Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
100 metres details | Bobby Morrow United States | 10.5 | Thane Baker United States | 10.5 | Hector Hogan Australia | 10.6 |
200 metres details | Bobby Morrow United States | 20.6 (OR) | Andy Stanfield United States | 20.7 | Thane Baker United States | 20.9 |
400 metres details | Charles Jenkins United States | 46.7 | Karl-Friedrich Haas United Team of Germany | 46.8 | Voitto Hellstén Finland | 47.0 |
Ardalion Ignatyev Soviet Union | 47.0 |
800 metres details | Tom Courtney United States | 1:47.7 (OR) | Derek Johnson Great Britain | 1:47.8 | Audun Boysen Norway | 1:48.1 |
1500 metres details | Ron Delany Ireland | 3:41.2 (OR) | Klaus Richtzenhain United Team of Germany | 3:42.0 | John Landy Australia | 3:42.0 |
5000 metres details | Vladimir Kuts Soviet Union | 13:39.6 (OR) | Gordon Pirie Great Britain | 13:50.6 | Derek Ibbotson Great Britain | 13:54.4 |
10,000 metres details | Vladimir Kuts Soviet Union | 28:45.6 (OR) | József Kovács Hungary | 28:52.4 | Allan Lawrence Australia | 28:53.6 |
110 metres hurdles details | Lee Calhoun United States | 13.5 (OR) | Jack Davis United States | 13.5 (OR) | Joel Shankle United States | 14.1 |
400 metres hurdles details | Glenn Davis United States | 50.1 (=OR) | Eddie Southern United States | 50.8 | Joshua Culbreath United States | 51.6 |
3000 metres steeplechase details | Chris Brasher Great Britain | 8:41.2 (OR) | Sándor Rozsnyói Hungary | 8:43.6 | Ernst Larsen Norway | 8:44.0 |
4 × 100 metres relay details | United States (USA) Thane Baker Leamon King Bobby Morrow Ira Murchison | 39.5 (WR) | Soviet Union (URS) Leonid Bartenev Yuriy Konovalov Vladimir Sukharev Boris Tokarev | 39.8 | United Team of Germany (EUA) Heinz Fütterer Manfred Germar Lothar Knörzer Leonhard Pohl | 40.3 |
4 × 400 metres relay details | United States (USA) Tom Courtney Charles Jenkins Lou Jones Jesse Mashburn | 3:04.8 | Australia (AUS) Graham Gipson Kevan Gosper Leon Gregory David Lean | 3:06.2 | Great Britain (GBR) Peter Higgins Derek Johnson John Salisbury Michael Wheeler | 3:07.2 |
Marathon details | Alain Mimoun France | 2:25:00 | Franjo Mihalić Yugoslavia | 2:26:32 | Veikko Karvonen Finland | 2:27:47 |
20 kilometres walk details | Leonid Spirin Soviet Union | 1:31:27.4 | Antanas Mikenas Soviet Union | 1:32:03.0 | Bruno Junk Soviet Union | 1:32:12.0 |
50 kilometres walk details | Norman Read New Zealand | 4:30:42.8 | Yevgeniy Maskinskov Soviet Union | 4:32:57.0 | John Ljunggren Sweden | 4:35:02.0 |
High jump details | Charles Dumas United States | 2.12 m (OR) | Chilla Porter Australia | 2.10 m | Igor Kashkarov Soviet Union | 2.08 m |
Pole vault details | Bob Richards United States | 4.56 m (OR) | Bob Gutowski United States | 4.53 m | Georgios Roubanis Greece | 4.50 m |
Long jump details | Greg Bell United States | 7.83 m | John Bennett United States | 7.68 m | Jorma Valkama Finland | 7.48 m |
Triple jump details | Adhemar Ferreira da Silva Brazil | 16.35 m (OR) | Vilhjálmur Einarsson Iceland | 16.26 m | Vitold Kreer Soviet Union | 16.02 m |
Shot put details | Parry O'Brien United States | 18.57 m (OR) | Bill Nieder United States | 18.18 m | Jiří Skobla Czechoslovakia | 17.65 m |
Discus throw details | Al Oerter United States | 56.36 m (OR) | Fortune Gordien United States | 54.81 m | Desmond Koch United States | 54.40 m |
Hammer throw details | Harold Connolly United States | 63.19 m (OR) | Mikhail Krivonosov Soviet Union | 63.03 m | Anatoli Samotsvetov Soviet Union | 62.56 m |
Javelin throw details | Egil Danielsen Norway | 85.71 m (WR) | Janusz Sidło Poland | 79.98 m | Viktor Tsybulenko Soviet Union | 79.50 m |
Decathlon details | Milt Campbell United States | 7937 (OR) | Rafer Johnson United States | 7587 | Vasili Kuznetsov Soviet Union | 7465 |