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Men's medal winners

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m	Carl Lewis, USA	Sam Graddy, USA	Ben Johnson, Canada
200 m	Carl Lewis, USA	Kirk Baptiste, USA	Thomas Jefferson, USA
400 m	Alonzo Babers, USA	Image:Ivory coast flag.png Gabriel Tiacoh, Ivory Coast	Antonio McKay, USA
800 m	Joaquim Cruz, Brazil	Sebastian Coe, Great Britain	Earl Jones, USA
1500 m	Sebastian Coe, Great Britain	Steve Cram, Great Britain	José Abascal, Spain
5000 m	Said Aouita, Morocco	Markus Ryffel, Switzerland	Antonio Leitao, Portugal
10 000 m	Alberto Cova, Italy	Michael McLeod, Great Britain	Mike Musyoki, Kenya
Marathon	Carlos Lopes, Portugal	John Treacy, Ireland	Charles Spedding, Great Britain
110 m Hurdles	Roger Kingdom, USA	Greg Foster, USA	Arto Bryggäre, Finland
400 m Hurdles	Edwin Moses, USA	Danny Harris, USA	Harald Schmid, West Germany
3000 m Steeplechase	Julius Korir, Kenya	Joseph Mahmoud, France	Brian Diemer, USA
4 x 100 m	United States	37.83	Jamaica	38.62	Canada	38.70
4 x 400 m	United States	2:57.91	Great Britain	2:59.13	Nigeria	2:59.32
20 km Walk	Ernesto Canto, Mexico	Raul Gonzalez, Mexico	Maurizio Damilano, Italy
50 km Walk	Raul Gonzalez, Mexico	Bo Gustafsson, Sweden	Sandro Bellucci, Italy
Long Jump	Carl Lewis, USA	Gary Honey, Australia	Giovanni Evangelisti, Italy
High Jump	Dietmar Mogenburg, West Germany	Patrik Sjöberg, Sweden	Jianhua Zhu, China
Pole Vault	Pierre Quinon, France	Mike Tully, USA	Earl Bell, USA equal with Thierry Vigneron, France
Triple Jump	Al Joyner, USA	Mike Conley, USA	Keith Connor, Great Britain
Shot Put	Alessandro Andrei, Italy	Michael Carter, USA	Dave Laut, USA
Discus	Image:Germany flag.png Rolf Danneberg, West Germany	Mac Wilkins, USA	John Powell, USA
Hammer	Juha Tiainen, Finland	Karl-Hans Riehm, West Germany	Klaus Pillhaus, West Germany
Javelin	Arto Harkönen, Finland	David Ottley, Great Britain	Kenth Eldebrink, Sweden
Decathlon	Daley Thompson, Great Britain 8789	Jürgen Hingsen, West Germany	Siegfried Wentz, West Germany 8412

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Women’s Medal Winners

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