| discpline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Men 100m | Valeriy Borzov | URS | Robert Taylor | USA | Lennox Miller | JAM |
| Men 200m | Valeriy Borzov | URS | Larry Black | USA | Pietro Mennea | ITA |
| Men 400m | Vincent Matthews | USA | Wayne Collett | USA | Julius Sang | KEN |
| Men 800m | David Wottle | USA | Yevgeniy Arzhanov | URS | Mike Boit | KEN |
| Men 1500m | Pekka Vasala | FIN | Kipchoge Keino | KEN | Rod Dixon | NZL |
| Men 5000m | Lasse Viren | FIN | Mohamed Gammoudi | TUN | Ian Stewart | GBR |
| Men 10000m | Lasse Viren | FIN | Emiel Puttemans | BEL | Miruts Yifter | ETH |
| Men Marathon | Frank Shorter | USA | Karel Lismont | BEL | Mamo Wolde | ETH |
| Men 110m Hurdles | Rod Milburn | USA | Guy Drut | FRA | Thomas Hill | USA |
| Men 400m Hurdles | John Akii-Bua | UGA | Ralph Mann | USA | David Hemery | GBR |
| Men 3000m Steeplechase | Kipchoge Keino | KEN | Benjamin Jipcho | KEN | Tapio Kantanen | FIN |
| Men 4x100m Relay | United States | Soviet Union | West Germany | |||
| Men 4x400m Relay | Kenya | Great Britain | France | |||
| Men High Jump | Yuriy Tarmak | URS | Stefan Junge | GDR | Dwight Stones | USA |
| Men Long Jump | Randy Williams | USA | Hans Baumgartner | FRG | Arnie Robinson | USA |
| Men Pole Vault | Wolfgang Nordwig | GDR | Bob Seagren | USA | Jan Johnson | USA |
| Men Triple Jump | Viktor Saneyev | URS | Jorg Drehmel | GDR | Nelson Prudencio | BRA |
| Men Shot Put | Wladyslaw Komar | POL | George Woods | USA | Hartmut Briesenick | GDR |
| Men Discus Throw | Ludvig Danek | TCH | Jay Silvester | USA | Rickard Bruch | SWE |
| Men Javelin Throw | Klaus Wolfermann | GER | Janis Lusis | URS | William Schmidt | USA |
| Men Hammer Throw | Anatoliy Bondarchuk | URS | Jochen Sachse | GDR | Vasiliy Khmelevskiy | URS |
| Men Decathlon | Nikolay Avilov | URS | Leonid Litvinenko | URS | Ryszard Katus | POL |
| Men 20km Walk | Peter Frenkel | GDR | Vladimir Golubnichi | URS | Hans Reimann | GDR |
| Men 50km Walk | Bernd Kannenberg | GER | Veniamin Soldatenko | URS | Larry Young | USA |
| discpline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Women 100m | Renate Stecher | GDR | Raelene Boyle | AUS | Silvia Chivas | CUB |
| Women 200m | Renate Stecher | GDR | Raelene Boyle | AUS | Irena Szewinska | POL |
| Women 400m | Monika Zehrt | GDR | Rita Wilden | FRG | Kathy Hammond | USA |
| Women 800m | Hildegard Falck | GER | Nijole Sabaite | URS | Gunhild Hoffmeister | GDR |
| Women 1500m | Lyudmila Bragina | URS | Gunhild Hoffmeister | FRG | Paola Cacchi | ITA |
| Women 100m Hurdles | Anneliese Ehrhardt | GDR | Valeria Bufanu | ROM | Karin Balzer | GDR |
| Women 4x100m Relay | West Germany | East Germany | Cuba | |||
| Women 4x400m Relay | East Germany | United States | West Germany | |||
| Women Pentathlon | Mary Peters | GBR | Heide Rosendahl | FRG | Burglinde Pollak | GDR |
| Women High Jump | Ulrike Meyfarth | GER | Yordanka Blagoeva | BUL | Ilona Gusenbauer | AUT |
| Women Long Jump | Heide Rosendahl | GER | Diana Yorgova | BUL | Eva Suranova | TCH |
| Women Shot Put | Nadezhda Chizhova | URS | Margitta Gummel | GDR | Ivanka Khristova | BUL |
| Women Discus Throw | Faina Melnik | URS | Argentina Menis | ROM | Vasilka Stoeva | BUL |
| Women Javelin Throw | Ruth Fuchs | GDR | Jaqueline Todten | GDR | Kathy Schmidt | USA |
| Athletics World Index |
| Medals | G | S | B | All |
| 1. Soviet Union | 9 | 7 | 1 | 17 |
| 2. East Germany | 8 | 6 | 5 | 19 |
| 3. United States | 6 | 8 | 8 | 22 |
| 4. West Germany | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 |
| 5. Finland | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 6. Kenya | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 7. Great Britain | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 8. Poland | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 9. Czechoslovakia | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 10.Uganda | 1 | 1 | ||
| 11.Bulgaria | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 12.Australia | 2 | 2 | ||
| 12.Belgium | 2 | 2 | ||
| 12.Romania | 2 | 2 | ||
| 15.France | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 16.Tunisia | 1 | 1 | ||
| 17.Ethiopia | 2 | 2 | ||
| 17.Italy | 2 | 2 | ||
| 17.Cuba | 2 | 2 | ||
| 20.Jamaica | 1 | 1 | ||
| 20.Austria | 1 | 1 | ||
| 20.Sweden | 1 | 1 | ||
| 20.New Zealand | 1 | 1 | ||
| 20.Brazil | 1 | 1 |
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Prepared and maintained by Todor Krastev
todor1966@yahoo.com
Last updated: 20 Aug 2009
