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This page contains an overview of the year 1984 in athletics (track and field).
Video 1984 in athletics (track and field)
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
Maps 1984 in athletics (track and field)
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.
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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
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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
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Marathon
Year Rankings
Men
Women
International Races
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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 Mari?, 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 Polu?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
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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)
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References
- Association of Road Racing Statisticians
- Year Rankings
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