| 100m (100m) |
1. | Wilma | Rudolph |  |
USA | 11,0 |
| 2. | Dorothy | Hyman |  |
Vel.Britanija | 11,3 | |
| 3. | Giuseppina | Leone |  |
Italija | 11,3 | |
| 200m (200m) |
1. | Wilma | Rudolph | |
USA | 24,0 |
| 2. | Judith(Jutta) | Heine |  |
Njemačka(SR+DDR | 24,4 | |
| 3. | Dorothy | Hyman | |
Vel.Britanija | 24,7 | |
| 800m (800m) |
1. | Lyudmila | Lisenko-Shevtsova |  |
SSSR | 2:04,3 |
| 2. | Brenda | Jones-Carr |  |
Australija | 2:04,4 | |
| 3. | Ursula | Donath | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR | 2:05,6 | |
| 80m
hurdles (80m prepone) |
1. | Iryna | Press | |
SSSR | 10,8 |
| 2. | Carple Louis | Quinton | |
Vel.Britanija | 10,9 | |
| 3. | Gisela | Köhler-Birkemeyer | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 11,0 | |
| 4x100m realy (štafeta 4x100m) | 1. | - | - | |
USA | 44,5 |
| 2. | - | - | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 44,8 | |
| 3. | - | - |  |
Poljska | 45,0 | |
| high
jump (skok u vis) |
1. | Iolanda | Balas |  |
Rumunjska | 1,85 |
| 2. | Jaroslawa | Jozwiakowska-Bieda | |
Poljska | 1,71 | |
| 2. | Dorothy Ada | Shirley | |
Vel.Britanija | 1,71 | |
| long
jump (skok u dalj) |
1. | Vera | Kolashnikova-Krepkina | |
SSSR | 6,37 |
| 2. | Elizabeta | Dunska-Krzesinska | |
Poljska | 6,27 | |
| 3. | Hildrun | Claus-Laufer | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 6,21 | |
| shot
put (bac. kugle) |
1. | Tamara | Press | |
SSSR | 17,32 |
| 2. | Johanna | Lüttge-Hübner | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 16,61 | |
| 3. | Earlene Dennis | Brown | |
USA | 16,42 | |
| discus
throw (bac. diska) |
1. | Nina | Romashkova-Ponomareva | |
SSSR | 55,10 |
| 2. | Tamara | Press | |
SSSR | 52,59 | |
| 3. | Lia | Manoliu | |
Rumunjska | 52,36 | |
| javelin
throw (bac. koplja) |
1. | Elvira | Ozolina | |
SSSR | 55,98 |
| 2. | Dana | Ingrova-Zatopkova |  |
Čehoslovačka | 53,78 | |
| 3. | Birute | Zalogajtite-Kaledene | |
SSSR | 53,45 |