| 100m (100m) |
1. | Eddie | Tolan |  |
USA | 10,3 |
| 2. | Ralph | Metcalfe | |
USA | 10,3 | |
| 3. | Arthur | Jonath |  |
Njemačka | 10,4 | |
| 200m (200m) |
1. | Eddie | Tolan | |
USA | 21,2 |
| 2. | George Sidney | Simpson | |
USA | 21,4 | |
| 3. | Ralph | Metcalfe | |
USA | 21,5 | |
| 400m (400m) |
1. | William Arthur | Carr | |
USA | 46,2 |
| 2. | Benjamin Bangs | Eastman | |
USA | 46,4 | |
| 3. | Alexander S. | Wilson |  |
Kanada | 47,4 | |
| 800m (800m) |
1. | Thomas | Hampson |  |
Vel.Britanija | 1:49,7 |
| 2. | Alexander S. | Wilson | |
Kanada | 1:49,9 | |
| 3. | Philip | Edwards | |
Kanada | 1:51,5 | |
| 1.500m (1.500m) |
1. | Luigi | Beccali |  |
Italija | 3:51,2 |
| 2. | John | Cornes | |
Vel.Britanija | 3:52,6 | |
| 3. | Philip | Edwards | |
Kanada | 3:52,8 | |
| 5.000m (5.000m) |
1. | Lauri Aleksanteri | Lahtinen |  |
Finska | 14:30,0 |
| 2. | Ralph Anthony | Hill | |
USA | 14:30,0 | |
| 3. | Lauri | Virtanen | |
Finska | 14:44,0 | |
| 10.000m (10.000m) |
1. | Janusz | Kusocinski |  |
Poljska | 30:11,4 |
| 2. | Volmari | Iso-Hollo | |
Finska | 30:12,6 | |
| 3. | Lauri | Virtanen | |
Finska | 30:35,0 | |
| marathon (maraton 42.195m) |
1. | Juan Carlos | Zabala |  |
Argentina | 2;31:36,0 |
| 2. | Samuel | Ferris | |
Vel.Britanija | 2;31:55,0 | |
| 3. | Armas Adam | Toivonen | |
Finska | 2;32:12,0 | |
| 110m hurdles (110m prepone) | 1. | George J. Jr. | Saling | |
USA | 14,6 |
| 2. | Percy | Beard | |
USA | 14,7 | |
| 3. | Donald | Finlay | |
Vel.Britanija | 14,8 | |
| 400m hurdles (400m prepone) |
1. | Robert Morton Newburgh | Tisdall |  |
Irska | 51,7 |
| 2. | Glenn Foster | Hardin | |
USA | 51,9 | |
| 3. | Frederick Morgan | Taylor | |
USA | 53,6 | |
| 3.000m steeplechase (3.000m zapreke) | 1. | Volmari | Iso-Hollo | |
Finska | 10:33,4 |
| 2. | Thomas | Evenson | |
Vel.Britanija | 10:46,0 | |
| 3. | Joseph Paul | McCluskey | |
USA | 10:46,2 | |
| 4x100m realy (štafeta 4x100m) |
1. | - | - | |
USA | 40,0 |
| 2. | - | - | |
Njemačka | 40,9 | |
| 3. | - | - | |
Italija | 41,2 | |
| 4x400m
realy (štafeta 4x400m) |
1. | - | - | |
USA | 3:08,2 |
| 2. | - | - | |
Vel.Britanija | 3:11,2 | |
| 3. | - | - | |
Kanada | 3:12,8 | |
| 50.km race walk (hodanje 50km) | 1. | Thomas William | Green | |
Vel.Britanija | 4;50:10,0 |
| 2. | Janis | Dalins |  |
Latvija | 4;57:20,0 | |
| 3. | Ugo | Frigerio | |
Italija | 4;59:06,0 | |
| high
jump (skok u vis) |
1. | Duncan | McNaughton | |
Kanada | 1,97 |
| 2. | Robert | Van Osdel | |
USA | 1,97 | |
| 3. | Simeon Galvez | Toribio |  |
Filipini | 1,97 | |
| long
jump (skok u dalj) |
1. | Edward Lansing | Gordon | |
USA | 7,64 |
| 2. | Charles Lambert | Redd | |
USA | 7,60 | |
| 3. | Chuhei | Nambu |  |
Japan | 7,45 | |
| triple
jump (troskok) |
1. | Chuhei | Nambu | |
Japan | 15,72 |
| 2. | Eric | Svensson |  |
Švedska | 15,32 | |
| 3. | Kenkichi | Oshima | |
Japan | 15,12 | |
| pole
vault (skok s motk.) |
1. | William Waring | Miller | |
USA | 4,315 |
| 2. | Shuhei | Nishida | |
Japan | 4,30 | |
| 3. | George G. | Jefferson | |
USA | 4,20 | |
| shot
put (bac. kugle) |
1. | Leo Joseph | Saxton | |
USA | 16,005 |
| 2. | Harlow Phelps | Rothert | |
USA | 15,675 | |
| 3. | Frantisek | Douda |  |
Čehoslovačka | 15,61 | |
| discus
throw (bac. diska) |
1. | John Franklin | Anderson | |
USA | 49,49 |
| 2. | Henri Jean | Laborde | |
USA | 48,47 | |
| 3. | Paul | Winter |  |
Francuska | 47,85 | |
| hammer
throw (bac. kladiva) |
Patrick | O'Callaghan | |
Irska | 53,92 | |
| 2. | Frans Wilhelmi | Pörhölä | |
Finska | 52,27 | |
| 3. | Peter Timoty | Zaremba | |
USA | 50,33 | |
| javelin
throw (bac. koplja) |
1. | Matti Henrik | Jarvinen | |
Finska | 72,71 |
| 2. | Matti Kalervo | Sippala | |
Finska | 69,80 | |
| 3. | Eino | Penttila | |
Finska | 68,70 | |
| decathlon (desetoboj) | 1. | James Aloysius Bernard | Bausch | |
USA |
8.462,23 |
| 2. | Akiles EeroJohannes | Järvinen | |
Finska | 8.292,48 | |
| 3. | Wolrad | Eberle | |
Njemačka | 8.030,80 |