# Athletics at the 1986 Goodwill Games – Results

These are the official results of the athletics competition at the 1986 Goodwill Games which took place between July 5 and 9, 1986, at the Moscow Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Soviet Union.
Most of the running events had so many entrants that several heats had to be held with the combined results deciding on the medals (the sole exception was women's 100 metres hurdles where both heats and the final were held). This caused some controversy as the Soviets entered some of their better athletes in a theoretically weaker heat, possibly to avoid direct competition with the best rivals. This proved effective in the men's 1500 metres where Pavel Yakovlev ran in the first heat virtually unobstructed and paced by his teammate and eventually recorded a better time than the winner of the more tactical second heat featuring most of the favorites.

## Men's results
### 100 meters

July 9 Wind: Heat 1: +0.4 m/s, Heat 2: +0.8 m/s
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 2 | Ben Johnson | Canada | 9.95 | |
| | 2 | Chidi Imoh | Nigeria | 10.04 | |
| | 2 | Carl Lewis | United States | 10.06 | |
| 4 | 2 | Lee McRae | United States | 10.12 | |
| 5 | 1 | Vladimir Muravyov | Soviet Union | 10.20 | PB |
| 6 | 1 | Andrey Shlyapnikov | Soviet Union | 10.21 | PB |
| 7 | 2 | Mike Morris | United States | 10.21 | |
| 8 | 2 | Harvey Glance | United States | 10.24 | |
| 9 | 2 | Nikolay Yushmanov | Soviet Union | 10.26 | |
| 10 | 2 | Viktor Bryzgin | Soviet Union | 10.31 | |
| 11 | 1 | Andrei Fyodoriv | Soviet Union | 10.36 | |
| 12 | 1 | Shahallam Alam | Bangladesh | 10.90 | |
| 13 | 1 | David Lukuba | Tanzania | 10.96 | |
| 14 | 1 | Juan José Villamizar | Colombia | 10.97 | |
| 15 | 1 | Mauricio Vélez Domínguez | Colombia | 11.03 | |
| 16 | 1 | Patrice Mahoulikponto | Benin | 11.14 | |

### 200 meters

July 7 Wind: Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: +0.6 m/s
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 2 | Floyd Heard | United States | 20.12 |
| | 2 | Dwayne Evans | United States | 20.45 |
| | 2 | Wallace Spearmon Sr. | United States | 20.49 |
| 4 | 2 | Andrei Fyodoriv | Soviet Union | 20.53 |
| 5 | 2 | Vladimir Krylov | Soviet Union | 20.62 |
| 6 | 1 | Nikolay Yushmanov | Soviet Union | 20.77 |
| 7 | 2 | Nikolay Razgonov | Soviet Union | 20.83 |
| 8 | 1 | David Lukuba | Tanzania | 22.19 |

### 400 meters

July 7
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 2 | Antonio McKay | United States | 44.98 |
| | 3 | Clarence Daniel | United States | 45.11 |
| | 3 | Darrell Robinson | United States | 45.15 |
| 4 | 3 | Walter McCoy | United States | 45.56 |
| 5 | 3 | Aleksandr Kurochkin | Soviet Union | 45.67 |
| 6 | 1 | Danny Everett | United States | 45.94 |
| 7 | 3 | Vladimir Prosin | Soviet Union | 45.94 |
| 8 | 3 | Vladimir Volodko | Soviet Union | 46.28 |
| 9 | 2 | Nikolay Chernetskiy | Soviet Union | 46.29 |
| 10 | 2 | Vyacheslav Kocheryagin | Soviet Union | 46.57 |
| 11 | 2 | Djétenan Kouadio | Ivory Coast | 47.56 |
| 12 | 2 | Jorwa Jackskon Busiru | Tanzania | 47.77 |
| 13 | 1 | Wilson Canizales | Colombia | 48.75 |
| 14 | 2 | Robert Fanny Giovani | Seychelles | 49.41 |
| 15 | 1 | Juan José Villamizar | Colombia | 49.42 |

### 800 meters

July 8
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 2 | Johnny Gray | United States | 1:46.52 |
| | 2 | Stanley Redwine | United States | 1:46.89 |
| | 1 | Samuel Tirop | Kenya | 1:47.05 |
| 4 | 2 | Ryszard Ostrowski | Poland | 1:47.25 |
| 5 | 2 | Viktor Kalinkin | Soviet Union | 1:47.42 |
| 6 | 2 | Nixon Kiprotich | Kenya | 1:47.58 |
| 7 | 1 | Vladimir Graudyn | Soviet Union | 1:47.80 |
| 8 | 2 | Ahmed Belkessam | Algeria | 1:47.86 |
| 9 | 1 | Valeriy Starodubtsev | Soviet Union | 1:47.94 |
| 10 | 2 | Anatoliy Milin | Soviet Union | 1:48.09 |
| 11 | 2 | Leonid Masunov | Soviet Union | 1:48.15 |
| 12 | 1 | Omar Khalifa | Sudan | 1:50.75 |
| 13 | 1 | Philip Sinon | Seychelles | 1:58.71 |
| 14 | 1 | Fahim Abdul Wahab | North Yemen | 2:03.73 |

### 1500 meters

July 8
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 1 | Pavel Yakovlev | Soviet Union | 3:39.96 |
| | 2 | Igor Lotorev | Soviet Union | 3:40.18 |
| | 2 | Steve Scott | United States | 3:40.31 |
| 4 | 2 | Jim Spivey | United States | 3:40.41 |
| 5 | 2 | Andreas Busse | East Germany | 3:40.65 |
| 6 | 2 | Jens-Peter Herold | East Germany | 3:40.77 |
| 7 | 2 | Sergey Afanasyev | Soviet Union | 3:40.97 |
| 8 | 2 | Anatoliy Legeda | Soviet Union | 3:41.17 |
| 9 | 2 | Hauke Fuhlbrügge | East Germany | 3:41.76 |
| 10 | 1 | Tapfumaneyi Jonga | Zimbabwe | 3:41.82 |
| 11 | 2 | Anatoliy Kalutskiy | Soviet Union | 3:42.58 |
| 12 | 2 | Rashid Kram | Algeria | 3:42.99 |
| 13 | 1 | Sergey Lapetin | Soviet Union | 3:43.26 |
| 14 | 2 | Teófilo Benito | Spain | 3:45.88 |
| 15 | 1 | Jorge Delgado Aguilar | Costa Rica | 4:06.21 |
| 16 | 1 | Alexandre Gansore | Burkina Faso | 4:24.50 |
| 17 | 1 | Ahmed Khaled | North Yemen | 4:35.00 |

### 5000 meters

July 7
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Doug Padilla | United States | 13:46.67 |
| | Terry Brahm | United States | 13:47.11 |
| | Evgeni Ignatov | Bulgaria | 13:47.17 |
| 4 | Mikhail Dasko | Soviet Union | 13:49.87 |
| 5 | Axel Krippschok | East Germany | 13:54.03 |
| 6 | Vodadjo Bulti | Ethiopia | 13:54.10 |
| 7 | Spiros Andriopulos | Greece | 13:55.10 |
| 8 | David Choge | Kenya | 13:57.13 |
| 9 | Dmitriy Dmitriev | Soviet Union | 13:57.56 |
| 10 | Kirway Slaa Umbe | Tanzania | 14:00.18 |
| 11 | Selase Milkesa | Ethiopia | 14:10.17 |
| 12 | Ricardo Vera | Uruguay | 14:16.44 |
| 13 | Kiriakos Mutasidis | Greece | 14:23.64 |
| 14 | Belai Teshome | Ethiopia | 14:37.62 |
| 15 | Jorge Delgado Aguilar | Costa Rica | 14:58.08 |
| 16 | Abel Godoy | Uruguay | 14:58.68 |
| 17 | Kaashem Abdul Wahab | North Yemen | 16:14.54 |

### 10,000 meters

July 9
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Domingos Castro | Portugal | 28:11.21 |
| | Gerard Donakowski | United States | 28:11.87 |
| | Dionísio Castro | Portugal | 28:12.04 |
| 4 | Mark Nenow | United States | 28:20.84 |
| 5 | Takeyuki Nakayama | Japan | 28:23.63 |
| 6 | Spyros Andriopoulos | Greece | 28:27.23 |
| 7 | Werner Schildhauer | East Germany | 28:32.49 |
| 8 | Shuichi Yoneshige | Japan | 28:37.32 |
| 9 | Rolando Vera | Ecuador | 28:43.01 |
| 10 | Kirway Slaa Umbe | Tanzania | 28:46.17 |
| 11 | Kozu Akutsu | Japan | 28:49.72 |
| 12 | Andrey Kuznetsov | Soviet Union | 28:51.05 |
| 13 | Algis Dabulskis | Soviet Union | 28:55.98 |
| 14 | Vodadjo Bulti | Ethiopia | 29:25.39 |
| 15 | Ricardo Vera | Uruguay | 29:39.61 |
| 16 | Belai Teshome | Ethiopia | 30:02.46 |
| 17 | James Gombedza | Zimbabwe | 31:08.20 |
| | Fernando Couto | Portugal | DNF |
| | Rafael Marques | Portugal | DNF |
| | Stanislav Rožman | Yugoslavia | DNF |
| | Vicente Polo | Spain | DNF |
| | Jorge Delgado Aguilar | Costa Rica | DNF |
| | Abel Godoy | Uruguay | DNF |
| | Kaashem Abdul Wahab | North Yemen | DNF |

### Marathon

July 6
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Belayneh Dinsamo | Ethiopia | 2:14:42 |
| | Igor Broslavskiy | Soviet Union | 2:15:24 |
| | Yakov Tolstikov | Soviet Union | 2:16:22 |
| 4 | Ravil Kashapov | Soviet Union | 2:17:10 |
| 5 | Valentin Starikov | Soviet Union | 2:17:21 |
| 6 | Sergey Rozum | Soviet Union | 2:17:54 |
| 7 | Cho Hi Bok | North Korea | 2:18:08 |
| 8 | Alify Perevozchikov | Soviet Union | 2:18:51 |
| 9 | Yuriy Porotov | Soviet Union | 2:19:19 |
| 10 | Dmitry Feoktistov | Soviet Union | 2:19:36 |
| 11 | Aleksandr Baza | Soviet Union | 2:19:56 |
| 12 | Vladimir Kotov | Soviet Union | 2:20:10 |
| 13 | Nikolay Tabak | Soviet Union | 2:20:12 |
| 14 | Yuriy Kozmin | Soviet Union | 2:21:39 |
| 15 | Vladimir Ryazantsev | Soviet Union | 2:21:53 |
| 16 | Japhet Mashishanga | Tanzania | 2:22:21 |
| 17 | Viktor Mozgovoy | Soviet Union | 2:22:29 |
| 18 | Aleksandr Kubak | Soviet Union | 2:22:33 |
| 19 | Valeriy Solovyey | Soviet Union | 2:22:59 |
| 20 | Sergey Makarov | Soviet Union | 2:23:11 |
| 21 | Vladimir Nikityuk | Soviet Union | 2:23:14 |
| 22 | Viktor Taratukhin | Soviet Union | 2:23:30 |
| 23 | Aleksandr Belyayev | Soviet Union | 2:23:41 |
| 24 | Georgios Athordacos | Greece | 2:24:10 |
| 25 | Sergey Krestyaninov | Soviet Union | 2:24:11 |
| 26 | Nikolay Solovyev | Soviet Union | 2:24:26 |
| 27 | Vladimir Zakirov | Soviet Union | 2:24:36 |
| 28 | Mealis Veilberg | Soviet Union | 2:25:14 |
| 29 | Grigoriy Popenko | Soviet Union | 2:25:34 |
| 30 | Nikolay Ivanov | Soviet Union | 2:25:48 |
| 31 | Vladimir Beloborodov | Soviet Union | 2:25:58 |
| 32 | Aleksandr Khlynin | Soviet Union | 2:26:08 |
| 33 | Viktor Levkin | Soviet Union | 2:26:14 |
| 34 | Kyle Heffner | United States | 2:26:38 |
| 35 | Aleksandr Itrukhin | Soviet Union | 2:30:56 |
| 36 | Georgiy Sokolov | Soviet Union | 2:32:53 |
| 37 | Li Chon Ghyong | North Korea | 2:33:15 |
| 38 | Daniel Nzioka | Kenya | 2:33:17 |
| 39 | Sergey Petrov | Soviet Union | 2:33:42 |
| 40 | Stauros Karakatsakis | Greece | 2:35:48 |
| 41 | Vadim Sidorov | Soviet Union | 2:36:31 |
| 42 | Irineo Aguilar | Mexico | 2:37:05 |
| 43 | Nikolay Savenok | Soviet Union | 2:38:05 |
| 44 | Igor Levteyev | Soviet Union | 2:42:39 |
| 45 | José Gurdián | Nicaragua | 2:43:53 |
| 46 | Tykea Peou | Cambodia | 2:59:39 |
| 47 | Sergey Bochtaryov | Soviet Union | 3:06:07 |
| 48 | Charles Blanshard | United States | 3:08:08 |
| 49 | Richard Reily | United States | 3:09:27 |
| 50 | Roger Clark | United States | 3:24:40 |
| 51 | Eugene Young | United States | 3:29:22 |
| 52 | Van Thyet Nguyen | Vietnam | 3:32:00 |
| 53 | Edwin Massong | United States | 3:33:00 |
| 54 | Grant Stevens | United States | 3:33:51 |
| 55 | Khampheng Mitpasa | Laos | 3:37:26 |
| 56 | Todd Blanshard | United States | 3:37:29 |
| 57 | Michael Colton | United States | 3:38:41 |
| 58 | Timothy Andersson | United States | 3:42:23 |
| 59 | James Morehouse | United States | 3:51:44 |
| 60 | Donald McGinty | United States | 3:51:51 |
| 61 | James Steel | United States | 3:54:25 |
| 62 | Barry Levy | United States | 3:54:59 |
| 63 | Peter Werbeescar-Brown | United States | 3:55:08 |
| 64 | Gordon Starr | United States | 3:55:08 |
| 65 | Joseph Fortune | United States | 3:58:17 |
| 66 | Julian Reider | United States | 4:14:05 |
| 67 | Gary Markoff | United States | 4:19:56 |
| 68 | Michael Frank | United States | 4:24:37 |
| 69 | Mallory Bonpoid | United States | 4:24:46 |
| 70 | John Cantwell | United States | 4:29:51 |
| 71 | Phillip Taylor | United States | 4:32:21 |
| 72 | Lee Powell | United States | 4:40:00 |
| 73 | Lawrence Lobocchiaro | United States | 4:40:10 |
| 74 | David Fialkow | United States | 4:40:10 |
| 75 | Clark Reed | United States | 4:44:28 |
| 76 | Richard Sandler | United States | 4:51:22 |
| 77 | William Parker | United States | 5:05:10 |
| | Oleg Movenko | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Yevgeniy Okorokov | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Sergey Rudenko | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Viktor Nedybalyuk | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | James Orembe | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Anastasios Psaphas | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Vladimir Tikhonov | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Brendan Reily | United States | DNF |
| | Gennadiy Grechkoyedov | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Yuriy Fomenkov | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Fyodor Ryzhov | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Petyor Saltykov | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Benji Durden | United States | DNF |
| | Ron Tabb | United States | DNF |
| | Leonid Nasedkin | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Aleksandr Tanikov | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Viktor Semenov | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Tervo Chiba | Japan | DNF |
| | Vyacheslav Ehndyuskin | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | John Hendrickson | United States | DNF |
| | Michael Kusis | Greece | DNF |
| | Jorge Delgado | Costa Rica | DNF |
| | Anatoliy Filatov | Soviet Union | DNF |

### 110 meters hurdles

July 6 Wind: Heat 1: +0.9 m/s, Heat 2: ? m/s
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 2 | Greg Foster | United States | 13.25 |
| | 1 | Andrey Prokofyev | Soviet Union | 13.28 |
| | 2 | Keith Talley | United States | 13.31 |
| 4 | 1 | Igor Perevedentsev | Soviet Union | 13.47 |
| 5 | 2 | Aleksandr Markin | Soviet Union | 13.48 |
| 6 | 2 | Igor Kazanov | Soviet Union | 13.50 |
| 7 | 1 | Vladimir Shishkin | Soviet Union | 13.50 |
| 8 | 2 | Don Wright | Australia | 13.65 |
| 9 | 1 | Gennadiy Chugunov | Soviet Union | 13.84 |
| | 2 | György Bakos | Hungary | DNF |
| | 2 | Liviu Giurgian | Romania | DNF |

### 400 meters hurdles

July 9
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 2 | Edwin Moses | United States | 47.94 |
| | 2 | Aleksandr Vasilyev | Soviet Union | 48.24 |
| | 2 | David Patrick | United States | 48.59 |
| 4 | 2 | Amadou Dia Ba | Senegal | 48.73 |
| 5 | 1 | Athanasious Kalogianis | Greece | 48.88 |
| 6 | 2 | Toma Tomov | Bulgaria | 49.08 |
| 7 | 2 | Kevin Young | United States | 49.35 |
| 8 | 1 | Oleg Azarov | Soviet Union | 49.38 |
| 9 | 1 | Vladimir Budko | Soviet Union | 49.54 |
| 10 | 2 | Tagir Zemskov | Soviet Union | 49.80 |
| 11 | 2 | Valeriy Vikhrov | Soviet Union | 50.03 |
| 12 | 1 | Ryszard Stoch | Poland | 50.66 |
| 13 | 1 | Djedjemel Réné Meledje | Ivory Coast | 50.78 |
| 14 | 1 | Arnul Chara Urzuriaga | Colombia | 52.12 |
| 15 | 1 | José Casabona | Spain | 52.25 |

### 3000 meters steeplechase

July 8
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 2 | Hagen Melzer | East Germany | 8:23.06 |
| | 2 | Henry Marsh | United States | 8:23.92 |
| | 2 | Nikolay Matyushenko | Soviet Union | 8:25.73 |
| 4 | 2 | Micah Boinet | Kenya | 8:28.20 |
| 5 | 1 | Lev Glinskikh | Soviet Union | 8:29.51 |
| 6 | 2 | Ivan Danu | Soviet Union | 8:30.74 |
| 7 | 1 | Joseph Chelelgo | Kenya | 8:33.03 |
| 8 | 2 | Jim Cooper | United States | 8:33.77 |
| 9 | 2 | Ivan Konovalov | Soviet Union | 8:35.05 |
| 10 | 2 | Henryk Jankowski | Poland | 8:35.29 |
| 11 | 2 | Brendan Quinn | Ireland | 8:36.42 |
| 12 | 1 | Ricardo Vera | Uruguay | 8:38.28 |
| 13 | 1 | Féthi Baccouche | Tunisia | 8:38.94 |
| 14 | 1 | Shigeyuki Aikyo | Japan | 8:40.02 |
| 15 | 1 | Domingo Ramón | Spain | 8:41.31 |
| 16 | 1 | Liam O'Brien | Ireland | 8:43.34 |
| 17 | 1 | Kiriakos Mutasidis | Greece | 8:43.34 |
| 18 | 2 | David Choge | Kenya | 8:46.69 |
| 19 | 2 | Mike Fadil | United States | 8:49.93 |
| 20 | 1 | Farai Kamucheka | Zimbabwe | 9:00.81 |
| | 2 | Bogusław Mamiński | Poland | DNF |

### 4 × 100 meters relay

July 9
| Rank | Lane | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
| | 3 | United States | Lee McRae, Floyd Heard, Harvey Glance, Carl Lewis | 37.98 | |
| | 4 | Soviet Union "A" | Aleksandr Yevgenyev, Vladimir Muravyov, Nikolai Yushmanov, Viktor Bryzgin | 38.19 | NR |
| | 6 | Soviet Union "B" | Aleksandr Kutepov, Roman Osipenko, Dmitry Bartenev, Sergey Klyonov | 40.22 | |
| 4 | 5 | Colombia | Mauricio Vélez, Juan José Villamizar, Arnul Chara Urzuriaga, Wilson Canizales | 41.44 | |

### 4 × 400 meters relay

July 8
| Nation | Competitors | Time |
| Soviet Union | Vladimir Krylov, Vladimir Prosin, Vladimir Volodko, Aleksandr Kurochkin | 3:01.25 |
| United States | Walter McCoy, Clarence Daniel, Danny Everett, Darrell Robinson | 3:01.47 |
| Ivory Coast | Djétenan Kouadio, Akissi Kpidi, René Djédjémel Mélédjé, Gabriel Tisko | 3:13.51 |

### 20 kilometers walk

July 7
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Aleksey Pershin | Soviet Union | 1:23:29 |
| | Aleksandr Boyarshinov | Soviet Union | 1:23:36 |
| | Yevgeniy Misyulya | Soviet Union | 1:23:53 |
| 4 | Guillaume LeBlanc | Canada | 1:23:57 |
| 5 | Anatoliy Gorshkov | Soviet Union | 1:24:51 |
| 6 | Vyacheslav Ivanenko | Soviet Union | 1:25:00 |
| 7 | Yevgeniy Yevsyukov | Soviet Union | 1:25:30 |
| 8 | David Smith | Australia | 1:25:47 |
| 9 | Sergey Tsimbalyuk | Soviet Union | 1:26:26 |
| 10 | Valdas Kazlauskas | Soviet Union | 1:26:44 |
| 11 | Querubín Moreno | Colombia | 1:27:01 |
| 12 | Igor Plotnikov | Soviet Union | 1:27:10 |
| 13 | Robert Illiy | Soviet Union | 1:27:30 |
| 14 | Nikolay Polozov | Soviet Union | 1:27:49 |
| 15 | Igor Lyubomirov | Soviet Union | 1:27:56 |
| 16 | Timothy Lewis | United States | 1:28:13 |
| 17 | Carl Shueler | United States | 1:28:24 |
| 18 | Venyamin Nikolayev | Soviet Union | 1:28:52 |
| 19 | Petr Kakhnovich | Soviet Union | 1:28:57 |
| 20 | François Lapointe | Canada | 1:29:11 |
| 21 | Vyacheslav Vezhel | Soviet Union | 1:29:21 |
| 22 | Sergey Abiralo | Soviet Union | 1:29:21 |
| 23 | Aleksandr Potashyov | Soviet Union | 1:29:52 |
| 24 | Viliulfo Andablo | Mexico | 1:30:00 |
| 25 | Petyor Pochinchuk | Soviet Union | 1:30:05 |
| 26 | Oleg Sadkov | Soviet Union | 1:30:39 |
| 27 | Frans Kostyukevich | Soviet Union | 1:31:10 |
| 28 | Anton Mashkyevich | Soviet Union | 1:31:12 |
| 29 | Sergey Ivanovich | Soviet Union | 1:31:22 |
| 30 | Vyacheslav Smirnov | Soviet Union | 1:31:38 |
| 31 | Algis Grigalyunas | Soviet Union | 1:31:54 |
| 32 | Yuriy Bogoyavlenskiy | Soviet Union | 1:32:14 |
| 33 | Andrey Popov | Soviet Union | 1:32:41 |
| 34 | Vladimir Soyko | Soviet Union | 1:32:41 |
| 35 | Vladimir Pishko | Soviet Union | 1:33:06 |
| 36 | Alik Ibryamov | Bulgaria | 1:33:09 |
| 37 | Aleksandr Karandeyev | Soviet Union | 1:33:42 |
| 38 | Vladimir Vasilyenko | Soviet Union | 1:33:47 |
| 39 | Dmitriy Osipov | Soviet Union | 1:33:56 |
| 40 | German Istomin | Soviet Union | 1:34:19 |
| 41 | Nikolay Panfilov | Soviet Union | 1:34:19 |
| 42 | Jorge Llopart | Spain | 1:34:20 |
| 43 | Vladimir Druchek | Soviet Union | 1:34:21 |
| 44 | Raymond Sharp | United States | 1:34:21 |
| 45 | Vasiliy Matveyev | Soviet Union | 1:34:21 |
| 46 | Yevgeniy Reyngolt | Soviet Union | 1:35:47 |
| 47 | Abdulakhab Fergen | Algeria | 1:36:07 |
| 48 | Vyacheslav Cherepanov | Soviet Union | 1:36:53 |
| 49 | Enrique Peña | Colombia | 1:37:00 |
| 50 | Andrey Gnusarev | Soviet Union | 1:37:26 |
| 51 | Sergey Schmayko | Soviet Union | 1:38:09 |
| 52 | Marcelino Colin | Mexico | 1:38:37 |
| | Sigitas Vainauskas | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Simon Baker | Australia | DNF |
| | Vladislav Trushkin | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Ivan Sankovskiy | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Sergey Pasko | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Vitaliy Popovich | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Anatoliy Solomin | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Reima Salonen | Finland | DQ |

### High jump

July 9
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 2.10 | 2.15 | 2.20 | 2.25 | 2.29 | 2.32 | 2.34 | 2.36 | Result | Notes |
| | Doug Nordquist | United States | | | | | | o | xo | xxx | 2.34 | PB |
| | Igor Paklin | Soviet Union | | | | | | o | xxx | | 2.32 | |
| | Sorin Matei | Romania | – | o | o | o | xxo | xxo | xxx | | 2.32 | |
| 4 | Sergey Malchenko | Soviet Union | | | | | | xxx | | | 2.29 | |
| 5 | Ján Zvara | Czechoslovakia | | | | | | xxx | | | 2.29 | |
| 6 | Rudolf Povarnitsyn | Soviet Union | | | | | | | | | 2.25 | |
| 7 | Gennadiy Avdeyenko | Soviet Union | | | | | | | | | 2.25 | |
| 8 | Geoff Parsons | Great Britain | | | | | | | | | 2.25 | |
| 9 | Zhu Jianhua | China | | | | | | | | | 2.20 | |
| 10 | Yuriy Sergiyenko | Soviet Union | | | | | | | | | 2.20 | |
| 11 | Gerd Wessig | East Germany | | | | | | | | | 2.20 | |
| 12 | Andreas Sam | East Germany | | | | | | | | | 2.20 | |
| 13 | Jindřich Vondra | Czechoslovakia | | | | | | | | | 2.20 | |
| 14 | Dariusz Zielke | Poland | | | | | | | | | 2.15 | |
| 15 | Sašo Apostolovski | Yugoslavia | | | | | | | | | 2.15 | |
| | Jim Howard | United States | | | | | | | | | NM | |

### Pole vault

July 8
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
| | Sergey Bubka | Soviet Union | 6.01 | WR |
| | Radion Gataullin | Soviet Union | 5.80 | |
| | Earl Bell | United States | 5.75 | |
| 4 | Mike Tully | United States | 5.70 | |
| 5 | Aleksandr Krupskiy | Soviet Union | 5.60 | |
| 6 | Vasiliy Bubka | Soviet Union | 5.60 | |
| 7 | František Jansa | Czechoslovakia | 5.40 | |
| 8 | Philippe Houvion | France | 5.40 | |
| | Liang Xueren | China | NM | |
| | Ji Zebiao | China | NM | |

### Long jump

July 6
| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #6 | Result | Notes |
| | Robert Emmiyan | Soviet Union | 8.15 | | 8.24 | 8.61 | | 8.61 | AR |
| | Larry Myricks | United States | | 8.12 | 8.36 | | 8.41 | 8.41 | |
| | Sergey Layevskiy | Soviet Union | | | | | | 8.20 | |
| 4 | Atanas Chochev | Bulgaria | | | | | | 7.83 | |
| 5 | Jan Leitner | Czechoslovakia | 7.54 | | | | | 7.83 | |
| 6 | Klaus Beyer | East Germany | | | | | | 7.82 | |
| 7 | Atanas Atanasov | Bulgaria | | 7.72 | | | | 7.80 | |
| 8 | Wang Shijie | China | | 7.46 | | 7.68 | | 7.68 | |
| 9 | Tyrus Jefferson | United States | 7.51 | x | 7.58 | | | 7.58 | |
| 10 | Gyula Pálóczi | Hungary | | | | | | 7.40 | |
| 11 | Mauricio Vélez | Colombia | | | | | | 6.70 | |
| | Toussaint Rabenala | Madagascar | | | | | | NM | |
| | Muddivur Mallick | Bangladesh | | | | | | NM | |

### Triple jump

July 9
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Mike Conley Sr. | United States | 17.69 |
| | Khristo Markov | Bulgaria | 17.35 |
| | Nikolay Musiyenko | Soviet Union | 17.33 |
| 4 | Charlie Simpkins | United States | 17.23 |
| 5 | Aleksandr Yakovlev | Soviet Union | 17.00 |
| 6 | Paul Emordi | Nigeria | 16.73 |
| 7 | Norifumi Yamashita | Japan | 16.68 |
| 8 | Dirk Gamlin | East Germany | 16.63 |
| 9 | Ivan Slanař | Czechoslovakia | 16.55 |
| 10 | Stephen Hanna | Bahamas | 16.25 |
| 11 | Ján Čado | Czechoslovakia | 16.12 |
| 12 | Toussaint Rabenala | Madagascar | 14.75 |
| 13 | Oleg Protsenko | Soviet Union | 14.67 |
| | Willie Banks | United States | DNS |

### Shot put

July 8
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Sergey Smirnov | Soviet Union | 21.79 |
| | Sergey Gavryushin | Soviet Union | 21.09 |
| | John Brenner | United States | 20.62 |
| 4 | Gregg Tafralis | United States | 20.32 |
| 5 | Yanis Boyars | Soviet Union | 20.11 |
| 6 | Dimitros Kutsukis | Greece | 19.13 |
| | Helmut Krieger | Poland | NM |

### Discus throw

July 6
| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #6 | Result |
| | Romas Ubartas | Soviet Union | 67.12 | 65.48 | | 67.12 |
| | Dmitriy Kovtsun | Soviet Union | 61.26 | | | 64.24 |
| | Knut Hjeltnes | Norway | | | 64.02 | 64.02 |
| 4 | Imrich Bugár | Czechoslovakia | | 63.80 | | 63.80 |
| 5 | Georgiy Kolnootchenko | Soviet Union | | | | 63.38 |
| 6 | Rick Meyer | United States | 62.76 | | | 62.76 |
| 7 | Mike Buncic | United States | 59.86 | | | 61.34 |
| 8 | Vasiliy Kaptyukh | Soviet Union | 60.02 | | | 60.02 |
| 9 | Konstantin Georgakopulos | Greece | 53.40 | | | 53.40 |

### Hammer throw

July 9
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Yuriy Sedykh | Soviet Union | 84.72 |
| | Sergey Litvinov | Soviet Union | 84.64 |
| | Benyaminas Vilutskis | Soviet Union | 80.04 |
| 4 | Ralf Haber | East Germany | 78.50 |
| 5 | Igor Nikulin | Soviet Union | 78.50 |
| 6 | Jüri Tamm | Soviet Union | 77.50 |
| 7 | Jud Logan | United States | 74.78 |
| 8 | Günther Rodehau | East Germany | 74.50 |
| 9 | Tore Gustafsson | Sweden | 74.40 |
| 10 | Bill Green | United States | 73.44 |
| 11 | Valeriy Gubkin | Soviet Union | 72.32 |
| 12 | Michael Beierl | Austria | 71.74 |
| 13 | Abdelkhakim Tumi | Algeria | 67.00 |
| 14 | John Igan | Ireland | 63.22 |

### Javelin throw

July 6
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Tom Petranoff | United States | 83.46 |
| | Kheino Puuste | Soviet Union | 83.12 |
| | Sergey Gavras | Soviet Union | 81.44 |
| 4 | Viktor Yevsyukov | Soviet Union | 80.82 |
| 5 | Einar Vilhjálmsson | Iceland | 78.62 |
| 6 | Marek Kaleta | Soviet Union | 78.22 |
| 7 | Klaus-Jörg Murawa | East Germany | 73.32 |
| 8 | Bob Roggy | United States | 71.96 |
| | Mourad Mahour Bacha | Algeria | NM |

### Decathlon

July 6–7
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | 100m | LJ | SP | HJ | 400m | 110m H | DT | PV | JT | 1500m | Points | Notes |
| | Grigoriy Degtyaryov | Soviet Union | 10.90 | 7.52 | 15.33 | 2.02 | 50.10 | 14.65 | 48.56 | 4.80 | 59.28 | 4:29.34 | 8322 | |
| | Aleksandr Apaichev | Soviet Union | 11.09 | 7.35 | 15.66 | 1.96 | 50.23 | 14.19 | 44.80 | 4.60 | 67.12 | 4:28.46 | 8244 | |
| | Valter Külvet | Soviet Union | 11.30 | 7.04 | 15.50 | 1.99 | 49.45 | 15.03 | 49.94 | 4.90 | 61.32 | 4:30.29 | 8168 | * |
| | Aleksandr Nevskiy | Soviet Union | 11.04 | 7.24 | 15.57 | 1.99 | 49.48 | 14.70 | 46.40 | 4.70 | 54.40 | 4:20.67 | 8143 | * |
| | Aleksey Lyakh | Soviet Union | 11.18 | 7.71 | 14.97 | 2.05 | 50.60 | 14.85 | 44.40 | 4.60 | 61.28 | 4:40.10 | 8082 | |
| | Sergey Popov | Soviet Union | 11.18 | 7.45 | 14.49 | 1.96 | 49.75 | 15.18 | 48.60 | 4.90 | 58.78 | 4:34.34 | 8079 | * |
| 4 | Jens Petersson | East Germany | 10.72 | 7.80 | 14.59 | 1.99 | 48.56 | 14.71 | 42.82 | 4.50 | 50.66 | 4:33.84 | 8060 | |
| 5 | Hans-Ulrich Riecke | East Germany | 10.60 | 7.74 | 14.58 | 1.90 | 49.31 | 14.81 | 42.96 | 4.40 | 57.90 | 4:37.94 | 8000 | |
| 6 | Tim Bright | United States | 11.05 | 6.79 | 12.96 | 2.11 | 49.02 | 14.40 | 39.22 | 5.40 | 53.16 | 4:39.35 | 7972 | |
| 7 | Uwe Freimuth | East Germany | 11.11 | 7.29 | 15.59 | 1.84 | 48.77 | 14.84 | 48.84 | 4.40 | 59.84 | 4:38.25 | 7950 | |
| 8 | Thomas Fahner | East Germany | 10.86 | 7.35 | 14.39 | 1.81 | 48.30 | 15.05 | 41.28 | 5.10 | 59.18 | 4:42.52 | 7939 | |
| 9 | Thomas Halamoda | East Germany | 10.98 | 7.58 | 14.84 | 1.87 | 49.46 | 15.16 | 41.22 | 4.40 | 64.28 | 4:35.08 | 7891 | |
| | Sergey Zhelanov | Soviet Union | 11.28 | 7.58w | 14.31 | 2.08 | 50.11 | 14.69 | 37.14 | 4.70 | 56.32 | 4:48.65 | 7812 | * |
| | Vadim Podmaryov | Soviet Union | 11.18 | 7.26w | 14.31 | 2.05 | 50.88 | 15.15 | 46.42 | 4.60 | 54.44 | 4:48.34 | 7769 | * |
| | Andrey Fomochkin | Soviet Union | 10.75 | 7.41 | 14.17 | 1.87 | 48.83 | 14.90 | 44.14 | 4.20 | 52.98 | 4:34.21 | 7759 | * |
| 10 | Sven Reintak | Soviet Union | 11.32 | 6.11 | 13.93 | 2.02 | 50.19 | 14.65 | 44.76 | 4.60 | 63.46 | 4:26.54 | 7754 | |
| | Aleksandr Tsyoma | Soviet Union | 10.99 | 7.07 | 14.53 | 1.96 | 50.92 | 14.59 | 44.66 | 4.60 | 55.20 | 4:46.61 | 7749 | * |
| | Vladimir Romanov | Soviet Union | 11.04 | 7.13 | 15.26 | 1.99 | 51.74 | 15.79 | 48.24 | 4.30 | 52.84 | 4:41.44 | 7628 | * |
| 11 | Andreas Poser | East Germany | 10.98 | 7.10 | 13.58 | 1.93 | 50.78 | 15.68 | 42.98 | 4.70 | 61.72 | 4:59.66 | 7564 | |
| | Yevgeniy Ovsyannikov | Soviet Union | 11.33 | 7.37w | 14.59 | 2.08 | 50.98 | 14.96 | 43.80 | 4.40 | 43.58 | 4:56.84 | 7504 | * |
| 12 | Steffan Blomstrand | Sweden | 11.27 | 6.70 | 12.94 | 1.93 | 48.81 | 16.12 | 43.46 | 4.40 | 59.28 | 4:32.79 | 7456 | |
| | Aleksandr Adamov | Soviet Union | 11.68 | 6.86 | 13.42 | 1.90 | 51.50 | 15.63 | 42.10 | 4.20 | 63.68 | 4:47.47 | 7232 | * |
| 13 | Pavel Tarnavetskiy | Soviet Union | 11.13 | 7.44 | 14.23 | 2.08 | 49.20 | 14.95 | 45.72 | NM | 51.32 | 4:33.89 | 7189 | |
| | Anders Nyberg | Sweden | 11.20 | 6.67 | 15.24 | 1.90 | 52.01 | 15.17 | 41.16 | 4.30 | 65.58 | DNS | DNF | |
| | Mike Ramos | United States | 10.87 | | 15.20 | | | | | | | | DNF | |
| | Garret Armstrong | United States | 10.84 | | | | | 14.46 | | | | | DNF | |
| | Rišardas Malachovskis | Soviet Union | | | | | | | | | | | DNF | |
| | John Sayre | United States | | | | | | | | | | | DNF | |
*Out of competition performance

## Women's results
### 100 meters

July 6 Wind: +0.2 m/s
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 6 | Evelyn Ashford | United States | 10.91 |
| | 2 | Heike Drechsler | East Germany | 10.91 |
| | 5 | Elvira Barbashina | Soviet Union | 11.12 |
| 4 | 4 | Alice Brown | United States | 11.14 |
| 5 | 3 | Irina Slyusar | Soviet Union | 11.22 |
| 6 | 7 | Antonina Nastoburko | Soviet Union | 11.29 |
| 7 | 1 | Anelia Nuneva | Bulgaria | 11.40 |
| 8 | 8 | Angela Bailey | Canada | 11.50 |

### 200 meters

July 8 Wind: Heat 2: +1.2 m/s
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 2 | Pam Marshall | United States | 22.12 | |
| | 2 | Ewa Kasprzyk | Poland | 22.13 | NR |
| | 2 | Elvira Barbashina | Soviet Union | 22.27 | |
| 4 | 2 | Gwen Torrence | United States | 22.53 | |
| 5 | 1 | Randy Givens | United States | 22.61 | |
| 6 | 2 | Marie-Christine Cazier | France | 22.71 | |
| 7 | 2 | Juliet Cuthbert | Jamaica | 22.88 | |
| 8 | 1 | Maya Azarashvili | Soviet Union | 23.01 | |
| 9 | 2 | Silke Gladisch | East Germany | DNF | |
| | 2 | Diane Dixon | United States | DNS | |

### 400 meters

July 9
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | ? | Olga Vladykina | Soviet Union | 49.96 |
| | ? | Mariya Pinigina | Soviet Union | 50.29 |
| | ? | Lillie Leatherwood-King | United States | 50.47 |
| 4 | ? | Diane Dixon | United States | 50.77 |
| 5 | ? | Genowefa Błaszak | Poland | 51.52 |
| 6 | ? | Christiana Matei | Romania | 51.57 |
| 7 | ? | Nadiya Olizarenko | Soviet Union | 51.60 |
| 8 | ? | Olga Pesnopevtseva | Soviet Union | 51.86 |
| 9 | ? | Olga Nazarova | Soviet Union | 52.39 |
| 10 | ? | Lyudmila Dzhigalova | Soviet Union | 52.44 |
| 11 | ? | Rosica Stamonva | Bulgaria | 52.59 |
| 12 | ? | Alice Jackson | United States | 52.91 |
| 13 | ? | Natalya Bochina | Soviet Union | 52.97 |
| 14 | ? | Mary Parr | United States | 56.32 |

### 800 meters

July 6
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Lyubov Gurina | Soviet Union | 1:57.52 |
| | Nadezhda Zabolotneva | Soviet Union | 1:57.54 |
| | Mitica Junghiatu | Romania | 1:57.87 |
| 4 | Milena Strnadová | Czechoslovakia | 1:57.90 |
| 5 | Lyubov Kiryukhina | Soviet Union | 1:58.69 |
| 6 | Nadiya Olizarenko | Soviet Union | 1:58.74 |
| 7 | Claudette Groenendaal | United States | 1:59.31 |
| 8 | Delisa Walton-Floyd | United States | 2:01.98 |

### 1500 meters

July 9
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Tatyana Samolenko | Soviet Union | 4:05.50 |
| | Ravilya Agletdinova | Soviet Union | 4:06.14 |
| | Svetlana Kitova | Soviet Union | 4:07.21 |
| 4 | Margareta Keszeg | Romania | 4:08.34 |
| 5 | Mitica Junghiatu | Romania | 4:08.37 |
| 6 | Nikolina Shtereva | Bulgaria | 4:10.71 |
| 7 | Christine Gregorek | United States | 4:10.79 |
| 8 | Linda Detlefsen | United States | 4:10.92 |
| 9 | Agnese Possamai | Italy | 4:12.27 |
| 10 | Roberta Brunet | Italy | 4:13.07 |
| 11 | Lynn Jennings | United States | 4:13.51 |

### 3000 meters

July 6
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Mariana Stănescu | Romania | 8:38.83 |
| | Svetlana Ulmasova | Soviet Union | 8:39.19 |
| | Regina Chistyakova | Soviet Union | 8:39.25 |
| 4 | Yelena Zhupiyova | Soviet Union | 8:43.46 |
| 5 | PattiSue Plumer | United States | 8:46.24 |
| 6 | Mary Knisely | United States | 8:49.00 |
| 7 | Margareta Keszeg | Romania | 8:51.54 |
| 8 | Cindy Bremser | United States | 8:53.74 |
| 9 | Alla Jushina | Soviet Union | 8:57.71 |
| 10 | Zita Ágoston | Hungary | 9:21.56 |

### 5000 meters

July 8
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Olga Bondarenko | Soviet Union | 15:03.51 |
| | Svetlana Ulmasova | Soviet Union | 15:05.50 |
| | Cindy Bremser | United States | 15:11.78 |
| 4 | Svetlana Guskova | Soviet Union | 15:17.90 |
| 5 | PattiSue Plumer | United States | 15:20.88 |
| 6 | Gabrielle Weith | East Germany | 15:21.90 |
| 7 | Yelena Zhupiyova | Soviet Union | 15:23.55 |
| 8 | Marina Rodchenkova | Soviet Union | 15:31.99 |
| 9 | Betty Springs | United States | 15:41.39 |
| 10 | Mariana Stănescu | Romania | 15:45.73 |
| 11 | Natalya Sorokivskaya | Soviet Union | 15:47.73 |
| 12 | Ria Van Landeghem | Belgium | 15:53.38 |
| 13 | Conceição Ferreira | Portugal | 15:54.01 |
| 14 | Susan King | United States | 16:04.68 |
| 15 | Joan Nesbit | United States | 16:08.50 |
| 16 | Albertina Dias | Portugal | 17:06.36 |

### Marathon

July 5
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Nadezhda Gumerova | Soviet Union | 2:33:09 |
| | Irina Bogacheva | Soviet Union | 2:34:09 |
| | Tatyana Gridneva | Soviet Union | 2:34:40 |
| 4 | Irina Petrova | Soviet Union | 2:35:07 |
| 5 | Yekaterina Khromenkova | Soviet Union | 2:35:47 |
| 6 | Katy Schilly-Laetsch | United States | 2:36:22 |
| 7 | Maureen Custy | United States | 2:36:44 |
| 8 | Nadezhda Usmanova | Soviet Union | 2:37:43 |
| 9 | Lucia Belyayeva | Soviet Union | 2:38:01 |
| 10 | Julie Ishphording | United States | 2:39:42 |
| 11 | Yelena Cukhlo | Soviet Union | 2:39:50 |
| 12 | Irina Ruban | Soviet Union | 2:40:00 |
| 13 | Tamara Sokolova | Soviet Union | 2:40:17 |
| 14 | Tatyana Zuyeva | Soviet Union | 2:40:52 |
| 15 | Tatyana Semenova | Soviet Union | 2:41:47 |
| 16 | Valentina Shateyko | Soviet Union | 2:42:25 |
| 17 | Lyubov Klochko | Soviet Union | 2:43:06 |
| 18 | Lyubov Svirskaya | Soviet Union | 2:43:59 |
| 19 | Tamara Brusinceva | Soviet Union | 2:44:06 |
| 20 | Olga Durynina | Soviet Union | 2:45:11 |
| 21 | Natalya Bardina | Soviet Union | 2:45:25 |
| 22 | Natalya Sharapova | Soviet Union | 2:46:01 |
| 23 | Anna Bykova | Soviet Union | 2:47:12 |
| 24 | Valentina Lyakhova | Soviet Union | 2:49:12 |
| 25 | Olga Maceluki | Soviet Union | 2:49:57 |
| 26 | Lyudmila Voronina | Soviet Union | 2:50:09 |
| 27 | Alevtina Chasova | Soviet Union | 2:51:43 |
| 28 | Zoya Salmina | Soviet Union | 2:52:33 |
| 29 | Alsu Minnikayeva | Soviet Union | 2:54:25 |
| 30 | Lenina Pogrebnaya | Soviet Union | 2:58:02 |
| 31 | Nadezhda Vasilyeva | Soviet Union | 2:59:11 |
| 32 | Carmen Cardenas | Mexico | 3:04:24 |
| 33 | Emmy Clark | United States | 3:47:58 |
| 34 | Kerry Witters | United States | 4:01:31 |
| 35 | Heather Geisford | United States | 4:47:17 |
| 36 | Nancy Starling | United States | 4:54:45 |
| 37 | Nicole Haddad | United States | 4:59:00 |
| 38 | Linda Wittley | United States | 5:14:57 |
| 39 | Cynthia Scarf | United States | 5:14:57 |
| 40 | Wendy Schlenfeg | United States | 5:30:11 |
| 41 | Suzanna Spens | United States | 5:31:26 |
| 42 | Evelyn Havins | United States | 5:31:27 |
| 43 | Patricia Brunetti | United States | 5:32:22 |
| | Linda Smith | United States | DNF |
| | Zoya Gavriluk | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Raisa Smekhnova | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Galina Ikonnikova | Soviet Union | DNF |

### 100 meters hurdles

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Ginka Zagorcheva | Bulgaria | 12.67 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Laurence Elloy | France | 12.69 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Cornelia Oschkenat | East Germany | 12.80 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Yelena Politika | Soviet Union | 12.95 | q |
| 5 | 1 | Benita Fitzgerald-Brown | United States | 13.04 | |
| 1 | 2 | Yordanka Donkova | Bulgaria | 12.51 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Kerstin Knabe | East Germany | 12.80 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Vera Akimova | Soviet Union | 12.83 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Nataliya Grigoryeva | Soviet Union | 12.86 | q |
| 5 | 2 | Patricia Lombardo | Italy | 13.19 | |
| - | 2 | Stephanie Hightower | United States | DNF | |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Yordanka Donkova | Bulgaria | 12.40 |
| | Cornelia Oschkenat | East Germany | 12.62 |
| | Ginka Zagorcheva | Bulgaria | 12.72 |
| 4 | Laurence Elloy | France | 12.75 |
| 5 | Nataliya Grigoryeva | Soviet Union | 12.86 |
| 6 | Kerstin Knabe | East Germany | 12.86 |
| 7 | Vera Akimova | Soviet Union | 12.91 |
| 8 | Yelena Politika | Soviet Union | 12.97 |

### 400 meters hurdles

July 7
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | 2 | Marina Stepanova | Soviet Union | 53.81 |
| | 2 | Cristeana Matei | Romania | 54.55 |
| | 1 | Ellen Fiedler | East Germany | 54.80 |
| 4 | 2 | Margarita Khromova | Soviet Union | 55.08 |
| 5 | 1 | Yelena Goncharova | Soviet Union | 55.34 |
| 6 | 2 | Judi Brown-King | United States | 56.06 |
| 7 | 1 | Sandra Farmer | Jamaica | 56.28 |
| 8 | 2 | Schowonda Williams | United States | 56.83 |
| 9 | 1 | Pilavullakandy Usha | India | 57.90 |

### 4 × 100 meters relay

July 9
| Lane | Nation | Competitors | Time |
| 4 | United States | Michelle Finn, Diane Williams, Randy Givens, Evelyn Ashford | 42.12 |
| 3 | Soviet Union "A" | Olga Zolotaryova, Maya Azarashvili, Irina Slyusar, Elvira Barbashina | 42.27 |
| 5 | Soviet Union "B" | Olga Kosakova, Oksana Kovaleva, Tatyana Chebykina, Irina Privalova | DQ |

### 4 × 400 meters relay

July 8
| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
| | United States | Chandra Cheeseborough, Brenda Cliette, Lillie Leatherwood-King, Diane Dixon | 3:21.22 | |
| | Soviet Union | Marina Stepanova, Mariya Pinigina, Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Olga Vladykina | 3:21.99 | |

### 10 kilometers walk

July 7
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Kerry Saxby | Australia | 45:08.13 |
| | Guan Ping | China | 45:56.50 |
| | Aleksandra Grigoryeva | Soviet Union | 46:00.27 |
| 4 | Lidia Levandovskaya | Soviet Union | 46:11.21 |
| 5 | Vera Prudnikova | Soviet Union | 46:20.18 |
| 6 | Yelena Rodionova | Soviet Union | 46:41.08 |
| 7 | Monika Gunnarsson | Sweden | 47:02.65 |
| 8 | Olga Krishtop | Soviet Union | 47:21.47 |
| 9 | Sue Cook | Australia | 47:29.30 |
| 10 | Vera Osipova | Soviet Union | 47:35.45 |
| 11 | Galina Yezhova | Soviet Union | 47:59.61 |
| 12 | Yelena Kuznetsova | Soviet Union | 48:23.78 |
| 13 | Ann Peel | Canada | 48:34.27 |
| 14 | Tatyana Krivokhiazha | Soviet Union | 48:46.83 |
| 15 | Sirkka Oikarfnen | Finland | 48:52.36 |
| 17 | Mariya Shupilo | Soviet Union | 49:17.08 |
| 18 | Svetlana Kaburkina | Soviet Union | 49:32.20 |
| 19 | Zure Mustafyeva | Soviet Union | 49:40.49 |
| 20 | Irina Emeliyanova | Soviet Union | 50:00.89 |
| 21 | Tatyana Petrova | Soviet Union | 50:08.81 |
| 22 | Sada Eidekete | Soviet Union | 50:09.77 |
| 23 | Olga Kardopolceva | Soviet Union | 50:20.16 |
| 24 | Roza Shaykhutdinova | Soviet Union | 50:21.37 |
| 25 | Valentina Ksendfontova | Soviet Union | 50:28.26 |
| 26 | Yuliya Lisnik | Soviet Union | 50:51.40 |
| 27 | Yelena Veremeychuk | Soviet Union | 50:51.75 |
| 28 | Irina Tolstik | Soviet Union | 51:04.66 |
| 29 | Teresa Vail | Soviet Union | 51:19.50 |
| 30 | Raiysa Sinyavina | Soviet Union | 51:33.26 |
| 31 | Susan Liers | United States | 52:00.61 |
| 32 | Svetlana Polovinko | Soviet Union | 52:10.27 |
| 33 | Deborah Lawrence | United States | 52:18.87 |
| 34 | Irina Lopardina | Soviet Union | 53:09.25 |
| 35 | Svetlana Kashina | Soviet Union | 53:31.78 |
| 36 | Tamara Aleksandrova | Soviet Union | 54:23.24 |
| 37 | Lyudmila Mayorova | Soviet Union | 57:11.87 |
| 38 | Scute Lapinskaya | Soviet Union | 57:26.60 |
| | Nadezhda Prudnikova | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Natalya Dmitrochenko | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Marina Andreyeva | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Svetlana Vasilyeva | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Nina Fesenko | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Yelena Kovner | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Nina Mushinkova | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Natalya Jaroshenko | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Alfiya Ahmetzhanova | Soviet Union | DNF |
| | Natalya Spiridonova | Soviet Union | DQ |
| | Irina Straksova | Soviet Union | DQ |
| | Mariya Vasilko | Soviet Union | DQ |
| | Rimma Makarova | Soviet Union | DQ |
| | Valentina Afanasyeva | Soviet Union | DQ |
| | Lyubov Teleman | Soviet Union | DQ |
| | Irina Shubina | Soviet Union | DQ |

### High jump

July 7
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Stefka Kostadinova | Bulgaria | 2.03 |
| | Olga Turchak | Soviet Union | 2.01 |
| | Svetlana Isaeva | Bulgaria | 1.96 |
| 4 | Tamara Bykova | Soviet Union | 1.96 |
| 5 | Susanne Helm | East Germany | 1.96 |
| 6 | Galina Brigadnaya | Soviet Union | 1.96 |
| 7 | Andrea Binias | East Germany | 1.89 |
| 8 | Louise Ritter | United States | 1.89 |
| 9 | Larisa Kositsyna | Soviet Union | 1.89 |
| 10 | Jan Chesbro | United States | 1.80 |

### Long jump

July 7
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Galina Chistyakova | Soviet Union | 7.27 |
| | Yelena Belevskaya | Soviet Union | 7.17 |
| | Irina Valyukevich | Soviet Union | 7.07 |
| 4 | Vali Ionescu | Romania | 6.91 |
| 5 | Carol Lewis | United States | 6.90 |
| 6 | Helga Radtke | East Germany | 6.86 |
| 7 | Larisa Berezhnaya | Soviet Union | 6.69 |
| 8 | Lyudmila Ninova | Bulgaria | 6.44 |
| 9 | Sheila Echols | United States | 6.44 |

### Shot put

July 7
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Natalya Lisovskaya | Soviet Union | 21.37 |
| | Natalya Akhrimenko | Soviet Union | 20.33 |
| | Mihaela Loghin | Romania | 19.89 |
| 4 | Marina Antonyuk | Soviet Union | 19.32 |
| 5 | Svetlana Mitkova | Bulgaria | 19.10 |
| 6 | Danguolė Bimbaitė | Soviet Union | 19.09 |
| 7 | Grit Haupt | East Germany | 18.81 |
| 8 | Bonnie Dasse | United States | 18.33 |
| 9 | Ramona Pagel | United States | 17.47 |
| 10 | Cong Yuzhen | China | 17.33 |

### Discus throw

July 9
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Tsvetanka Khristova | Bulgaria | 69.54 |
| | Martina Hellmann | East Germany | 69.04 |
| | Diana Sachse | East Germany | 68.46 |
| 4 | Ellina Zvereva | Soviet Union | 68.34 |
| 5 | Lyubov Zverkova | Soviet Union | 64.44 |
| 6 | Svetlana Mitkova | Bulgaria | 62.88 |
| 7 | Galina Yermakova | Soviet Union | 62.86 |
| 8 | Larisa Korotkevich | Soviet Union | 59.88 |
| 9 | Carol Cady | United States | 59.68 |
| 10 | Annet Khorina | United States | 58.72 |
| 11 | Hou Xuemei | China | 56.80 |
| 12 | Ramona Pagel | United States | 53.72 |
| 13 | Pia Iacovo | United States | 51.30 |

### Javelin throw

July 8
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result |
| | Petra Felke | East Germany | 70.78 |
| | Irina Kostyuchenkova | Soviet Union | 61.28 |
| | Natalya Yermolovich | Soviet Union | 60.58 |
| 4 | Olga Gavrilova | Soviet Union | 59.48 |
| 5 | Zinaida Gavrilina | Soviet Union | 57.96 |
| 6 | Donna Mayhew | United States | 56.18 |
| 7 | Karyn Szarkowski | United States | 50.44 |

### Heptathlon

July 6–7
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | 100m H | HJ | SP | 200m | LJ | JT | 800m | Points | Notes |
| | Jackie Joyner | United States | 12.85 | 1.88 | 14.76 | 23.00 | 7.01 | 49.86 | 2:10.02 | 7148 | WR |
| | Sibylle Thiele | East Germany | 13.14 | 1.76 | 16.00 | 24.18 | 6.62 | 45.74 | 2:15.30 | 6635 | |
| | Natalya Shubenkova | Soviet Union | 13.23 | 1.70 | 13.94 | 23.67 | 6.61 | 45.88 | 2:03.61 | 6631 | |
| 4 | Sabine Paetz | East Germany | 13.11 | 1.73 | 15.67 | 24.13 | 6.40 | 42.57 | | 6456 | |
| 5 | Marianna Maslennikova | Soviet Union | 13.41 | 1.88 | 11.84 | 23.40 | 6.38 | | 2:06.09 | 6416 | |
| 6 | Emilia Dimitrova | Bulgaria | 13.73 | | | 23.17 | | | 2:09.85 | 6403 | |
| 7 | Vaida Rushkite | Soviet Union | 13.34 | | 14.63 | | | | | 6349 | |
| 8 | Larisa Nikitina | Soviet Union | | | | | | 52.52 | | 6285 | |
| 9 | Marion Vezer | East Germany | 13.73 | 1.85 | | 24.43 | 6.45 | | | 6141 | |
| 10 | Ines Shultz | East Germany | | | | | | | 2:07.25 | 6109 | |
| 11 | Cindy Greiner | United States | 13.54 | | | 24.24 | | | | 6095 | |
| 12 | Svetlana Filatyeva | Soviet Union | | | | | | | | 6091 | |
| 13 | Yelena Davydova | Soviet Union | | | | | | | | 6053 | |
| 14 | Katrin Hochrien | East Germany | 13.97 | 1.85 | | 24.23 | | | | 6003 | |
| 15 | Kristine Tånnander | Sweden | | | | | | | | 5456 | |
| 16 | Monica Westén | Sweden | | | | | | | | 5365 | |
| 17 | Lana Zimmerman | United States | 14.48 | | | | | | 2:09.64 | 4718 | |
| | Anke Behmer | East Germany | 13.44 | 1.85 | 14.04 | 23.41 | 6.55 | 37.30 | DNS | DNF | |
| | Jane Frederick | United States | 13.63 | 1.85 | | | | 47.70 | DNS | DNF | |