| 2 new events Women 1500m, Women 4x400m Relay. |
| Men Events | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Men 100m | Valeriy Borzov |  URS | Robert Taylor |  USA | Lennox Miller |  JAM |
| Men 200m | Valeriy Borzov | URS | Larry Black | USA | Pietro Mennea |  ITA |
| Men 400m | Vincent Matthews | USA | Wayne Collett | USA | Julius Sang |  KEN |
| Men 800m | David Wottle | USA | Yevgeniy Arzhanov | URS | Mike Boit | KEN |
| Men 1500m | Pekka Vasala |  FIN | Kipchoge Keino | KEN | Rod Dixon |  NZL |
| Men 5000m | Lasse Viren | FIN | Mohamed Gammoudi |  TUN | Ian Stewart |  GBR |
| Men 10000m | Lasse Viren | FIN | Emiel Puttemans |  BEL | Miruts Yifter |  ETH |
| Men Marathon | Frank Shorter | USA | Karel Lismont | BEL | Mamo Wolde | ETH |
| Men 110m Hurdles | Rod Milburn | USA | Guy Drut |  FRA | Thomas Hill | USA |
| Men 400m Hurdles | John Akii-Bua |  UGA | Ralph Mann | USA | David Hemery | GBR |
| Men 3000m Steeplechase | Kipchoge Keino | KEN | Benjamin Jipcho | KEN | Tapio Kantanen | FIN |
| Men 4x100m Relay | United States | USA | Soviet Union | URS | West Germany |  FRG |
| Men 4x400m Relay | Kenya | KEN | Great Britain | GBR | France | FRA |
| Men High Jump | Yuriy Tarmak | URS | Stefan Junge |  GDR | Dwight Stones | USA |
| Men Long Jump | Randy Williams | USA | Hans Baumgartner | FRG | Arnie Robinson | USA |
| Men Pole Vault | Wolfgang Nordwig | GDR | Bob Seagren | USA | Jan Johnson | USA |
| Men Triple Jump | Viktor Saneyev | URS | Jorg Drehmel | GDR | Nelson Prudencio |  BRA |
| Men Shot Put | Wladyslaw Komar |  POL | George Woods | USA | Hartmut Briesenick | GDR |
| Men Discus Throw | Ludvig Danek |  TCH | Jay Silvester | USA | Rickard Bruch |  SWE |
| Men Javelin Throw | Klaus Wolfermann |  GER | Janis Lusis | URS | William Schmidt | USA |
| Men Hammer Throw | Anatoliy Bondarchuk | URS | Jochen Sachse | GDR | Vasiliy Khmelevskiy | URS |
| Men Decathlon | Nikolay Avilov | URS | Leonid Litvinenko | URS | Ryszard Katus | POL |
| Men 20km Walk | Peter Frenkel | GDR | Vladimir Golubnichi | URS | Hans Reimann | GDR |
| Men 50km Walk | Bernd Kannenberg | GER | Veniamin Soldatenko | URS | Larry Young | USA |
| Women Events | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Women 100m | Renate Stecher | GDR | Raelene Boyle |  AUS | Silvia Chivas |  CUB |
| Women 200m | Renate Stecher | GDR | Raelene Boyle | AUS | Irena Szewinska | POL |
| Women 400m | Monika Zehrt | GDR | Rita Wilden | FRG | Kathy Hammond | USA |
| Women 800m | Hildegard Falck | GER | Nijole Sabaite | URS | Gunhild Hoffmeister | GDR |
| Women 1500m | Lyudmila Bragina | URS | Gunhild Hoffmeister | FRG | Paola Cacchi | ITA |
| Women 100m Hurdles | Anneliese Ehrhardt | GDR | Valeria Bufanu |  ROM | Karin Balzer | GDR |
| Women 4x100m Relay | West Germany | FRG | East Germany | GDR | Cuba | CUB |
| Women 4x400m Relay | East Germany | GDR | United States | USA | West Germany | FRG |
| Women Pentathlon | Mary Peters | GBR | Heide Rosendahl | FRG | Burglinde Pollak | GDR |
| Women High Jump | Ulrike Meyfarth | GER | Yordanka Blagoeva |  BUL | Ilona Gusenbauer |  AUT |
| Women Long Jump | Heide Rosendahl | GER | Diana Yorgova | BUL | Eva Suranova | TCH |
| Women Shot Put | Nadezhda Chizhova | URS | Margitta Gummel | GDR | Ivanka Khristova | BUL |
| Women Discus Throw | Faina Melnik | URS | Argentina Menis | ROM | Vasilka Stoeva | BUL |
| Women Javelin Throw | Ruth Fuchs | GDR | Jaqueline Todten | GDR | Kathy Schmidt | USA |
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