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

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.

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

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

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

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

3,000 metres

 * Main race this year: Olympic Games 3,000 metres

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

January

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

February

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

March

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

April

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

May

 * May 1 &mdash; Louis Tristán, Peruvian long jumper
 * May 8 &mdash; Andreas Mokdasi, Swedish sprinter
 * May 10 &mdash; Alana Boyd, Australian pole vaulter

June

 * June 17 &mdash; Michael Mathieu, Bahamian sprinter
 * June 30 &mdash; Gretchen Quintana, Cuban heptathlete

July

 * July 7 &mdash; Inna Poluškina, Latvian long-distance runner
 * July 8 &mdash; Mariem Alaoui Selsouli, Moroccan middle/long-distance runner
 * July 9 &mdash; Olusoji Fasuba, Nigerian sprinter
 * July 22 &mdash; He Dan, Chinese race walker
 * July 25 &mdash; Javier Culson, Puerto Rican hurdler
 * July 26 &mdash; Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper

August

 * August 4 &mdash; Xing Shucai, Chinese race walker

September

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

October

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

November

 * November 10 &mdash; Andrej Poljanec, Slovenian pole vaulter
 * November 12 &mdash; Siraj Gena, Ethiopian long-distance runner

December

 * December 15 &mdash; Véronique Mang, Cameroon-born French athlete
 * December 26 &mdash; Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
 * December 28 &mdash; Kimberley Mickle, Australian javelin thrower
 * December 31 &mdash; 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 &mdash; Sten Pettersson (81), Swedish hurdler (b. 1902)