| Event | Gold Medal | Silver Medal | Bronze Medal | ||||||
| Men 100m Freestyle | Keigo Shimizu | JPN | 57.4s | Andrzej Salamon | POL | 57.6s | Kiyoshi Fukui | JPN | 57.9s |
| Men 400m Freestyle | Tatsuo Fujimoto | JPN | 4:30.9 | Murray McLachlan | RSA | 4:32.3 | Tomashiro Matsuki | JPN | 4:35.1 |
| Men 1500m Freestyle | Murray McLachlan | RSA | 18:19.8 | Tomashiro Matsuki | JPN | 18:21.6 | Tatsuo Fujimoto | JPN | 18:23.1 |
| Men 100m Backstroke | Shigeo Fukushima | JPN | 1:05.3 | Vsevolod Tarasov | URS | 1:05.8 | Vlastimil Kreek | TCH | 1:05.9 |
| Men 200m Breaststroke | Yuriy Funikov | URS | 2:41.4 | Yoshiaki Shikiishi | JPN | 2:41.5 | Hans-Joachim Tröger | FRG | 2:43.2 |
| Men 200m Butterfly | Haruo Yoshimuta | JPN | 2:20.2 | Grigoriy Kiselyov | URS | 2:25.5 | Hermann Lotter | FRG | 2:28.8 |
| Event | Gold Medal | Silver Medal | Bronze Medal | ||||||
| Women 100m Freestyle | Karin Larsson | SWE | 1:07.6 | Hilda Zeier | YUG | 1:07.7 | Anna Ragasová | TCH | 1:08.1 |
| Women 400m Freestyle | Hilda Zeier | YUG | 5:14.4 | Hilda-Danuta Zachariasiewicz | POL | 5:38.0 | Ludmila Kottková | TCH | 5:45.1 |
| Women 100m Backstroke | Larisa Viktorova | URS | 1:13.6 | Magdolna Dávid | HUN | 1:16.1 | Z. Klipova | URS | 1:16.7 |
| Women 200m Breaststroke | Sanda Iordan | ROU | 2:59.6 | Christine Gosden | GBR | 3:00.8 | Alla Kovalenko | URS | 3:01.2 |
| Women 100m Butterfly | Valentina Pozdnyak | URS | 1:13.8 | Yelena Antonova | URS | 1:16.0 | |||
| Karin Larsson | SWE | 1:16.0 | |||||||
| Event | Gold Medal | Silver Medal | Bronze Medal | ||||
| Men 4x100m Freestyle Relay | Japan | 3:48.7 | Keigo Shimizu 57.9 Kiyoshi Fukui 57.9 Haruo Yoshimuta 56.2 Tatsuo Fujimoto 56.7 | Soviet Union | 3:57.2 | Hungary | 3:58.1 |
| Men 4x100m Medley Relay | Japan | 4:17.1 | Shigeo Fukushima 1:04.4 Yoshiaki Shikiishi 1:13.9 Haruo Yoshimuta 1:11.9 Tatsuo Fujimoto 56.9 | Czechoslovakia | 4:18.5 | Soviet Union | 4:21.4 |
| Event | Gold Medal | Silver Medal | Bronze Medal | |||
| Women 4x100m Freestyle Relay | URS Soviet Union | 4:39.5 | TCH Czechoslovakia | 4:41.2 | POL Poland | 4:52.2 |
| Women 4x100m Medley Relay | URS Soviet Union | 5:04.5 | ROU Romania | 5:12.2 | TCH Czechoslovakia | 5:15.7 |
| Medals | Gd | Sv | Br | All | |
| 1. | Japan | 6 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 2. | Soviet Union | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| 3. | Romania | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 4. | South Africa | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 4. | Sweden | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 4. | Yugoslavia | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 7. | Czechoslovakia | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| 8. | Poland | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| 9. | Hungary | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 10. | Great Britain | 1 | 1 | ||
| 11. | West Germany | 2 | 2 |
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