| Discipline | 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 Golubnichy | URS |
| Men 50km Walk | Abdon Pamich | ITA | V. P. Nihill | GBR | Ingvar Albin Pettersson | SWE |
| Discipline | 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 | AUS | 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 | ROM | 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 | ROM |
| Women Javelin Throw | Mihaela Penes | ROM | 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 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 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 | |
| 17.Tunisia | 1 | 1 | ||
| 17.Cuba | 1 | 1 | ||
| 19.Sweden | 1 | 1 | ||
| 19.France | 1 | 1 | ||
| 19.Japan | 1 | 1 | ||
| 19.Kenya | 1 | 1 |
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Prepared and maintained by Todor Krastev
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Last updated: 20 Aug 2009
