| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Women 100m | Wyomia Tyus | USA | Barbara Ferrell | USA | Irena Kirszenstein | POL |
| Women 200m | Irena Kirszenstein | POL | Raelene Boyle | AUS | Jennifer Lamy | AUS |
| Women 400m | Colette Besson | FRA | Lillian Board | GBR | Natalya Pechenkina | URS |
| Women 800m | Madeline Manning | USA | Ileana Silai | ROM | Maria Gommers | NED |
| Women 4x100m Relay | United States | Cuba | Soviet Union | |||
| Women 80m Hurdles | Maureen Caird | AUS | Pamela Kilborn | AUS | Chi Cheng | TWN |
| Women High Jump | Miloslava Rezkova | TCH | Antonia Okorokova | URS | Valentina Kozyr | URS |
| Women Long Jump | Viorica Viscopoleanu | ROM | Sheila Sherwood | GBR | Tatyana Talysheva | URS |
| Women Shot Put | Margitta Gummel | GDR | Marita Lange | GDR | Nadezhda Chizhova | URS |
| Women Discus Throw | Lia Manoliu | ROM | Liesel Westermann | FRG | Jolan Kleiber | HUN |
| Women Javelin Throw | Angela Nemeth | HUN | Mihaela Penes | ROM | Eva Janko | AUT |
| Women Pentathlon | Ingrid Becker | GDR | Liese Prokop | AUT | Annamaria Toth | HUN |
| Medals Women | G | S | B | All |
| 1. United States | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 2. Romania | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 3. East Germany | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 4. Australia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5. Hungary | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6. Poland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7. France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7. Czechoslovakia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9. Great Britain | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10.Soviet Union | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 11.Austria | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12.Cuba | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.West Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14.Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14.Taiwan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Prepared and maintained by Todor Krastev
todor1966@yahoo.com
Last updated: 20 Aug 2009
