| 400m- | M30 | Michael Johnson | - | 43.68 | |
| Antonio Pettigrew | - |
44.57 | |||
| Anthuan Maybank | - |
44.80 | |||
| Mark Everett | - | 45.31 | |||
| Daniel Steele | - | 47.80 | |||
| Jorg Schafer | GER | 48.39 | |||
| Chris Huffins | - | 48.64 | |||
| Robert Thomas | - | 48.94 | |||
| Curtis Ripy | GER | 49.14 | |||
| Terry Martinez | - | 49.50 | (i) | ||
| Tracy Fox | - | 49.73 | (i) | ||
| Curtis Wilson | - | 49.77 | |||
| Marek Wensel | - | 49.87 | (i) | ||
| Kirt Beeby | - | 50.01 | |||
| Ricky Barker | - | 50.15 | |||
| Olaf Gunther | GER | 50.21 | |||
| David Nash | - | 50.30 | (i) | ||
| Wallace Madden | - | 50.40 | |||
| Tim Woods | - | 50.41 | |||
| F. Erasmus | SAF | 51.06 | |||
| Paul McEvaey | - | 51.4 | |||
| Rohan Elleston | 51.55 | (i) | |||
| Hugo Estrada | - | 51.59 | |||
| Art Anderson | - | 51.76 | |||
| Christian Haag | GER | 51.82 | |||
| A. Michalewicz | GER | 52.28 | |||
| 400m- | M35 | Butch Reynolds | - | 45.13 | |
| Mitchell Lovett | - | 48.2 | |||
| Kip Janvrin | - | 48.39 | |||
| Kettrell Berry | - | 49.38 | |||
| C. Muhammad | - | 49.88 | |||
| Freddie Williams | - | 49.88 | (i) | ||
| Enrico Cariboni | ITA | 49.89 | |||
| Jeffrey King | AUS | 50.06 | |||
| Paul Brown | - | 50.27 | |||
| Thomas Klein | GER | 50.27 | |||
| Wyndell Dickerson | - | 50.41 | (i) | ||
| Ulric Graham | - | 50.54 | |||
| Vaughan Kastor | - | 50.67 | |||
| Reinhard Trenkle | GER | 50.84 | |||
| Peter Brooks | - | 50.86 | |||
| Cornell Stephenson | - | 50.92 | |||
| Randy Pritchard | GER | 50.97 | |||
| Stefano Tomai | SWE | 51.15 | (i) | ||
| Howard Lindsay | - | 51.18 | (i) | ||
| George Ridley | - | 51.30 | |||
| R. Swanepoel | SAF | 51.32 | |||
| Rawle Crichlow | - | 51.50 | |||
| Fred Lipscomb | - | 51.71 | |||
| Anthony Cole | - | 51.83 | |||
| P. Wachtersauser | GER | 51.91 | |||
| Antonio Sottile | ITA | 52.30 | |||
| 400m- | M40 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 48.10 | |
| Elvis Forde | - | 48.26 | |||
| Eric Roeske | NET | 48.98 | |||
| Kermitt Bentham | GBR | 49.88 | |||
| Ray Blackwell | - | 49.90 | (i) | ||
| Kees van Pelt | NET | 50.15 | (i) | ||
| Carlos Amado | SWE | 50.45 | (i) | ||
| Sal Allah | - | 50.60 | |||
| Tyrone Williams | - | 50.64 | |||
| Phillip Knowles | GBR | 50.68 | |||
| Stephan Zulauf | SWI | 50.78 | |||
| Alan Harrison | GBR | 50.85 | |||
| Manuel Blanco | SPN | 51.02 | |||
| Ernst-L. Haaks | GER | 51.40 | |||
| Tyrone Guiden | - | 51.4 | |||
| Francis Scott | GBR | 51.55 | |||
| Robert Hicks | - | 51.75 | |||
| P. Wachtershauser | GER | 51.81 | |||
| Patrick Ney | FRA | 51.88 | |||
| Anselm LeBourne | - | 51.9 | (i) | ||
| Dave DiMassa | - | 51.9 | |||
| David Elderfield | GBR | 51.90 | |||
| Dray Hargrove | - | 51.98 | |||
| Riccardo Longinari | ITA | 52.03 | |||
| Benito Rosales | - | 52.07 | |||
| Ludwig Ramsey | 52.09 | (i) | |||
| 400m- | M45 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 49.89 | |
| Stephen Peters | GBR | 51.16 | |||
| Viv Oliver | GBR | 51.24 | |||
| Stephan Zulauf | SWI | 51.26 | (i) | ||
| Milton Qualls | - | 51.9 | |||
| Joseph Caines | GBR | 52.32 | |||
| Walwyn Franklyn | GBR | 52.32 | |||
| Ed Gonera | - | 52.78 | |||
| Archie Glaspy | - | 52.81 | (i) | ||
| Steve Harison | - | 53.1 | |||
| Francis Schiro | - | 53.26 | |||
| Robert Stevenson | GBR | 53.46 | |||
| Glen Gentle | NET | 53.67 | |||
| Rick Easley | - | 53.78 | (i) | ||
| Douglas Lucas | GBR | 53.92 | (i) | ||
| Bob Prince | - | 53.95 | (i) | ||
| Alastair Dunlop | SCO | 54.00 | (i) | ||
| Bernhard Grissmer | GER | 54.07 | |||
| Wim Threels | NET | 54.10 | |||
| Herbert Felbek | GER | 54.15 | |||
| David Cooke | GBR | 54.20 | |||
| Peter Mogg | - | 54.2 | |||
| Gonzalo Mendz | SPN | 54.42 | |||
| Martin de Pater | NET | 54.63 | |||
| J-Paul Fournier | FRA | 54.64 | (i) | ||
| David Anderson | GBR | 54.76 | (i) | ||
| 400m- | M50 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 51.39 | |
| Steven Hardison | - | 53.20 | |||
| Robert Fraser | GBR | 53.32 | |||
| Vincenzo Felicetti | ITA | 53.35 | |||
| Alston Brown | - | 53.41 | |||
| Fred Sowerby | - | 53.65 | (i) | ||
| Charles Allie | - | 53.87 | (i) | ||
| Robert Minting | GBR | 54.09 | |||
| Martin Knoops | NET | 54.18 | |||
| V. Felicetti | ITA | 54.30 | |||
| Peter Browne | GBR | 54.50 | |||
| Rick Lapp | - | 54.78 | (i) | ||
| Fred van Gasteren | NET | 54.82 | |||
| M. Lyytikoinen | FIN | 54.98 | |||
| Wim Sholtes | NET | 55.01 | |||
| Bengt Jalmselius | SWE | 55.57 | (i) | ||
| Nolan Shaheed | - | 55.6 | |||
| Shawn Regan | - | 55.64 | |||
| T. Deleiros | GBR | 55.7 | |||
| Daniel Debonnaire | FRA | 55.96 | |||
| Laurie Malcomson | NZL | 56.09 | |||
| Averardo Dragoni | ITA | 56.11 | |||
| Carroll Blake | - | 56.31 | |||
| Eugene Driver | - | 56.38 | |||
| Burke Grandjean | - | 56.4 | |||
| Roland Wolf | GER | 56.60 | |||
| 400m- | M55 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 52.6 | |
| Dave Walter | - | 53.32 | |||
| Harold Morioka | CAN | 54.07 | |||
| Donald Neidig | - | 54.10 | |||
| John Henson | GBR | 55.24 | |||
| Roger Pierce | - | 55.40 | (i) | ||
| Matthew Pruitt | - | 55.59 | |||
| Winston Thomas | GBR | 55.64 | |||
| Del Meriwether | - | 55.74 | |||
| Peter Crombie | AUS | 56.40 | |||
| Richard Hamner | - | 56.57 | |||
| Peter Scholz | GER | 56.68 | |||
| Reg Phipps | GBR | 57.08 | |||
| Rich Tucker | - | 57.14 | |||
| Vic Blanchard | GBR | 57.15 | |||
| Dennis Duffy | - | 57.6 | |||
| Tom Fisher | - |
57.86 | |||
| Eugeniusz Nowak | POL | 58.01 | |||
| Larry Barnum | - | 58.23 | |||
| Klaus-Eggert Bahr | GER | 58.45 | |||
| Dale Gaide | - | 58.6 | |||
| Jim Gibbons | - | 58.6 | |||
| W. Beyer-Maidhof | GER | 58.68 | |||
| Trevor Alerdice | SCO | 59.00 | (i) | ||
| Simeon Baldwin | - | 59.01 | |||
| Derek Graves | GBR | 59.05 | |||
| 400m- | M60 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 53.88 | |
| Guido Muller | GER | 55.34 | |||
| Larry Colbert | - | 57.35 | |||
| Willi Klaus | GER | 58.69 | |||
| H-Jurgen Gasper | GER | 58.76 | |||
| Bob Lida | - | 58.83 | (i) | ||
| Thomas Ranuga | - | 58.9 | |||
| Willi Scheidt | GER | 58.90 | |||
| Alby Willliams | - | 58.93 | |||
| Richard Rizzo | - | 58.96 | (i) | ||
| Manfred David | GER | 59.01 | |||
| John Ross | GBR | 59.06 | |||
| Siegfried Ritter | GER | 59.37 | |||
| Bill McIlwaine | CAN | 59.60 | |||
| John Cooper | AUS | 60.20 | |||
| Mack Stewart | - | 60.85 | (i) | ||
| Karl Jakob | GER | 60.87 | |||
| Martin Adamson | - | 61.0 | |||
| Paavo Kinnunen | FIN | 61.36 | (i) | ||
| Adolf Nehren | GER | 61.37 | |||
| Dusty Miller | - | 61.4 | |||
| Osmo Ermio | FIN | 61.46 | (i) | ||
| Heinz Lichau | GER | 61.62 | |||
| Fred Kjer | - | 61.67 | |||
| Kyosti Marila | FIN | 61.8 | |||
| Hugh Coogan | AUS | 61.95 | |||
| 400m- | M65 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 57.52 | |
| Paul Johnson | - |
59.14 | |||
| Ralph Romain | TRI | 59.85 | |||
| Harry Geier | GER | 61.67 | |||
| Karl-H Neumann | GER | 61.83 | |||
| Fred Ingenrieth | GER | 62.97 | |||
| Louis Bayens | BEL | 63.05 | |||
| Heinz Schmid | GER | 63.30 | |||
| Horst Hufnagel | GER | 63.33 | |||
| Frank Haviland | - | 63.40 | (i) | ||
| Robert Conzemius | - | 63.44 | (i) | ||
| Francois Cornelis | BEL | 63.48 | |||
| Mike Fox | GBR | 64.40 | |||
| David Carr | AUS | 64.64 | |||
| Taneli Konttinen | FIN | 64.85 | |||
| Tor Trondset | SWE | 64.87 | (i) | ||
| Alan Mellett | GBR | 64.92 | |||
| James Mathis | - | 65.19 | |||
| Pauli Vehkijarvi | FIN | 65.66 | (i) | ||
| Esa Paldanius | FIN | 65.69 | |||
| Tauno Salonen | FIN | 66.12 | |||
| Frederick Daniels | AUS | 66.29 | |||
| Rudolf Hess | GER | 66.68 | |||
| Fred Schlereth | - | 66.9 | (i) | ||
| Alex Johnson | - | 67.2 | |||
| Max Wood | NZL | 67.20 | |||
| 400m- | M70 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 61.31 | |
| Wilhelm Selzer | GER | 63.08 | |||
| Harry Brown | - | 63.58 | |||
| Earl Fee | CAN | 63.71 | |||
| Wolfgang Reuter | GER | 65.12 | |||
| Don Cheek | - | 65.28 | |||
| Yoshiuki Shimizu | BRA | 65.43 | |||
| Berthold Neumann | GER | 66.70 | |||
| James Beall | - | 67.43 | (i) | ||
| Unto Mattsson | FIN | 67.67 | |||
| Artur Bund | GER | 68.40 | |||
| L. Bonevecchio | ITA | 69.38 | |||
| Louis Beadle | - | 69.64 | |||
| Rodney Brown | - | 70.23 | |||
| Jim Selby | - | 70.29 | |||
| Leif Vagsmyr | NOR | 70.55 | (i) | ||
| Boy v Heemstede | NET | 70.71 | |||
| Bob Alexander | - |
70.76 | |||
| Sten Medelius | SWE | 71.62 | (i) | ||
| Karl-H Teufert | GER | 71.63 | |||
| Tom Brinton | - | 71.81 | |||
| Al Escobosa | - | 72.05 | |||
| Heinz Drenzer | GER | 72.40 | |||
| Piet Baas | NET | 72.97 | |||
| Merv Dunn | NZL | 73.00 | |||
| Hans Nordqvist | SWE | 73.14 | |||
| 400m- | M75 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 66.88 | |
| Kurt Schumacher | GER | 71.00 | |||
| Sergio Palma | ITA | 71.81 | |||
| Mike Johnston | AUS | 71.92 | |||
| Gerhard Herbst | GER | 72.20 | |||
| Yrjo Torikka | FIN | 72.75 | |||
| Gote Lindbrad | SWE | 74.11 | (i) | ||
| Carl-Johan Lill | FIN | 74.76 | (i) | ||
| Toivo Vikman | FIN | 74.76 | (i) | ||
| Harry Palidwor | CAN | 75.91 | |||
| Massao Ishida | BRA | 77.38 | |||
| Lester Wright | - | 78.61 | |||
| Archie Messenger | - | 78.66 | (i) | ||
| Lester Wright Sr. | - | 79.69 | (i) | ||
| Sam Madia | - | 1:20.04 | |||
| Avery Bryant | - | 1:21.04 | |||
| George Riser | - | 1:21.23 | |||
| Francisco Gil | SPN | 1:21.30 | |||
| Jim Manno | - | 1:21.42 | |||
| Gusta Paulsson | SWE | 1:21.61 | |||
| John McManus | - | 1:21.78 | |||
| R. Rodrigues | - | 1:22.2 | |||
| Fred O’Connor | AUS | 1:22.55 | |||
| Roland Rosslip | - | 1:23.20 | |||
| Olavi Liukka | FIN | 1:23.69 | (i) | ||
| Felix Jumonville | - | 1:23.77 | |||
| 400m- | M80 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 75.4 | |
| Roderick Parker | - | 77.59 | |||
| John Means | - | 1:23.25 | |||
| Alpo Kautto | FIN | 1:23.34 | |||
| Viljo Tuovinen | FIN | 1:24.28 | (i) | ||
| John Anoka | - | 1:26.24 | |||
| Fred Tompkins | - | 1:26.29 | |||
| Herbert Liedtke | SWE | 1:28.15 | |||
| Richard Leach | - | 1:28.65 | |||
| Antonio Fonesca | BRA | 1:29.1 | |||
| Helmut Ermgassen | GER | 1:31.4 | |||
| Heinz Colsmann | GER | 1:34.7 | |||
| Bob Matteson | - | 1:34.91 | (i) | ||
| Eric Janicaud | GER | 1:40.02 | |||
| Aimo Virolainen | FIN | 1:40.14 | |||
| Bob Anthony | - | 1:42.1 | |||
| Eugen Elble | GER | 1:42.27 | |||
| John Alexander | - | 1:42.70 | |||
| Oscar Hartmann | - | 1:42.79 | |||
| George Blyn | - | 1:54.7 | (i) | ||
| Aato Talvi | FIN | 1:56.6 | (i) | ||
| William Stern | - | 1:58.94 | |||
| Joe Henderson | - | 2:01.95 | |||
| John Irwin | - | 2:02.00 | |||
| Cecil Hearhart | - | 2:03.26 | |||
| Jesse Cummings | - | 2:05.16 | |||
| 400m- | M85 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 1:31.54 | |
| Wolfgang Muller | GER | 1:33.86 | |||
| Friedrich Mahlo | GER | 1:35.96 | |||
| Maxwell Springer | - | 1:37.12 | |||
| Vittorio Colo | ITA | 1:41.72 | |||
| Murphy Domingues | - | 1:44.92 | |||
| Vincent Malizia | - | 1:47.86 | |||
| Gerhard Theune | GER | 1:55.78 | |||
| Leonard Foulser | AUS | 2:04.36 | |||
| Bob Boal | - | 2:10.26 | |||
| Frank Levine | - | 2:11.0 | |||
| Andy Smith | AUS | 2:17.13 | |||
| Tom Thorne | - | 2:22.84 | |||
| Woodie Davis | - | 2:30.5 | |||
| Tony Solorzano | - | 2:57.0 | |||
| 400m- | M90 | >WORLD RECORD | ----- | 1:57.46 | |
| E. Haapalainen | FIN | 2:42.33 | (i) | ||
| Takejiro Tanaka | BRA | 2:59.0 | |||
| Harold Hoffman | - | 3:22.38 | |||
| 400m- | M95 | Everett Hosack | - | 3:53.10 |
