100 m haies=
OR: Anjanette Kirkland, USA
ARGENT: Gail Devers, USA
BRONZE: Olga Shishigina, Kazakstan

4x100 m relais=
OR: USA (Kelli White; Chryste Gaines; Inger Miller; Marion Jones; Angela Williams, Torri Edwards)
ARGENT: Allemagne (Melanie Paschke; Gaby Rockmeier; Birgit Rockmeier; Marion Wagner)
BRONZE: France (Nonka Matova; Frederique Bangui; Muriel Hurtis; Odiah Sidibi; Felix Sylviane)

200 m=
OR: Marion Jones, USA
ARGENT: Debbie Ferguson, Bahamas
BRONZE: Kelli White, USA

400 m =
OR: Amy Mbacke Thiam, Sénégal
ARGENT: Lorraine Fenton, Jamaïque
BRONZE: Ana Guevara, Mexique

400 m haies=
OR: Nezha Bidouane, Maroc
ARGENT: Yuliya Nosova, Russie
BRONZE: Daimi Pernia, Cuba

4x400 relais=
OR: Jamaïque (Sandie Richards; Catherine Scott; Debbie-Ann Parris; Lorraine Fenton: Michelle Burgher; Deon Hemmings).
ARGENT: Allemagne (Florence Ekpo-Umoh; Shanta Ghosh; Claudia Marx; Grit Breuer).
BRONZE: Russie (Irina Rosikhina; Yuliya Nosova; Anastasiya Kapachinskaya; Olesya Zykina; Natalya Shevtsova).

800 m=
OR: Maria de Lourdes Mutola, Mozambique
ARGENT: Stephanie Graf, Autriche
BRONZE: Letitia Vriesde, Surinam

1.500 m=
OR: Gabriela Szabo, Roumanie
ARGENT: Violeta Szekely, Roumanie
BRONZE: Natalya Gorelova, Russie

5.000 m=
OR: Olga Yegorova, Russie
ARGENT: Marta Dominguez, Espagne
BRONZE: Ayelech Worku, Ethiopie

10.000 m=
OR: Derartu Tulu, Ethiopie
ARGENT: Berhane Adere, Ethiopie
BRONZE: Gete Wami, Ethiopie

20 km marche=
OR: Olimpiada Ivanova, Russie
ARGENT: Valentina Tsybulskaya, Belarus
BRONZE: Elisabetta Perrone, Italie

marathon=
OR: Lidia Simon, Roumanie
ARGENT: Reiko Tosa, Japon
BRONZE: Svetlana Zakharova, Russie

saut en hauteur=
OR: Hestrie Cloete, AfSud
ARGENT: Inha Babakova, Ukraine
BRONZE: Kajsa Bergqvist, Suède

saut en longueur=
OR: Fiona May, Italie
ARGENT: Tatyana Kotova, Russie
BRONZE: Niurka Montalvo, Espagne

saut à la perche=
OR: Stacy Dragila, USA
ARGENT: Svetlana Feofanova, Russie
BRONZE: Monika Pyrek, Pologne

triple saut=
OR: Tatyana Lebedeva, Russie
ARGENT: Francoise Mbango Etone, Cameroun
BRONZE: Tereza Marinova, Bulgarie

disque=
OR: Natalya Sadova, Russie
ARGENT: Ellina Zvereva, Belarus
BRONZE: Nicoleta Grasu, Roumanie

lancer du marteau=
OR: Yipsi Moreno, Cuba
ARGENT: Olga Kuzenkova, Russie
BRONZE: Bronwyn Eagles, Australie

javelot=
OR: Osleidys Menendez, Cuba
ARGENT: Mirila Manjani-Tzelmli, Grèce
BRONZE: Sonia Bisset, Cuba

lancer du poids=
OR: Yanina Korolchik, Belarus
ARGENT: Nadine Kleinert-Schmitt, Allemagne
BRONZE: Vita Pavlysh, Ukraine

heptathlon=
OR: Yelena Prokhorova, Russie
ARGENT: Natalya Sazanovich, Belarus
BRONZE: Shelia Burrell, USA

110 m haies=
OR: Allen Johnson, USA
ARGENT: Anier Garcia, Cuba
BRONZE: Dudley Dorival, Haïti

4x100 m=
OR: USA (Mickey Grimes; Bernard Williams; Dennis Mitchell; Tim Montgomery; Jon Drummond; Josua J. Johnson).
ARGENT: AfSud (Morne Nagel; Corne Du Plessis; Lee-Roy Newton; Mathew Quinn).
BRONZE: Trinité-et-Tobago (Marc Burns; Ato Boldon; Jaycey Harper; Darrel Brown).

200m=
OR: Konstadinos Kederis, Grèce
ARGENT: Christopher Williams, Jamaïque
BRONZE: (Ex-aequo) Shawn Crawford, USA, et Kim Collins, St. Kitts et Nevis

400 m=
OR: Avard Moncur, Bahamas
ARGENT: Ingo Schultz, Allemagne
BRONZE: Gregory Haughton, Jamaïque

400 m haies=
OR: Felix Sanchez, République Dominicaine
ARGENT: Fabrizio Mori, Italie
BRONZE: Dai Tamesue, Japon

4x400 m relais=
OR: USA (Leonard Byrd; Antonio Pettigrew; Derrick Brew; Angelo Taylor; Jerome Young; Andrew Pierce).
ARGENT: Bahamas (Avard Moncur; Christopher Brown; Troy McIntosh; Timothy Munnings, Carl Oliver).
BRONZE: Jamaïque (Brandon Simpson; Christopher Williams; Gregory Haughton; Danny McFarlane, Michael Blackwood, Mario Watts).

800 m=
OR: Andri Bucher, Suisse
ARGENT: Wilfred Bungei, Kenya
BRONZE: Pawel Czapiewski, Pologne

1.500 m=
OR: Hicham El Guerrouj, Maroc
ARGENT: Bernard Lagat, Kenya
BRONZE: Driss Maazouzi, France

3.000 m steeple=
OR: Reuben Kosgei, Kenya
ARGENT: Ali Ezzine, Maroc
BRONZE: Bernard Barmasai, Kenya

5.000 m
OR: Richard Limo, Kenya
ARGENT: Ali Saidi-Sief, Algérie
BRONZE: Million Wolde, Ethiopie

10.000 m=
OR: Charles Kamathi, Kenya
ARGENT: Assefa Mezgebu, Ethiopie
BRONZE: Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopie

20 km marche=
OR: Roman Rasskazov, Russie
ARGENT: Ilya Markov, Russie
BRONZE: Viktor Burayev, Russie

50 km marche=
OR: Robert Korzeniowski, Pologne
ARGENT: Jesus Angel Garcia, Espagne
BRONZE: Edgar Hernandez, Mexique

marathon=
OR: Gezahegne Abera, Ethiopie
ARGENT: Simon Biwott, Kenya
BRONZE: Stefano Baldini, Italie

saut en hauteur=
OR: Martin Buss, Allemagne
ARGENT: (Ex-aequo) Yaroslav Rybakov, Russie, et Vyacheslav Voronin, Russie

saut en longueur=
OR: Ivan Pedroso, Cuba
ARGENT: Savante Stringfellow, USA
BRONZE: Carlos Calado, Portugal

saut à la perche=
OR: Dmitriy Markov, Australie
ARGENT: Aleksandr Averbukh, Israël
BRONZE: Nick Hysong, USA

triple saut=
OR: Jonathan Edwards, GB
ARGENT: Christian Olsson, Suède
BRONZE: Igor Spasovkhodskiy, Russie

disque
OR: Lars Riedel, Allemagne
ARGENT: Virgilijus Alekna, Lituanie
BRONZE: Michael Mollenbeck, Allemagne

lancer du marteau=
OR: Szymon Ziolkowski, Pologne
ARGENT: Koji Murofushi, Japon
BRONZE: Ilya Konovalov, Russie

javelot=
OR: Jan Zelezny, Rép. tchèque
ARGENT: Aki Parviainen, Finlande
BRONZE: Konstadinos Gatsioudis, Grèce

lancer du poids=
OR: John Godina, USA
ARGENT: Adam Nelson, USA
BRONZE: Arsi Harju, Finlande

décathlon=
OR: Tomas Dvorak, Rép. tchèque
ARGENT: Erki Nool, Estonie
BRONZE: Dean Macey, GB