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1979 Mexico City ↗
11gold 12silver 12bronze- 1 Shot put Women
GDR Ilona Slupianek OG 20.48
- 2 Shot put Men
FIN Reijo Stahlberg 19.96
- 2 Shot put Women
GDR Helma Knorscheidt 20.36
- 3 Shot put Men
BUL Nikolai Khristov 19.60
- 3 Shot put Women
ROU Mihaela Loghin 19.41
- 1 Discus throw Men
GDR Wolfgang Schmidt 60.78
- 1 Discus throw Women
URS Svetlana Melnikova 63.54
- 2 Discus throw Women
GDR Evelin Schlaak-Jahl OG 63.00
- 2 Discus throw Men
FIN Markku Tuokko 59.82
- 3 Discus throw Men
CZE Antonin Wybraniec 58.32 note
- 3 Discus throw Women
ROU Florenta Craciunescu 59.28
- 1 Hammer throw Men
GER Klaus Ploghaus 75.74 CR note
- 2 Hammer throw Men
GER Manfred Hüning 75.68 note
- 3 Hammer throw Men
URS Yuriy Sedykh OG 75.54
- 1 Javelin throw Men
GER Helmut Schreiber 88.68 CR note
- 1 Javelin throw Women
ROU Eva Zörgö-Raduly 67.20 CR
- 2 Javelin throw Women
BUL Ivanka Vancheva 63.04
- 2 Javelin throw Men
FIN Arto Harkönen OG 87.10
- 3 Javelin throw Men
URS Heino Puuste 82.62
- 3 Javelin throw Women
CUB Mayra Vila 60.98
- 1 Decathlon Men
AUT Josef 'Sepp' Zeilbauer 8203 CR
- 2 Decathlon Men
GER Jürgen Hingsen 8033 note
- 3 Decathlon Men
GER Heinz Antretter 7868 note
- 1 Pentathlon Women
URS Yekaterina Smirnova (1956) 4497
- 2 Pentathlon Women
NED Sylvia Barlag 4306
- 3 Pentathlon Women
GER Ina Losch 4272 note
- 1 4x100m Men
ITA Gianfranco Lazzer Luciano Caravani Giovanni Grazioli Pietro Mennea Relay team 38.42 CRNR
- 1 4x100m Women
URS Vera Komisova Tatyana Prorochenko Vera Anisimova Olga Korotkova Relay team 43.14 CR
- 2 4x100m Men
CIV Patrice Oure Etchie (1952) Amadou Meite Avognan Nogboum (1954) Georges Kablan Degnan Relay team 38.73
- 2 4x100m Women
GBR Yvette Wray Kathy Smallwood-Cook Ruth Kennedy Beverley Goddard-Callender Relay team 43.26
- 3 4x100m Men
FRA Jean Gracia Pierre Thessard Gabriel Brothier Pascal Barre Relay team 39.07
- 3 4x100m Women
FRA Odile Madkaud Jacqueline Curtet Marie-Pierre Philippe Chantal Rega Relay team 43.94 NR* note
- 1 4x400m Men
USA Fred Taylor Leslie Kerr Ronnie Harris Walter McCoy Relay team 3:00.98 CR note
- 2 4x400m Men
NED Hugo Pont Koen Gijsbers Marcel Klarenbeek Harry Schulting Relay team 3:03.18
- 3 4x400m Men
ITA Stefano Malinverni Alfonso Di Guida Flavio Borghi Roberto Tozzi Relay team 3:03.80 NR
1977 Sofia
13gold 13silver 12bronze- 1 100m Women
URS Lyudmila Storozhkova 11.21 w +0.8 CR
- 1 100m Men
CUB Silvio Leonard 10.08 w +0.8 CR
- 2 100m Men
BUL Petar Petrov 10.19 w +0.8
- 2 100m Women
GBR Andrea Lynch 11.22 w +0.8
- 3 100m Men
CUB Osvaldo Lara 10.31 w +0.8
- 3 100m Women
CUB Silvia Chivas 11.23 w +0.8
- 1 200m Women
CUB Silvia Chivas 23.08 w +2.2
- 1 200m Men
USA Clancy Edwards 20.46 w -1.8
- 2 200m Men
CUB Silvio Leonard 20.64 w -1.8
- 2 200m Women
URS Marina Sidorova 23.09 w +2.2
- 3 200m Men
USA William Snoddy 21.17 w -1.8
- 3 200m Women
GBR Andrea Lynch 23.23 w +2.2
- 1 400m Men
BEL Alfons Brydenbach 45.18 CR
- 1 400m Women
USA Rosalyn Bryant 52.10
- 2 400m Men
USA Willie Smith (1956) OG 45.34
- 2 400m Women
URS Natalya Sokolova 52.15
- 3 400m Women
CUB Beatriz Castillo 52.95
- 3 400m Men
POL Ryszard Podlas 45.36
- 1 800m Women
BUL Totka Petrova 1:57.6 CR
- 1 800m Men
CUB Alberto Juantorena OG 1:43.44 CRAR
- 2 800m Women
URS Tatyana Kazankina OG 1:58.6
- 2 800m Men
JUG Milovan Savic 1:45.6
- 3 800m Women
BUL Svetla Koleva 1:58.9
- 3 800m Men
FRA Jose Marajo 1:45.89
- 1 1500m Men
CZE Jozef Plachy 3:40.2 note
- 1 1500m Women
BUL Totka Petrova 4:05.7 CR
- 2 1500m Women
ROU Natalia Andrei-Marasescu 4:05.8
- 2 1500m Men
GBR Mike Kearns 3:40.9
- 3 1500m Men
ALG Abderrahmane Morceli 3:41.0
- 3 1500m Women
ROU Maricica Puica OG 4:06.4
- 1 5000m Men
URS Enn Sellik 13:44.6
- 2 5000m Men
POL Jerzy Kowol 13:45.1
- 3 5000m Men
URS Leonid Moseyev 13:45.6
- 1 10,000m Men
URS Leonid Moseyev 29:12.0
- 2 10,000m Men
ITA Franco Fava 29:12.7
- 3 10,000m Men
ROU Ilie Floroiu 29:13.4
- 1 3000m steeplechase Men
GER Michael Karst 8:25.9 note
- 2 3000m steeplechase Men
ROU Paul Copu 8:28.8