Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
100 metres details | Harold Abrahams Great Britain | Jackson Scholz United States | Arthur Porritt New Zealand |
200 metres details | Jackson Scholz United States | Charles Paddock United States | Eric Liddell Great Britain |
400 metres details | Eric Liddell Great Britain | Horatio Fitch United States | Guy Butler Great Britain |
800 metres details | Douglas Lowe Great Britain | Paul Martin Switzerland | Schuyler Enck United States |
1500 metres details | Paavo Nurmi Finland | Willy Schärer Switzerland | H. B. Stallard Great Britain |
5000 metres details | Paavo Nurmi Finland | Ville Ritola Finland | Edvin Wide Sweden |
10,000 metres details | Ville Ritola Finland | Edvin Wide Sweden | Eero Berg Finland |
110 metres hurdles details | Daniel Kinsey United States | Sid Atkinson South Africa | Sten Pettersson Sweden |
400 metres hurdles details | Morgan Taylor United States | Erik Vilen Finland | Ivan Riley United States |
3000 metres steeplechase details | Ville Ritola Finland | Elias Katz Finland | Paul Bontemps France |
4 × 100 metres relay details | United States (USA) Loren Murchison Louis Clarke Frank Hussey Alfred LeConey | Great Britain (GBR) Harold Abrahams Walter Rangeley Wilfred Nichol Lancelot Royle | Netherlands (NED) Jan de Vries Jacob Boot Harry Broos Marinus van den Berge |
4 × 400 metres relay details | United States (USA) Commodore Cochran Alan Helffrich Oliver MacDonald William Stevenson | Sweden (SWE) Artur Svensson Erik Byléhn Gustaf Wejnarth Nils Engdahl | Great Britain (GBR) Edward Toms George Renwick Richard Ripley Guy Butler |
3000 metres team race details | Finland (FIN) Paavo Nurmi Ville Ritola Elias Katz | Great Britain (GBR) Bertram Macdonald Herbert Johnston George Webber | United States (USA) Edward Kirby William Cox Willard Tibbetts |
Marathon details | Albin Stenroos Finland | Romeo Bertini Italy | Clarence DeMar United States |
10 kilometres walk details | Ugo Frigerio Italy | Gordon Goodwin Great Britain | Cecil McMaster South Africa |
Individual cross country details | Paavo Nurmi Finland | Ville Ritola Finland | Earl Johnson United States |
Team cross country details | Finland (FIN) Paavo Nurmi Ville Ritola Heikki Liimatainen | United States (USA) Earl Johnson Arthur Studenroth August Fager | France (FRA) Henri Lauvaux Gaston Heuet Maurice Norland |
High jump details | Harold Osborn United States | Leroy Brown United States | Pierre Lewden France |
Pole vault details | Lee Barnes United States | Glenn Graham United States | James Brooker United States |
Long jump details | DeHart Hubbard United States | Edward Gourdin United States | Sverre Hansen Norway |
Triple jump details | Nick Winter Australia | Luis Brunetto Argentina | Vilho Tuulos Finland |
Shot put details | Bud Houser United States | Glenn Hartranft United States | Ralph Hills United States |
Discus throw details | Bud Houser United States | Vilho Niittymaa Finland | Thomas Lieb United States |
Hammer throw details | Fred Tootell United States | Matt McGrath United States | Malcolm Nokes Great Britain |
Javelin throw details | Jonni Myyrä Finland | Gunnar Lindström Sweden | Eugene Oberst United States |
Pentathlon details | Eero Lehtonen Finland | Elemér Somfay Hungary | Robert LeGendre United States |
Decathlon details | Harold Osborn United States | Emerson Norton United States | Aleksander Klumberg Estonia |