Athletics World Championships 1983 at Helsinki (fin) Men: 4 x 100 m Relay August 10: Final: 1. USA (Emmit King, Willie Gault, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis) 37.86 (WR) 2. Italy (Stefano Tilli, Carlo Simionato, Pierfrancesco Pavoni, Pietro Mennea) 38.37 3. Soviet Union (Andrey Prokofyev, Nikolay Sidorov, Vladimir Muravyov, Viktor Bryzgin) 38.41 4. East Germany (Andreas Knebel, Thomas Schröder, Jens Hubler, Frank Emmelmann) 38.51 5. West Germany (Werner Bastians, Christian Haas, Jürgen Evers, Andreas Rizzi) 38.56 6. Poland (Krzysztof Zwolinski, Zenon Licznerski, Czeslaw Pradzynski, Marian Woronin) 38.72 7. Jamaica (George Walcott, Raymond Stewart, Leroy Reid, Colin Bradford) 38.75 8. France (Thierry François, Marc Gasparoni, Antoine Richard, Jean-Jacques Boussemart) 38.98