| 100m (100m) |
1. | Gail | Devers |  |
USA | 10,82 |
| 2. | Juliet | Cuthbert |  |
Jamajka | 10,83 | |
| 3. | Irina | Privalova |  |
ZND | 10,84 | |
| 200m (200m) |
1. | Gwen | Torrence | |
USA | 21,81 |
| 2. | Juliet | Cuthbert | |
Jamajka | 22,02 | |
| 3. | Merlene | Ottey-Page | |
Jamajka | 22,09 | |
| 400m (400m) |
1. | Marie-Jose | Perec |  |
Francuska | 48,83 |
| 2. | Olga | Bryzguina | |
ZND | 49,05 | |
| 3. | Ximena | Restrepo-Gaviria |  |
Kolumbija | 49,64 | |
| 800m (800m) |
1. | Ellen | Van Langen |  |
Nizozemska | 1:55,54 |
| 2. | Lilia | Nurutdinova | |
ZND | 1:55,99 | |
| 3. | Ana Fidelia | Quirot |  |
Kuba | 1:56,80 | |
| 1.500m (1.500m) |
1. | Hassiba | Boulmerka |  |
Alžir | 3:55,30 |
| 2. | Liudmila | Rogacheva | |
ZND | 3:56,91 | |
| 3. | Qu | Yunxia |  |
Kina | 3:57,08 | |
| 3.000m (3.000m) |
1. | Elena | Romanova | |
ZND | 8:46,04 |
| 2. | Tatiana | Dorovskih | |
ZND | 8:46,85 | |
| 3. | Angela Frances | Chalmers |  |
Kanada | 8:47,22 | |
| 10.000m (10.000m) |
1. | Derartu | Tulu |  |
Etiopija | 31:06,02 |
| 2. | Elana | Meyer |  |
Južna Afrika | 31:11,75 | |
| 3. | Lynn A. | Jennings | |
USA | 31:19,89 | |
| marathon (maraton 42.195m) |
1. | Valentina | Yegorova | |
ZND | 2;32:41 |
| 2. | Yuko | Arimori |  |
Japan | 2;32:49 | |
| 3. | Lorraine Mary | Moller |  |
Novi Zeland | 2;33:59 | |
| 100m hurdles (110m prepone) | 1. | Paraskevi Voula | Patoulidou |  |
Grčka | 12,64 |
| 2. | La Vonna Ann | Martin | |
USA | 12,69 | |
| Yordanka | Donkova |  |
Bugarska | 12,70 | ||
| 400m hurdles (400m prepone) | 1. | Sally Janet Jane | Gunnell |  |
Velika Britanija | 53,23 |
| 2. | Sandra | Farmer-Patrick | |
USA | 53,69 | |
| 3. | Janeene | Vickers | |
USA | 54,31 | |
| 4x100m
realy (štafeta 4x100m) |
1. | - | - | |
USA | 42,11 |
| 2. | - | - | |
ZND | 42,16 | |
| 3. | - | - |  |
Nigerija | 42,81 | |
| 4x400m
realy (štafeta 4x400m) |
1. | - | - | |
ZND | 3:20,20 |
| 2. | - | - | |
USA | 3:20,92 | |
| 3. | - | - | |
Velika Britanija | 3:24,23 | |
| 10.000m
walk (hod. 10km) |
1. | Yueling | Chen | |
Kina | 44:32 |
| 2. | Elena | Nikolayeva | |
ZND | 44:33 | |
| 3. | Li | Chunxiu | |
Kina | 44:41 | |
| high
jump (skok u vis) |
1. | Heike | Henkel |  |
Njemačka | 2,02 |
| 2. | Galina | Astafei |  |
Rumunjska | 2,00 | |
| 3. | Joanet | Quintero | |
Kuba | 1,97 | |
| long
jump (skok u dalj) |
1. | Heike | Drechsler | |
Njemačka | 7,14 |
| 2. | Inessa | Kravets | |
ZND | 7,12 | |
| 3. | Jackie | Joyner-Kersee | |
USA | 7,07 | |
| shot
put
(bac. kugle) |
1. | Svetlana | Kriveleva | |
ZND | 21,06 |
| 2. | Zhihong | Huang | |
Kina | 20,47 | |
| 3. | Kathrin | Niemke | |
Njemačka | 19,78 | |
| discus
throw (bac. diska) |
1. | Maritza | Marten | |
Kuba | 70,06 |
| 2. | Tzvetanka Mintcheva | Christova | |
Bugarska | 67,78 | |
| 3. | Daniela | Costian |  |
Australia | 66,24 | |
| javelin
throw (bac. koplja) |
1. | Silke | Renk | |
Njemačka | 68,34 |
| 2. | Natalia | Shikolenko | |
ZND | 68,26 | |
| 3. | Karen | Forkel | |
Njemačka | 66,86 | |
| heptathlon sedmoboj | 1. | Jackie | Joyner-Kersee | |
USA | 7.044 |
| 2. | Irina | Belova | |
ZND | 6.845 | |
| 3. | Sabine | Braun | |
Njemačka | 6.649 |