Updated August 28, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
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| Event | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 100m | Bob Hayes, USA | 10.0 | =WR |
| Enrique Figuerola, CUB | 10.2 | ||
| Harry Jerome, CAN | 10.2 | ||
| 200m | Henry Carr, USA | 20.3 | OR |
| Otis Paul Drayton, USA | 20.5 | ||
| Edwin Roberts, TRI | 20.6 | ||
| 400m | Mike Larrabee, USA | 45.1 | |
| Wendell Motley, TRI | 45.2 | ||
| Andrzej Badenski, POL | 45.6 | ||
| 800m | Peter Snell, NZE | 1:45.1 | OR |
| William Crothers, CAN | 1:45.6 | ||
| Wilson Kiprugut, KEN | 1:45.9 | ||
| 1500m | Peter Snell, NZE | 3:38.1 | |
| Josef Odlozil, CZE | 3:39.6 | ||
| John Davies, NZL | 3:39.6 | ||
| 5000m | Bob Schul, USA | 13:48.8 | |
| Harald Norpoth, GER | 13:49.6 | ||
| William Dellinger, USA | 13:49.8 | ||
| 10,000m | Billy Mills, USA | 28:24.4 | OR |
| Mohamed Gammoudi, TUN | 28:24.8 | ||
| Ronald Clarke, AUS | 28:25.8 | ||
| Marathon | Abebe Bikila, ETH | 2:12:11.2 | WB |
| Basil Heatley, GBR | 2:16:19.2 | ||
| Kokichi Tsuburaya, JPN | 2:16:22.8 | ||
| 110m H | Hayes Jones, USA | 13.6 | |
| Blaine Lindgren, USA | 13.7 | ||
| Anatoliy Mikhailov, USSR | 13.7 | ||
| 400m H | Rex Cawley, USA | 49.6 | |
| John Cooper, GBR | 50.1 | ||
| Salvatore Morale, ITA | 50.1 | ||
| 3000m Steeple |
Gaston Roelants, BEL | 8:30.8 | OR |
| Maurice Herriott, GBR | 8:32.4 | ||
| Ivan Belyayev, USSR | 8:33.8 | ||
| 20k Walk | Ken Matthews, GBR | 1:29:34.0 | OR |
| Dieter Lindner, GER | 1:31:13.2 | ||
| Vladimir Golubnichy, USSR | 1:31:59.4 | ||
| 50k Walk | Abdon Pamich, ITA | 4:11:12.4 | OR |
| Paul V.Nihill, GBR | 4:11:31.2 | ||
| Ingvar Pettersson, SWE | 4:14:17.4 | ||
| 4x100m | USA (Paul Drayton, Gerald Ashworth, Richard Stebbins, Bob Hayes) |
39.0 | WR |
| Poland | 39.3 | ||
| France | 39.3 | ||
| 4x400m | USA (Ollan Cassell, Mike Larrabee, Ulis Williams, Henry Carr) |
3:00.7 | WR |
| Great Britain | 3:01.6 | ||
| Trinidad | 3:01.7 |
WB indicates world best.
| Event | Mark | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High Jump | Valery Brumel, USSR | 7- 13/4 | OR |
| John Thomas, USA | 7-13/4 | ||
| John Rambo, USA | 7-1 | ||
| Pole Vault | Fred Hansen, USA | 16- 83/4 | OR |
| Wolfgang Reinhardt, GER | 16-63/4 | ||
| Klaus Lehnertz, GER | 16-43/4 | ||
| Long Jump | Lynn Davies, GBR | 26- 53/4 | |
| Ralph Boston, USA | 26-4 | ||
| Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, USSR | 26-21/2 | ||
| Triple Jump | Józef Schmidt, POL | 55- 31/2 | OR |
| Oleg Fedoseyev, USSR | 54-43/4 | ||
| Viktor Kravchenko, USSR | 54-41/4 | ||
| Shot Put | Dallas Long, USA | 66- 81/2 | OR |
| Randy Matson, USA | 66-31/4 | ||
| Vilmos Varju, HUN | 63-71/4 | ||
| Discus | Al Oerter, USA | 200- 1 | OR |
| Ludvik Danek, CZE | 198-6 | ||
| David Weill, USA | 195-2 | ||
| Hammer | Romuald Klim, USSR | 228-10 | OR |
| Gyula Zsivótzky, HUN | 226-8 | ||
| Uwe Beyer, GER | 223-41/2 | ||
| Javelin | Pauli Nevala, FIN | 271- 2 | |
| Gergely Kulcsar, HUN | 270-03/4 | ||
| Janis Lusis, USSR | 264-2 | ||
| Decathlon | Willi Holdorf, GER | 7887 pts | |
| Rein Aun, USSR | 7842 | ||
| Hans-Joachim Walde, GER | 7809 |
| Track & Field | Women |
