| Men | date | Gold | Silver | Bronze | | Men 100m | 11.08 | Valeriy Borzov | URS | Gerhard Wucherer | FRG | Vassilios Papageorgopoulos | GRE | | Men 200m | 13.08 | Valeriy Borzov | URS | Franz-Peter Hofmeister | FRG | Jörg Pfeifer | GDR | | Men 400m | 13.08 | David Jenkins | GBR | Marcello Fiasconaro | ITA | Jan Werner | POL | | Men 800m | 12.08 | Yevgeniy Arzhanov | URS | Dieter Fromm | GDR | Andrew Carter | GBR | | Men 1500m | 15.08 | Francesco Arese | ITA | Henryk Szordykowski | POL | Brendan Foster | GBR | | Men 5000m | 15.08 | Juha Vaatainen | FIN | Jean Wadoux | FRA | Harald Norpoth | FRG | | Men 10000m | 10.08 | Juha Vaatainen | FIN | Jürgen Haase | GDR | Rashid Sharafyetdinov | URS | | Men Marathon | 15.08 | Karel Lismont | BEL | Trevor Wright | GBR | Ron Hill | GBR | | Men 3000m Steeplechase | 15.08 | Jean-Paul Villain | FRA | Dusan Moravcik | TCH | Pavel Sisoyev | URS | | Men 110m Hurdles | 15.08 | Frank Siebeck | GDR | Alan Pascoe | GBR | Lubomír Nadenicek | TCH | | Men 400m Hurdles | 12.08 | Jean-Claude Nallet | FRA | Christian Rudolpf | GDR | Dmitriy Stukalov | URS | | Men 4x100m Relay | 15.08 | Czechoslovakia | Poland | Italy | | Men 4x400m Relay | 15.08 | West Germany | Poland | Italy | | Men High Jump | 15.08 | Kestutis Sapka | URS | Csaba Dosa | ROM | Rustam Akhmyetov | URS | | Men Pole Vault | 13.08 | Wolfgang Nordwig | GDR | Kjell Isaksson | SWE | Renato Dionisi | ITA | | Men Long Jump | 11.08 | Max Klauss | GDR | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan | URS | Stanislaw Szudrowicz | POL | | Men Triple Jump | 15.08 | Joerg Drehmel | GDR | Viktor Saneyev | URS | Carol Corbu | ROM | | Men Discus Throw | 15.08 | Ludvik Danek | TCH | Lothar Milde | GDR | Géza Fejér | HUN | | Men Hammer Throw | 15.08 | Uwe Beyer | FRG | Reinhard Theimer | GDR | Anatoliy Bondarchuk | URS | | Men Javelin Throw | 11.08 | Janis Lusis | URS | Janis Donins | URS | Wolfgang Hanisch | GDR | | Men Shot Put | 13.08 | Hartmut Briesenick | GDR | Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg | GDR | Wladyslaw Komar | POL | | Men Decathlon | 12.08 | Joachim Kirst | GDR | Lennart Hedmark | SWE | Hans-Joachim Walde | FRG | | Men 20km Walk | 10.08 | Nikolay Smaga | URS | Gerhard Sperling | GDR | Paul Nihill | GBR | | Men 50km Walk | 15.08 | Benjamin Soldatenko | URS | Christoph Hoene | GDR | Peter Seltzer | GDR |
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| Women | date | Gold | Silver | Bronze | | Women 100m | 11.08 | Renate Stecher | GDR | Ingrid Mickler-Becker | FRG | Elfgard Schittenhelm | FRG | | Women 200m | 13.08 | Renate Stecher | GDR | Györgyi Balogh | HUN | Irena Szewinska | POL | | Women 400m | 12.08 | Helga Seidler | GDR | Inge Bödding | FRG | Ingelore Lohse | GDR | | Women 800m | 12.08 | Vera Nikolic | YUG | Pat Lowe | GBR | Rosemary Stirling | GBR | | Women 1500m | 15.08 | Karin Burneleit | GDR | Gunhilde Hoffmeister | GDR | Ellen Tittel | FRG | | Women 100m Hurdles | 13.08 | Karin Balzer | GDR | Annelie Ehrhardt | GDR | Tesesa Sukniewicz | POL | | Women 4x100m Relay | 15.08 | West Germany | East Germany | Soviet Union | | Women 4x400m Relay | 15.08 | East Germany | West Germany | Soviet Union | | Women High Jump | 12.08 | Ilona Gusenbauer | AUT | Cornelia Popesuc | ROM | Barbara Inkpen | GBR | | Women Long Jump | 14.08 | Ingrid Mickler-Becker | FRG | Meta Antenen | SUI | Heide Rosendahl | FRG | | Women Javelin Throw | 13.08 | Daniela Jaworska | POL | Ameli Koloska | FRG | Ruth Fuchs | GDR | | Women Discus Throw | 12.08 | Faina Myelnik | URS | Liesel Westermann | FRG | Lyudmila Muravyeva | URS | | Women Shot Put | 10.08 | Nadyezhda Chizhova | URS | Marita Lange | GDR | Margitta Gummel | GDR | | Women Pentathlon | 14.08 | Heide Rosendahl | FRG | Burglinde Pollak | GDR | Margrit Herbst | GDR |
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| Medals | G | S | B | All | | 1. East Germany | 12 | 13 | 7 | 32 | | 2. Soviet Union | 9 | 3 | 8 | 20 | | 3. West Germany | 5 | 7 | 5 | 17 | | 4. France | 2 | 2 | | 4 | | 5. Czechoslovakia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | | 6. Finland | 2 | | | 2 | | 7. Great Britain | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | | 8. Poland | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | | 9. Italy | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | | 10.Austria | 1 | | | 1 | | 10.Belgium | 1 | | | 1 | | 10.Yugoslavia | 1 | | | 1 | | 13.Romania | | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 14.Sweden | | 2 | | 2 | | 15.Hungary | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 16.Switzerland | | 1 | | 1 | | 17.Greece | | | 1 | 1 |
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| | Points Ranking | points | Gd | Sv | Br | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8. | | 1. |  East Germany | 295 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 4 | | 2. |  Soviet Union | 240 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 5 | | 3. |  West Germany | 193 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | | 4. |  Great Britain | 134 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | | 5. |  Poland | 117 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | | 6. |  Finland | 64 | 2 | | | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | | 7. |  France | 48 | 2 | 1 | | | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | | 7. |  Hungary | 48 | | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | | 9. |  Czechoslovakia | 45 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | | 9. |  Italy | 45 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | | 2 | | 1 | | 11. |  Romania | 33 | | 2 | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 1 | | | 12. |  Sweden | 29 | | 2 | | 1 | | 2 | 1 | 2 | | 13. |  Belgium | 22 | 1 | 1 | | | 1 | 1 | | | | 14. |  Yugoslavia | 21 | 1 | | | 2 | | | 1 | 1 | | 15. |  Austria | 17 | 1 | | | 1 | 1 | | | | | 15. |  Switzerland | 17 | | 1 | | | 2 | | 1 | | | 17. |  Spain | 13 | | | | | 3 | | | 1 | | 18. |  Bulgaria | 6 | | | | | | 2 | | | | 18. |  Greece | 6 | | | 1 | | | | | | | 20. |  Ireland | 4 | | | | | | 1 | | 1 | | 21. |  Denmark | 3 | | | | | | 1 | | | | 21. |  Norway | 2 | | | | | | | | 2 | | 22. |  Netherlands | 1 | | | | | | | | 2 |
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