400m

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 44.82 Wendell Mottley TTO Kingston 1966-08-11

800m

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 1:44.3 Jim Ryun USA Terre Haute 1966-06-10
2. 1:44.9 Franz-Josef Kemper FRG Hannover 1966-08-07
3. 1:45.9 Thomas Farrell USA Los Angeles 1966-07-24
Manfred Matuschewski GDR Budapest (EC) 1966-09-04

1500m

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 3:36.1 Jim Ryun USA Berkeley 1966-07-17
2. 3:36.3 Michel Jazy FRA Sochaux 1966-06-25
3. 3:36.8 Kipchoge Keino KEN London 1966-08-20
4. 3:37.6 Josef Odlozil CZE Praha 1966-08-13
5. 3:37.7 Jean Wadoux FRA Praha 1966-08-13

Mile

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 3:51.3 Jim Ryun USA Berkeley 1966-07-17
2. 3:53.42 Kipchoge Keino KEN London 1966-08-20
3. 3:55.4 Jim Grelle USA San Diego 1966-06-11
4. 3:56.1 Neil Duggan GBR San Diego 1966-06-11
5. 3:57.27 Alan Simpson GBR Kingston 1966-08-13
6. 3:57.3 Dyrol Burleson USA Eugene 1966-06-02
7. 3:58.0 Cary Weisiger USA Berkeley 1966-07-17
8. 3:58.4 Bob Day USA Los Angeles 1966-04-02
9. 3:58.61 Ian Studd NZL Kingston 1966-08-13
10. 3:58.8 Harald Norpoth FRG Hamburg 1966-05-19
Richard Romo USA Los Angeles 1966-08-10
12. 3:59.1 Roscoe Divine USA Eugene 1966-06-02
13. 3:59.11 Dave Bailey CAN San Diego 1966-06-11
14. 3:59.24 Derek Graham GBR London 1966-08-20
15. 3:59.37 Walter Wilkinson GBR Kingston 1966-08-13
16. 3:59.4 Tim Danielson USA San Diego 1966-06-11
Ted Nelson USA Los Angeles 1966-08-10
18. 3:59.7 De Villiers Lamprecht RSA Stellenbosch 1966-11-11
19. 3:59.8 Wade Bell USA Eugene 1966-06-02
20. 3:59.81 Keith Wheeler AUS Kingston 1966-08-13

5000m

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 13:16.6 Ron Clarke AUS Stockholm 1966-07-05
2. 13:24.8 Harald Norpoth FRG Köln 1966-09-07
3. 13:26.6 Kipchoge Keino KEN Berlin 1966-06-26

10000m

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 27:54.0 Ron Clarke AUS Oslo 1966-07-12
2. 28:12.6 Jürgen Haase GDR Leipzig 1966-05-25
3. 28:20.8 Gaston Roelants BEL Oslo 1966-07-12
4. 28:26.0 Mike Freary GBR Stockholm 1966-09-17
5. 28:27.0 Lajos Mecser HUN Budapest (EC) 1966-08-30

110m h

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 13.47 Willie Davenport USA New York City 1966-06-26

3000h

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 8:26.6 Viktor Kudinskiy UKR Budapest (EC) 1966-09-03

4x400m

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 2:59.6 Bob Frey,
Lee Evans,
Tommie Smith,
Theron Lewis 		USA Los Angeles 1966-07-24
2. 3:01.7 Lennox Yearwood,
Kent Bernard,
Edwin Roberts,
Wendell Mottley 		TTO Kingston 1966-08-13

Long jump

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 8.23 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan RUS Leselidze 1966-04-23

Shot put

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 21.09 Randy Matson USA Los Angeles 1966-05-13

Decathlon

  Result Name Country Venue Date
1. 8120 Russell Hodge USA Los Angeles 1966-07-24
2. 8096 Bill Toomey USA Salina 1966-07-03