1500m

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 3:36.4 Jürgen May FRG Erfurt 1965-07-14
2. 3:37.6 Kipchoge Keino KEN Auckland 1965-12-15

Mile

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 3:53.6 Michel Jazy FRA Rennes 1965-06-09
2. 3:53.8 Jürgen May FRG Wanganui 1965-12-11
3. 3:54.16 Kipchoge Keino KEN London 1965-08-30

3000m

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 7:39.6 Kipchoge Keino KEN Helsingborg 1965-08-27
2. 7:46.0 Siegfried Herrmann GDR Erfurt 1965-08-05
3. 7:48.6 Gaston Roelants BEL Heverlee 1965-08-15
4. 7:49.0 Michel Jazy FRA Melun 1965-06-23

5000m

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 13:24.2 Kipchoge Keino KEN Auckland 1965-11-30
2. 13:25.7 Ron Clarke AUS Los Angeles 1965-06-04
3. 13:27.6 Michel Jazy FRA Helsinki 1965-06-30

10000m

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 27:39.89 Ron Clarke AUS Oslo 1965-07-14
2. 28:10.6 Gaston Roelants BEL Oslo 1965-08-21
3. 28:17.6 Billy Mills USA Augsburg 1965-08-12
4. 28:22.0 Nikolay Dutov RUS Kiev 1965-07-31
5. 28:29.8 Leonid Ivanov KGZ Kiev 1965-07-31

4x400m

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 3:03.4 Robert Johnson,
Anthony Gates,
Everett Mason,
Theron Lewis 		USA Modesto 1965-05-29

Long jump

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 8.35 Ralph Boston USA Modesto 1965-05-29

Shot put

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 21.52 Randy Matson USA College Station 1965-05-08

Javelin throw (old design)

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 88.14 Jorma Kinnunen FIN Hyvinkää 1965-07-08