| 100m (100m) |
1. | Hasely | Crawford |  |
Trinidad & Tobago | 10,06 |
| 2. | Donald | Quarrie |  |
Jamajka | 10,08 | |
| 3. | Valery | Borzov |  |
SSSR | 10,14 | |
| 200m (200m) |
1. | Donald | Quarrie | |
Jamajka | 20,23 |
| 2. | Millard Frank Jr. | Hampton |  |
USA | 20,29 | |
| 3. | Dwayne Eugene | Evans | |
USA | 20,43 | |
| 400m (400m) |
1. | Alberto | Juantorena |  |
Kuba | 44,26 |
| 2. | Frederick Vaughn | Newhouse | |
USA | 44,40 | |
| 3. | Herman Ronald | Frazier | |
USA | 44,95 | |
| 800m (800m) |
1. | Alberto | Juantorena | |
Kuba | 1:43,50 |
| 2. | Ivo | Van Damme |  |
Belgija | 1:43,86 | |
| 3. | Richard Charles | Wohlhuter | |
USA | 1:44,12 | |
| 1.500m (1.500m) |
1. | John | Walker |  |
Novi Zeland | 3:39,17 |
| 2. | Ivo | Van Damme | |
Belgija | 3:39,27 | |
| 3. | Paul-Heinz | Wellmann |  |
S.R. Njemačka | 3:39,33 | |
| 5.000m (5.000m) |
1. | Lasse | Viren |  |
Finska | 13:24,76 |
| 2. | Dick Theodorus | Quax | |
Novi Zeland | 13:25,16 | |
| 3. | Klaus-Peter | Hildenbrand | |
S.R. Njemačka | 13:25,38 | |
| 10.000m (10.000m) |
1. | Lasse | Viren | |
Finska | 27:40,38 |
| 2. | Carlos | Lopez |  |
Portugal | 27:45,17 | |
| 3. | Brendan | Foster |  |
Velika Britanija | 27:54,92 | |
| marathon (maraton 42.195m) |
1. | Waldemar | Cierpinski |  |
DDR | 2;09:55,0 |
| 2. | Frank Charles | Shorter | |
USA | 2;10:45,8 | |
| 3. | Karel | Lismont | |
Belgija | 2;11:12,6 | |
| 110m hurdles (110m prepone) | 1. | Guy | Drut |  |
Francuska | 13,30 |
| 2. | Alejandro | Casanas Ramirez | |
Kuba | 13,33 | |
| 3. | Willie | Davenport | |
USA | 13,38 | |
| 400m hurdles (400m prepone) |
1. | Edwin | Moses | |
USA | 47,64 |
| 2. | Michael Lyle | Shine | |
USA | 48,69 | |
| 3. | Yevgeni | Gavrilenko | |
SSSR | 49,45 | |
| 3.000meters steeplechase (3.000m zapreke) | 1. | Anders | Garderud |  |
Švedska | 8:08,02 |
| 2. | Bronislaw | Malinowski |  |
Poljska | 8:09,11 | |
| 3. | Frank | Baumgartl | |
DDR | 8:10,36 | |
| 20km race walk (hodanje 20km) | 1. | Daniel | Bautista Rocha |  |
Meksiko | 1;24:40,6 |
| 2. | Hans | Reimann | |
DDR | 1;25:13,8 | |
| 3. | Peter | Frenkel | |
DDR | 1;25:29,4 | |
| 4x100m
realy (štafeta 4x100m) |
1. | - | - | |
USA | 38,33 |
| 2. | - | - | |
DDR | 38,66 | |
| 3. | - | - | |
SSSR | 38,78 | |
| 4x400m
realy (štafeta 4x400m) |
1. | - | - | |
USA | 2:58,65 |
| 2. | - | - | |
Poljska | 3:01,43 | |
| 3. | - | - | |
S.R. Njemačka | 3:01,98 | |
| high
jump (skok u vis) |
1. | Jacek | Wszola | |
Poljska | 2,25 |
| 2. | Gregory | Joy |  |
Kanada | 2,23 | |
| 3. | Dwight Edwin | Stones | |
USA | 2,21 | |
| long
jump (skok u dalj) |
1. | Arnie | Robinson | |
USA | 8,35 |
| 2. | Randel Luvelle | Williams | |
USA | 8,11 | |
| 3. | Frank | Wartenberg | |
DDR | 8,02 | |
| triple
jump (troskok) |
1. | Viktor | Saneev | |
SSSR | 17,29 |
| 2. | James A. | Butts | |
USA | 17,18 | |
| 3. | Joao Carlos | De Oliveira |  |
Brazil | 16,90 | |
| pole
vault (skok s motk.) |
1. | Tadeusz | Slusarski | |
Poljska | 5,50 |
| 2. | Antti Tapani | Kalliomäki | |
Finska | 5,50 | |
| 3. | David Luther | Roberts | |
USA | 5,50 | |
| shot
put (bac. kugle) |
1. | Udo | Beyer | |
DDR | 21,05 |
| 2. | Yevgeni | Mironov | |
SSSR | 21,03 | |
| 3. | Aleksandr | Barishnikov | |
SSSR | 21,00 | |
| discus
throw (bac. diska) |
1. | Malcom Maurice | Wilkins | |
USA | 67,50 |
| 2. | Wolfgang | Schmidt | |
DDR | 66,22 | |
| 3. | John Gates | Powell | |
USA | 65,70 | |
| hammer
throw (bac. kladiva) |
1. | Yuri | Sedykh | |
SSSR | 77,52 |
| 2. | Aleksei | Spiridonov | |
SSSR | 76,08 | |
| 3. | Anatoli | Bondarchuk | |
SSSR | 75,48 | |
| javelin
throw (bac. koplja) |
1. | Miklos | Nemeth |  |
Mađarska | 94,58 |
| 2. | Hannu Juhani | Siitonen | |
Finska | 87,92 | |
| 3. | Gheorghe | Megelea |  |
Rumunjska | 87,16 | |
| decathlon (desetoboj) | 1. | William Bruce | Jenner | |
USA | 8.618 |
| 2. | Guido | Kratschmer | |
S.R. Njemačka | 8.411 | |
| 3. | Nikolai | Avilov | |
SSSR | 8.369 |