Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
100 m freestyle | Andy Coan
United States | 51.25 CR | Vladimir Bure
Soviet Union | 51.32 | Jim Montgomery
United States | 51.44 |
200 m freestyle | Tim Shaw
United States | 1:51.04 CR | Bruce Furniss
United States | 1:51.72 | Brian Brinkley
Great Britain | 1:53.56 |
400 m freestyle | Tim Shaw
United States | 3:54.88 CR | Bruce Furniss
United States | 3:57.71 | Frank Pfütze
East Germany | 4:01.10 |
1500 m freestyle | Tim Shaw
United States | 15:28.92 CR | Brian Goodell
United States | 15:39.00 | David Parker
Great Britain | 15:58.21 |
100 m backstroke | Roland Matthes
East Germany | 58.15 | John Murphy
United States | 58.34 | Mel Nash
United States | 58.38 |
200 m backstroke | Zoltán Verrasztó
Hungary | 2:05.05 | Mark Tonelli
Australia | 2:05.78 | Paul Hove
United States | 2:06.49 |
100 m breaststroke | David Wilkie
Great Britain | 1:04.26 | Nobutaka Taguchi
Japan | 1:05.04 | David Leigh
Great Britain | 1:05.32 |
200 m breaststroke | David Wilkie
Great Britain | 2:18.23 CR | Rick Colella
United States | 2:21.60 | Nikolay Pankin
Soviet Union | 2:21.75 |
100 m butterfly | Gregory Jagenburg
United States | 55.63 CR | Roger Pyttel
East Germany | 56.04 | Bill Forrester
United States | 56.07 |
200 m butterfly | Bill Forrester
United States | 2:01.95 CR | Roger Pyttel
East Germany | 2:02.22 | Brian Brinkley
Great Britain | 2:02.47 |
200 m individual medley | András Hargitay
Hungary | 2:07.72 CR | Steve Furniss
United States | 2:07.75 | Andrey Smirnov
Soviet Union | 2:08.52 |
400 m individual medley | András Hargitay
Hungary | 4:32.57 | Andrey Smirnov
Soviet Union | 4:35.64 | Hans-Joachim Geisler
West Germany | 4:36.40 |
4 × 100 m freestyle relay | United States Bruce Furniss James Montgomery Andy Coan John Murphy | 3:24.85 WR | West Germany Klaus Steinbach Dirk Braunleder Kersten Meier Peter Nocke | 3:29.55 | Italy Roberto Pangaro Paolo Barelli Claudio Zei Marcello Guarducci | 3:31.85 |
4 × 200 m freestyle relay | West Germany Klaus Steinbach Werner Lampe Hans Joachim Geissler Peter Nocke | 7:39.44 | Great Britain Alan McClatchey Gary Jameson Gordon Downie Brian Brinkley | 7:42.55 | Soviet Union Alexandre Samsonov Anatoly Rybakov Viktor Aboimov Andrei Krilov | 7:43.58 |
4 × 100 m medley relay | United States John Murphy Rick Colella Gregory Jagenburg Andy Coan | 3:49.00 CR | West Germany Klaus Steinbach Walter Kusch Michael Kraus Peter Nocke | 3:51.85 | Great Britain James Carter David Wilkie Brian Brinkley Gordon Downie | 3:52.80 |