| Track Events - MEN |
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| 100 metres | Eddie Tolan
USA | 10.3s |
Ralph Metcalfe
USA | 10.3s | Arthur Jonath
Germany | 10.4s |
| 200 metres | Eddie Tolan
USA | 21.2s | George Simpson
USA | 21.4s | Ralph Metcalfe
USA | 21.5s |
| 400 metres | William Carr
USA | 46.2s | Benjamin Eastman
USA | 46.4s | Alexander Wilson
Canada | 47.4s |
| 800 metres | Thomas Hampson
GB | 1m 49.8s | Alexander Wilson
Canada | 1m 49.9s | Philip Edwards
Canada | 1m 51.5s |
| 1500 metres | Luigi Beccali
Italy | 3m 51.2s | John Cornes
GB | 3m 52.6s | Philip Edwards
Canada | 3m 52.8s |
| 5000 metres | Lauri Lehtinen
Finland | 14m 30.0s | Ralph Hill
USA | 14m 30.0s | Lauri Virtanen
Finland | 14m 44.0s |
| 10000 metres | Janusz Kusocinski
Poland | 30m 11.4s | Volmari Iso-Hollo
Finland | 30m 12.6s | Lauri Virtanen
Finland | 30m 35.0s |
Marathon
(42,195 metres) | Juan Carlos Zabala
Argentina | 2h 31m 36s | Samuel Ferris
GB | 2h 31m 55s | Armas Toivonen
Finland | 2h 32m 12s |
Steeplechase
(3460 metres) | Volmari Iso-Hollo
Finland | 10m 33.4s | Thomas Evenson
GB | 10m 46.0s | Joseph McCluskey
USA | 10m 46.2s |
| Field Events - MEN |
| | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist |
| High Jump | Duncan McNaughton
Canada | 1.97 m | Robert Van Osdel
USA | 1.97 m | Simeon Toribio
Philippines | 1.97 m |
| Long Jump | Edward Gordon
USA | 7.64 m | Charles Redd
USA | 7.60 m | Chuhei Nambu
Japan | 7.45 m |
| Pole Vault | William Miller
USA | 4.31 m | Shuhei Nishida
Japan | 4.30 m | George Jefferson
USA | 4.20 m |
| Shot | Leo Sexton
USA | 16.00 m | Harlow Rothert
USA | 15.67 m | Frantisek Douda
Czechoslovakia | 15.61 m |
| Discus | John Anderson
USA | 49.49 m | Henry Laborde
USA | 48.47 m | Paul Winter
France | 47.85 m |
| Javelin | Matti Jarvinen
Finland | 72.71 m | Matti Sippala
Finland | 69.80 m | Eino Penttila
Finland | 68.70 m |
| Track Events - WOMEN |
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| 100 metres | Stanislawa Walasiewicz
Poland | 11.9s |
Hilda Strike
Canada | 11.9s | Wilhelmina Von Bremen
USA | 12.0s |
| 800 metres | Was NOT held in these games |
| Field Events - WOMEN |
| | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist |
| High Jump | Jean Shiley
USA | 1.66 m | Mildred Didriksen
USA | 1.66 m | Eva Dawes
Canada | 1.60 m |
| Discus | Lillian Copeland
USA | 40.58 m | Ruth Osburn
USA | 40.12 m | Jadwiga Wasjsowna
Poland | 38.74 m |
| Javelin | Mildred Didriksen
USA | 43.68 m | Ellen Braumuller
Germany | 43.49 m | Tilly Fleischer
Germmany | 43.00 m |