1984 in the sport of athletics

This article contains an overview of the year 1984 in the sport of athletics.

International Events

• African Championships in Rabat, Morocco
• Balkan Games in Athens, Greece
• European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden
• World Cross Country Championships in New York, United States
• Olympic Games in Los Angeles, United States

World records

Men

Women

• Marita Koch (GDR) equals her own world record in the women's 200 metres held since 1979-06-10, clocking 21.71 seconds on 1984-07-21 at a meet in Potsdam.

Men's Best Year Performers

100 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 100 metres

200 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 200 metres

400 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 400 metres

800 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 800 metres

1,500 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 1,500 metres

5,000 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 5,000 metres

10,000 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 10,000 metres

Half Marathon

110m Hurdles

Main race this year: Olympic Games 110m Hurdles

400m Hurdles

Main race this year: Olympic Games 400m Hurdles

3,000m Steeplechase

Main race this year: Olympic Games 3,000m Steeplechase

High Jump

Main competition this year: Olympic Games High Jump

Long Jump

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Long Jump

Triple Jump

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Triple Jump

Discus

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Discus Throw

Hammer

Shot Put

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Shot Put

Javelin

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Javelin Throw

Pole Vault

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Pole Vault

Decathlon

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Decathlon

Women's Best Year Performers

100 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 100 metres

200 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 200 metres

400 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 400 metres

800 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 800 metres

1,500 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 1,500 metres

Mile

3,000 metres

Main race this year: Olympic Games 3,000 metres

5,000 metres

10,000 metres

Half Marathon

100m Hurdles

Main race this year: Olympic Games 100m Hurdles

400m Hurdles

Main race this year: Olympic Games 400m Hurdles

High Jump

Main competition this year: Olympic Games High Jump

Long Jump

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Long Jump

Discus

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Discus Throw

Shot Put

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Shot Put

Javelin (old design)

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Javelin Throw

Heptathlon

Main competition this year: Olympic Games Heptathlon

Marathon

Year Rankings

Men

Women

International Races

Births

January

• January 9 — Firehiwot Dado, Ethiopian long-distance runner
• January 10 — Solomon Busendich, Kenyan long-distance runner
• January 14 — Teemu Wirkkala, Finnish javelin thrower
• January 16 — Yuki Yamazaki, Japanese race walker
• January 19 — Jarkko Kinnunen, Finnish race walker
• January 20 — Andriy Yurin, Ukrainian race walker

February

• February 13 — Eric Matthias, British Virgin Islands discus thrower
• February 20 — Zhu Xiaolin, Chinese long-distance runner
• February 22 — Yuki Yamaguchi, Japanese sprinter
• February 25 — Xing Huina, Chinese athlete

March

• March 24 — Lucy Kabuu, Kenyan long distance runner
• March 24 — Jacopo Marin, Italian sprinter
• March 27 — Roman Valiyev, Kazakhstani triple jumper
• March 31 — Anna Pierce, American middle distance runner

April

• April 2 — Germán Lauro, Argentine shot putter
• April 17 — Pavel Kryvitski, Belarusian hammer thrower
• April 19 — Martin Marić, Croatian discus thrower
• April 26 — Petrina Price, Australian high jumper
• April 30 — Yevhen Vynohradov, Ukrainian hammer thrower

May

• May 1 — Louis Tristán, Peruvian long jumper
• May 8 — Andreas Mokdasi, Swedish sprinter
• May 10 — Alana Boyd, Australian pole vaulter

June

• June 17 — Michael Mathieu, Bahamian sprinter
• June 30 — Gretchen Quintana, Cuban heptathlete

July

• July 7 — Inna PoluÅ¡kina, Latvian long-distance runner
• July 8 — Mariem Alaoui Selsouli, Moroccan middle/long-distance runner
• July 9 — Olusoji Fasuba, Nigerian sprinter
• July 22 — He Dan, Chinese race walker
• July 25 — Javier Culson, Puerto Rican hurdler
• July 26 — Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper

August

• August 4 — Xing Shucai, Chinese race walker

September

• September 3 — David Fiegen, Luxembourgian middle distance runner
• September 9 — Andrey Silnov, Russian high jumper
• September 10 — Ismail Ahmed Ismail, Sudanese runner
• September 26 — Michael Letterlough, Caymanian hammer thrower

October

• October 6 — Adina Anton, Romanian long jumper
• October 14 — Svetlana Bolshakova, Russian-born Belgian triple jumper
• October 24 — Christian Reif, German long jumper.
• October 24 — Sultana Frizell, Canadian hammer thrower
• October 28 — Anyika Onuora, British sprinter

November

• November 10 — Andrej Poljanec, Slovenian pole vaulter
• November 12 — Siraj Gena, Ethiopian long-distance runner

December

• December 15 — Véronique Mang, Cameroon-born French athlete
• December 26 — Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
• December 28 — Kimberley Mickle, Australian javelin thrower
• December 31 — Mohamed Faraj Al-Kaabi, Qatari hammer thrower

Deaths

• January 10 — Toivo Loukola (81), Finnish athlete (b. 1902)
• March 15 — Ken Carpenter (70), American discus thrower (b. 1913)
• June 1 — Sten Pettersson (81), Swedish hurdler (b. 1902)

References

• Association of Road Racing Statisticians
• Year Rankings