| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Men 100m | Lindy Remigino | USA | Herbert McKenley | JAM | Emmanuel McDonald-Bailey | GBR |
| Men 200m | Andrew Stanfield | USA | Thane Baker | USA | James Gathers | USA |
| Men 400m | George Rhoden | JAM | Herbert McKenley | JAM | Oliver Matson | USA |
| Men 800m | Malvin Whitfield | USA | Arthur Wint | JAM | Heinz Ulzheimer | GER |
| Men 1500m | Joseph Bartel | LUX | Robert McMillen | USA | Werner Lueg | FRG |
| Men 5000m | Emil Zatopek | TCH | Alain Mimoun | FRA | Herbert Schade | FRG |
| Men 10000m | Emil Zatopek | TCH | Alain Mimoun | FRA | Aleksander Anufriyev | URS |
| Men Marathon | Emil Zatopek | TCH | Reinaldo Gorno | ARG | Gustaf Jansson | SWE |
| Men 4x100m Relay | United States | Soviet Union | Hungary | |||
| Men 4x400m Relay | Jamaica | United States | Germany | |||
| Men 110m Hurdles | Harrison Dillard | USA | Jack Davis | USA | Arthur Barnard | USA |
| Men 400m Hurdles | Charles Moore | USA | Yuriy Lituyev | URS | John Holland | NZL |
| Men 3000m Steeplechase | Horace Ashenfelter | USA | Vladimir Kazantsev | URS | John Disley | GBR |
| Men High Jump | Walter Davis | USA | Kenneth Wiesner | USA | Jose Telles da Conceicao | BRA |
| Men Pole Vault | Robert Richards | USA | Donald Laz | USA | Ragnar Lundberg | SWE |
| Men Long Jump | Jerome Biffle | USA | Meredith Gourdine | USA | Odon Foldessy | HUN |
| Men Triple Jump | Adhemar Ferreira da Silva | BRA | Leonid Shcherbakov | URS | Arnoldo Devonish | VEN |
| Men Shot Put | Parry O'Brien | USA | Darrow Hooper | USA | James Fuchs | USA |
| Men Discus Throw | Simeon Iness | USA | Adolfo Consolini | ITA | James Dillion | USA |
| Men Hammer Throw | Jozsef Csermak | HUN | Karl Storch | GER | Imre Nemeth | HUN |
| Men Javelin Throw | Cyrus Young | USA | William Miller | USA | Toivo Hyytiainen | FIN |
| Men Decathlon | Robert Mathias | USA | Milton Campbell | USA | Floyd Simmons | USA |
| Men 10km Track Walk | John Mikaelsson | SWE | Fritz Schwab | SUI | Bruno Junk | URS |
| Men 50km Walk | Giuseppe Dordoni | ITA | Josef Dolezal | TCH | Antal Roka | HUN |
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| Women 100m | Marjorie Jackson | AUS | Daphne Hasenjager | SAF | Shirley Strickland | AUS |
| Women 200m | Majorie Jackson | AUS | Bertha Brouwer | NED | Nadeznda Khnykina | URS |
| Women 4x100m Relay | United States | Germany | Great Britain | |||
| Women 80m Hurdles | Shirley Strickland | AUS | Maria Golubnichaya | URS | Maria Sander | FRG |
| Women High Jump | Esther Brand | SAF | Sheila Lerwill | GBR | Aleksandra Chudina | URS |
| Women Long Jump | Yvette Williams | NZL | Aleksandra Chudina | URS | Shirley Cawley | GBR |
| Women Shot Put | Galina Zybina | URS | Marianne Werner | FRG | Klavdiya Tochenova | URS |
| Women Discus Throw | Nina Romashkova | URS | Yelisaveta Bagryantseva | URS | Nina Dumbadze | URS |
| Women Javelin Throw | Dana Zatopkova | TCH | Aleksandra Chudina | URS | Yelena Gorchakova | URS |
| Athletics World Index |
| Medals | G | S | B | All |
| 1. United States | 15 | 10 | 6 | 31 |
| 2. Australia | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 3. Czechoslovakia | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| 4. Soviet Union | 2 | 8 | 7 | 17 |
| 5. Jamaica | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| 6. Italy | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6. South Africa | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 8. Hungary | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| 9. Sweden | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 10.Brazil | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 10.New Zealand | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 12.Luxembourg | 1 | 1 | ||
| 13.Germany | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 13.France | 2 | 2 | ||
| 15.Great Britain | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| 16.West Germany | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| 17.Netherlands | 1 | 1 | ||
| 17.Switzerland | 1 | 1 | ||
| 17.Argentina | 1 | 1 | ||
| 20.Finland | 1 | 1 | ||
| 20.Venezuela | 1 | 1 |
| Statistics |
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Prepared and maintained by Todor Krastev
todor1966@yahoo.com
Last updated: 20 Aug 2009
