200m

1972-09-04, wind: ±0.0
  Result Name Country
1. 20.00 Valeriy Borzov UKR
2. 20.19 Larry Black USA
3. 20.30 Pietro Mennea ITA
4. 20.37 Larry Burton USA

400m

1972-09-07
  Result Name Country
1. 44.66 Vince Matthews USA
2. 44.80 Wayne Collett USA
3. 44.92 Julius Sang KEN
4. 45.13 Charles Asati KEN

800m

1972-09-02
  Result Name Country
1. 1:45.86 David Wottle USA
2. 1:45.89 Yevgeniy Arzhanov UKR

1500m

1972-09-10
  Result Name Country
1. 3:36.33 Pekka Vasala FIN
2. 3:36.81 Kipchoge Keino KEN
3. 3:37.46 Rod Dixon NZL

5000m

1972-09-10
  Result Name Country
1. 13:26.42 Lasse Viren FIN
2. 13:27.33 Mohamed Gamoudi TUN
3. 13:27.61 Ian Stewart GBR
4. 13:28.25 Steve Prefontaine USA

10000m

1972-09-03
  Result Name Country
1. 27:38.35 Lasse Viren FIN
2. 27:39.58 Emiel Puttemans BEL
3. 27:40.96 Miruts Yifter ETH
4. 27:48.14 Mariano Haro ESP
5. 27:51.32 Frank Shorter USA
6. 28:05.44 David Bedford GBR
7. 28:15.18 Danijel Korica SRB
8. 28:18.17 Abdelkader Zaddem TUN

110m h

1972-09-07, wind: +0.3
  Result Name Country
1. 13.24 Rodney Milburn USA
2. 13.34 Guy Drut FRA
3. 13.48 Thomas Hill USA
4. 13.50 Willie Davenport USA

400m h

1972-09-02
  Result Name Country
1. 47.82 John Akii-Bua UGA
2. 48.51 Ralph Mann USA
3. 48.52 David Hemery GBR
4. 48.64 Jim Seymour USA

3000h

1972-09-04
  Result Name Country
1. 8:23.64 Kipchoge Keino KEN
2. 8:24.62 Benjamin Jipcho KEN
3. 8:24.66 Tapio Kantanen FIN

4x100m

1972-09-10
  Result Name Country
1. 38.19 Larry Black,
Robert Taylor,
Gerald Tinker,
Eddie Hart 		USA
2. 38.50 Aleksandr Kornelyuk (RUS),
Vladimir Lovyetskiy (BLR),
Jüris Silovs (LAT),
Valeriy Borzov (UKR) 		Soviet Union
3. 38.79 Jobst Hirscht,
Karl-Heinz Klotz,
Gerhard Wucherer,
Klaus Ehl 		FRG
4. 38.82 Jaroslav Matousek,
Juraj Demec,
Jiri Kynos,
Ludek Bohman 		CZE
5. 38.90 Manfred Kokot,
Bernd Borth,
Hans-Jürgen Bombach,
Siegfried Schenke 		GDR

4x400m

1972-09-10
  Result Name Country
1. 2:59.83 Charles Asati,
Mynyoro Hezekiah Nyamau,
Robert Ouko,
Julius Sang 		KEN
2. 3:00.46 Martin Reynolds,
Alan Pascoe,
David Hemery,
David Jenkins 		GBR
3. 3:00.65 Gilles Bertouldt,
Roger Vélasques,
Francis Kerbiriou,
Jacques Carette 		FRA
4. 3:00.88 Bernd Herrmann,
Horst-Rüdiger Schlöske,
Hermann Köhler,
Karl Honz 		FRG
5. 3:01.05 Jan Werner,
Jan Balachowski,
Zbigniew Jaremski,
Andrzej Badenski 		POL
6. 3:01.12 Stig Lönnqvist,
Ari Salin,
Ossi Karttunen,
Markku Kukkoaho 		FIN
7. 3:02.57 Erik Carlgren,
Anders Faager,
Kenth Öhman,
Ulf Rönner 		SWE

Long jump

1972-09-09
  Result Name Country Wind
1. 8.24 Randy Williams USA ±0.0

Triple jump

1972-09-04
  Result Name Country Wind
1. 17.31 Jörg Drehmel GDR +1.5
2. 17.35 Viktor Saneyev GEO +2.2

Shot put

1972-09-09
  Result Name Country
1. 21.18 Wladyslaw Komar POL
2. 21.17 George Woods USA
3. 21.14 Hartmut Briesenick GDR
Hans-Peter Gies GDR

Javelin throw (old design)

1972-09-03
  Result Name Country
1. 90.48 Klaus Wolfermann FRG
2. 90.46 Jänis Lusis LAT

Decathlon

1972-09-08
  Result Name Country
1. 8466 Nikolay Avilov UKR