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100 y
Fred Wolcott USA  9.5
Mozel Ellerbe USA  9.5
Benjamin Reams USA  9.5
Adrian Talley USA  9.5
Lee Orr CAN  9.5
Marty Glickman USA  9.5
Mack Robinson USA  9.5
Dennis Shore RSA  9.5 A
Bryant Allen USA  9.6
Randolph Carter USA  9.6
100 m
Ben Johnson USA  10.3
Gilberto Campbell PAN  10.4
Conrado Rodriguez CUB  10.4
Eulalio Villodas PUR  10.4
Albert Frederick Brown JAM  10.4
Jennings Blackett PAN  10.4
Jacinto Ortiz CUB  10.4 e
Mitsuo Taniguchi JPN  10.4
Terunori Kawate JPN  10.4
Mozel Ellerbe USA  10.4
200 m
Ben Johnson USA  20.9
Perrin Walker USA  20.9
Clyde Jeffrey USA  21.0 *str
Wilbur Miller USA  21.0 *str
Cyril Holmes GBR  21.1 *
Jack Emigh USA  21.1 *str
Martinus Osendarp NED  21.1
Dennis Shore RSA  21.1 *A
Jacinto Ortiz CUB  21.2
John Mumford AUS  21.2 *e
400 m
Ray Malott USA  46.3 *
Charles Belcher USA  46.7 *
John Woodruff USA  46.7 *
Erwin Miller USA  46.7 *
Dennis Shore RSA  46.7 *A
Wilbur Miller USA  46.8 *
Rudolf Harbig GER  46.8
Harley Howells USA  46.9 *
Godfrey Brown GBR  46.9
10  Archibald Williams USA  47.0
800 m
Sydney Wooderson GBR  1.48.4
Mario Lanzi ITA  1.50.4 *
Vernon-Patrick Boot NZL  1.50.5 *
John Woodruff USA  1.50.6 *
Rudolf Harbig GER  1.50.6
John Francis USA  1.51.3 *
Charles Fenske USA  1.51.4 *
Howard Borck USA  1.51.5
Alex Northrup USA  1.51.6 *
10  Jacques Leveque FRA  1.51.8
1500 m
Sydney Wooderson GBR  3.48.7
Charles Fenske USA  3.49.4
Joseph Mostert BEL  3.50.0
Archie San Romani USA  3.50.9 *
Glenn Cunningham USA  3.51.0 *
Niilo Hartikka FIN  3.52.0
Toivo Sarkama FIN  3.52.2
Henry Kälarne SWE  3.52.2
Kauko Pekuri FIN  3.52.5
10  Luigi Beccali ITA  3.52.8
1 Mile
Glenn Cunningham USA  4.07.2
Louis Zamperini USA  4.08.3
Charles Fenske USA  4.08.8
Archie San Romani USA  4.10.4
Melverne Trutt USA  4.11.4
James Alford GBR  4.11.5
Joseph Mostert BEL  4.11.6
Gerald Backhouse AUS  4.12.3 e
Blaine Rideout USA  4.12.4
10  James Smith USA  4.12.5
5000 m
Taisto Mäki FIN  14.26.8
Kauko Pekuri FIN  14.27.4
Henry Kälarne SWE  14.27.4
llmari Salminen FIN  14.28.4
Lauri Lehtinen FIN  14.30.2
Miklos Szabo HUN  14.35.6
Harry Siefert DEN  14.36.2
Odd Rasdal NOR  14.36.7
Serafim Znamenskiy URS  14.39.0
10  Tauno Kurki FIN  14.40.3
10000 m
Taisto Mäki FIN  30.02.0
llmari Salminen FIN  30.13.4
Kauko Pekuri FIN  30.14.0
Matti Laihoranta FIN  30.35.2
Erkki Tamila FIN  30.42.8
Arvo Askola FIN  30.48.8
Giuseppe Beviacqua ITA  30.53.2
Max Syring GER  30.54.2
Eino Pentti USA  30.54.6
10  Jenö Szilágyi HUN  30.56.8
Marathon (42.195 km.)
Pat Dengis USA  2.30.27
Johannes Coleman RSA  2.30.49
Shin-ichi Nakamura JPN  2.32.24
Walter Young CAN  2.34.47
Isao Hashimoto JPN  2.35.23
Leslie Pawson USA  2.35.34 sh
James Bartlett CAN  2.36.35
Jack Beman GBR  2.36.39
Gérard Coté CAN  2.37.16
10  Duncan McCallum CAN  2.37.18
110 m Hurdles
Fred Wolcott USA  13.9
Tom Lavery RSA  14.0 *
Larry O'Connor CAN  14.2 *e
James Humphrey USA  14.2 *
Håkan Lidman SWE  14.3
Allan Tolmich USA  14.3
Donald Finlay GBR  14.3
Forrest Towns USA  14.3 *
Jack Patterson USA  14.3 *
Elmer Gedeon USA  14.3 *
400 m Hurdles
John Loaring CAN  52.6 *
Jack Patterson USA  52.7 *
Prudent Joye FRA  53.0
Friedrich-Wilhelm Hölling GER  53.1
Robert Lemen USA  53.2 *
Georg Glaw GER  53.2
John Borican USA  53.3
Jozsef Kovacs HUN  53.3 *
Werner Kellerhals SUI  53.5
10  Kjell Areskoug SWE  53.6
3000 m Steeplechase
Alf Lindblad FIN  9.09.2
Lars Larsson SWE  9.10.8
Kaarlo Tuominen FIN  9.13.0
Martti Matilainen FIN  9.13.0
Ludwig Kaindl GER  9.18.0
Alfred Dompert GER  9.20.8
Floyd Lochner USA  9.21.7 e+
Gunder Hägg SWE  9.23.0
Joseph McCluskey USA  9.23.3
10  Ivar Johansson SWE  9.23.4