Men | date | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Men 100m | 30.08 | Pietro Mennea | ITA | Eugen Ray | GDR | Vladimir Ignatenko | URS | Men 200m | 01.09 | Pietro Mennea | ITA | Olaf Prenzler | GDR | Peter Muster | SUI | Men 400m | 01.09 | Franz-Peter Hofmeister | FRG | Karel Kolar | TCH | Francis Demarthon | FRA | Men 800m | 31.08 | Olaf Beyer | GDR | Steve Ovett | GBR | Sebastian Coe | GBR | Men 1500m | 03.09 | Steve Ovett | GBR | Eamonn Coghlan | IRL | David Moorcroft | GBR | Men 5000m | 02.09 | Venanzio Ortis | ITA | Markus Ryffel | SUI | Aleksandr Fyedotkin | URS | Men 10000m | 29.08 | Martti Vainio | FIN | Venanzio Ortis | ITA | Aleksandr Antipov | URS | Men Marathon | 03.09 | Leonid Moseyev | URS | Nikolay Penzin | URS | Karel Lismont | BEL | Men 3000m Steeplechase | 03.09 | Bronislaw Malinowski | POL | Patriz Ilg | FRG | Ismu Tuokonen | FIN | Men 110m Hurdles | 03.09 | Thomas Munkelt | GDR | Jan Pusty | POL | Arto Bryggare | FIN | Men 400m Hurdles | 31.08 | Harald Schmid | FRG | Dmitriy Stukalov | URS | Vasiliy Arkhipenko | URS | Men 4x100m Relay | 03.09 | Poland | POL | East Germany | GDR | Soviet Union | URS | Men 4x400m Relay | 03.09 | West Germany | FRG | Poland | POL | Czechoslovakia | TCH | Men High Jump | 02.09 | Vladimir Yashchenko | URS | Aleksandr Grigoryev | URS | Rolf Beilschmidt | GDR | Men Pole Vault | 01.09 | Vladimir Trofimyenko | URS | Antti Kalliomaeki | FIN | Rauli Pudas | FIN | Men Long Jump | 02.09 | Jacques Rousseau | FRA | Nenad Stekic | YUG | Vladimir Tsepelyev | URS | Men Triple Jump | 03.09 | Milos Srejovic | YUG | Viktor Saneyev | URS | Anatoliy Piskulin | URS | Men Shot Put | 01.09 | Udo Beyer | GDR | Aleksandr Barishnikov | URS | Wolfgang Schmidt | GDR | Men Discus Throw | 03.09 | Wolfgang Schmidt | GDR | Markku Tuokko | FIN | Imrich Bugar | TCH | Men Hammer Throw | 02.09 | Yuriy Sedykh | URS | Roland Steuk | GDR | Karl-Hans Riehm | FRG | Men Javelin Throw | 30.08 | Michael Wessing | FRG | Nikolay Grebnyev | URS | Wolfgang Hanisch | GDR | Men Decathlon | 31.08 | Aleksandr Grebenyuk | URS | Daley Thompson | GBR | Siegfried Stark | GDR | Men 20km Walk | 30.08 | Ronald Wieser | GDR | Pyotr Pochenchuk | URS | Anatoly Solomin | URS | Men 50km Walk | 02.09 | Jorge Llopart | ESP | Venjamin Soldatenko | URS | Jan Ornoch | POL |
Women | date | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Women 100m | 30.08 | Marlies Goehr | GDR | Linda Haglund | SWE | Ludmila Maslakova | URS | Women 200m | 01.09 | Ludmila Kondratyeva | URS | Marlies Goehr | GDR | Carla Bodendorf | GDR | Women 400m | 31.08 | Marita Koch | GDR | Christina Brehmer | GDR | Irena Szewinska | POL | Women 800m | 31.08 | Tatyana Providokhina | URS | Nadyezhda Mushta | URS | Zoya Riger | URS | Women 1500m | 03.09 | Giana Romanova | URS | Natalia Marasescu | ROU | Totka Petrova | BUL | Women 3000m | 29.08 | Svetlana Ulmasova | URS | Natalia Marasescu | ROU | Grete Waitz | NOR | Women 100m Hurdles | 01.09 | Johanna Klier | GDR | Tatyana Anisimova | URS | Gudrun Berend | GDR | Women 400m Hurdles | 02.09 | Tatyana Zelentsova | URS | Silvia Hollmann | FRG | Karin Rossley | GDR | Women 4x100m Relay | 03.09 | Soviet Union | URS | Great Britain | GBR | East Germany | GDR | Women 4x400m Relay | 03.09 | East Germany | GDR | Soviet Union | URS | Poland | POL | Women High Jump | 31.08 | Sara Simeoni | ITA | Rosemarie Ackermann | GDR | Brigitte Holzapfel | FRG | Women Long Jump | 30.08 | Vilma Bardauskiene | URS | Angela Voigt | GDR | Jarmila Nygrynova | TCH | Women Shot Put | 30.08 | Ilona Slupianek | GDR | Helena Fibingerova | TCH | Margitta Droese | GDR | Women Discus Throw | 31.08 | Evelin Jahl | GDR | Margitta Droese | GDR | Natalya Gorbachova | URS | Women Javelin Throw | 01.09 | Ruth Fuchs | GDR | Theresa Sanderson | GBR | Ute Hommola | GDR | Women Pentathlon | 02.09 | Margit Papp | HUN | Burglinde Pollak | GDR | Kristine Nitzsche | GDR |
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Medals | G | S | B | All | 1. Soviet Union | 12 | 12 | 10 | 34 | 2. East Germany | 12 | 10 | 11 | 33 | 3. West Germany | 4 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 4. Italy | 4 | 1 | | 5 | 5. Poland | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6. Great Britain | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 7. Finland | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8. Yugoslavia | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 9. France | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 10.Hungary | 1 | | | 1 | 10.Spain | 1 | | | 1 | 12.Czechoslovakia | | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13.Romania | | 2 | | 2 | 14.Switzerland | | 1 | 1 | 2 | 15.Ireland | | 1 | | 1 | 15.Sweden | | 1 | | 1 | 17.Belgium | | | 1 | 1 | 17.Bulgaria | | | 1 | 1 | 17.Norway | | | 1 | 1 | before dopping disqualifications | 1. Soviet Union | 13 | 12 | 11 | 36 | 2. East Germany | 12 | 9 | 10 | 31 | 14.Hungary | | 1 | | 1 |
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Points | 1. Soviet Union | 381.5 | 2. East Germany | 324.0 | 3. West Germany | 121. | 4. Great Britain | 95.5 | 5. Poland | 94.0 | 6. Italy | 72.0 | 7. Finland | 59.0 | 8. France | 53.5 | 9. Romania | 48.0 | 10.Czechoslovakia | 41.0 | 11.Bulgaria | 37.0 | 12.Switzerland | 25.5 | 13.Yugoslavia | 21.0 | 14.Spain | 15.0 | 15.Norway | 14.0 | 16.Sweden | 12.0 | 16.Ireland | 12.0 | 18.Hungary | 10.0 | 19.Belgium | 7.0 | 19.Netherlands | 7.0 | 21.Austria | 5.0 | 22.Iceland | 1.0 |
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| Points Ranking | points | Gd | Sv | Br | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8. | 1. | Soviet Union | 358 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2. | East Germany | 336 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3. | West Germany | 127 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4. | Great Britain | 100 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 5. | Poland | 94 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6. | Italy | 71 | 4 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 7. | Finland | 59 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | | 8. | France | 50 | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9. | Romania | 49 | | 2 | | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10. | Czechoslovakia | 46 | | 2 | 3 | | | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11. | Bulgaria | 34 | | | 1 | 4 | | 2 | | 2 | 12. | Switzerland | 29 | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13. | Yugoslavia | 22 | 1 | 1 | | | | | 3 | 1 | 14. | Norway | 18 | | | 1 | | 2 | 1 | | 1 | 15. | Hungary | 15 | 1 | | | | | 2 | | 1 | 16. | Spain | 14 | 1 | | | | 1 | | 1 | | 17. | Belgium | 13 | | | 2 | | | | | 1 | 18. | Ireland | 12 | | 1 | | 1 | | | | | 18. | Sweden | 12 | | 1 | | | | | 2 | 1 | 20. | Netherlands | 11 | | | | | 2 | 1 | | | 21. | Austria | 5 | | | | 1 | | | | | 22. | Denmark | 3 | | | | | | 1 | | | 23. | Iceland | 2 | | | | | | | 1 | |
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