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100 y
Harold Porter USA  9.2
Herb Washington USA  9.2
Ivory Crockett USA  9.2
Joseph Sincere USA  9.2
Steve Williams USA  9.3 A
Errol Stewart JAM  9.3 A
Gus Brisco USA  9.3
William Holloway USA  9.3
Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa MDG  9.3
Reggie Robinson USA  9.3
100 m
Eddie Hart USA  9.9
Reggie Robinson USA  9.9
Warren Edmonson USA  10.0
Steve Riddick USA  10.0
Cliff Branch USA  10.0
Henry Jackson USA  10.0
Vassilios Papageorgopoulos GRE  10.0
Valeriy Borzov URS  10.0
Pietro Mennea ITA  10.0
Hermes Ramirez CUB  10.0
200 m
Valeriy Borzov URS  20.00
Larry Black USA  20.0
Steve Williams USA  20.2 *A
Larry Burton USA  20.2 *
Ivory Crockett USA  20.2 *
Pietro Mennea ITA  20.2
Donald Quarrie JAM  20.3 *A
Dennis Schultz USA  20.3 *A
Siegfried Schenke GDR  20.3
David Jenkins GBR  20.3
400 m
Wayne Collett USA  44.1
Fred Newhouse USA  44.2
John Smith USA  44.3
Lee Evans USA  44.6 *
Vince Matthews USA  44.66
Karl Honz FRG  44.70
Steve Williams USA  44.9 *A
Julius Sang KEN  44.92
Edsel Garrison USA  45.1 *
Larance Jones USA  45.1
800 m
David Wottle USA  1.44.3
Pekka Vasala FIN  1.44.5
Rick Wohlhuter USA  1.45.0
Ken Swenson USA  1.45.1
Jim Ryun USA  1.45.2
Ron Phillips USA  1.45.3
Yevgeniy Arzhanov URS  1.45.3
Dieter Fromm GDR  1.45.4
Rick Brown USA  1.45.4
10  Jozef Plachy TCH  1.45.6
1500 m
Pekka Vasala FIN  3.36.33
Kipchoge Keino KEN  3.36.81
Michael Boit KEN  3.37.4
Rodney Dixon NZL  3.37.46
Ivan Ivanov URS  3.37.8
Fanie van Zijl RSA  3.37.9
Jerome Howe USA  3.38.2
Brendan Foster GBR  3.38.20
Peter Stewart GBR  3.38.22
10  Howell Michael USA  3.38.3
1 Mile
Jim Ryun USA  3.52.8
Peter Stewart GBR  3.55.3
Brendan Foster GBR  3.55.9
Jim Douglas GBR  3.56.0
Fanie van Zijl RSA  3.56.0
John Kirkbride GBR  3.56.5
Steve Prefontaine USA  3.56.7
Tony Polhill NZL  3.57.0
Pekka Vasala FIN  3.57.2
10  Leonard Hilton USA  3.57.6
5000 m
Emiel Puttemans BEL  13.13.0
Lasse Viren FIN  13.16.4
Dave Bedford GBR  13.17.2
Ian McCafferty GBR  13.19.8
Gianni Del Buono ITA  13.22.4
Steve Prefontaine USA  13.22.8
Ian Stewart GBR  13.24.2
Mariano Haro ESP  13.26.0
Javier Alvarez ESP  13.26.4
10  Mohamed Gammoudi TUN  13.27.4
10000 m
Lasse Viren FIN  27.38.4
Emiel Puttemans BEL  27.39.6
Miruts Yifter ETH  27.41.0
Mariano Haro ESP  27.48.2
Frank Shorter USA  27.51.4
Dave Bedford GBR  27.52.4
Mohamed Gammoudi TUN  27.54.8
Gaston Roelants BEL  28.03.8
Rashid Sharafetdinov URS  28.05.2
10  Pavel Andreyev URS  28.07.8
Marathon (42.195 km.)
Frank Shorter USA  2.10.30
Vladimir Bugrov URS  2.11.32 sh
John Farrington AUS  2.12.00
Lutz Philipp FRG  2.12.50
Ron Hill GBR  2.12.51
Igor Shcherbak URS  2.13.16
Eckhard Lesse GDR  2.13.19
Leonid Moseyev URS  2.13.59
Kenichi Otsuki JPN  2.14.01
10  Seppo Nikkari FIN  2.14.03
110 m Hurdles
Rod Milburn USA  13.24
Guy Drut FRA  13.3
Thomas Hill USA  13.3
Frank Siebeck GDR  13.3
Alejandro Casanas CUB  13.3
Jerry Wilson USA  13.4
Leszek Wodzynski POL  13.4
Adam Galant POL  13.4
Willie Davenport USA  13.50
10  Danny Smith BAH  13.5
400 m Hurdles
John Akii-Bua UGA  47.82
Ralph Mann USA  48.4
David Hemery GBR  48.52
Dick Bruggeman USA  48.6
Jim Seymour USA  48.64
William Koskei KEN  49.0 A
Bruce Collins USA  49.1
Yevgeniy Gavrilenko URS  49.2
Dieter Büttner FRG  49.21
10  Gary Knoke AUS  49.3
3000 m Steeplechase
Anders Gärderud SWE  8.20.8
Tapio Kantanen FIN  8.21.0
Bronislaw Malinowski POL  8.22.2
Kazimierz Maranda POL  8.23.6
Amos Biwott KEN  8.23.6
Kipchoge Keino KEN  8.23.6
Dusan Moravcík TCH  8.23.8
Ben Jipcho KEN  8.24.6
Mikhail Zhelev BUL  8.25.4
Pekka Päivärinta FIN  8.25.4