Rome

100 m

1.Carl Lewis	USA	9'' 93
2. Raymond Stewart	JAM	10'' 08
3. Linford Christie	GBR	10'' 14

200 m

1. Calvin Smith	USA	20'' 16
2. Gilles Quenéhervé	FRA	20'' 16
3. John Régis	GBR	20'' 18

400 m

1. Thomas schönlebe	RDA	44'' 33
2. Innocent Egbunike	NIG	44'' 56
3. Harry Butch Reynolds	USA	44'' 80

800 m

1. Billy Konchellah	KEN	1' 43'' 06
2. Peter Elliot	GBR	1' 43'' 41
3. José Luiz Barbosa	BRA	1' 43'' 76

1500 m

1. Abdi Bile	SOM	3' 36'' 80
2.José Louis Gonzalez	ESP	3' 38'' 03
3. Jim Spivey	USA	3' 38'' 82

5000 m

1. Saïd Aouita	MAR	13' 26'' 44
2. Domingo Castro	POR	13' 27'' 59
3. Jack Buckner	GBR	13' 27'' 74

10000 m

1. Paul Kipkoech	KEN	27' 38'' 63
2. Francesco Panetta	ITA	27' 48'' 98
3. Hans-Joerg Kunze	RDA	27' 50'' 37

3000 m steeple

1. Francesco Panetta	ITA	8' 08'' 57
2. Hagen Melzer	RDA	8' 10'' 32
3. William Van Dijck	BEL	8' 12'' 18

110 m haies

1. Greg Foster	USA	13'' 21
2. Jon Ridgeon	GBR	13'' 29
3. Colin Jackson	GBR	13'' 38

400 m haies

1. Edwin Moses	USA	47'' 46
2. Danny Harris	USA	47'' 48
3. Harald Schmid	RFA	47'' 48

Marathon

1. Douglas Wakiihurli	KEN	2: 11' 48''
2. Ahmed Salah	DJI	2: 12' 30''
3. Gelindo Bordin	RDA	2: 12' 40''

Décathlon

1. Torsten Voss	RDA	8.680 pts
2. Siegfried Wentz	RFA	8.461 pts
3. Pavel Tarnovetskiy	URSS	8.375 pts

Perche

1. Sergueï Budka	URSS	5,85 m.
2. Thierry Vigneron	FRA	5,80 m.
3. Rodion Gataulin	URSS	5,80 m.

Longueur

1. Carl Lewis	USA	8,67 m.
2. Robert Emmyan	URSS	8,53 m.
3. Larry Myricks	USA	8,33 m.

Triple saut

1. Kristo Markov	BUL	17,92 m.RE
2. Mike Conley	USA	17,67 m.
3. Oleg Sakirkin	URSS	17,43 m

Hauteur

1.Patrick Sjöberg	SWE	2,38 m.
2. Igor Paklin	URSS	2,38 m.
3 Gennady Avdyeyenko	URSS	2,38 m.

Poids

1. Werner Günthör	SUI	22,23 m.
2. Alessandro Andrei	ITA	21,88 m.
3. John Brenner	USA	21,75 m.

Disque

1. Juergen Schult	RDA	68,74 m.
2. John Powell	USA	66,22 m.
3. Luis M. Delis	CUB	66,02 m.

Marteau

1. Sergueï Litvinov	URSS	83,06 m.
2. Juri Tamm	URSS	80,84 m.
3. Ralf Haber	RDA	80,76 m.

Javelot

1. Seppo Raty	FIN	83,54 m.
2. Viktor Yevsyukov	URSS	82,52 m.
3. Jan Zelezny	TCH	82,20 m.

20 km

1. Maurizio Damilano	ITA	1 h 20' 45''
2. Jozef Pribilinec	TCH	1 h 21' 07''
3. José Marin	ESP	1 h 21' 24''

50 km

1. Hartwig Gauder	RDA	3 h 40' 53''
2. Ronald Weigel	RDA	3 h 41'30''
3. Vyachelslav Ivanenko	URSS	3 h 44' 02''

4 x 100 m

1. (McRae,MCNeil, Glance, Lewis)	USA	37'' 90
2. (Yevghenyev, Bryzgin, Muravyev, Ktylov)	URSS	38'' 02 RE
3. (Mair, Smith, Wright, Stewart)	JAM	38'' 41

4 x 400 m

1. (Everett, Haley, McKay, Reynolds)	USA	2' 57'' 29
2. (Redmond, Akabusi, Black, Brown)	GBR	2' 58'' 86 RE
3. (Penalver, Pavo, Martinez, Hernandez)	CUB	2' 59'' 16