1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships information
International athletics championship event
1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships
Organisers
IAAF
Edition
11th
Date
March 20
Host city
Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England
Venue
Riverside Park
Events
3
Distances
11.994 km – Senior men 8.033 km – Junior men 4.072 km – Senior women
Participation
431 athletes from 35 nations
← 1982 Rome
1984 East Rutherford →
The 1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Gateshead, England, at the Riverside Park on March 20, 1983. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald[1] and in the Evening Times.[2]
Complete results for men,[3] junior men,[4] women,[5] medallists,
[6] and the results of British athletes[7] were published.
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Gillon, Doug (21 March 1933), Men from the mountains clean up - A glimpse into the seemingly bottomless well of talented distance runners in Ethiopia was given at Gateshead yesterday, when the men from the mountains swept the boards in the world cross country championships..., Glasgow Herald, p. 18, retrieved 21 October 2013
^Bekele's bombshell - Seeing 20-year-old Ethiopian soldier Bekele Debele win the world cross-country title by beating such stars as Alberto Salazar, and Carlos Lopes it was almost impossible to believe he took up running seriously only a year ago..., Evening Times, 21 March 1933, p. 12, retrieved 21 October 2013
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Magnusson, Tomas (24 March 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 12.0km CC Men - Gateshead Riverside Park Date: Sunday, March 20, 1983, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 21 October 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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Magnusson, Tomas (24 March 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 8.0km CC Men - Gateshead Riverside Park Date: Sunday, March 20, 1983, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 21 October 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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Magnusson, Tomas (8 February 2007), IAAF World Cross Country Championships - 4.1km CC Women - Gateshead Riverside Park Date: Sunday, March 20, 1983, Athchamps (archived), archived from the original on 16 October 2007, retrieved 21 October 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS, Athletics Weekly, retrieved 9 October 2013
^36th IAAF WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS - EDINBURGH 2008 - FACTS & FIGURES - GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND AT THE INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY & WORLD CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS(PDF), IAAF, p. 2ff, archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013, retrieved 9 October 2013
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