Men's results
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m |  Hermann Panzo (FRA) |
10.40 |  Olaf Prenzler (GDR) |
10.53 | Bernhard Hoff (GDR) |
10.53 |
| 200 m | Bernhard Hoff (GDR) |
20.59 |  Bernd Sattler (FRG) |
21.05 | Pascal Barré (FRA) |
21.12 |
| 400 m |  Roberto Tozzi (ITA) |
47.18 |  Vyacheslav Dotsenko (URS) |
47.32 |  Steve Wymark (GBR) |
47.50 |
| 800 m | Andreas Busse (GDR) |
1:47.8 | Detlef Wagenknecht (GDR) |
1:48.2 |  Guy Tondeur (BEL) |
1:48.6 |
| 1500 m |  Ari Paunonen (FIN) |
3:41.6 | Chris Sly (GBR) |
3:44.6 |  Pierre Délèze (SUI) |
3:45.0 |
| 3000 m |  José Manuel Abascal (ESP) |
7:58.3 | Werner Schildhauer (GDR) |
8:01.0 | Hansjörg Kunze (GDR) |
8:01.2 |
| 5000 m | Nathaniel Muir (GBR) |
13:49.1 | Volkmar Betz (FRG) |
13:51.0 | Nicholas Lees (GBR) |
13:53.3 |
| 110 m hurdles | Arto Bryggare (FIN) |
13.84 | Mark Holtom (GBR) |
14.29 | Ingo Bruhn (GDR) |
14.39 |
| 400 m hurdles | Manfred Konow (GDR) |
50.61 |  Stefan Piecyk (POL) |
51.23 | Gary Oakes (GBR) |
51.33 |
| 2000 m s'chase | Vesa Laukkanen (FIN) |
5:30.2 | Domingo Ramón (ESP) |
5:34.1 | Paul Nothacker (FRG) |
5:34.8 |
| 10,000 m walk | Mykola Vynnychenko (URS) |
41:31.6 | Ronald Weigel (GDR) |
42:56.7 |  Bengt Simonsen (SWE) |
43:29.3 |
| 4×100 m relay | France (FRA) Pierrick Thessard Hermann Panzo Patrick Barré Pascal Barré |
39.99 | East Germany (GDR) Erhard Gernand Klaus Thiele Thomas Malke Bernhard Hoff |
40.25 | Poland (POL) Marek Fostiak Eugeniusz Krawsz Marek Radtke Krzysztof Zwoliński |
40.66 |
| 4×400 m relay | East Germany (GDR) Carsten Petters Bernhard Hoff Detlef Wagenknecht Manfred Konow |
3:07.8 | Soviet Union (URS) Valeriy Stashuk Mikhail Linge Nikolay Chernetskiy Vyacheslav Dotsenko |
3:08.5 | Great Britain (GBR) Greg Stewart Daley Thompson Steve Wymark Andrew Kerr |
3:09.5 |
| Pole vault | Viktor Spasov (URS) |
5.30 m | Felix Bohni (SUI) |
5.20 m |  Atanas Tarev (BUL) |
5.10 m |
| High jump | Vladimir Yashchenko (URS) |
2.30 m | Andre Schneider-Laub (FRG) |
2.20 m | Alessandro Brogini (ITA) |
2.14 m |
| Long jump | Stanisław Jaskułka (POL) |
7.77 m | Ivan Tuparov (BUL) |
7.63 m | Aleksandr Kozlov (URS) |
7.59 m |
| Triple jump | Gennadiy Valyukevich (URS) |
16.60 m | Vasiliy Grishchenkov (URS) |
16.31 m | Klaus Kübler (FRG) |
16.22 m |
| Shot put | Dietmar Krumm (GDR) |
18.87 m | Roland Steuk (GDR) |
17.61 m | Aleksandr Styepankov (URS) |
17.50 m |
| Discus throw | Yuriy Dumchev (URS) |
53.30 m |  Alfonz Saskoi (HUN) |
53.14 m | Werner Hartmann (FRG) |
52.24 m |
| Javelin throw | Klaus Tafelmeier (FRG) |
84.14 m | Arto Härkönen (FIN) |
82.98 m | Roman Zwierchowski (POL) |
82.56 m |
| Hammer throw | Roland Steuk (GDR) |
70.78 m | Sergey Litvinov (URS) |
68.76 m | Vladimir Nagurniy (URS) |
67.60 m |
| Decathlon | Daley Thompson (GBR) |
7647 pts | Ronald Wiese (GDR) |
7564 pts | Jürgen Hingsen (FRG) |
7524 pts |
