Event
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100 meters
| Robert Hayes
United States 10.0 = | Enrique Figuerola
Cuba 10.2
| Harry Jerome
Canada 10.2
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200 meters
| Henry Carr
United States 20.3  | Otis Paul Drayton
United States 20.5
| Edwin Roberts
Trinidad and Tobago 20.6
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400 meters
| Michael Larrabee
United States 45.1
| Wendell Mottley
Trinidad and Tobago 45.2
| Andrzej Badenski
Poland 45.6
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800 meters
| Peter Snell
New Zealand 1:45.1  | William Crothers
Canada 1:45.6
| Wilson Kiprugut
Kenya 1:45.9
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1500 meters
| Peter Snell
New Zealand 3:38.1
| Josef Odlozil
Czechoslovakia 3:39.6
| John Davies
New Zealand 3:39.6
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5000 meters
| Robert Schul
United States 13:48.8
| Harald Norpoth
Germany 13:49.6
| William Dellinger
United States 13:49.8
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10 000 metres
| William Mills
United States 28:24.4  | Mohamed Gammoudi
Tunisia 28:24.8
| Ronald Clarke
Australia 28:25.8
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Marathon details | Abebebe Bikila
Ethiopia 2:12:11.2  | Basil Heatley
United Kingdom 2:16:19.2
| Kokichi Tsuburaya
Japan 2:16:22.8
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110 meters fence
| Hayes Jones
United States 13.67
| Blaine Lindgren
United States 13.74
| Anatoly Mikhailov
Soviet Union 13.78
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400 meters fence
| Rex Cawley
United States 49.6
| John Cooper
United Kingdom 50.1
| Salvatore Morale
Italy 50.1
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3,000 metres obstacles
| Gaston Roelants
Belgium 8:30.8  | Maurice Herriott
United Kingdom 8:32.4
| Ivan Belyayev
Soviet Union 8:33.8
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Height balance
| Valeri Brumel
Soviet Union 2.18  | John Thomas
United States 2.18
| John Rambo
United States 2.16
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Powdered jump
| Fred Hansen
United States 5.10  | Wolfgang Reinhardt
Germany 5.05
| Klaus Lehnertz
Germany 5.00
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Length balance
| Lynn Davies
United Kingdom 8.07
| Ralph Boston
United States 8.03
| Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
Soviet Union 7.99
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Triple jump
| Jozef Schmidt
Poland 16.85  | Oleg Fedoseyev
Soviet Union 16.58
| Viktor Kravchenko
Soviet Union 16.57
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Weight launch
| Dallas Long
United States 20.33  | Randy Matson
United States 20.20
| Vilmos Varju
Hungary 19.39
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Disk launch
| Al Oerter
United States 61.00  | Ludvik Danek
Czechoslovakia 60.52
| David Weill
United States 59.49
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Hammer launch
| Romuald Klim
Soviet Union 69.74  | Gyula Zsivotzky
Hungary 69.09
| Uwe Beyer
Germany 68.09
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Jabalin launch
| Pauli Nevala
Finland 82.66
| Gergely Kulcsar
Hungary 82.32
| Janis Lusis
Soviet Union 80.57
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Decatlon
| Willi Holdorf
Germany 7.887 p.
| Rein
Soviet Union 7.841 p.
| Hans-Joachim Walde
Germany 7.809 p.
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20 km march
| Kenneth Matthews
United Kingdom 1h29:34.0  | Dieter Lindner
Germany 1h31:13.2
| Vladimir Golubnichy
Soviet Union 1h31:59.4
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50 km march
| Abdon Pamich
Italy 4h11:12.4  | Paul Vincent Nihill
United Kingdom 4h11:31.2
| Ingvar Pettersson
Sweden 4h14:17.4
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Relays 4 x 100 meters
| United States Paul Drayton Gerry Ashworth Richard Stebbins Robert Hayes 39.0  | Poland Andrzej Zielinski Wieslaw Maniak Marian Foik Marian Dudziak 39.3
| France Paul Genevay Bernard Laidebeur Claude Piquemal Jocelyn Delecour 39.3
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Relays 4 x 400 meters
| United States Ollan Cassell Michael Larrabee Ulis Williams Henry Carr 3:00.7  | United Kingdom Tim Graham Adrian Metcalfe John Cooper Robbie Brightwell 3:01.6
| Trinidad and Tobago Edwin Skinner Kent Bernard Edwin Roberts Wendell Mottley 3:01.7
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