| Discipline | Gold | Team | Silver | Team | Bronze | Team |
| men 100 | Hasely Crawford | TRI | Don Quarrie | JAM | Valeriy Borzov | URS |
| men 200 | Don Quarrie | JAM | Millard Hampton | USA | Dwayne Evans | USA |
| men 400 | Alberto Juantorena | CUB | Fred Newhouse | USA | Herman Frazier | USA |
| men 800 | Alberto Juantorena | CUB | Ivo Van Damme | BEL | Rick Wohlhunter | USA |
| men 1500 | John Walker | NZL | Ivo Van Damme | BEL | Paul-Heinz Wellmann | GER |
| men 5000 | Lasse Viren | FIN | Dick Quax | NZL | Klaus-Peter Hildebrand | GER |
| men 10000 | Lasse Viren | FIN | Carlos Lopes | POR | Brendan Foster | GBR |
| men marathon | Waldemar Cierpinski | GDR | Frank Shorter | USA | Karel Lismont | BEL |
| men 4x100 | United States | East Germany | Soviet Union |
| men 4x400 | United States | Poland | West Germany |
| men 110 hurdles | Guy Drut | FRA | Alejandra Casanas | CUB | Willie Davenport | USA |
| men 400 hurdles | Edwin Moses | USA | Mike Shine | USA | Yevgeniy Gavrilenko | URS |
| men 3000 steeplechase | Anders Garedrud | SWE | Bronislaw Malinowski | POL | Frank Baumgartl | GDR |
| men long jump | Arnie Robinson | USA | Randy Williams | GER | Frank Wartenberg | GDR |
| men high jump | Jacek Wszola | POL | Greg Joy | CAN | Dwight Stones | USA |
| men triple jump | Viktor Saneyev | URS | James Butts | USA | Joao Carlos de Oliveira | BRA |
| men pole vault | Tadeusz Slusarski | POL | Antti Kalliomaki | FIN | David Roberts | USA |
| men shot put | Udo Beyer | GDR | Yevgenyi Mironov | URS | Aleksandr Baryshnikov | URS |
| men discus throw | Mac Wilkins | USA | Wolfgang Schmidt | GDR | John Powell | USA |
| men javelin throw | Miklos Nemeth | HUN | Hannu Siitonen | FIN | Gheorghe Megelea | ROM |
| men hammer throw | Yuriy Sedykh | URS | Aleksey Spiridonov | URS | Anatoliy Bondarchuk | URS |
| men decathlon | Bruce Jenner | USA | Guida Kratschmer | GER | Nikolay Avilov | URS |
| men 20km walk | Daniel Bautista | MEX | Hans Reinmann | GDR | Peter Frenkel | GDR |
| Discipline | Gold | Team | Silver | Team | Bronze | Team |
| women 100 | Annegret Richter | GER | Renate Stecher | GDR | Inge Helten | GER |
| women 200 | Barbel Eckert | GDR | Annegret Richter | GER | Renate Stecher | GDR |
| women 400 | Irena Szewinska | POL | Christina Brehmer | GDR | Ellen Streidt | GDR |
| women 800 | Tatyana Kazankina | URS | Nikolina Shtereva | BUL | Elfi Zinn | GDR |
| women 1500 | Tatyana Kazankina | URS | Gunhild Hoffmeister | GDR | Ulrike Klapezynski | GDR |
| women 4x100 | East Germany | West Germany | Soviet Union |
| women 4x400 | East Germany | United States | Soviet Union |
| women 100 hurdles | Johanna Schaller | GDR | Tatyana Anisimova | URS | Natalya Lebedyeva | URS |
| women long jump | Angela Voigt | GDR | Kathy McMillan | USA | Lidiya Alfeyeva | URS |
| women high jump | Rosemarie Ackermann | GDR | Sara Simeoni | ITA | Yordanka Blagoeva | BUL |
| women shot put | Ivanka Khristova | BUL | Nadezhda Chizhova | URS | Helena Fibingerova | CZE |
| women discus throw | Evelin Schlaak | GDR | Maria Vergova | BUL | Gabriele Hinzmann | GDR |
| women javelin throw | Ruth Fuchs | GDR | Marion Becker | GER | Kathy Schmidt | USA |
| women penthatlon | Siegrun Siegl | GDR | Christine Laser | GDR | Burglinde Pollak | GDR |
| Medals | Gold | Silver | Bronze | All | | 1. East Germany | 11 | 7 | 9 | 27 | | 2. United States | 6 | 7 | 8 | 21 | | 3. Soviet Union | 4 | 4 | 10 | 18 | | 4. Poland | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | | 5. Finland | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | | 6. Cuba | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | | 7. West Germany | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 | | 8. Bulgaria | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | | 9. New Zealand | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | | 10.Jamaica | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | | 11.France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 12.Sweden | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 13.Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 14.Mexico | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 15.Trinidad & Tobago | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 16.Belgium | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 17.Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 18.Italy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 19.Portugal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 20.Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 21.Czechoslovakia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 22.Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 23.Romania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Prepared and maintained by Todor Krastev
todor1966@yahoo.com
Last updated: 25 Jan 2005
