Medal summary
Men's events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m freestyle |  Sergey Smiriagin (URS) |
50.26 | Aleksey Markovsky (URS) |
50.39 |  Sven Lodziewski (GDR) |
50.58 |
| 200 m freestyle | Sven Lodziewski (GDR) |
1:49.83 | Vladimir Shemetov (URS) |
1:50.33 | Sergey Krasyuk (URS) |
1:51.09 |
| 400 m freestyle | Vladimir Salnikov (URS) |
3:49.27 | Sven Lodziewski (GDR) |
3:50.98 | Sviatoslav Semenov (URS) |
3:53.34 |
| 1500 m freestyle | Vladimir Salnikov (URS) |
15:03.51 | Uwe Dassler (GDR) |
15:11.14 | Sviatoslav Semenov (URS) |
15:25.56 |
| 100 m backstroke | Dirk Richter (GDR) |
55.67 | Vladimir Shemetov (URS) |
55.88 | Frank Baltrusch (GDR) |
56.39 |
| 200 metre backstroke | Sergei Zabolotnov (URS) |
1:58.41 (WR) |
Vladimir Shemetov (URS) |
1:59.54 | Dirk Richter (GDR) |
2:00.30 |
| 100 metre breaststroke | Dmitry Volkov (URS) |
1:03.72 | Robertas Žulpa (URS) |
1:03.87 | Sigurd Hanke (GDR) |
1:05.16 |
| 200 metre breaststroke | Robertas Žulpa (URS) |
2:15.70 | Dmitry Volkov (URS) |
2:16.97 |  Albán Vermes (HUN) |
2:21.19 |
| 100 metre butterfly | Aleksey Markovsky (URS) |
54.26 | Alexandr Prigoda (URS) |
55.08 |  Marcel Géry (TCH) |
55.17 |
| 200 metre butterfly | Alexandr Prigoda (URS) |
1:58.83 | Sergey Fesenko, Sr. (URS) |
1:59.52 | Marcel Géry (TCH) |
2:00.34 |
| 200 metre individual medley | Jens-Peter Berndt (GDR) |
2:02.51 | Josef Hladký (TCH) |
2:03.33 | Aleksandr Sidorenko (URS) |
2:03.35 |
| 400 metre individual medley | Jens-Peter Berndt (GDR) |
4:18.29 | Sergey Pichugin (URS) |
4:25.19 | Josef Hladký (TCH) |
4:26.29 |
| 4×100 m freestyle relay | Soviet Union (URS) Sergey Smiriagin Sergey Kurbatov Sergey Krasyuk Aleksey Markovsky |
3:20.19 | East Germany (GDR) Dirk Richter Rene Wanzlik Sven Lodziewski Reiner Sternal |
3:22.92 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Jarmil Proněk Petr Kladiva Josef Hladký Marcel Géry |
3:27.31 |
| 4×200 m freestyle relay | East Germany (GDR) Dirk Richter Steffen Liess Reiner Sternal Sven Lodziewski |
7:20.78 | Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Shemetov Andrei Liashenko Vladimir Salnikov Sergey Krasyuk |
7:22.31 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Martin Dvořák Petr Kladiva Josef Hladký Marcel Géry |
7:24.78 |
| 4×100 m medley relay | Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Shemetov Dmitry Volkov Aleksey Markovsky Sergey Smiriagin |
3:42.15 | East Germany (GDR) Dirk Richter Sigurd Hanke Tino Ott Sven Lodziewski |
3:43.23 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Josef Hladký Petr Matoušek Petr Kladiva Marcel Géry |
3:43.25 |
Women's events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m freestyle | Kristin Otto (GDR) |
55.75 | Birgit Meineke (GDR) |
55.79 | Svitlana Kopchykova (URS) |
56.53 |
| 200 m freestyle | Kristin Otto (GDR) |
1:59.48 | Birgit Meineke (GDR) |
2:00.15 | Svitlana Kopchykova (URS) |
2:00.47 |
| 400 m freestyle | Astrid Strauss (GDR) |
4:07.66 | Irina Laricheva (URS) |
4:09.70 | Anke Sonnenbrodt (GDR) |
4:16.21 |
| 800 m freestyle | Astrid Strauss (GDR) |
8:24.95 | Grit Richter (GDR) |
8:33.47 | Irina Laricheva (URS) |
8:39.57 |
| 100 m backstroke | Ina Kleber (GDR) |
1:00.99 | Kristin Otto (GDR) |
1:02.02 | Viktoriya Klochko (URS) |
1:03.67 |
| 200 m backstroke | Katrin Zimmermann (GDR) |
2:12.56 | Yelena Dendeberova (URS) |
2:13.31 | Kristin Otto (GDR) |
2:15.16 |
| 100 m breaststroke | Sylvia Gerasch (GDR) |
1:08.29 (WR) |
Ute Geweniger (GDR) |
1:08.59 | Larisa Byelokon (URS) |
1:09.63 |
| 200 metre breaststroke | Larisa Byelokon (URS) |
2:29.13 | Sylvia Gerasch (GDR) |
2:29.62 | Yelena Volkova (URS) |
2:32.36 |
| 100 metre butterfly | Tatyana Kurnikova (URS) |
59.41 | Ines Geißler (GDR) |
1:00.09 | Yelena Osadchuk (URS) |
1:01.33 |
| 200 m butterfly | Ines Geißler (GDR) |
2:09.96 | Yelena Osadchuk (URS) |
2:11.76 | Tatyana Kurnikova (URS) |
2:12.41 |
| 200 m individual medley | Ute Geweniger (GDR) |
2:11.79 | Yelena Dendeberova (URS) |
2:14.56 | Svitlana Kopchykova (URS) |
2:15.40 |
| 400 m individual medley | Yelena Dendeberova (URS) |
4:43.78 | Kathleen Nord (GDR) |
4:49.49 |  Sonia Blagova (BUL) |
4:52.35 |
| 4×100 m freestyle relay | East Germany (GDR) Kristin Otto Caren König Heike Friedrich Birgit Meineke |
3:42.41 (WR) |
Soviet Union (URS) Svitlana Kopchykova Svetlana Didienko Tatyana Kurnikova Yelena Dendeberova |
3:44.31 | Hungary (HUN) Edit Ormos Katalin Nagy Ágnes Fodor Andrea Orosz |
3:55.42 |
| 4×100 m medley relay | East Germany (GDR) Ina Kleber Sylvia Gerasch Ines Geißler Birgit Meineke |
4:03.69 (WR) |
Soviet Union (URS) Viktoriya Klochko Larisa Byelokon Tatyana Kurnikova Svitlana Kopchykova |
4:08.13 | Bulgaria (BUL) Bistra Gospodinova Tanya Bogomilova Radosveta Pironkova Vanja Argirova |
4:16.74 |