| Track Events - MEN |
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| 100 metres | Armin Hary
Germany | 10.2s |
David Sime
USA | 10.2s | Peter Radford
GB | 10.3s |
| 200 metres | Livio Berruti
Italy | 20.5s | Lester Carney
USA | 20.6s | Abdoulaye Seye
France | 20.7s |
| 400 metres | Otis Davis
USA | 44.9s | Carl Kaufmann
Germany | 44.9s | Mal Spence
South Africa | 45.5s |
| 800 metres | Peter Snell
New Zealand | 1m 46.3s | Roger Moens
Belgium | 1m 46.5s | George Kerr
Jamaica | 1m 47.1s |
| 1500 metres | Herb Elliott
Australia | 3m 35.6s | Michel Jazy
France | 3m 38.4s | Istvan Rozsavolgyi
Hungary | 3m 39.2s |
| 5000 metres | Murray Halberg
New Zealand | 13m 43.4s | Hans Grodotzki
German Dem. Rep. | 13m 44.6s | Kazimierz Zimny
Poland | 13m 44.8s |
| 10000 metres | Pyotr Bolotnikov
USSR | 28m 32.2s | Hans Grodotzki
German Dem. Rep. | 28m 37.0s | David Power
Australia | 28m 38.2s |
Marathon
(42,195 metres) | Abebe Bikila
Ethiopia | 2h 15m 16s | Rhadi Ben Abdesselem
Morocco | 2h 15m 42s | Barry Magee
New Zealand | 2h 17m 18s |
Steeplechase
(3000 metres) | Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak
Poland | 8m 34.2s | Nikolai Sokolov
USSR | 8m 36.4s | Semyon Rzhischin
USSR | 8m 42.2s |
| Field Events - MEN |
| | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist |
| High Jump | Robert Shavlakadze
USSR | 2.16 m | Valeriy Brumel
USSR | 2.16 m | John Thomas
USA | 2.14 m |
| Long Jump | Ralph Boston
USA | 8.12 m | Irvin Roberson
USA | 8.11 m | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
USSR | 8.04 m |
| Pole Vault | Don Bragg
USA | 4.70 m | Ron Morris
USA | 4.60 m | Eeles Landstrom
Finland | 4.55 m |
| Shot | Bill Nieder
USA | 19.68 m | Parry O'Brien
USA | 19.11 m | Dallas Long
USA | 19.01 m |
| Discus | Al Oerter
USA | 59.18 m | Rink Babka
USA | 58.02 m | Dick Cochran
USA | 57.16 m |
| Javelin | Viktor Tsibulenko
USSR | 84.64 m | Walter Kruger
German Dem. Rep. | 79.36 m | Gergely Kulcsar
Hungary | 78.57 m |
| Track Events - WOMEN |
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| 100 metres | Wilma Rudolph
USA | 11.0s |
Dorothy Hyman
GB | 11.3s | Giuseppina Leone
Italy | 11.3s |
| 200 metres | Wilma Rudolph
USA | 24.0s |
Jutta Heine
Germany | 24.4s | Dorothy Hyman
GB | 24.7s |
| 800 metres | Lyudmila Shevtsova
USSR | 2m 4.3s |
Brenda Jones
Australia | 2m 4.4s | Ursula Donath
German Dem. Rep. | 2m 5.6s |
| Field Events - WOMEN |
| | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist |
| High Jump | Iolands Balas
Romania | 1.85 m | Jaroslawa Jozwiakowska
Poland | 1.71 m | Dorothy Shirley
GB | 1.71 m |
| Long Jump | Vera Krepkina
USSR | 6.37 m | Elzbieta Krzesinska
Poland | 6.27 m | Hildrun Claus
German Dem. Rep. | 6.21 m |
| Shot | Tamara Press
USSR | 17.32 m | Johanna Luttge
German Dem. Rep. | 16.61 m | Earlene Brown
USA | 16.42 m |
| Discus | Nina Ponomaryeva
USSR | 55.10 m | Tamar Press
USSR | 52.59 m | Lia Manouliu
Romania | 52.36 m |
| Javelin | Elvira Ozolina
USSR | 55.98 m | Dana Zatopkova
Czechoslovakia | 53.78 m | Birute Kalendiene
USSR | 53.45 m |