| 100m (100m) |
1. | Valery | Borzov |  |
SSSR | 10,14 |
| 2. | Robert | Taylor |  |
USA | 10,24 | |
| 3. | Lennox | Miller |  |
Jamajka | 10,33 | |
| 200m (200m) |
1. | Valery | Borzov | |
SSSR | 20,00 |
| 2. | Lawrence J. | Black | |
USA | 20,19 | |
| 3. | Pietro | Mennea |  |
Italija | 20,30 | |
| 400m (400m) |
1. | Vincent Edward | Matthews | |
USA | 44,66 |
| 2. | Wayne Curtis | Collett | |
USA | 44,80 | |
| 3. | Julius | Sang |  |
Kenija | 44,92 | |
| 800m (800m) |
1. | David James | Wottle | |
USA | 1:45,9 |
| 2. | Yevgeni | Arzhanov | |
SSSR | 1:45,9 | |
| 3. | Michael | Boit | |
Kenija | 1:46,0 | |
| 1.500m (1.500m) |
1. | Pekka | Vasala |  |
Kenija | 3:36,3 |
| 2. | Kipchoge | Keino | |
Finska | 3:36,8 | |
| 3. | Rodney | Dixon |  |
Novi Zeland | 3:37,5 | |
| 5.000m (5.000m) |
1. | Lasse | Viren | |
Finska | 13:26,4 |
| 2. | Mahamed | Gammoudi |  |
Tunis | 13:27,4 | |
| 3. | Ian | Stewart |  |
Velika Britanija | 13:27,6 | |
| 10.000m (10.000m) |
1. | Lasse | Viren | |
Finska | 27:38,4 |
| 2. | Emiel | Puttemans |  |
Belgija | 27:39,6 | |
| 3. | Miruts | Yifter |  |
Etiopija | 27:41,0 | |
| marathon (maraton 42.195m) |
1. | Frank Charles | Shorter | |
USA | 2;12:19,8 |
| 2. | Karel | Lismont | |
Belgija | 2;14:31,8 | |
| 3. | Mamo | Wolde | |
Etiopija | 2;15:08,4 | |
| 110m hurdles (110m prepone) | 1. | Rodney Jr. | Milburn | |
USA | 13,24 |
| 2. | Guy | Drut |  |
Francuska | 13,34 | |
| 3. | Thomas | Hill | |
USA | 13,48 | |
| 400m hurdles (400m prepone) |
1. | John | Akii-Bua |  |
Uganda | 47,82 |
| 2. | Ralph Vernon | Mann | |
USA | 48,51 | |
| 3. | David Peter | Hemery | |
Velika Britanija | 48,52 | |
| 3.000meters steeplechase (3.000m zapreke) | 1. | Kipchoge | Keino | |
Kenija | 8:23,6 |
| 2. | Benjamin Wabura | Jipcho | |
Kenija | 8:24,6 | |
| 3. | Tapio | Kantanen | |
Finska | 8:24,8 | |
| 4x100m
realy (štafeta 4x100m) |
1. | - | - | |
USA | 38,19 |
| 2. | - | - | |
SSSR | 38,50 | |
| 3. | - | - |  |
S.R. Njemačka | 38,79 | |
| 4x400m
realy (štafeta 4x400m) |
1. | - | - | |
Kenija | 2:59,8 |
| 2. | - | - | |
Velika Britanija | 3:00,5 | |
| 3. | - | - | |
Francuska | 3:00,7 | |
| 20km
race walk (hodanje 20km) |
1. | Peter | Frenkel |  |
DDR | 1;26:42,4 |
| 2. | Vladimir | Golubnichy | |
SSSR | 1;26:55,2 | |
| 3. | Hans | Reimann | |
DDR | 1;27:16,6 | |
| 50km
race walk (hodanje 50km) |
1. | Bernd | Kannenberg | |
S.R. Njemačka | 3;56:11,6 |
| 2. | Veniamin | Soldatenko | |
SSSR | 3;58:24,0 | |
| 3. | Lawrence Dean | Young | |
USA | 4;00:46,0 | |
| high
jump (skok u vis) |
1. | Yuri | Tarmak | |
SSSR | 2,23 |
| 2. | Stefan | Junge | |
DDR | 2,21 | |
| 3. | Dwight Edwin | Stones | |
USA | 2,21 | |
| long
jump (skok u dalj) |
1. | Randel Luvelle | Williams | |
USA | 8,24 |
| 2. | Hans | Baumgartner | |
S.R. Njemačka | 8,18 | |
| 3. | Arnie | Robinson | |
USA | 8,03 | |
| triple
jump (troskok) |
1. | Viktor | Saneev | |
SSSR | 17,35 |
| 2. | Jörg | Drehmel | |
DDR | 17,31 | |
| 3. | Nelson | Prudencio |  |
Brazil | 17,05 | |
| pole
vault (skok s motk.) |
1. | Wolfgang | Nordwig | |
DDR | 5,50 |
| 2. | Robert Lloyd | Seagren | |
USA | 5,40 | |
| 3. | Jan Eric | Johnson | |
USA | 5,35 | |
| shot
put (bac. kugle) |
1. | Wladyslaw | Komar |  |
Poljska | 21,18 |
| 2. | George Roger | Woods | |
USA | 21,17 | |
| 3. | Harmut | Briesenick | |
DDR | 21,14 | |
| discus
throw (bac. diska) |
1. | Ludvik | Danek |  |
Čehoslovačka | 64,40 |
| 2. | L. Jay | Silvester | |
USA | 63,50 | |
| 3. | Rickard | Bruch |  |
Švedska | 63,40 | |
| hammer
throw (bac. kladiva) |
1. | Anatoli | Bondarchuk | |
SSSR | 75,50 |
| 2. | Jochen | Sachse | |
DDR | 74,96 | |
| 3. | Vasil | Khmelevsky | |
SSSR | 74,04 | |
| javelin
throw (bac. koplja) |
1. | Klaus | Wolfermann | |
S.R. Njemačka | 90,48 |
| 2. | Yanis | Lusis | |
SSSR | 90,46 | |
| 3. | William David | Schmidt | |
USA | 84,42 | |
| decathlon (desetoboj) | 1. | Nikolai | Avilov | |
SSSR | 8.454 |
| 2. | Leonid | Litvinenko | |
SSSR | 8.035 | |
| 3. | Ryszard | Katus | |
Poljska | 7.984 |