Merlene Ottey  (JAM)	11.07
3.	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	11.09
	Marlies Göhr (GDR)

[edit] 200 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Evelyn Ashford (USA)	21.84
2.	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	21.97
3.	Bärbel Wöckel (GDR)	22.07
4.	Merlene Ottey  (JAM)	22.35
5.	Gesine Walther (GDR)	22.42

[edit] 400 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	48.61
2.	Marita Koch (GDR)	49.27
3.	Ivanka Venkova (BUL)	51.27
4.	Jacqueline Pusey (JAM)	51.38
5.	Ericka Harris (USA)	51.45

[edit] 800 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Lyudmila Veselkova (URS)	1:56.98
2.	Martina Steuk (GDR)	1:57.16
3.	Fita Lovin (ROU)	1:57.42
4.	Tamara Sorokina (URS)	1:57.55
5.	Hildegard Körner (GDR)	1:57.56

[edit] 1,500 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Olga Dvirna (URS)	3:57.78
2.	Maricica Puică (ROU)	3:58.29
3.	Zamira Zaytseva (URS)	3:58.70
4.	Tamara Sorokina (URS)	3:58.89
5.	Anna Bukis (POL)	3:59.67

[edit] Mile

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Lyudmila Veselkova (URS)	4:20.89
2.	Maricica Puică (ROU)	4:21.40
3.	Fita Lovin (ROU)	4:21.82
4.	Zamira Zaytseva (URS)	4:22.5
5.	Svetlana Ulmasova (URS)	4:23.8

[edit] 3,000 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Maricica Puică (ROU)	8:34.30
2.	Tatyana Pozdnyakova (URS)	8:34.80
3.	Alla Yushina (URS)	8:38.34
4.	Olga Dvirna (URS)	8:44.6
5.	Grete Waitz (NOR)	8:44.64

[edit] 5,000 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Paula Fudge (GBR)	15:14.51
2.	Yelena Sipatova (URS)	15:24.6
3.	Ellen Tittel (FRG)	15:34.76

[edit] 10,000 metres

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Yelena Sipatova (URS)	32:17.19
2.	Yelena Tsukhlo (URS)	32:20.40
3.	Anna Oyun (URS)	32:36.00
4.	Maria Klyukina (URS)	32:37.40
5.	Marina Danilyuk (URS)	32:46.56

[edit] 100m Hurdles

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Tatyana Anisimova (URS)	12.68
2.	Jackie Washington (USA)	13.18
3.	Kathrin Böhme (GDR)	13.20

[edit] 400m Hurdles

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Ellen Fiedler (GDR)	54.79
2.	Natalya Tsyruk (URS)	55.49
3.	Sandra Myers (USA)	56.38
4.	Yvette Wray (GBR)	56.46

[edit] High Jump

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Pamela Spencer (USA)	1.97 m
2.	Hisayo Fukumitsu (JPN)	1.93 m
	Andrea Breder (FRG)
	Olga Bondarenko (URS)
	Sandra Dini (ITA)

[edit] Long Jump

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Jodi Anderson (USA)	6.96 m
2.	Anişoara Cuşmir (ROU)	6.91 m
	Heike Drechsler (GDR)
4.	Ramona Neubert (GDR)	6.90 m
5.	Sigrid Ulbricht (GDR)	6.89 m

[edit] Discus

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Evelin Jahl (GDR)	71.46 m
2.	Maria Petkova (BUL)	71.30 m
3.	Valentina Kharchenko (URS)	69.86 m
4.	Galina Savinkova (URS)	69.70 m
5.	Florenta Craciunescu (ROU)	68.98 m

[edit] Shot Put

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Ilona Slupianek (GDR)	21.61 m
2.	Helena Fibingerová (TCH)	21.57 m
3.	Ines Müller (GDR)	21.14 m
4.	Verzhinia Veselinova (BUL)	21.09 m
5.	Margitta Droese (GDR)	21.08 m

[edit] Javelin (old design)

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	DISTANCE
1.	Antoaneta Todorova (BUL)	71.88 m
2.	Tessa Sanderson (GBR)	68.86 m
3.	Ute Hommola (GDR)	67.24 m
4.	Petra Meier (GDR)	66.60 m
5.	Tiina Lillak (FIN)	66.34 m

[edit] Heptathlon

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	POINTS
1.	Ramona Neubert (GDR)	6788
2.	Sabine Everts (FRG)	6365
3.	Malgorzata Nowak (POL)	6333
4.	Yekaterina Gordiyenko (URS)	6295
5.	Jane Frederick (USA)	6291

[edit] Births

• February 25 — Marek Plawgo, Polish athlete
• March 28 — Yuniel Hernández, Cuban hurdler
• May 21 — Anna Rogowska, Polish athlete
• July 9 — Rutger Smith, Dutch athlete
• September 6 — Brandon Simpson, Jamaican athlete
• November 21 — Werknesh Kidane, Ethiopian long-distance athlete
• December 22 — Marina Kuptsova, Russian high jumper

[edit] Deaths

• August 2 — Delfo Cabrera (62), Argentine long-distance runner (b. 1919)

[edit] References

• Year Lists
• Association of Road Racing Statisticians
• Year Rankings

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