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	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 men's shot put at the 1983 IAAF World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total number of 20 participating athletes, with the final held on 7 August 1983.

Gold	Edward Sarul Poland (POL)
Silver	Ulf Timmermann East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Remigius Machura Czechoslovakia (TCH)

• All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)

• All results shown are in metres

Standing records prior to the 1983 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Udo Beyer (GDR)	22.22 m	June 25, 1983	Los Angeles, United States
Event Record	New event
Broken records during the 1983 World Athletics Championships
Event Record	Dave Laut (USA)	21.08 m	August 7, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Event Record	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	21.16 m	August 7, 1983	Helsinki, Finland
Event Record	Edward Sarul (POL)	21.39 m	August 7, 1983	Helsinki, Finland

RANK	FINAL	DISTANCE
	Edward Sarul (POL)	21.39 m
	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	21.16 m
	Remigius Machura (TCH)	20.98 m
4.	Dave Laut (USA)	20.60 m
5.	Jānis Bojārs (URS)	20.32 m
6.	Udo Beyer (GDR)	20.09 m
7.	Alessandro Andrei (ITA)	20.07 m
8.	Aulis Akonniemi (FIN)	19.85 m
9.	Vladimir Milić (YUG)	19.71 m
10.	Mike Lehmann (USA)	19.69 m
11.	Josef Kubeš (TCH)	19.67 m
12.	Ivan Ivančić (YUG)	19.52 m

• Held on Sunday 1983-08-07

RANK	GROUP A	DISTANCE
1.	Dave Laut (USA)	21.08 m
2.	Remigius Machura (TCH)	20.76 m
3.	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	20.10 m
4.	Jānis Bojārs (URS)	20.04 m
5.	Vladimir Milić (YUG)	19.66 m
6.	Aulis Akonniemi (FIN)	19.65 m
7.	Alessandro Andrei (ITA)	19.57 m
8.	Bishop Dolegiewicz (CAN)	18.68 m
9.	Ahmed Kamel Shatta (EGY)	16.73 m
—	Adnan Houry (SYR)	NM

RANK	GROUP B	DISTANCE
1.	Edward Sarul (POL)	20.82 m
2.	Udo Beyer (GDR)	20.29 m
3.	Mike Lehmann (USA)	19.88 m
4.	Ivan Ivančić (YUG)	19.74 m
5.	Josef Kubeš (TCH)	19.73 m
6.	Kevin Akins (USA)	19.48 m
7.	Erwin Weitzl (AUT)	19.23 m
8.	Werner Günthör (SUI)	19.18 m
9.	Bruno Pauletto (CAN)	18.32 m
10.	Sergey Smirnov (URS)	18.03 m

• 1980 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Moscow)
• 1983 Shot Put Year Ranking
• 1984 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Men's European Championships Shot Put (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Men's Olympic Shot Put (Seoul)

• Results
• IAAF results