| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Men 100m | Linford Christie | GBR | Frank Fredericks | NAM | Dennis Mitchell | USA |
| Men 200m | Mike Marsh | USA | Frank Fredericks | NAM | Michael Bates | USA |
| Men 400m | Quincy Watts | USA | Steve Lewis | USA | Samson Kitur | KEN |
| Men 800m | William Tanui | KEN | Nixon Kiprotich | KEN | Johnny Gray | USA |
| Men 1500m | Fermin Cacho | ESP | Rachid el Basir | MAR | Mohamed Suleiman | QAT |
| Men 5000m | Dieter Baumann | GER | Paul Bitok | KEN | Fita Bayissa | ETH |
| Men 10000m | Khalid Skah | MAR | Richard Chelimo | KEN | Addis Abebe | ETH |
| Men Marathon | Hwang Young-Cho | KOR | Koichi Morishita | JPN | Stephan Freigang | GER |
| Men 110m Hurdles | Mark McKoy | CAN | Tony Dees | USA | Jack Pierce | USA |
| Men 400m Hurdles | Kevin Young | USA | Winthrop Graham | JAM | Kriss Akabusi | GBR |
| Men 3000m Steeplechase | Matthew Birir | KEN | Patrick Sang | KEN | William Mutwol | KEN |
| Men 4x100m Relay | United States | Nigeria | Cuba | |||
| Men 4x400m Relay | United States | Cuba | Great Britain | |||
| Men High Jump | Javier Sotomayor | CUB | Patrik Sjoeberg | SWE | Artur Partykar | POL |
| Tim Forsythe | AUS | |||||
| Hollis Conway | USA | |||||
| Men Pole Vault | Maxim Tarassov | EUN | Igor Trandenkov | EUN | Javier Garcia | ESP |
| Men Long Jump | Carl Lewis | USA | Mike Powell | USA | Joe Greene | USA |
| Men Triple Jump | Mike Conley | USA | Charlie Simpkins | USA | Frank Rutherford | BAH |
| Men Shot Put | Mike Stulce | USA | Jim Doehring | USA | Vyacheslav Lykho | EUN |
| Men Discus Throw | Romas Ubartas | LIT | Jurgen Schult | GER | Roberto Moya | CUB |
| Men Hammer Throw | Andrey Abduvaliyev | EUN | Igor Astapkovich | EUN | Igor Nikulin | EUN |
| Men Javelin Throw | Jan Zelezny | TCH | Seppo Raty | FIN | Steve Backley | GBR |
| Men Decathlon | Robert Zmelik | TCH | Antonio Penalver | ESP | David Johnson | USA |
| Men 20km Walk | Daniel Plaza | ESP | Guillaume Leblanc | CAN | Giovanni de Benedictis | ITA |
| Men 50km Walk | Andrey Perlov | EUN | Carlos Mercenario | MEX | Ronald Weigel | GER |
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Women 100m | Gail Devers | USA | Juliet Cuthbert | JAM | Irina Privalova | EUN |
| Women 200m | Gwen Torrence | USA | Juliet Cuthbert | JAM | Merlene Ottey | JAM |
| Women 400m | Marie-Jose Perec | FRA | Olga Bryzgina | EUN | Ximena Restrepo | COL |
| Women 800m | Ellen van Langen | NED | Liliya Nurutdinova | EUN | Ana Fidelia Quirot | CUB |
| Women 1500m | Hassiba Boulmerka | ALG | Lyudmila Rogachova | EUN | Qu Yunxia | CHN |
| Women 3000m | Yelena Romanova | EUN | Tatyana Dorovskikh | EUN | Angela Chalmers | CAN |
| Women 10000m | Derartu Tulu | ETH | Elana Meyer | RSA | Lynn Jennings | USA |
| Women Marathon | Valentina Yegorova | EUN | Yuko Arimori | JPN | Lorraine Moller | NZL |
| Women 100m Hurdles | Paraskevi Patoulidou | GRE | LaVonna Martin | USA | Yordanka Donkova | BUL |
| Women 400m Hurdles | Sally Gunnell | GBR | Sandra Farmer-Patrick | USA | Janeene Vickers | USA |
| Women 4x100m Relay | United States | Unified Team | Nigeria | |||
| Women 4x400m Relay | Unified Team | United States | Great Britain | |||
| Women High Jump | Heike Henkel | GER | Galina Astafei | ROM | Ioamnet Quintero | CUB |
| Women Long Jump | Heike Drechsler | GER | Inessa Kravets | EUN | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | USA |
| Women Shot Put | Svetlana Krivelyova | EUN | Huang Zhihong | CHN | Kathrin Neimke | GER |
| Women Discus Throw | Maritza Marten | CUB | Tsvetanka Khristova | BUL | Daniela Costian | AUS |
| Women Javelin Throw | Silke Renk | GER | Natalya Shikolenko | EUN | Karin Forkel | GER |
| Women Heptathlon | Jackie Joyner-Kersee | USA | Irina Belova | EUN | Sabine Braun | GER |
| Women 10km Walk | Chen Yueling | CHN | Yelena Nikolayeva | EUN | Li Chunxiu | CHN |
| Athletics World Index |
| Medals | G | S | B | All |
| 1. United States | 12 | 8 | 10 | 30 |
| 2. Soviet Union | 7 | 11 | 3 | 21 |
| 3. Germany | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 4. Kenya | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 5. Cuba | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 6. Spain | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7. Great Britain | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| 8. Czechoslovakia | 2 | 2 | ||
| 9. China | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 10.Canada | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11.Marocco | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 12.Ethiopia | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 13.Greece | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13.Algeria | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13.Netherlands | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13.France | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13.Lithuania | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13.South Korea | 1 | 1 | ||
| 19.Jamaica | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 20.Namibia | 2 | 2 | ||
| 20.Japan | 2 | 2 | ||
| 22.Nigeria | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 22.Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 24.Romania | 1 | 1 | ||
| 24.South Africa | 1 | 1 | ||
| 24.Mexico | 1 | 1 | ||
| 24.Finland | 1 | 1 | ||
| 24.Sweden | 1 | 1 | ||
| 29.Colombia | 1 | 1 | ||
| 29.Qatar | 1 | 1 | ||
| 29.Australia | 2 | 2 | ||
| 29.New Zealand | 1 | 1 | ||
| 29.Italy | 1 | 1 | ||
| 29.Poland | 1 | 1 | ||
| 29.Bahamas | 1 | 1 |
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Last updated: 22 Sep 2020
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