| 100m (100m) |
1. | Robert | Hayes |  |
USA | 10,0 |
| 2. | Enrique | Figuerola Camue |  |
Kuba | 10,2 | |
| 3. | Henry Winston "Harry" | Jerome |  |
Kanada | 10,2 | |
| 200m (200m) |
1. | Henry | Carr | |
USA | 20,3 |
| 2. | Otis Paul | Drayton | |
USA | 20,5 | |
| 3. | Edwin | Roberts |  |
Trinidad | 20,6 | |
| 400m (400m) |
1. | Michael Denny | Larrabee | |
USA | 45,1 |
| 2. | Wendell Adrian | Mottley | |
Trinidad | 45,2 | |
| 3. | Andzrej | Badenski |  |
Poljska | 45,6 | |
| 800m (800m) |
1. | Peter | Snell |  |
Novi Zeland | 1:45,1 |
| 2. | William Frederick | Crothers | |
Kanada | 1:45,6 | |
| 3. | Wilson Choma | Kiprugut |  |
Kenija | 1:45,9 | |
| 1.500m (1.500m) |
1. | Peter | Snell | |
Novi Zeland | 3:38,1 |
| 2. | Josef | Odlozil |  |
Čehoslovačka | 3:39,6 | |
| 3. | John | Davies | |
Novi Zeland | 3:39,9 | |
| 5.000m (5.000m) |
1. | Robert Keyser | Schul | |
USA | 13:48,8 |
| 2. | Harald | Norpoth |  |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 13:49,6 | |
| 3. | William Solon | Dellinger | |
USA | 13:49,8 | |
| 10.000m (10.000m) |
1. | William | Mills | |
USA | 28:24,4 |
| 2. | Mohamed | Gammoudi |  |
Tunis | 28:24,8 | |
| 3. | Ronald | Clarke |  |
Australija | 28:25,8 | |
| marathon (maraton 42.195m) |
1. | Abebe | Bikila |  |
Etiopija | 2;12:11,2 |
| 2. | Benjamin Basil | Heatley |  |
Vel.Britanija | 2;16:19,2 | |
| 3. | Kokichi | Tsuburaya |  |
Japan | 2;16:22,8 | |
| 110m hurdles (110m prepone) | 1. | Hayes | Jones | |
USA | 13,6 |
| 2. | Harold Blaine | Lindgren | |
USA | 13,7 | |
| 3. | Anatoly | Mikhaylov |  |
SSSR | 13,7 | |
| 400m hurdles (400m prepone) |
1. | Warren(Rex) Jay | Cawley | |
USA | 49,6 |
| 2. | John Hugh | Cooper | |
Vel.Britanija | 50,1 | |
| 3. | Salvatore | Morale |  |
Italija | 50,1 | |
| 3.000meters steeplechase (3.000m zapreke) | 1. | Gaston | Roelants |  |
Belgija | 8:30,8 |
| 2. | Maurice | Herriott | |
Vel.Britanija | 8:32,4 | |
| 3. | Ivan | Belyaev | |
SSSR | 8:33,8 | |
| 4x100m realy (štafeta 4x100m) |
1. | - | - | |
USA | 39,0 |
| 2. | - | - | |
Poljska | 39,3 | |
| 3. | - | - |  |
Francuska | 39,3 | |
| 4x400m realy (štafeta 4x400m) |
1. | - | - | |
USA | 3:00,7 |
| 2. | - | - | |
Vel.Britanija | 3:01,6 | |
| 3. | - | - | |
Trinidad | 3:01,7 | |
| 20km race walk (hodanje 20km) | 1. | Kenneth Joseph | Matthews | |
Vel.Britanija | 1;29:34,0 |
| 2. | Dieter | Lindner | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 1;31:13,2 | |
| 3. | Vladimir | Golubnichy | |
SSSR | 1;31:59,4 | |
| 50km race walk (hodanje 50km) | 1. | Abdon | Pamich | |
Italija | 4;11:12,4 |
| 2. | Paul Vincent | Nihill | |
Vel.Britanija | 4;11:31,2 | |
| 3. | Ingvar | Pettersson |  |
Švedska | 4;14:17,4 | |
| high
jump (skok u vis) |
1. | Valeri | Brumel | |
SSSR | 2,18 |
| 2. | John Curtis | Thomas | |
USA | 2,18 | |
| 3. | John Bernett | Rambo | |
USA | 2,16 | |
| long
jump (skok u dalj) |
1. | Lynn | Davies | |
Vel.Britanija | 8,07 |
| 2. | Ralph Harold | Boston | |
USA | 8,03 | |
| 3. | Igor | Ter-Ovanesyan | |
SSSR | 7,99 | |
| triple
jump (troskok) |
1. | Jozef | Schmidt | |
Poljska | 16,85 |
| 2. | Oleg | Fedoseev | |
SSSR | 16,58 | |
| 3. | Viktor | Kravchenko | |
SSSR | 16,57 | |
| pole
vault (skok s motk.) |
1. | Frederick Morgan | Hansen | |
USA | 5,10 |
| 2. | Wolfgang | Reinhardt | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 5,05 | |
| 3. | Klaus | Lehnertz | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 5,00 | |
| shot
put (bac. kugle) |
1. | Dallas Crutcher | Long | |
USA | 20,33 |
| 2. | James Randel | Matson | |
USA | 20,20 | |
| 3. | Vilmos | Varju |  |
Mađarska | 19,39 | |
| discus
throw (bac. diska) |
1. | Alfred | Oerter | |
USA | 61,00 |
| 2. | Ludvik | Danek | |
Čehoslovačka | 60,52 | |
| 3. | David Lawson | Weill | |
USA | 59,49 | |
| hammer
throw (bac. kladiva) |
1. | Romuald | Klim | |
SSSR | 69,74 |
| 2. | Gyula | Zsivotzky | |
Mađarska | 69,09 | |
| 3. | Uwe | Beyer | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 68,09 | |
| javelin
throw (bac. koplja) |
1. | Pauli Lauri | Nevala |  |
Finska | 82,66 |
| 2. | Gergely | Kulcsar | |
Mađarska | 82,32 | |
| 3. | Yanis | Lusis | |
SSSR | 80,57 | |
| decathlon (desetoboj) | 1. | Willi | Holdorf | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 7.8887 |
| 2. | Rein | Aun | |
SSSR | 7.842 | |
| 3. | Hans Joachim | Walde | |
Njemačka(SR+DDR) | 7.809 |