| discpline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Men 100m | Allan Wells | GBR | Silvio Leonard | CUB | Petar Petrov | BUL |
| Men 200m | Pietro Mennea | ITA | Allan Wells | GBR | Don Quarrie | JAM |
| Men 400m | Viktor Markin | URS | Richard Mitchell | AUS | Frank Schaffer | GDR |
| Men 800m | Steve Ovett | GBR | Sebastian Coe | GBR | Nikolay Kirov | URS |
| Men 1500m | Sebastian Coe | GBR | Jurgen Straub | GDR | Steve Ovett | GBR |
| Men 5000m | Miruts Yifter | ETH | Suleiman Nyambui | TAN | Kaarlo Maaninka | FIN |
| Men 10000m | Miruts Yifter | ETH | Kaarlo Maaninka | FIN | Mohamed Kedir | ETH |
| Men Marathon | Waldemar Cierpinski | GDR | Gerard Nijboer | NED | Satymkul Dzhumanazarov | URS |
| Men 110m Hurdles | Thomas Munkelt | GDR | Alejandra Casanas | CUB | Aleksandr Puchkov | URS |
| Men 400m Hurdles | Volker Beck | GDR | Vasiliy Arkhipenko | URS | Gary Oakes | GBR |
| Men 3000m Steeplechase | Bronislaw Malinowski | POL | Filbert Bayi | TAN | Eshetu Tura | ETH |
| Men 4x100m Relay | Soviet Union | Poland | France | |||
| Men 4x400m Relay | Soviet Union | East Germany | Italy | |||
| Men High Jump | Gerd Wessig | GDR | Jacek Wszola | POL | Jorg Freimuth | GDR |
| Men Long Jump | Lutz Dombrowski | GDR | Frank Paschek | GDR | Valeriy Podluzhniy | URS |
| Men Pole Vault | Wladislaw Kozakiewicz | POL | Konstantin Volkov | URS | Tadeusz Slusarski | POL |
| Men Triple Jump | Jaak Uudmae | URS | Viktor Saneyev | URS | Joao Carlos de Oliveira | BRA |
| Men Shot Put | Vladimir Kiselyov | URS | Aleksandr Baryshnikov | URS | Udo Beyer | GDR |
| Men Discus Throw | Viktor Rashchupkin | URS | Imrich Bugar | TCH | Luis Delis | CUB |
| Men Javelin Throw | Dainis Kula | URS | Aleksandr Makarov | URS | Wolfgang Hanisch | GDR |
| Men Hammer Throw | Yuriy Sedykh | URS | Sergey Litvinow | URS | Juri Tamm | URS |
| Men Decathlon | Daley Thompson | GBR | Yuriy Kutsenko | URS | Sergey Zhelanov | URS |
| Men 20km Walk | Maurizio Damilano | ITA | Piotr Pochinchuk | URS | Roland Wieser | GDR |
| Men 50km Walk | Hartwig Gauder | GDR | Jorge Llopart | ESP | Evgeni Ivchenko | URS |
| discpline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Women 100m | Lyudmila Kondratyeva | URS | Marlies Gohr | GDR | Ingrid Auerswald | GDR |
| Women 200m | Barbel Wocker | GDR | Natalya Bochina | URS | Merlene Ottey | JAM |
| Women 400m | Marita Koch | GDR | Jarmila Kratochvilova | TCH | Christina Lathan | GDR |
| Women 800m | Nadezhda Olizarenko | URS | Olga Mineyeva | URS | Tatyana Providokhina | URS |
| Women 1500m | Tatyana Kazankina | URS | Christiana Wartenberg | GDR | Nadezhda Olizarenko | URS |
| Women 100m Hurdles | Vera Komisova | URS | Johanna Klier | GDR | Lucyna Langer | POL |
| Women 4x100m Relay | East Germany | Soviet Union | Great Britain | |||
| Women 4x400m Relay | Soviet Union | East Germany | Great Britain | |||
| Women High Jump | Sara Simeoni | ITA | Urszula Kielan | POL | Jutta Kirst | GDR |
| Women Long Jump | Tatyana Kolpakova | URS | Brigitte Wujak | GDR | Tatyana Skachko | URS |
| Women Shot Put | Ilona Slupianek | GDR | Svetlana Krachevskaya | URS | Margitta Pufe | GDR |
| Women Discus Throw | Evelin Jahl | GDR | Maria Vergova | BUL | Tatyana Lesovaya | URS |
| Women Javelin Throw | Maria Colon | CUB | Saida Gunba | URS | Ute Hommola | GDR |
| Women Pentathlon | Nadezhda Tkachenko | URS | Olga Rukavishnikova | URS | Olga Kuragina | URS |
| Athletics World Index |
| Team | G | S | B | All |
| 1. Soviet Union | 15 | 14 | 12 | 41 |
| 2. East Germany | 11 | 8 | 10 | 38 |
| 3. Great Britain | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 4. Italy | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5. Poland | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 6. Ethiopia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7. Cuba | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 8. Czechoslovakia | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 9. Tanzania | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10.Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11.Finland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12.Australia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12.Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15.Jamaica | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 16.France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17.Brazil | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Last updated: 30 May 2023
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