| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Men 100m | Robert Hayes |  USA | Enrique Figuerola |  CUB | Henry Jerome | @.CAN |
| Men 200m | Henry Carr | USA | Paul Drayton | USA | Edwin Roberts | @.TRI |
| Men 400m | Mike Larrabee | USA | Weddell Mottley |  TRI | Andrzej Badenski | @.POL |
| Men 800m | Peter Snell |  NZL | Bill Crothers |  CAN | Wilson Kiprugut | @.KEN |
| Men 1500m | Peter Snell | NZL | Josef Odlozil |  TCH | John Davies | @.NZL |
| Men 5000m | Bob Schul | USA | Harald Norpoth |  GER | Bill Dellinger | @.USA |
| Men 10000m | Bill Mills | USA | Mohamed Gammoudi |  TUN | Ron Clarke | @.AUS |
| Men Marathon | Abebe Bikila |  ETH | Basil Heatley |  GBR | Kokichi Tsuburaya | @.JPN |
| Men 110m Hurdles | Hayes Jones | USA | Blaine Lindgren | USA | Anatoliy Mikhailov | @.URS |
| Men 400m Hurdles | Warren Cawley | USA | John Cooper | GBR | Salvatore Morale | @.ITA |
| Men 3000m Steeplechase | Gaston Roelants |  BEL | Maurice Herriott | GBR | Ivan Belyayev | @.URS |
| Men 4x100m Relay | United States | Poland | France | |||
| Men 4x400m Relay | United States | Great Britain | Trinidad and Tobago | |||
| Men High Jump | Valeriy Brumel |  URS | John Thomas | USA | John Rambo | @.USA |
| Men Pole Vault | Fred Hansen | USA | Wolfgang Reinhardt | GER | Klaus Lehnertz | @.GER |
| Men Long Jump | Lynn Davies | GBR | Ralph Boston | USA | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan | @.URS |
| Men Triple Jump | Jozef Schmidt |  POL | Oleg Fedoseyev | URS | Viktor Kravchenko | @.URS |
| Men Shot Put | Dallas Long | USA | Randy Matson | USA | Vilmos Varju | @.HUN |
| Men Discus Throw | Al Oerter | USA | Ludvig Danek | TCH | Dave Weill | @.USA |
| Men Hammer Throw | Romuald Klim | URS | Gyula Zsivotzky |  HUN | Uwe Beyer | @.GER |
| Men Javelin Throw | Pauli Nevala |  FIN | Gergely Kulcsar | HUN | Janis Lusis | @.URS |
| Men Decathlon | Willi Holdorf | GER | Rein Aun | URS | Hans-Joachim Walde | @.GER |
| Men 20km Walk | K.J. Matthews | GBR | Dieter Lindner | GER | Vladimir Golubnichiy | @.URS |
| Men 50km Walk | Abdon Pamich |  ITA | V. P. Nihill | GBR | Ingvar Albin Pettersson | @.SWE |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Women 100m | Wyomia Tyus | USA | Edith McGuire | USA | Ewa Klobukowska | @.POL |
| Women 200m | Edith McGuire | USA | Irena Kirszenstein | POL | Marilyn Black | @.AUS |
| Women 400m | Betty Cuthbert |  AUS | Ann Packer | GBR | Judith Amoore | @.AUS |
| Women 800m | Ann Packer | GBR | Maryvonne Dupureur |  FRA | Ann Chamberlain | @.NZL |
| Women 80m Hurdles | Karin Balzer | GER | Teresa Ciepla | POL | Pamela Kilborn | @.AUS |
| Women 4x100m Relay | Poland | United States | Great Britain | |||
| Women High Jump | Iolanda Balas |  ROU | Micheline Brown | AUS | Taisia Chenchik | @.URS |
| Women Long Jump | Mary Rand | GBR | Irena Kirszenstein | POL | Tatyana Shchelkanova | @.URS |
| Women Shot Put | Tamara Press | URS | Renate Garisch | GER | Galina Zybina | @.URS |
| Women Discus Throw | Tamara Press | URS | Ingrid Lotz | GER | Lia Manoliu | @.ROU |
| Women Javelin Throw | Mihaela Penes | ROU | Marta Rudas | HUN | Yelena Gorchakova | @.URS |
| Women Pentathlon | Irina Press | URS | Mary Rand | GBR | Galina Bystrova | @.URS |
| Athletics World Index |
| Medals | G | S | B | All |
| 1. United States | 14 | 7 | 3 | 24 |
| 2. Soviet Union | 5 | 2 | 11 | 18 |
| 3. Great Britain | 4 | 7 | 1 | 12 |
| 4. Germany | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| 5. Poland | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 6. New Zealand | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 7. Romania | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 8. Australia | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 9. Italy | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 10.Finland | 1 | 1 | ||
| 10.Belgium | 1 | 1 | ||
| 10.Ethiopia | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13.Hungary | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 14.Chechoslovakia | 2 | 2 | ||
| 15.Trinidad Tobago | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 16.Canada | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 16.France | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 18.Tunisia | 1 | 1 | ||
| 18.Cuba | 1 | 1 | ||
| 20.Sweden | 1 | 1 | ||
| 20.Japan | 1 | 1 | ||
| 20.Kenya | 1 | 1 |
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Last updated: 14 Aug 2021
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