Hi Paul. 1983 is easily forgivable for the "first" world champs, but they were actually in 1976. In the world of athletics The Olympics were always considered the world champs, but for some reason the men's 50K was dropped from the Olympic program (reinstalled later) so they hosted a world champs with a world champs medal for that event - it was called the World athletics champs not just world 50K champs. They did the same in 1980 because the Olympics did not have the women's 400 hurdles and 3000m. This is how the 1983 lot came about.
One of the best athletics montages the BBC did, they repeated it at the 2001 World Championships which was when I first saw it. During the 1983 event they did another montage half way through the championships using "The Crown" by Gary Byrd & The GB Experience which I think was in the charts at the time.
If this RU-vid video were a tape, I'd have worn it out by now. Poor old Fatima Whitbread, she wasn't a particularly sympathetic character later in her career, but I remember feeling desperately sorry for her here. Mind you, I'd have put my house on Lillak beating her on that last throw if I'd had a house at the time, but I was only 12.
Yes, I was devasted for her and it was such a sad moment seeing her mum consoling her as Lillak celebrated. But her moment would come in Rome four years later.
