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| 50m | Zenon Nowosz | POL | 5.8s | Valeriy Borzov | URS | 5.8s | Bob Frith | GBR | 5.8s |
| 400m | Jan Balachowski | POL | 47.3s | Jan Werner | POL | 47.4s | Yuriy Zorin | URS | 47.4s |
| 800m | Dieter Fromm | GDR | 1:46.6 CR | Henryk Szordykowski | POL | 1:47.1 | Noel Carroll | IRL | 1:47.6 |
| 1500m | Edgard Salvé | BEL | 3:45.9 | Knut Brustad | NOR | 3:46.2 | Walter Wilkinson | GBR | 3:46.4 |
| 3000m | Ian Stewart | GBR | 7:55.4 CR | Javier Álvarez | ESP | 7:56.2 | Werner Girke | FRG | 7:56.8 |
| 50m Hurdles | Alan Pascoe | GBR | 6.6s | Werner Trzmiel | FRG | 6.6s | Nicolae Pertea | ROU | 6.7s |
| High Jump | Valentin Gavrilov | URS | 2.14m | Henry Elliott | FRA | 2.14m | Șerban Ioan | ROU | 2.14m |
| Pole Vault | Wolfgang Nordwig | GDR | 5.20m =CR | Hennadiy Bleznitsov | URS | 5.10m | Joachim Bär | GDR | 5.10m |
| Long Jump | Klaus Beer | GDR | 7.77m | Lynn Davies | GBR | 7.76m | Rafael Blanquer | ESP | 7.63m |
| Triple Jump | Nikolay Dudkin | URS | 16.73m CR | Zoltán Cziffra | HUN | 16.46m | Carol Corbu | ROM | 16.20m |
| Men Shot Put | Heinfried Birlenbach | FRG | 19.51m CR | Hartmut Briesenick | GDR | 19.19m | Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg | GDR | 18.69m |
| 50m | Irena Szewińska | POL | 6.4s | Sylviane Telliez | FRA | 6.5s | Madeleine Cobb | GBR | 6.5s |
| 400m | Colette Besson | FRA | 54.0s CR | Christel Frese | FRG | 54.8s | Rosemary Stirling | GBR | 54.8s |
| 800m | Barbara Wieck | GDR | 2:05.3 CR | Magdolna Kulcsár | HUN | 2:07.5 | Anna Zimina | URS | 2:08.0 |
| 50m Hurdles | Karin Balzer | GDR | 7.2s | Meta Antenen |  SUI | 7.3s | Christine Perera | GBR | 7.4s |
| High Jump | Rita Schmidt | GDR | 1.82m | Yordanka Blagoeva |  BUL | 1.82m | Antonina Lazareva | URS | 1.79m |
| Long Jump | Irena Szewińska | POL | 6.38m | Sue Scott | GBR | 6.18m | Meta Antenen | SUI | 6.15m |
| Shot Put | Marita Lange | GDR | 17.52m | Ivanka Khristova | BUL | 16.94m | Ingeburg Friedrich | GDR | 16.42m |
| 4x390m Relay | PolandJan WernerJan RadomskiAndrzej BadeńskiJan Balachowski |  3:01.9 | Soviet UnionLeonid MikishevAleksandr BratchikovValeriy BorzovYuriy Zorin | 3:01.9 |  West GermanyDieter HübnerHerbert MoserPeter BernreutherManfred Kinder | 3:04.5 |
| 3x1000m Relay | West GermanyAnton AdamWalter AdamsHarald Norpoth |  7:08.0 | CzechoslovakiaJán ŠišovskýPetr BlahaPavel Pěnkava | 7:23.1 |  YugoslaviaRadovan PiplovićSlavko KoprivicaAdam Ladik | 7:42.8 |
| 4x195m Relay | FranceOdette DucasSylviane TelliezColette BessonChristiane Martinetto |  1:34.3 | Soviet UnionGalina BukharinaVera PopkovaLyudmila GolomazovaLyudmila Samotyosova | 1:34.6 |  YugoslaviaDarja MaroltVerica AmbroziLjiljana PetnjarićMarijana Lubej | 1:36.9 |
| Medley Relay | Soviet UnionVera PopkovaLyudmila SamotyosovaRaisa NikonorovaAnna Zimina |  4:52.4 | PolandIrena SzewińskaZdzisława RobaszewskaElżbieta SkowrońskaZofia Kołakowska | 4:53.2 |  YugoslaviaVerica AmbroziIka MaričićMirjana KovačevNinoslava Tikvicki | 5:05.9 |
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