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1981 Bucharest
12gold 13silver 13bronze- 2 400m hurdles Men
URS Dmitriy Shkarupin 49.52
- 3 400m hurdles Men
BRA Antonio Diaz Ferreira 50.04
- 1 High jump Men
USA Leo Williams 2.25
- 2 High jump Men
CHN Zhu Jianhua 2.25
- 3 High jump Men
GER Gerd Nagel 2.25 note
- 1 Pole vault Men
URS Konstantin Volkov 5.75 CR
- 2 Pole vault Men
URS Vladimir Polyakov (1960) 5.70
- 3 Pole vault Men
FRA Philippe Houvion 5.65
- 1 Long jump Men
HUN Laszlo Szalma 8.23 w
- 2 Long jump Men
CHN Liu Yuhuang 8.11
- 3 Long jump Men
CUB Ubaldo Duany 8.10
- 1 Triple jump Men
CHN Zou Zhenxian 17.32 CR
- 2 Triple jump Men
HUN Bela Bakosi 16.97
- 3 Triple jump Men
GBR Keith Connor 16.88
- 1 Shot put Men
USA Mike Carter 20.19
- 2 Shot put Men
GDR Detlef Mortag 19.35
- 3 Shot put Men
CZE Dalibor Vasicek 19.20 note
- 1 Discus throw Men
GDR Armin Lemme 65.90 CR
- 2 Discus throw Men
GDR Wolfgang Warnemünde 63.54
- 3 Discus throw Men
ROU Ion Zamfirache 63.40
- 1 Hammer throw Men
GER Klaus Ploghaus 77.74 CR note
- 2 Hammer throw Men
URS Jüri Tamm 76.54
- 3 Hammer throw Men
URS Igor Nikulin 75.24
- 1 Javelin throw Men
URS Dainis Kula OG 89.52 CR
- 2 Javelin throw Men
GDR Gerald Weiss 87.80
- 3 Javelin throw Men
URS Heino Puuste 87.22
- 1 20 km race walk Men
ITA Maurizio Damilano OG 1:26:47
- 2 20 km race walk Men
ITA Carlo Mattioli 1:28:10
- 3 20 km race walk Men
ROU Liodor Pescaru (1953) 1:28:56
- 1 Decathlon Men
URS Aleksandr Shablenko 8055
- 2 Decathlon Men
URS Sergey Zhelanov 8013
- 3 Decathlon Men
AUT Georg Werthner 7825
- 1 4x100m Men
USA Mel Lattany Anthony Ketchum Jason Grimes Calvin Smith Sr Relay team 38.70
- 2 4x100m Men
URS Andrey Shlyapnikov Nikolay Sidorov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Muravyov Relay team 38.94
- 3 4x100m Men
FRA Philippe Le Joncour Stephane Adam Gabriel Brothier Aldo Canti Relay team 39.50
- 1 4x400m Men
URS Aleksandr Zolotaryev Vitaliy Fedotov Viktor Burakov Viktor Markin Relay team 3:02.75
- 2 4x400m Men
USA David Lee Anthony Ketchum David Patrick Walter McCoy Relay team 3:03.01
- 3 4x400m Men
BRA Katsuhiko Nakaya Paulo Antonio Lima Gerson De Souza Antonio Diaz Ferreira Relay team 3:06.79
1979 Mexico City ↗
15gold 15silver 14bronze- 1 100m Men
USA Mike Roberson 10.19 w 0.0
- 2 100m Men
POL Leszek Dunecki 10.30 w 0.0
- 3 100m Men
GBR Ainsley Bennett 10.38 w 0.0
- 1 200m Men
ITA Pietro Mennea OG 19.72 w +1.8 WR
- 2 200m Men
POL Leszek Dunecki 20.24 w +1.8
- 3 200m Men
GBR Ainsley Bennett 20.42 w +1.8
- 1 400m Men
GER Harald Schmid 44.98 CR note
- 2 400m Men
GER Franz-Peter Hofmeister 45.12 note
- 3 400m Men
USA Walter McCoy OG 45.90
- 1 800m Men
USA Evans White 1:48.87
- 2 800m Men
GBR Garry Cook 1:49.50
- 3 800m Men
GER Hans-Peter Ferner 1:49.77 note
- 1 1500m Men
GBR Graham Williamson 3:45.37
- 2 1500m Men
SUI Pierre Deleze 3:45.8
- 3 1500m Men
USA Richie Harris 3:46.4
- 1 5000m Men
ROU Ilie Floroiu 14:12.9
- 2 5000m Men
MEX Jose Gomez 14:15.4
- 3 5000m Men
MEX Enrique Aquino 14:18.0
- 1 10,000m Men
ROU Ilie Floroiu 29:56.1
- 2 10,000m Men
MEX Enrique Aquino 30:16.4
- 3 10,000m Men
KEN Samuel Nyariki 30:49.1
- 1 3000m steeplechase Men
ROU Paul Copu 8:57.7
- 2 3000m steeplechase Men
ITA Mariano Scartezzini 8:58.1
- 3 3000m steeplechase Men
ITA Michele Cina 9:08.7
- 1 110m hurdles Men
URS Andrey Prokofyev OG 13.50 w +0.3
- 2 110m hurdles Men
GDR Thomas Munkelt OG 13.50 w +0.3
- 3 110m hurdles Men
URS Aleksandr Puchkov 13.55 w +0.3
- 1 400m hurdles Men
NED Harry Schulting 48.44 CR
- 2 400m hurdles Men
URS Vasiliy Arkhipenko 48.60
- 3 400m hurdles Men
USA James Walker 48.88
- 1 High jump Men
GER Gerd Nagel 2.28 CR= note
- 2 High jump Men
GDR Rolf Beilschmidt 2.28 CR=
- 3 High jump Men
GER Holger Marten 2.26 note
- 1 Pole vault Men
POL Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz OG 5.60 CR=
- 2 Pole vault Men
FRA Philippe Houvion 5.60 CR=
- 3 Pole vault Men
FRA Patrick Abada 5.55
- 1 Long jump Men
URS Valeriy Podluzhniy 8.16
- 2 Long jump Men
JPN Junichi Usui 8.05
- 3 Long jump Men
USA LaMonte King 7.99
- 1 Triple jump Men
USA Willie Banks 17.23 CR
- 2 Triple jump Men
URS Jaak Uudmae OG 17.20
- 3 Triple jump Men
ITA Roberto Mazzucato 16.87
- 1 Shot put Men
GDR Udo Beyer OG 20.49 CR
- 2 Shot put Men
FIN Reijo Stahlberg 19.96