Athletics World Championships 1983 at Helsinki (fin) Men: 4 x 400 m Relay August 14: Final: 1. Soviet Union (Sergey Lovachov, Aleksandr Troshchilo, Nikolay Chernetskiy, Viktor Markin) 3:00.79 2. West Germany (Erwin Skamrahl, Jörg Vaihinger, Harald Schmid, Hartmut Weber) 3:01.83 3. Great Britain (Ainsley Bennett, Garry Cook, Todd Bennett, Philip Brown) 3:03.53 4. Czechoslovakia (Miroslav Zahorak, Petr Brecka, Dusan Malovec, Ján Tomko) 3:03.90 5. Italy (Stefano Malinverni, Donato Sabia, Mauro Zuliani, Roberto Ribaud) 3:05.10 6. USA (Alonzo Babers, Sunder Nix, Willie Smith, Edwin Moses) 3:05.29 7. Sweden (Tommy Johansson, Eric Josjö, Per-Erik Olsson, Ulf Sedlacek) 3:08.57 -. Poland (Ryszard Wichrowski, Ryszard Szparak, Andrzej Stepien, Ryszard Podlas) did not finish