| Men | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Men 100m | Tyson Gay |  USA | Derrick Atkins |  BAH | Asafa Powell |  JAM |
| Men 200m | Tyson Gay | USA | Usain Bolt | JAM | Wallace Spearmon | USA |
| Men 400m | Jeremy Wariner | USA | LaShawn Merritt | USA | Angelo Taylor | USA |
| Men 800m | Alfred Kirwa Yego |  KEN | Gary Reed |  CAN | Yuriy Borzakovskiy |  RUS |
| Men 1500m | Bernard Lagat | USA | Rashid Ramzi |  BRN | Shedrack Kibet Korir | KEN |
| Men 5000m | Bernard Lagat | USA | Eliud Kipchoge | KEN | Moses Ndiema Kipsiro |  UGA |
| Men 10000m | Kenenisa Bekele |  ETH | Sileshi Sihine | ETH | Martin Irungu Mathathi | KEN |
| Men Marathon | Luke Kibet | KEN | Mubarak Hassan Shami |  QAT | Viktor Rothlin |  SUI |
| Men 110m Hurdles | Xiang Liu |  CHN | Terrence Trammell | USA | David Payne | USA |
| Men 400m Hurdles | Kerron Clement | USA | Felix Sanchez |  DOM | Marek Plawgo |  POL |
| Men 3000m Steeplechase | Brimin Kiprop Kipruto | KEN | Ezekiel Kemboi | KEN | Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong | KEN |
| Men 4x100m Relay | United States | Jamaica | Great Britain | |||
| Men 4x400m Relay | United States | Bahamas | Poland | |||
| Men High Jump | Donald Thomas | BAH | Yaroslav Rybakov | RUS | Kyriakos Ioannou |  CYP |
| Men Pole Vault | Brad Walker | USA | Romain Mesnil |  FRA | Danny Ecker |  GER |
| Men Long Jump | Irving Saladino |  PAN | Andrew Howe |  ITA | Dwight Phillips | USA |
| Men Triple Jump | Nelson Evora |  POR | Jadel Gregerio |  BRA | Walter Davis | USA |
| Men Discus Throw | Gerd Kanter |  EST | Robert Harting | GER | Rutger Smith |  NED |
| Men Javelin Throw | Tero Pitkamaki |  FIN | Andreas Thorkildsen |  NOR | Breaux Greer | USA |
| Men Hammer Throw | Ivan Tsikhan |  BLR | Primož Kozmus |  SLO | Libor Charfreitag |  SVK |
| Men Shot Put | Reese Hoffa | USA | Adam Nelson | USA | Andrei Mikhnevich | BLR |
| Men Decathlon | Roman Sebrle |  CZE | Maurice Smith | JAM | Dmitriy Karpov |  KAZ |
| Men 20km Walk | Jefferson Perez |  ECU | Francisco Javier Fernandez |  ESP | Hatem Ghoula |  TUN |
| Men 50km Walk | Nathan Deakes |  AUS | Yohan Diniz | FRA | Alex Schwazer | ITA |
| Medals | G | S | B | All |
| 1. United States | 10 | 3 | 6 | 19 |
| 2. Kenya | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 3. Bahamas | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 4. Ethiopia | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 5. Belarus | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6. Australia | 1 | 1 | ||
| 6. China | 1 | 1 | ||
| 6. Czechia | 1 | 1 | ||
| 6. Ecuador | 1 | 1 | ||
| 6. Estonia | 1 | 1 | ||
| 6. Finland | 1 | 1 | ||
| 6. Panama | 1 | 1 | ||
| 6. Portugal | 1 | 1 | ||
| 14. Jamaica | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 15. France | 2 | 2 | ||
| 16. Germany | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 16. Russia | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 18. Bahrain | 1 | 1 | ||
| 18. Brazil | 1 | 1 | ||
| 18. Canada | 1 | 1 | ||
| 18. Dominicana | 1 | 1 | ||
| 18. Norway | 1 | 1 | ||
| 18. Qatar | 1 | 1 | ||
| 18. Slovenia | 1 | 1 | ||
| 18. Spain | 1 | 1 | ||
| 26. Italy | 2 | 2 | ||
| 26. Poland | 2 | 2 | ||
| 28. Cyprus | 1 | 1 | ||
| 28. Great Britain | 1 | 1 | ||
| 28. Kazakhstan | 1 | 1 | ||
| 28. Netherlands | 1 | 1 | ||
| 28. Slovakia | 1 | 1 | ||
| 28. Switzerland | 1 | 1 | ||
| 28. Tunisia | 1 | 1 | ||
| 28. Uganda | 1 | 1 |
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