| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|
100 metres details | Davidson Ezinwa
Nigeria | 10.17 =CR | Jason Livingston
Great Britain | 10.25 | Rodney Bridges
United States | 10.37 |
200 metres details | Aleksandr Goremykin
Soviet Union | 20.47 CR | Davidson Ezinwa
Nigeria | 20.75 | James Stallworth
United States | 20.81 |
400 metres details | Chris Nelloms
United States | 45.43 CR | Rico Lieder
East Germany | 46.28 | Mark Richardson
Great Britain | 46.33 |
800 metres details | Desta Asgedom
Ethiopia | 1:46.35 CR | Jonah Birir
Kenya | 1:46.61 | Norberto Téllez
Cuba | 1:47.33 |
1500 metres details | Moses Kiptanui
Kenya | 3:38.32 CR | Alemayehu Roba
Ethiopia | 3:41.71 | Desta Asgedom
Ethiopia | 3:43.38 |
5000 metres details | Fita Bayissa
Ethiopia | 13:42.59 CR | Abreham Assefa
Ethiopia | 13:44.63 | Francesco Bennici
Italy | 13:47.10 |
10,000 metres details | Richard Chelimo
Kenya | 28:18.57 CR | Ismael Kirui
Kenya | 28:40.77 | Juma Ninga
Tanzania | 28:41.90 |
20 kilometres road run details | Cosmas Ndeti
Kenya | 59:42 | Juma Ninga
Tanzania | 1:00:30 | Dagane Dabela
Ethiopia | 1:01:02 |
110 metres hurdles details | Antti Haapakoski
Finland | 13.74 | Alexis Sánchez
Cuba | 13.75 | Kyle Vander-Kuyp
Australia | 13.85 |
400 metres hurdles details | Rohan Robinson
Australia | 49.73 | Yoshihiko Saito
Japan | 49.99 | Aleksandr Belikov
Soviet Union | 50.22 |
3000 metres steeplechase details | Matthew Birir
Kenya | 8:31.02 CR | Francisco Munuera
Spain | 8:41.03 | Simeon Rono
Kenya | 8:42:05 |
10,000 metres walk details | Ilya Markov
Soviet Union | 39:55.52 | Alberto Cruz
Mexico | 39:56.49 | Jefferson Pérez
Ecuador | 40:08.23 |
4 × 100 metres relay details | United States Chris Nelloms Rodney Bridges Reggie Harris James Stallworth | 39.13 CR | Soviet Union Sergejs Insakovs Konstantin Gromadskiy Vitaliy Semyonov Aleksandr Goremykin | 39.58 | Nigeria Innocent Asonze Davidson Ezinwa Nnamdi Anusim Osmond Ezinwa | 39.68 |
4 × 400 metres relay details | United States Derek Mills Marvin Samuels Reggie Harris Chris Nelloms | 3:02.26 | Great Britain David Grindley Adrian Patrick Craig Winrow Mark Richardson | 3:03.80 | Australia Matthew Burmeister Rohan Robinson Simon Hollingsworth Paul Greene | 3:05.51 |
High jump details | Dragutin Topić
Yugoslavia | 2.37 WJR | Tim Forsyth
Australia | 2.29 | Stevan Zorić
Yugoslavia | 2.26 |
Pole vault details | Jean Galfione
France | 5.45 | Dmitriy Kurkulin
Soviet Union | 5.40 | Miroslav Dukov
Bulgaria | 5.40 |
Long jump details | James Stallworth
United States | 8.12 CR | Dion Bentley
United States | 8.05 | Kareem Streete-Thompson
Cayman Islands | 7.94 |
Triple jump details | Sergey Bykov
Soviet Union | 16.98 CR | Yoelbi Quesada
Cuba | 16.62 | Nikolai Raev
Bulgaria | 16.22 |
Shot put details | Viktor Bulat
Soviet Union | 19.21 CR | Xie Shengying
China | 18.57 | Yuriy Ivanov
Soviet Union | 18.13 |
Discus throw details | Ilian Iliev
Bulgaria | 58.28 | Frank Bicet
Cuba | 57.10 | Jan Engelmann
East Germany | 56.82 |
Javelin throw details | Tommi Viskari
Finland | 73.88 | Dariusz Trafas
Poland | 72.76 | Jarkko Heimonen
Finland | 72.30 |
Hammer throw details | Andrey Debeliy
Soviet Union | 70.60 | Savvas Saritzoglou
Greece | 70.32 | Andrey Budykin
Soviet Union | 69.36 |
Decathlon details | Eric Kaiser
West Germany | 7762 | Jarkko Finni
Finland | 7698 | David Bigham
Great Britain | 7488 |
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