Event
| Gold
| Silver
| Bronze
|
100 m Men
| Linford Christie, GBR
| Frankie Fredericks, Namibia
| Dennis Mitchell, USA
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100 m Women
| Gail Devers, Usa
| Juliet Cuthbert, Jamaica
| Irina Privalova, Unified Team
|
100 m Hurdles Women
| Paraskevi Voula Patoulidou, Greece
| La Vona Ann Martin, USA
| Yordanka Donkova, Bulgaria
|
110 m Hurdles Men
| Mark McKoy, Canada
| Tony Dees, USA
| Jack Pierce, USA
|
200 m Men
| Michael Marsh, USA
| Frankie Fredericks, Namibia
| Michael D Bates, USA
|
200 m Women
| Gwen Torrence, USA
| Juliet Cuthbert, Jamaica
| Merlene Ottey-Page, Jamaica
|
400 m Men
| Quincy Watts, USA
| Steve Lewis, USA
| Samson Kitur, Kenya
|
400 m Women
| Marie-Jose Perec, France
| Olga Bryzguina, Unified Team
| Ximena Restrepo Gaviria, Colombia
|
400 m Hurdles Men
| Kevin Young, USA
| Winthrop Graham, Jamaica
| Kriss Akabusi, GBR
|
400 m Hurdles Women
| Sally Gunnell, GBR
| Sandra Farmer-Patrick, USA
| Janeene Vickers, USA
|
800 m Men
| William Tanui, Kenya
| Nixon Kiprotich, Kenya
| Jonny Lee Gray Jr., USA
|
800 m Women
| Ellen van Langen, Netherlands
| Lilia Nurutdinova, Unified Team
| Maria Mutola, Mozambique
|
1500 m Men
| Fermin Cacho Ruiz, Spain
| Rachid El Basir, Morocco
| Mohamed Ahmed Sulaiman, Qatar
|
1500 m Women
| Hassiba Boulmerka, Algeria
| Lioudmila Rogatcheva, Unified Team
| Yunxia Qu, China
|
3000 m Women
| Elena Romanova, Unified Team
| Tatiana Dorovskih, Unified Team
| Angela Frances Chalmers, Canada
|
3,000 m Steeplechase Men
| Mathew Birir, Kenya
| Patrick Sang, Kenya
| William Mutwol, Kenya
|
5,000 m Men
| Dieter Baumann, Germany
| Paul Bitok, Kenya
| Fita Bayisa, Ethiopia
|
10,000 m Men
| Khalid Skah, Morocco
| Richard Chelimo, Kenya
| Addis Abebe, Ethiopia
|
10,000 m Women
| Derartu Tulu, Ethiopia
| Elana Meyer, South Africa
| Lynn Jennings, USA
|
10 km Walk Women
| Yueling Chen, China
| Elena Nikolayeva, Unified Team
| Chunxiu Li, China
|
20 km Walk Men
| Daniel Plaza Montero, Spain
| Guillaume Leblanc, Canada
| Giovanni De Benedictis, Italy
|
50 km Walk Men
| Andrey Perlov, Unified Team
| Carlos Mercinario Carbajal, Mexico
| Ronald Weigel, Germany
|
4 x 100 m Relay Men
| USA, Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell, Michael Marsh, Dennis Mitchell
| NIGERIA, Olapade Adeniken, Davidson Ezinwa, Chidi Imoh, Oluyemi Kayode
| CUBA, Jorge Luis Aguilera Ruiz, Joel Isasi, Andres Simon, Joel Lamela
|
4 x 100 m Women
| USA, Gwen Torrence, Evelyn Ashford, Carlette D. Guidry-White, Esther Jones
| UNIFIED TEAM, Galina Maltchouguina, Irina Privalova, Marina Trandenkova, Olga Bogoslovskaya
| NIGERIA, Beatrice Utondu, Christy Opara-Thompson, Mary Onyali, Faith Idehen
|
4 x 400 m Men
| USA, Andrew Valmon, Quincy Watts, Michael Johnson, Steve Lewis
| CUBA, Norberto Tellez, Roberto Hernandez Prendes, Lazaro Martinez Despaigne, Hector Herrera Ortiz
| GBR, Kriss Akabusi, Roger Black, David Allan Grindley, John Paul Lyndon Regis
|
4 x 400 m Women
| UNIFIED TEAM, Olga Bryzguina, Lioudmila Djigalova, Olga Nazarova, Yelena Rouzina
| USA, Gwen Torrence, Jearl Miles, Rochelle Stevens, Natasha Kaiser
| GBR, Sally Gunnell, Phylis Smith, Jennifer Stoute, Sandra Marie Douglas,
|
Marathon Men
| Young-Cho Hwang, South Korea
| Koichi Morishita, Japan
| Stephen Timo Freigang, Germany
|
Marathon Women
| Valentina Yegorova, Russia
| Yuko Arimori, Japan
| Lorraine Mary Moller, New Zealand
|
Long Jump Men
| Carl Lewis, USA
| Mike Powell, USA
| Joe Greene, USA
|
Long Jump Women
| Heike Dreschler, Germany
| Inessa Kravets, Unified Team
| Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA
|
Triple Jump Men
| Mike Conley, USA
| Charles Simpkins, USA
| Frank Rutherford, Bahamas
|
High Jump Men
| Javier Sotomayor, Cuba
| Patrick Sjöberg, Sweden
| Hollis Conway, USA equal with Artur Partyka, Poland
|
High Jump Women
| Heike Henkel, Germany
| Galina Astafei, Romania
| Joanet Quintero, Cuba
|
Javelin Men
| Jan Zelezný, Czech Republic
| Seppo Henrik Raty, Finland
| Steve Backley, GBR
|
Javelin Women
| Silke Renk, Germany
| Natalia Shikolenko, Unified Team
| Karen Forkel, Germany
|
Discus Men
| Romas Ubartas, Lithuania
| Jurgen Schult, Germany
| Roberto S. Moya, Cuba
|
Discus Women
| Maritza Marten, Cuba
| Tzvetanka Mintcheva Khritova, Bulgaria
| Daniela Costian, Australia
|
Hammer Men
| Andrey Abduvaliev, Unified Team
| Igor Astapkovich, Unified Team
| Igor Nikouline, Unified Team
|
Shot Put Men
| Michael D. Stulce, USA
| James Doehring, USA
| Viatcheslav Lykho, Unified Team
|
Shot Put Women
| Svetlana Kriveleva, Unified Team
| Zhihong Huang, China
| Kathrin Neimke, Germany
|
Pole Vault Men
| Maksim Tarasov, Unified Team
| Igor Trandenkov, Unified Team
| Javier Garcia Chico, Spain
|
Heptathlon Women
| Jackie Joyner-Kersee, USA
| Irina Belova, Unified Team
| Sabine Braun, Germany
|
Decathlon Men
| Robert Zmelik, Czechoslovakia
| Antonio Penalver Asensio, Spain
| David Allan Johnson, USA
|