| 100m (100m) |
1. | Armin | Hary |  |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 10,2 |
| 2. | David | Sime |  |
USA | 10,2 | |
| 3. | Peter | Radford |  |
Vel.Britanija | 10,3 | |
| 200m (200m) |
1. | Livio | Berruti |  |
Italia | 20,5 |
| 2. | Lester Nelson | Carney | |
USA | 20,6 | |
| 3. | Abdoluaye | Seye |  |
Francuska | 20,7 | |
| 400m (400m) |
1. | Otis Crandall | Davis | |
USA | 44,9 |
| 2. | Carl | Kaufmann | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 44,9 | |
| 3. | Malcolm Clive | Spence |  |
Juž.Afrika | 45,5 | |
| 800m (800m) |
1. | Peter | Snell |  |
Novi Zeland | 1:46,3 |
| 2. | Roger | Moens |  |
Belgija | 1:46,5 | |
| 3. | George Ezekiel | Kerr |  |
Jamajka | 1:47,1 | |
| 1.500m (1.500m) |
1. | Herbert | Elliot |  |
Australija | 3:35,6 |
| 2. | Michel | Jazy | |
Francuska | 3:38,4 | |
| 3. | Istvan | Roszavölgyi |  |
Mađarska | 3:39,2 | |
| 5.000m (5.000m) |
1. | Murray Gordon | Halberg | |
Novi Zeland | 13:43,4 |
| 2. | Hans | Grodotzki | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 13:44,6 | |
| 3. | Kazimierz | Zimny |  |
Poljska | 13:44,8 | |
| 10.000m (10.000m) |
1. | Pjotr | Bolotnikov |  |
SSSR | 28:32,2 |
| 2. | Hans | Grodotzki | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 28:37,0 | |
| 3. | David | Power | |
Australija | 28:38,2 | |
| marathon (maraton 42.195m) |
1. | Abebe | Bikila |  |
Etiopija | 2;15:16,2 |
| 2. | Abdesiem | Rhadi Ben Abdesselam |  |
Maroko | 2;15:41,6 | |
| 3. | Arthur Barry | Magee | |
Novi Zeland | 2;17:18,2 | |
| 110m
hurdles
(110m prepone) |
1. | Lee | Calhoun | |
USA | 13,8 |
| 2. | William Lee | May | |
USA | 13,8 | |
| 3. | Hayes | Jones | |
USA | 14,0 | |
| 400m hurdles 400m prepone) |
1. | Glen Ashby | Davis | |
USA | 49,3 |
| 2. | Clifton Emmett | Cushman | |
USA | 49,6 | |
| 3. | Richard Wayne | Howard | |
USA | 49,7 | |
| 3.000m
steeplechase (3.000m zapreke) |
1. | Zdzislaw | Krzyszkowiak | |
Poljska | 8:34,2 |
| 2. | Nikolai | Sokolov | |
SSSR | 8:36,4 | |
| 3. | Semen | Rzhischin | |
SSSR | 8:42,2 | |
| 4x100m
realy (štafeta4x100m) |
1. | - | - | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 39,5 |
| 2. | - | - | |
SSSR | 40,1 | |
| 3. | - | - | |
Vel.Britanija | 40,2 | |
| 4x400m
realy (štafeta4x400m) |
1. | - | - | |
USA | 3:02,2 |
| 2. | - | - | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 3:02,7 | |
| 3. | - | - |  |
Antgua | 3:04,0 | |
| 20km race walk (hodanje 20km) | 1. | Vladimir | Golubnichy | |
SSSR | 1;34:07,2 |
| 2. | Noel Frederick | Freeman | |
Australija | 1;34:16,4 | |
| 3. | Stanley Frank | Vickers | |
Vel.Britanija | 1;34:56,4 | |
| 50km race walk (hodanje 50km) | 1. | Donald James | Thompson | |
Vel.Britanija | 4;25:30,0 |
| 2. | John Artur | Ljunggren |  |
Švedska | 4;25:47,0 | |
| 3. | Abdon | Pamich | |
Italija | 4;27:55,4 | |
| high
jump (skok u vis) |
1. | Robert | Shavlakadze | |
SSSR | 2,16 |
| 2. | Valeri | Brumel | |
SSSR | 2,16 | |
| 3. | John Curtis | Thomas | |
USA | 2,14 | |
| long
jump (skok u dalj) |
1. | Ralph Harold | Boston | |
USA | 8,12 |
| 2. | Irvin | Roberson | |
USA | 8,11 | |
| 3. | Igor | Ter-Ovanesyan | |
SSSR | 8,04 | |
| triple
jump (troskok) |
1. | Jozef | Schmidt | |
Poljska | 16,81 |
| 2. | Vladimir | Goryaev | |
SSSR | 16,63 | |
| 3. | Vitold | Kreer | |
SSSR | 16,43 | |
| pole
vault (skok s motk.) |
1. | Donald George | Bragg | |
USA | 4,70 |
| 2. | Ronald Hugh | Morris | |
USA | 4,60 | |
| 3. | Eeles Enok | Landström |  |
Finska | 4,55 | |
| shot
put (bac. kugle) |
1. | William Hery | Nieder | |
USA | 19,68 |
| 2. | William Patrick Jr. | O'Brien | |
USA | 19,11 | |
| 3. | Dallas Crutcher III. | Long | |
USA | 19,01 | |
| discus
throw (bac. diska) |
1. | Alfred | Oerter | |
USA | 59,18 |
| 2. | Richard Aldrich | Babka | |
USA | 58,02 | |
| 3. | Richard Lee | Cochran | |
USA | 57,16 | |
| hammer
throw (bac. kladiva) |
1. | Vasili | Rudenkov | |
SSSR | 67,10 |
| 2. | Gyula | Zsivotzky | |
Mađarska | 65,79 | |
| 3. | Tadeusz | Rut | |
Poljska | 65,64 | |
| javelin
throw (bac. koplja) |
1. | Viktor | Tsybulenko | |
SSSR | 84,64 |
| 2. | Walter | Krüger | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 79,36 | |
| 3. | Gergely | Kulcsar | |
Mađarska | 78,57 | |
| decathlon (desetoboj) | 1. | Rafer Lewis | Johnson | |
USA | 8.392 |
| 2. | Chuan-Kwang | Yang |  |
Tajvan | 8.334 | |
| 3. | Vasili | Kuznetsov | |
SSSR | 7.809 |