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 Mikhaylov 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 | Kōkichi 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 Fedoseyev Soviet Union | 16.58 m | Viktor 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 |