| Event:
| Gold:
| Silver:
| Bronze:
|
| 100 m Men
| Maurice Greene, USA
| Donovan Bailey, Canada
| Tim Montgomery, USA
|
| 100 m Women
| Marion Jones, USA
| Zhanna Pintusevich, Ukraine
| Savatheda Fynes, Bahamas
|
| 100 m Hurdles Women
| Ludmila Engquist, Sweden
| Svetla Dimitrova, Bulgaria
| Michelle Freeman, Jamaica
|
| 110 m Hurdles Men
| Allen Johnson, USA
| Colin Jackson, Great Britain
| Igor Kovác, Slovakia
|
| 200 m Men
| Ato Boldon, Trinidad & Tobago
| Frankie Fredericks, Namibia
| Claudinei da Silva, Brazil
|
| 200 m Women
| Zhanna Pintusevich, Ukraine
| Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lanka
| Merlene Ottey, Jamaica
|
| 400 m Men
| Michael Johnson, USA
| Davis Kamoga, Uganda
| Tyree Washington, USA
|
| 400 m Women
| Cathy Freeman, Australia
| Sandie Richards, Jamaica
| Jearl Miles Clark, USA
|
| 400 m Hurdles Men
| Stéphane Diagana, France
| Llewellyn Herbert, South Africa
| Bryan Bronson, USA
|
| 400 m Hurdles Women
| Nezha Bidouane, Morocco
| Deon Hemmings, Jamaica
| Kim Batten, USA
|
| 800 m Men
| Wilson Kipketer, Denmark
| Norberto Téllez, Cuba
| Rich Kenah, USA
|
| 800 m Women
| Ana Fidelia Quirot, Cuba
| Yelena Afanasyeva, Russia
| Maria Mutola, Mozambique
|
| 1500 m Men
| Hicham El Guerrouj, Morocco
| Fermín Cacho, Spain
| Reyes Estévez, Spain
|
| 1500 m Women
| Carla Sacramento, Portugal
| Regina Jacobs, USA
| Anita Weyermann, Switzerland
|
| 3,000 m Steeplechase Men
| Wilson Boit Kipketer, Kenya
| Moses Kiptanui, Kenya
| Bernard Barmasai, Kenya
|
| 5,000 m Men
| Daniel Komen, Kenya
| Khalid Boulami, Morocco
| Tom Nyariki, Kenya
|
| 5,000 m Women
| Gabriela Szabo, Romania
| Roberta Brunet, Italy
| Fernanda Ribeiro, Portugal
|
| 10,000 m Men
| Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopia
| Paul Tergat, Kenya
| Salah Hissou, Morocco
|
| 10,000 m Women
| Sally Barsosio, Kenya
| Fernanda Ribeiro, Portugal
| Masako Chiba, Japan
|
| Marathon Men
| Abel Antón, Spain
| Martín Fiz, Spain
| Steve Moneghetti, Australia
|
| Marathon Women
| Hiromi Suzuki, Japan
| Manuela Machado, Portugal
| Lidia Simon, Romania
|
| 20 km Walk Men
| Daniel García, Mexico
| Mikhail Shchennikov, Russia
| Mikhail Khmelnitskiy, Belarus
|
| 10 km Walk Women
| Annarita Sidoti, Italy
| Olga Kardopoltseva, Belarus
| Valentina Tsybulskaya, Belarus
|
| 50 km Walk Men
| Robert Korzeniowski, Poland
| Jesús Ángel García, Spain
| Miguel Rodríguez, Mexico
|
| 4 x 100 m Relay Men
| Canada
| Nigeria
| Great Britain
|
| 4 x 100 m Women
| USA
| Jamaica
| France
|
| 4 x 400 m Men
| USA
| Great Britain
| Jamaica
|
| 4 x 400 m Women
| Germany
| USA
| Jamaica
|
| Event:
| Gold:
| Silver:
| Bronze:
|
| Long Jump Men
| Iván Pedroso, Cuba
| Erick Walder, USA
| Kirill Sosunov, Russia
|
| Long Jump Women
| Lyudmila Galkina, Russia
| Niki Xanthou, Greece
| Fiona May, Italy
|
| Triple Jump Men
| Yoelbi Quesada, Cuba
| Jonathan Edwards, Great Britain
| Aliecer Urrutia, Cuba
|
| Triple Jump Women
| Šárka Kašpárková, Czech Republic
| Rodica Mateescu, Romania
| Yelena Govorova, Ukraine
|
| high jump Men
| Javier Sotomayor, Cuba
| Artur Partyka, Poland
| Tim Forsyth, Australia
|
| high jump Women
| Hanne Haugland, Norway
| Inga Babakova, Ukraine & Olga Kaliturina, Russia (tied)
|
|
| javelin throw Men
| Marius Corbett, South Africa
| Steve Backley, Great Britain
| Kostas Gatsioudis, Greece
|
| javelin throw Women
| Trine Hattestad, Norway
| Joanna Stone, Australia
| Tanja Damaske, Germany
|
| Discus Men
| Lars Riedel, Germany
| Virgilijus Alekna, Lithuania
| Jürgen Schult, Germany
|
| Discus Women
| Beatrice Faumuina, New Zealand
| Ellina Zvereva, Belarus
| Natalya Sadova, Russia
|
| Hammer Men
| Heinz Weis, Germany
| Andrey Skvaruk, Ukraine
| Vasiliy Sidorenko, Russia
|
| Shot Put Men
| John Godina, USA
| Oliver-Sven Buder, Germany
| C.J. Hunter, USA
|
| Shot Put Women
| Astrid Kumbernuss, Germany
| Vita Pavlysh, Ukraine
| Stephanie Storp, Germany
|
| pole vault Men
| Sergey Bubka, Ukraine
| Maksim Tarasov, Russia
| Dean Starkey, USA
|
| Heptathlon Women
| Sabine Braun, Germany
| Denise Lewis, Great Britain
| Remigija Nazaroviené, Lithuania
|
| Decathlon Men
| Tomáš Dvorák, Czech Republic
| Eduard Hämäläinen, Finland
| Frank Busemann, Germany
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