Men's results
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m |  Elliot Bunney (GBR) |
10.38 |  Endre Havas (HUN) |
10.40 | John Regis (GBR) |
10.51 |
| 200 m | Ade Mafe (GBR) |
20.54 | Richard Ashby (GBR) |
20.85 | Endre Havas (HUN) |
21.00 |
| 400 m | Roger Black (GBR) |
45.36 |  Yan Krasnikov (URS) |
46.31 |  Jacques Farraudière (FRA) |
46.37 |
| 800 m |  Ralph Schumann (GDR) |
1:51.28 |  Jussi Udelhoven (FRG) |
1:51.96 |  Geir Søgnebotnen (NOR) |
1:51.98 |
| 1500 m |  Mika Maaskola (FIN) |
3:44.99 | Neil Horsfield (GBR) |
3:45.39 | Hauke Fuhlbrügge (GDR) |
3:45.60 |
| 3000 m |  Nick O'Brien (IRL) |
8:10.75 | Andrey Usachov (URS) |
8:10.90 | John Nuttall (GBR) |
8:11.72 |
| 5000 m | Paul Taylor (GBR) |
14:12.45 | Volker Iwanowski (GDR) |
14:14.83 |  José Manuel García (ESP) |
14:17.87 |
| 110 m hurdles | Jon Ridgeon (GBR) |
13.46 | Colin Jackson (GBR) |
13.69 |  Fausto Frigerio (ITA) |
14.10 |
| 400 m hurdles | Oleg Singatullin (URS) |
50.64 |  Klaus Ehrle (AUT) |
50.99 | Carsten Köhrbrück (FRG) |
51.23 |
| 2000 m s'chase | Nikolay Matyushenko (URS) |
5:28.31 | Sándor Serfõzõ (HUN) |
5:34.98 |  Marián Huncík (TCH) |
5:35.83 |
| 4×100 m relay | Great Britain (GBR) Trevor McKenzie Elliot Bunney Richard Ashby John Regis |
39.80 |  Poland (POL)Jacek Marlicki Andrzej Popa Jacek Konopka Marek Parjaszewski |
40.18 | Soviet Union (URS) Vitaliy Savin Viktor Ivanov Sergey Klyonov Dmitriy Dontsov |
40.32 |
| 4×400 m relay | Great Britain (GBR) Mark Tyler John Rigg Ade Mafe Roger Black |
3:07.18 | West Germany (FRG) Bernd Müller Volker Höschele Edgar Itt Thomas Beblo |
3:08.02 | Soviet Union (URS) Andrey Cherevchenko Sergey Dobrovolskiy Oleg Singatullin Yan Krasnikov |
3:08.32 |
| 10.000 m walk | Mikhail Shchennikov (URS) |
42:00.63 | Daniel Plaza (ESP) |
42:16.39 | Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA) |
42:56.80 |
| High jump | John Hill (GBR) |
2.24 m | Róbert Ruffíni (TCH) |
2.24 m |  Georgi Dakov (BUL) |
2.18 m |
| Pole vault | Igor Trandenkov (URS) |
5.45 m | Grigoriy Yegorov (URS) |
5.40 m | Mike Thiede (GDR) |
5.30 m |
| Long jump | Volker Mai (GDR) |
7.99 m | Marco Delonge (GDR) |
7.96 m |  Emiel Mellaard (NED) |
7.79 m |
| Triple jump | Volker Mai (GDR) |
16.83 m | Yuriy Gorbachenko (URS) |
16.61 m | Piotr Weremczuk (POL) |
16.21 m |
| Shot put | Oliver-Sven Buder (GDR) |
19.34 m | Oleksandr Bagach (URS) |
18.48 m | Maik Prollius (GDR) |
18.09 m |
| Discus throw | Attila Horváth (HUN) |
60.02 m | Rüdiger Pudenz (GDR) |
58.74 m | Vasiliy Kaptyukh (URS) |
57.18 m |
| Hammer throw | Andreï Abduvaliev (URS) |
72.44 m | Steffen Raschik (GDR) |
68.82 m | Valentin Kirov (BUL) |
66.16 m |
| Javelin throw | Andrey Maznichenk (URS) |
79.92 m | Gary Jenson (GBR) |
75.68 m | Bogdan Patelka (POL) |
75.68 m |
| Decathlon | Thomas Fahner (GDR) |
7815 pts | Igor Drobyshevskiy (URS) |
7633 pts | André Preysing (GDR) |
7476 pts |
