Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
100 metres details | Bob Hayes
United States | 10.0 (=WR) | Enrique Figuerola
Cuba | 10.2 | Harry Jerome
Canada | 10.2 |
200 metres details | Henry Carr
United States | 20.3 (OR) | Paul Drayton
United States | 20.5 | Edwin Roberts
Trinidad and Tobago | 20.6 |
400 metres details | Mike Larrabee
United States | 45.1 | Wendell Mottley
Trinidad and Tobago | 45.2 | Andrzej Badeński
Poland | 45.6 |
800 metres details | Peter Snell
New Zealand | 1:45.1 (OR) | Bill Crothers
Canada | 1:45.6 | Wilson Kiprugut
Kenya | 1:45.9 |
1500 metres details | Peter Snell
New Zealand | 3:38.1 | Josef Odložil
Czechoslovakia | 3:39.6 | John Davies
New Zealand | 3:39.6 |
5000 metres details | Bob Schul
United States | 13:48.8 | Harald Norpoth
United Team of Germany | 13:49.6 | Bill Dellinger
United States | 13:49.8 |
10,000 metres details | Billy Mills
United States | 28:24.4 (OR) | Mohammed Gammoudi
Tunisia | 28:24.8 | Ron Clarke
Australia | 28:25.8 |
110 metres hurdles details | Hayes Jones
United States | 13.67 | Blaine Lindgren
United States | 13.74 | Anatoly Mikhailov
Soviet Union | 13.78 |
400 metres hurdles details | Rex Cawley
United States | 49.6 | John Cooper
Great Britain | 50.1 | Salvatore Morale
Italy | 50.1 |
3000 metres steeplechase details | Gaston Roelants
Belgium | 8:30.8 (OR) | Maurice Herriott
Great Britain | 8:32.4 | Ivan Belyayev
Soviet Union | 8:33.8 |
4 × 100 metres relay details | United States (USA) Paul Drayton Gerry Ashworth Richard Stebbins Bob Hayes | 39.0 (WR) | Poland (POL) Andrzej Zieliński Wiesław Maniak Marian Foik Marian Dudziak | 39.3 | France (FRA) Paul Genevay Bernard Laidebeur Claude Piquemal Jocelyn Delecour | 39.3 |
4 × 400 metres relay details | United States (USA) Ollan Cassell Mike Larrabee Ulis Williams Henry Carr | 3:00.7 (WR) | Great Britain (GBR) Tim Graham Adrian Metcalfe John Cooper Robbie Brightwell | 3:01.6 | Trinidad and Tobago (TRI) Edwin Skinner Kent Bernard Edwin Roberts Wendell Mottley | 3:01.7 |
Marathon details | Abebe Bikila
Ethiopia | 2:12:11.2 (WR) | Basil Heatley
Great Britain | 2:16:19.2 | Kokichi Tsuburaya
Japan | 2:16:22.8 |
20 kilometres walk details | Ken Matthews
Great Britain | 1:29:34.0 (OR) | Dieter Lindner
United Team of Germany | 1:31:13.2 | Volodymyr Holubnychy
Soviet Union | 1:31:59.4 |
50 kilometres walk details | Abdon Pamich
Italy | 4:11:12.4 (OR) | Paul Nihill
Great Britain | 4:11:31.2 | Ingvar Pettersson
Sweden | 4:14:17.4 |
High jump details | Valeriy Brumel
Soviet Union | 2.18 m (OR) | John Thomas
United States | 2.18 m (OR) | John Rambo
United States | 2.16 m |
Pole vault details | Fred Hansen
United States | 5.10 m (OR) | Wolfgang Reinhardt
United Team of Germany | 5.05 m | Klaus Lehnertz
United Team of Germany | 5.00 m |
Long jump details | Lynn Davies
Great Britain | 8.07 m | Ralph Boston
United States | 8.03 m | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
Soviet Union | 7.99 m |
Triple jump details | Józef Szmidt
Poland | 16.85 m (OR) | Oleg Fyodoseyev
Soviet Union | 16.58 m | Victor Kravchenko
Soviet Union | 16.57 m |
Shot put details | Dallas Long
United States | 20.33 m (OR) | Randy Matson
United States | 20.20 m | Vilmos Varjú
Hungary | 19.39 m |
Discus throw details | Al Oerter
United States | 61.00 m (OR) | Ludvík Daněk
Czechoslovakia | 60.52 m | Dave Weill
United States | 59.49 m |
Hammer throw details | Romuald Klim
Soviet Union | 69.74 m (OR) | Gyula Zsivótzky
Hungary | 69.09 m | Uwe Beyer
United Team of Germany | 68.09 m |
Javelin throw details | Pauli Nevala
Finland | 82.66 m | Gergely Kulcsár
Hungary | 82.32 m | Jānis Lūsis
Soviet Union | 80.57 m |
Decathlon details | Willi Holdorf
United Team of Germany | 7887 | Rein Aun
Soviet Union | 7842 | Hans-Joachim Walde
United Team of Germany | 7809 |