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1981 Bucharest
29gold 31silver 29bronze- 2 800m Women
ITA Gabriella Dorio OG 1:58.99
- 2 800m Men
GRE Sotirios Moutsanas 1:50.20
- 3 800m Women
ROU Tudorita Morutan 1:59.30
- 3 800m Men
URS Pavel Troshchilo 1:50.26
- 1 1500m Men
MAR Said Aouita OG 3:38.43 CR
- 1 1500m Women
ITA Gabriella Dorio OG 4:05.35 CR
- 2 1500m Men
JUG Vinko Pokrajcic 3:39.83
- 2 1500m Women
ROU Doina Melinte OG 4:05.74
- 3 1500m Women
URS Olga Dvirna 4:06.39
- 3 1500m Men
ALG Amar Brahmia 3:39.85
- 1 3000m Women
JUG Breda Pergar 8:53.78 CR
- 2 3000m Women
URS Valentina Ilyinykh 8:54.23
- 3 3000m Women
ROU Maria Radu 8:58.58
- 1 5000m Men
USA Doug Padilla 13:49.95
- 2 5000m Men
CZE Jozef Lences 13:50.34 note
- 3 5000m Men
GER Frank Zimmermann 13:50.84 note
- 1 10,000m Men
URS Toomas Turb 29:42.83
- 2 10,000m Men
ROU Gyorgy Marko 29:51.13
- 3 10,000m Men
GBR Dave Murphy 29:51.27
- 1 Marathon Men
URS Ivan Kovalchuk 2:22:14
- 2 Marathon Men
USA Herb Wills 2:23:22
- 3 Marathon Men
ROU Gheorghe Buruiana 2:24:45
- 1 3000m steeplechase Men
USA John Gregorek Sr 8:21.26 CR
- 2 3000m steeplechase Men
FIN Tommy Ekblom 8:21.93
- 3 3000m steeplechase Men
ITA Mariano Scartezzini 8:28.03
- 1 100m hurdles Women
USA Stephanie Hightower 13.03 w -0.6
- 2 100m hurdles Women
URS Mariya Kemenchezhi 13.13 w -0.6
- 3 100m hurdles Women
POL Elzbieta Rabsztyn 13.31 w -0.6
- 1 110m hurdles Men
USA Larry Cowling 13.65 w +1.0
- 2 110m hurdles Men
ROU Pal Palffy 13.73 w +1.0
- 3 110m hurdles Men
URS Georgiy Shabanov 13.82 w +1.0
- 1 400m hurdles Women
URS Ana Kastetskaja 55.52 CR
- 1 400m hurdles Men
USA David Lee 49.05
- 2 400m hurdles Women
GDR Birgit Sonntag 55.90
- 2 400m hurdles Men
URS Dmitriy Shkarupin 49.52
- 3 400m hurdles Men
BRA Antonio Diaz Ferreira 50.04
- 3 400m hurdles Women
URS Tatyana Zubova 57.07
- 1 High jump Men
USA Leo Williams 2.25
- 1 High jump Women
ITA Sara Simeoni OG 1.96 CR
- 2 High jump Men
CHN Zhu Jianhua 2.25
- 2 High jump Women
BUL Lyudmila Andonova 1.94
- 3 High jump Men
GER Gerd Nagel 2.25 note
- 3 High jump Women
URS Tamara Bykova 1.94
- 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 Women
URS Tatyana Kolpakova OG 6.83
- 1 Long jump Men
HUN Laszlo Szalma 8.23 w
- 2 Long jump Women
ROU Anisoara Cusmir OG 6.77
- 2 Long jump Men
CHN Liu Yuhuang 8.11
- 3 Long jump Men
CUB Ubaldo Duany 8.10
- 3 Long jump Women
ROU Valy Ionescu 6.61
- 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
- 1 Shot put Women
GDR Helma Knorscheidt 20.24
- 2 Shot put Men
GDR Detlef Mortag 19.35
- 2 Shot put Women
GDR Ines Reichenbach 19.66
- 3 Shot put Men
CZE Dalibor Vasicek 19.20 note
- 3 Shot put Women
URS Lyudmila Savina 18.50
- 1 Discus throw Men
GDR Armin Lemme 65.90 CR
- 1 Discus throw Women
ROU Florenta Craciunescu 67.48 CR
- 2 Discus throw Women
GDR Petra Sziegaud 64.14
- 2 Discus throw Men
GDR Wolfgang Warnemünde 63.54
- 3 Discus throw Men
ROU Ion Zamfirache 63.40
- 3 Discus throw Women
ROU Mariana Ionescu-Lengyel 61.84
- 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
- 1 Javelin throw Women
GDR Petra Felke-Meier OG 65.20
- 2 Javelin throw Men
GDR Gerald Weiss 87.80
- 2 Javelin throw Women
USA Karin Smith 64.12
- 3 Javelin throw Men
URS Heino Puuste 87.22
- 3 Javelin throw Women
CUB Mayra Vila 63.88
- 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 Heptathlon Women
POL Malgorzata Guzowska-Nowak 6198
- 2 Heptathlon Women
URS Nadezhda Vinogradova 6133
- 3 Heptathlon Women
ROU Corina Tifrea 6033
- 1 4x100m Men
USA Mel Lattany Anthony Ketchum Jason Grimes Calvin Smith Sr Relay team 38.70
- 1 4x100m Women
USA Michele Glover Carol Lewis Jackie Washington Benita Fitzgerald-Brown Relay team 43.66
- 2 4x100m Men
URS Andrey Shlyapnikov Nikolay Sidorov Aleksandr Aksinin Vladimir Muravyov Relay team 38.94
- 2 4x100m Women
GBR Yvette Wray Kathy Smallwood-Cook Sue Hearnshaw Relay team 43.86