Games
|
Gold
|
Silver
|
Bronze
|
100 metres
details
|
Allan Wells
Great Britain
|
10.25
|
Silvio Leonard
Cuba
|
10.25
|
Petar Petrov
Bulgaria
|
10.39
|
200 metres
details
|
Pietro Mennea
Italy
|
20.19
|
Allan Wells
Great Britain
|
20.21
|
Don Quarrie
Jamaica
|
20.29
|
400 metres
details
|
Viktor Markin
Soviet Union
|
44.60
|
Rick Mitchell
Australia
|
44.84
|
Frank Schaffer
East Germany
|
44.87
|
800 metres
details
|
Steve Ovett
Great Britain
|
1:45.40
|
Sebastian Coe
Great Britain
|
1:45.85
|
Nikolay Kirov
Soviet Union
|
1:45.94
|
1500 metres
details
|
Sebastian Coe
Great Britain
|
3:38.40
|
Jürgen Straub
East Germany
|
3:38.80
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Steve Ovett
Great Britain
|
3:38.99
|
5000 metres
details
|
Miruts Yifter
Ethiopia
|
13:20.91
|
Suleiman Nyambui
Tanzania
|
13:21.60
|
Kaarlo Maaninka
Finland
|
13:22.00
|
10,000 metres
details
|
Miruts Yifter
Ethiopia
|
27:42.69
|
Kaarlo Maaninka
Finland
|
27:44.28
|
Mohamed Kedir
Ethiopia
|
27:44.64
|
110 metres hurdles
details
|
Thomas Munkelt
East Germany
|
13.39
|
Alejandro Casañas
Cuba
|
13.40
|
Aleksandr Puchkov
Soviet Union
|
13.44
|
400 metres hurdles
details
|
Volker Beck
East Germany
|
48.70
|
Vasyl Arkhypenko
Soviet Union
|
48.86
|
Gary Oakes
Great Britain
|
49.11
|
3000 metres steeplechase
details
|
Bronisław Malinowski
Poland
|
8:09.70
|
Filbert Bayi
Tanzania
|
8:12.48
|
Eshetu Tura
Ethiopia
|
8:13.57
|
4 × 100 metres relay
details
|
Soviet Union
(URS)
Vladimir Muravyov
Nikolay Sidorov
Andrey Prokofyev
Aleksandr Aksinin
|
38.26
|
Poland
(POL)
Zenon Licznerski
Leszek Dunecki
Marian Woronin
Krzysztof Zwoliński
|
38.33
|
France
(FRA)
Patrick Barre
Pascal Barre
Hermann Panzo
Antoine Richard
|
38.53
|
4 × 400 metres relay
details
|
Soviet Union
(URS)
Viktor Markin
Remigijus Valiulis
Mikhail Linge
Nikolay Chernetskiy
|
3:01.08
|
East Germany
(GDR)
Klaus Thiele
Andreas Knebel
Frank Schaffer
Volker Beck
|
3:01.26
|
Italy
(ITA)
Roberto Tozzi
Mauro Zuliani
Stefano Malinverni
Pietro Mennea
|
3:04.54
|
Marathon
details
|
Waldemar Cierpinski
East Germany
|
2:11:03
|
Gerard Nijboer
Netherlands
|
2:11:20
|
Satymkul Dzhumanazarov
Soviet Union
|
2:11:35
|
20 kilometres walk
details
|
Maurizio Damilano
Italy
|
1:23:35.5
|
Pyotr Pochynchuk
Soviet Union
|
1:24:45.4
|
Roland Wieser
East Germany
|
1:25:58.2
|
50 kilometres walk
details
|
Hartwig Gauder
East Germany
|
3:49.24
|
Jorge Llopart
Spain
|
3:51.25
|
Evgeni Ivchenko
Soviet Union
|
3:56.32
|
High jump
details
|
Gerd Wessig
East Germany
|
2.36
m
WR
|
Jacek Wszoła
Poland
|
2.31
m
|
Jörg Freimuth
East Germany
|
2.31
m
|
Pole vault
details
|
Władysław Kozakiewicz
Poland
|
5.78
m
WR
|
Konstantin Volkov
Soviet Union
Tadeusz Ślusarski
Poland
|
5.65
m
|
none
|
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|
Long jump
details
|
Lutz Dombrowski
East Germany
|
8.54
m
|
Frank Paschek
East Germany
|
8.21
m
|
Valeriy Pidluzhnyy
Soviet Union
|
8.18
m
|
Triple jump
details
|
Jaak Uudmäe
Soviet Union
|
17.35
m
|
Viktor Saneev
Soviet Union
|
17.24
m
|
João Carlos de Oliveira
Brazil
|
17.22
m
|
Shot put
details
|
Vladimir Kiselyov
Soviet Union
|
21.35
m
|
Aleksandr Baryshnikov
Soviet Union
|
21.08
m
|
Udo Beyer
East Germany
|
21.06
m
|
Discus throw
details
|
Viktor Rashchupkin
Soviet Union
|
66.64
m
|
Imrich Bugár
Czechoslovakia
|
66.38
m
|
Luis Delís
Cuba
|
66.32
m
|
Hammer throw
details
|
Yuriy Sedykh
Soviet Union
|
81.80
m
WR
|
Sergey Litvinov
Soviet Union
|
80.64
m
|
Jüri Tamm
Soviet Union
|
78.96
m
|
Javelin throw
details
|
Dainis Kūla
Soviet Union
|
91.20
m
|
Aleksandr Makarov
Soviet Union
|
89.64
m
|
Wolfgang Hanisch
East Germany
|
86.72
m
|
Decathlon
details
|
Daley Thompson
Great Britain
|
8495
|
Yuriy Kutsenko
Soviet Union
|
8331
|
Sergey Zhelanov
Soviet Union
|
8135
|