The 1983 World Table Tennis Championships men's doubles was the 37th edition of the men's doubles championship. ^{[1] [2]} Dragutin Šurbek and Zoran Kalinić won the title after defeating Xie Saike and Jiang Jialiang in the final by three sets to two.^[3]

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	Round of 16									Quarterfinals									Semifinals									Final
		Xie Saike Jiang Jialiang	21	21	21
		Andrzej Grubba Leszek Kucharski	16	17	12						Xie Saike Jiang Jialiang	23	18	21	21
		Mikhail Ovtcharov Ivan Minkevich	14	21	9	16					Gergely Jónyer	21	21	11	19
		Gábor Gergely István Jónyer	21	18	21	21														Xie Saike Jiang Jialiang	21	21	21
		Kiyoshi Saito Masahiro Maehara	21	17	21	21														Wang Huiyan Yang Yuhua	13	10	16
		Jacques Secrétin Patrick Birocheau	17	21	16	9					Saito Maehara	21	21	23	16	16
		Wang Huiyuan Yang Yuhua	21	21	17	15	21				Wang Huiyuan Yang Yuhua	12	14	25	21	21
		Erik Lindh Jan-Ove Waldner	17	18	21	21	19																						Xie Saike Jiang Jialiang	15	21	22	17	20
		Seiji Ono Hiroyuki Abe																											Šurbek Kalinić	21	19	20	21	22
		János Molnár Zsolt Kriston									Ono Abe	12	21	21	21
		Cai Zhenhua Fan Changmao									Cai Zhenhua Fan Changmao	21	18	17	15
		Mikael Appelgren Ulf "Tickan" Carlsson																		Ono Abe	16	9	9
		Chen Xinhua Diao Ming	21	21	21															Šurbek Kalinić	21	21	21
		Milan Orlowski Jindřich Panský	16	19	18						Chen Xinhua Diao Ming	8	17	19
		Stellan Bengtsson Ulf Bengtsson	11	11	11						Šurbek Kalinić	21	21	21
		Dragutin Šurbek Zoran Kalinić	21	21	21

List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists