| Men 50 metres | | 1. Marian Woronin | POL | 5.65 | | 2. Vladimir Muravyev | URS | 5.76 | | 3. Andrey Shlyapnikov | URS | 5.77 | | 4. Antoine Richard | FRA | 5.78 | | 5. Philippe Le Joncour | FRA | 5.79 | | 6. Selwyn Clarke | GBR | 5.82 |
| Men 400 metres | | 1. Andreas Knebel | GDR | 46.52 | | 2. Martin Weppler | FRG | 46.88 | | 3. Stefano Malinverni | ITA | 46.96 | | 4. Paul Bourdin | FRA | 47.69 |
| Men 800 metres | | 1. Herbert Wursthorn | FRG | 1:47.70 | | 2. András Paróczai | HUN | 1:47.73 | | 3. Antonio Paez | ESP | 1:48.31 | | 4. Andreas Busse | GDR | 1:48.82 | | 5. Detlef Wagenknecht | GDR | 1:48.87 | | 6. Thomas Wilking | FRG | 1:49.49 |
| Men 1500 metres | | 1. Thomas Wessinghage | FRG | 3:42.64 | | 2. Uwe Becker | FRG | 3:43.02 | | 3. Miroslaw Zerkowski | POL | 3:44.32 | | 4. Peter Belger | FRG | 3:44.89 | | 5. José M. Abascal | ESP | 3:45.08 | | 6. László Toth | HUN | 3:45.34 | | 7. Marc Nevens | BEL | 3:45.67 | | 8. Gianni Truschi | ITA | 3:48.22 |
| Men 3000 metres | | 1. Alex Gonzales | FRA | | 2. Evengi Ignatov | BUL | | 3. Valleriy Abramov | URS | | 4. Francis González | FRA | | 5. Christoph Herle | FRG | | 6. Robert Nemeth | AUT | | 7. Lubomir Tesácek | TCH | | 8. Didier Chauvelier | FRA |
| Men 50 m hurdles | | 1. Arto Bryggare | FIN | 6.47 | | 2. Javier Moracho | ESP | 6.48 | | 3. Guy Drut | FRA | 6.54 | | 4. Plamen Krastev | BUL | 6.62 | | 5. Yuriy Chervanyev | URS | 6.62 | | 6. Hans-Gerd Klein | FRG | 6.71 |
| Men High Jump | | 1. Roland Dalhäuser | SUI | 2.28 | | 2. Carlo Thränhardt | FRG | 2.25 | | 3. Dietmar Mögenburg | FRG | 2.25 | | 4. Vladimir Granenkov | URS | 2.25 | | 5. Franck Bonnet | FRA | 2.19 | | 6. Stefan Karlsson | SWE | 2.19 | | 7. Jörg Freimuth | GDR | 2.19 | | 8. Krzysztof Krawczyk | POL | 2.19 |
| Men Pole Vault | | 1. Thierry Vigneron | FRA | 5.70 | | 2. Aleksandr Krupskiy | URS | 5.65 | | 3. Jean-Michel Bellot | FRA | 5.65 | | 4. Patrick Desruelles | BEL | 5.60 | | 5. Mariusz Klimczyk | POL | 5.55 | | 6. Philippe Houvion | FRA | 5.55 | | 7. Vladimir Polyakov | URS | 5.55 | | 8. Atanas Tarev | BUL | 5.50 |
| Men Long Jump | | 1. Rolf Bernhard | SUI | 8.01 | | 2. Antonio Corgos | ESP | 7.97 | | 3. Shamil Abbyasov | URS | 7.95 | | 4. Lázló Szalma | HUN | 7.90 | | 5. Joachim Busse | FRG | 7.72 | | 6. Kristyan Apostolov | BUL | 7.69 | | 7. Ivan Tuparov | BUL | 7.61 | | 8. Atanas Chochev | BUL | 7.61 |
| Men Triple Jump | | 1. Shamil Abbyasov | URS | 17.30 | | 2. Klaus Kübler | FRG | 16.73 | | 3. Aston Moore | GBR | 16.73 | | 4. Peter Bouschen | FRG | 16.61 | | 5. Bernard Lamitié | FRA | 16.50 | | 6. Aleksandr Beskrovnyi | URS | 16.46 | | 7. János Hegedis | YUG | 16.31 | | 8. Wolfgang Knabe | FRG | 16.14 |
| Men Shot Put | | 1. Reijo Stĺhlberg | FIN | 19.88 | | 2. Luc Viudes | FRA | 19.41 | | 3. Zlatan Saracevic | YUG | 19.40 | | 4. Alessandro Andrei | ITA | 19.34 | | 5. Remigius Machura | TCH | 19.22 | | 6. Hreinn Halldorsson | ISL | 19.13 | | 7. Oskar Jakobsson | ISL | 19.13 | | 8. Dalibor Vasicek | TCH | 19.09 |
| Men 5000 m Walk (exhibition) | | 1. Hartwig Gauder | GDR | 19:08.59 | | 2. Maurizio Damilano | ITA | 19:13.90 | | 3. Gérard Leličvre | FRA | 19:55.02 | | 4. Giorgio Damilano | ITA | 20:31.97 | | 5. Dominique Guebey | FRA | 20:41.25 | | 6. Pascal Lenglart | FRA | 21:41.37 | | 7. Roger Mills | GBR | 22:08.87 |
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| Women 50 metres | | 1. Sofka Popova (Kazandzheva) | BUL | 6.17 | | 2. Linda Haglund | SWE | 6.17 | | 3. Marita Koch | GDR | 6.19 | | 4. Ingrid Auerswald | GDR | 6.20 | | 5. Olga Korotkova | URS | 6.22 | | 6. Wendy Hoyte | GBR | 6.30 |
| Women 400 metres | | 1. Jarmila Kratochvílová | TCH | 50.07 | | 2. Natalya Bochina | URS | 52.32 | | 3. Verona Elder | GBR | 52.37 | | 4. Karoline Käfer | AUT | 52.50 |
| Women 800 metres | | 1. Hildegard Ullrich | GDR | 2:00.94 | | 2. Svetla Zlateva | BUL | 2:01.37 | | 3. Nikolina Shtereva | BUL | 2:02.50 | | 4. Kirsty McDermott | GBR | 2:02.88 | | 5. Anne-Marie Van Nuffel | BEL | 2:05.37 | | 6. Montserrat Pujol | ESP | 2:06.13 |
| Women 1500 metres | | 1. Agnese Fossamai | ITA | 4:07.49 | | 2. Valentina Ilyinykh | URS | 4:08.17 | | 3. Lyubov Smolka | URS | 4:08.64 | | 4. Vanya Gospodinova (Stoyanova) | BUL | 4:10.13 | | 5. Dorthe S.Rasmussen | DEN | 4:16.50 | | 6. Gillian Dainty | GBR | 4:25.34 | | -. Joëlle Debrouwer | FRA | DNF |
| Women 50 m hurdles | | 1. Zofia Bielczyk | POL | 6.74 | | 2. María Kemenchezhi | URS | 6.80 | | 3. Tatyana Anisimova | URS | 6.81 | | 4. Silvia Kempin | FRG | 6.84 | | 5. Lidya Gusheva | BUL | 6.89 | | 6. Xenia Siska | HUN | 7.02 |
| Women High Jump | | 1. Sara Simeoni | ITA | 1.97 | | 2. Elzbieta Krawczuk | POL | 1.94 | | 3. Urszula Kielan | POL | 1.94 | | 4. Ulrike Meyfarth | FRG | 1.88 | | 5. Jasmin Fischer (Feige) | FRG | 1.88 | | 6. Emese Béla | HUN | 1.85 | | 7. Susanne Lorentzon | SWE | 1.85 | | 8. Donatella Bulfoni | ITA | 1.85 |
| Women Long Jump | | 1. Karin Hänel | FRG | 6.77 | | 2. Sigrid Heimann (Ulbricht) | GDR | 6.66 | | 3. Jasmin Fischer (Feige) | FRG | 6.65 | | 4. Tatyana Skachko | URS | 6.60 | | 5. Christina Sussiek | FRG | 6.60 | | 6. Lena Humlebaek (Demsitz) | DEN | 6.40 | | 7. Edine Van Heezik | NED | 6.36 | | 8. Dorthe A. Rasmussen | DEN | 6.30 |
| Women Shot Put | | 1. Ilona Slupianek | GDR | 20.77 | | 2. Helena Fibingerová | TCH | 20.64 | | 3. Helma Knorrscheidt | GDR | 20.12 | | 4. Nunu Abashidze | URS | 18.50 | | 5. Venissa Head | GBR | 17.65 | | 6. Soultana Saroudi | GRE | 17.44 | | 7. Tuula Kivi | FIN | 16.77 | | 8. Léone Bertimon | FRA | 16.59 |
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