Chromosome testing was introduced for this Championship. Soviet athletes "sister" Irina and Tamara Press were withdrawn just before te competition.
| Men | date | Gold | Silver | Bronze | | Men 100m | --.0- | Wieslaw Maniak | POL | Roger Bambuck | FRA | Claude Piquemal | FRA | | Men 200m | --.0- | Roger Bambuck | FRA | Marian Dudziak | POL | Jean-Claude Nallet | FRA | | Men 400m | --.0- | Stanislaw Gredzinski | POL | Andrzej Badenski | POL | Manfred Kinder | FRG | | Men 800m | --.0- | Manfred Matuschewski | GDR | Franz-Josef Kemper | FRG | Bodo Tümler | FRG | | Men 1500m | --.0- | Bodo Tümler | FRG | Michel Jazy | FRA | Harald Norpoth | FRG | | Men 5000m | --.0- | Michel Jazy | FRA | Harald Norpoth | FRG | Bernd Diessner | GDR | | Men 10000m | 30.08 | Juergen Haase | GDR | Lajos Mecser | HUN | Leonid Mikityenko | URS | | Men Marathon | --.0- | James Hogan | GBR | Aurele Vandendriessche | BEL | Gyula Toth | HUN | | Men 3000m Steeplechase | --.0- | Viktor Kudinskiy | URS | Anatoily Kuryan | URS | Gaston Roelants | BEL | | Men 110m Hurdles | --.0- | Eddy Ottoz | ITA | Hinrich John | FRG | Marcel Duriez | FRA | | Men 400m Hurdles | --.0- | Roberto Frinolli | ITA | Gerd Lossdörfer | FRG | Robert Poirier | FRA | | Men 4x100m Relay | --.0- | France | Soviet Union | West Germany | | Men 4x400m Relay | --.0- | Poland | West Germany | East Germay | | Men High Jump | --.0- | Jacques Madubost | FRA | Robert Sainte-Rose | FRA | Valeriy Skvortsov | URS | | Men Pole Vault | --.0- | Wolfgang Nordwig | GDR | Christos Papanicolaou | GRE | Herve D'Encausse | FRA | | Men Long Jump | 31.08 | Lynn Davies | GBR | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan | URS | Jean Cochard | FRA | | Men Triple Jump | --.0- | Georgi Stoikovski | BUL | Hans-Juergen Rückborn | GDR | Henrik Kalocsai | HUN | | Men Shot Put | --.0- | Vilmos Varju | HUN | Nikolay Karasyov | URS | Wladyslaw Komar | POL | | Men Discus Throw | --.0- | Detlef Thorith | GDR | Hartmut Losch | GDR | Lothar Milde | GDR | | Men Hammer Throw | --.0- | Romuald Klim | URS | Gyula Zsivótzky | HUN | Uwe Beyer | FRG | | Men Javelin Throw | --.0- | Janis Lusis | URS | Wladyslaw Nikiciuk | POL | Gergely Kulcsár | HUN | | Men Decathlon | --.0- | Werner von Moltke | FRG | Jörg Mattheis | FRG | Horst Beyer | FRG | | Men 20km Walk | 30.08 | Dieter Lindner | GDR | Wladimir Golubnitschi | URS | Nikolai Smaga | URS | | Men 50km Walk | --.0- | Abdon Pamich | ITA | Gennadi Agapov | URS | Alexandr Scherbina | URS |
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| Medals Men | G | S | B | All | | 1. East Germany | 5 | 2 | 3 | 10 | | 2. France | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | | 3. Soviet Union | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 | | 4. Poland | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | | 5. Italy | 3 | | | 3 | | 6. West Germay | 2 | 6 | 6 | 14 | | 7. Great Britain | 2 | | | 2 | | 8. Hungary | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | | 9. Bulgaria | 1 | | | 1 | | 10.Belgium | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 11.Greece | | 1 | | 1 |
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| Women | date | Gold | Silver | Bronze | | Women 100m | --.0- | Ewa Klobukowska | POL | Irena Kirszenstein | POL | Karin Frisch | FRG | | Women 200m | --.0- | Irena Kirszenstein | POL | Ewa Klobukowska | POL | Vyera Popkova | URS | | Women 400m | --.0- | Anna Chmelkova | TCH | Antonia Munkacsi | HUN | Monique Noirot | FRA | | Women 800m | --.0- | Vera Nikolic | YUG | Zsuzsa Szabo-Nagy | HUN | Antje Gleichfeld | FRG | | Women 80m Hurdles | --.0- | Karin Balzer | GDR | Karin Frisch | FRG | Elzbieta Bednarek | POL | | Women 4x100m Relay | --.0- | Poland | West Germany | Soviet Union | | Women High Jump | --.0- | Taisiya Chenchik | URS | Lyudmila Komlyeva | URS | Jaroslawa Bieda | POL | | Women Long Jump | --.0- | Irena Kirszenstein | POL | Diana Yorgova | BUL | Helga Hoffmann | FRG | | Women Javelin Throw | --.0- | Marion Lüttge-Graefe | GDR | Mihaela Penes | ROM | Valentina Popova | URS | | Women Shot Put | 30.08 | Nadyezhda Chizhova | URS | Margitta Gummel | GDR | Marita Lange | GDR | | Women Discus Throw | --.0- | Christa Spielberg | GDR | Liesel Westermann | FRG | Anita Hentschel | GDR | | Women Pentathlon | --.0- | Valentina Tikhomirova | URS | Heide Rosendahl | FRG | Ingeborg Exner | GDR |
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| Medals Women | G | S | B | All | | 1. Poland | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | | 2. East Germany | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | | 3. Soviet Union | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | | 4. Czechoslovakia | 1 | | | 1 | | 4. Jugoslavia | 1 | | | 1 | | 6. West Germay | | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 7. Hungary | | 2 | | 2 | | 8. Bulgaria | | 1 | | 1 | | 8. Romania | | 1 | | 1 | | 10.France | | | 1 | 1 |
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| Points Ranking | | 1. Soviet Union | 230.0 | | 2. West Germany | 208.5 | | 3. East Germany | 190.0 | | 4. Poland | 159.0 | | 5. France | 123.0 | | 6. Hungary | 98.0 | | 7. Great Britain | 79.0 | | 8. Italy | 57.0 | | 9. Czechoslovakia | 46.0 |
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| | Points Ranking | points | Gd | Sv | Br | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8. | | 1. |  Soviet Union | 232 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 4 | | | 2. |  West Germany | 207 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | | 3. |  East Germany | 188 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | | 4. |  Poland | 152 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | | 5. |  France | 119 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 2 | | 1 | 3 | 5 | | 6. |  Hungary | 102 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | | 7. |  Great Britain | 84 | 2 | 1 | | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | | 8. |  Italy | 59 | 3 | | | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | | 9. |  Czechoslovakia | 45 | 1 | | | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | | 10. |  Finland | 24 | | | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | | 11. |  Bulgaria | 23 | 1 | 1 | | | 2 | | | | | 12. |  Belgium | 22 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | | 13. |  Romania | 16 | | 1 | | | 1 | | 2 | 1 | | 14. |  Netherlands | 15 | | | | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 15. |  Yugoslavia | 12 | 1 | | | | 1 | | 1 | | | 16. |  Spain | 11 | | | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | | 17. |  Greece | 7 | | 1 | | | | | | | | 18. |  Sweden | 5 | | | | | | 1 | | 2 | | 19. |  Switzerland | 4 | | | | | | | 1 | 2 | | 20. |  Norway | 3 | | | | | | 1 | | | | 21. |  Austria | 1 | | | | | | | | 1 | | 21. |  Ireland | 1 | | | | | | | | 1 |
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