| Track Events - MEN |
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| 100 metres | Linford Christie
GB | 9.96s | Frankie Fredericks
Namibia | 10.02s | Dennis Mitchell
USA | 10.04s |
| 200 metres | Mike Marsh
USA | 20.01s | Frankie Fredericks
Namibia | 20.13s | Michael Bates
USA | 20.38s |
| 400 metres | Quincy Watts
USA | 43.50s | Steve Lewis
USA | 44.21s | Samson Kitur
Kenya | 44.24s |
| 800 metres | William Tanui
Kenya | 1m 43.66s | Nixon Kiprotich
Kenya | 1m 43.70s | Johnny Gray
USA | 1m 43.97s |
| 1500 metres | Fermin Cacho
Spain | 3m 40.12s | Rachid El Basir
Morocco | 3m 40.62s | Mohamed Suleiman
Qatar | 3m 40.69s |
| 5000 metres | Dieter Baumann
Germany | 13m 12.52s | Paul Bitok
Kenya | 13m 12.71s | Fita Bayisa
Ethiopia | 13m 13.03s |
| 10000 metres | Khalid Skad
Morocco | 27m 46.70s | Richard Chelimo
Kenya | 27m 47.72s | Addis Abebe
Ethiopia | 28m 00.07s |
Marathon
(42,195 m) | Hwang Young-cho
S.Korea | 2h 13m 23s | Koichi Morishita
Japan | 2h 13m 45s | Stephan Freigang
Germany | 2h 14m 00s |
Steeplechase
(3000 metres) | Matthew Birir
Kenya | 8m 8.84s | Patrick Sang
Kenya | 8m 9.55s | William Mutwol
Kenya | 8m 10.74s |
| Field Events - MEN |
| | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist |
| High Jump | Javier Sotomayor
Cuba | 2.34 m | Patrick Sjoberg
Sweden | 2.34 m | Hollis Conway
USA | 2.34 m |
| Long Jump | Carl Lewis
USA | 8.67 m | Mike Powell
USA | 8.64 m | Joe Green
USA | 8.34 m |
| Pole Vault | Maksim Tarasov
CIS | 5.80 m | Igor Trandenkov
CIS | 5.80 m | Javier Garcia
Spain | 5.75 m |
| Shot | Mike Stulce
USA | 21.70 m | James Doehring
USA | 20.96 m | Vyacheslav Lykho
CIS | 20.94 m |
| Discus | Romas Ubartas
Lithuania | 65.12 m | Jurgen Schult
Germany | 64.94 m | Roberto Moya
Cuba | 64.12 m |
| Javelin | Jan Zelezny
Czech.Rep | 89.66 m | Seppo Raty
Finland | 86.60 m | Steve Backley
GB | 83.38 m |
| Track Events - WOMEN |
| Event | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| 100 metres | Gail Devers
USA | 10.82s | Juliet Cuthbert
Jamaica | 10.83s | Irina Privalova
CIS | 10.84s |
| 200 metres | Gwen Torrance
USA | 21.81s | Julie Cuthbert
Jamaica | 22.02s | Merlene Ottey
Jamaica | 22.09s |
| 400 metres | Marie Perec
France | 48.83s | Olga Bryzgina
CIS | 49.05s | Ximena Restrepo
Colombia | 49.64s |
| 800 metres | Ellen van Langen
Netherland | 1m 55.54s | Lilia Nurutdinova
CIS | 1m 55.99s | Ana Quirot
Cuba | 1m 56.80s |
| 1500 metres | Hassiba Boulmerka
Algeria | 3m 55.30s | Rudmilla Rogacheva
CIS | 3m 56.91s | Qu Yungxia
China | 3m 57.08s |
| 3000 metres | Yelena Romanova
CIS | 8m 46.04s | Tatyana Dorovskikh
CIS | 8m 46.85s | Angela Chalmers
Canada | 8m 47.22s |
| 10000 metres | Derartu Tulu
Ethiopa | 31m 06.02s | Elana Meyer
S.Africa | 31m 11.75s | Lyn Jennings
USA | 31m 19.89s |
| Marathon | Valentina Yegorova
CIS | 2h 32m 41s | Yoko Arimori
Japan | 2h 32m 49s | Lorraine Moller
New Zealand | 2h 33m 59s |
| Field Events - WOMEN |
| | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist | | Ht/Dist |
| High Jump | Heike Henkel
Germany | 2.02 m | Galina Astafei
Romania | 2.00 m | Ionet Quintero
Cuba | 1.97 m |
| Long Jump | Heike Dreschler
Germany | 7.14 m | Inessa Kravets
CIS | 7.12 m | J. Joyner-Kersee
USA | 7.07 m |
| Shot | Svetlana Krivelyova
CIS | 21.06 m | Huang Zhihong
China | 20.47 m | Kathrin Neimke
Germany | 19.78 m |
| Discus | Maritza Marten
Cuba | 70.06 m | Tsvetanka Khristova
Bulgaria | 67.78 m | Daniela Costian
Australia | 66.24 m |
| Javelin | Silke Renk
Germany | 68.34 m | Natalya Shikolenko
CIS | 68.26 m | Karen Forkel
Germany | 66.86 m |