| Event:
| Gold:
| Silver:
| Bronze:
|
| 100 m Men
| Carl Lewis, USA
| Ray Stewart, Jamaica
| Linford Christie, Great Britain
|
| 100 m Women
| Silke Gladisch, East Germany
| Heike Drechsler, East Germany
| Merlene Ottey, Jamaica
|
| 100 m Hurdles Women
| Ginka Zagorcheva, Bulgaria
| Gloria Uibel, East Germany
| Cornelia Oschkenat, East Germany
|
| 110 m Hurdles Men
| Greg Foster, USA
| Jon Ridgeon, Great Britain
| Colin Jackson, Great Britain
|
| 200 m Men
| Calvin Smith, USA
| Gilles Quenéhervé, France
| John Regis, Great Britain
|
| 200 m Women
| Silke Gladisch, East Germany
| Florence Griffith, USA
| Merlene Ottey, Jamaica
|
| 400 m Men
| Thomas Schönlebe, East Germany
| Innocent Egbunike, Nigeria
| Butch Reynolds, USA
|
| 400 m Women
| Olga Bryzgina, USSR
| Petra Müller, East Germany
| Kirsten Emmelmann, East Germany
|
| 400 m Hurdles Men
| Edwin Moses, USA
| Danny Harris, USA
| Harald Schmid, West Germany
|
| 400 m Hurdles Women
| Yekaterina Fesenko, USSR
| Ana Ambraziené, USSR
| Ellen Fiedler, East Germany
|
| 800 m Men
| Billy Konchellah, Kenya
| Peter Elliott, Great Britain
| José Barbosa, Brazil
|
| 800 m Women
| Sigrun Wodars, East Germany
| Christine Wachtel, East Germany
| Lyubov Gurina, USSR
|
| 1500 m Men
| Abdi Bile, Somalia
| José González, Spain
| Jim Spivey, USA
|
| 1500 m Women
| Tatyana Samolenko, USSR
| Hildegard Körner, East Germany
| Doina Melinte, Romania
|
| 3,000 m Steeplechase Men
| Francesco Panetta, Italy
| Hagen Melzer, East Germany
| William Van Dijck, Belgium
|
| 5,000 m Men
| Saïd Aouita, Morocco
| Domingos Castro, Portugal
| Jack Buckner, Great Britain
|
| 10,000 m Men
| Paul Kipkoech, Kenya
| Francesco Panetta, Italy
| Hansjorg Kunze, East Germany
|
| 10,000 m Women
| Ingrid Kristiansen, Norway
| Yelena Zhupiyova, USSR
| Kathrin Ullrich, USSR
|
| Marathon Men
| Douglas Wakiihuri, Kenya
| Ahmed Salah, Djibouti
| Gelindo Bordin, Italy
|
| Marathon Women
| Rosa Mota, Portugal
| Zoya Ivanova, USSR
| Jocelyne Villeton, France
|
| 10 km Walk Women
| Irina Strakhova, USSR
| Kerry Saxby, Australia
| Yan Hong, China
|
| 20 km Walk Men
| Maurizio Damilano, Italy
| Jozef Pribilinec, Czechoslovakia
| José Marín, Spain
|
| 50 km Walk Men
| Hartwig Gauder, East Germany
| Ronald Weigel, East Germany
| Vyacheslav Ivanenko, USSR
|
| 4 x 100 m Relay Men
| USA
| USSR
| Jamaica
|
| 4 x 100 m Women
| USA
| East Germany
| USSR
|
| 4 x 400 m Men
| USA
| Great Britain
| Cuba
|
| 4 x 400 m Women
| East Germany
| USSR
| USA
|
| Event:
| Gold:
| Silver:
| Bronze:
|
| Long Jump Men
| Carl Lewis, USA
| Robert Emmiyan, USSR
| Larry Myricks, USA
|
| Long Jump Women
| Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA
| Yelena Belevskaya, USSR
| Heike Drechsler, East Germany
|
| Triple Jump Men
| Khristo Markov, Bulgaria
| Mike Conley, USA
| Oleg Sakirkin, USSR
|
| high jump Men
| Patrik Sjöberg, Sweden
| Gennadiy Avdeyenko and Igor Paklin both USSR (tied)
|
|
| high jump Women
| Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgaria
| Tamara Bykova, USSR
| Susanne Beyer, East Germany
|
| javelin throw Men
| Seppo Räty, Finland
| Viktor Yevsyukov, USSR
| Jan Zelezný, Czechoslovakia
|
| javelin throw Women
| Fatima Whitbread, Great Britain
| Petra Felke, East Germany
| Beate Peters, East Germany
|
| Discus Men
| Jürgen Schult, East Germany
| John Powell, USA
| Luis Delís, Cuba
|
| Discus Women
| Martina Hellmann, East Germany
| Diana Gansky, East Germany
| Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgaria
|
| Hammer Men
| Sergey Litvinov, USSR
| Jüri Tamm, USSR
| Ralf Haber, East Germany
|
| Shot Put Men
| Werner Günthör, Switzerland
| Alessandro Andrei, Italy
| John Brenner, USA
|
| Shot Put Women
| Natalya Lisovskaya, USSR
| Kathrin Neimke, East Germany
| Ines Müller, East Germany
|
| pole vault Men
| Sergey Bubka, USSR
| Thierry Vigneron, France
| Rodion Gataullin, USSR
|
| Heptathlon Women
| Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA
| Larisa Nikitina, USSR
| Jane Frederick, USA
|
| Decathlon Men
| Torsten Voss, East Germany
| Siegfried Wentz, West Germany
| Pavel Tarnovetskiy, USSR
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