1981 in the sport of athletics

1981 in athletics
1981 in athletics
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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

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

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

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

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

RANK	1981 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Evelyn Ashford (USA)	10.90
2.	Merlene Ottey (JAM)	11.07
3.	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	11.09
3.	Marlies Göhr (GDR)	11.09
5.	Angella Taylor (CAN)	11.12

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

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	48.61
2.	Marita Koch (GDR)	49.27
3.	Irina Nazarova (RUS)	50.50
4.	Gaby Bussmann (FRG)	50.83
5.	Dagmar Rübsam (GDR)	50.98

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

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

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

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

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

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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

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Tatyana Anisimova (URS)	12.68
2.	Kerstin Knabe (GDR)	12.85
3.	Danuta Perka (POL)	12.93^[1]
4,	Lucyna Kalek (POL)	12.97

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	TIME
1.	Ellen Neumann (GDR)	54.79
2.	Natalya Tsyruk (URS)	55.49
3.	Ana Kasteckaja (URS)	55.51^[2]
4.	Petra Pfaff (GDR)	55.54
5.	Genowefa Blaszak (POL)	55.78

RANK	1981 WORLD BEST PERFORMERS	HEIGHT
1.	Pam Spencer (USA)	1.97 m
2.	Charmaine Gale (RSA)	1.96 m
	Kerstin Dedner (GDR)
	Sara Simeoni (ITA)
	Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG)
	Tamara Bykova (URS)

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

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

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

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 Felke (GDR)	66.60 m
5.	Tiina Lillak (FIN)	66.34 m

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