100 m freestyle | Peter Nocke|FRG}} | 52.18 | Vladimir Bure|URS}} | 52.19 | Klaus Steinbach|FRG}} | 52.31 |
200 m freestyle | Peter Nocke|FRG}} | 1:53.10 | Klaus Steinbach|FRG}} | 1:53.72 | Aleksandr Samsonov|URS}} | 1:53.74 |
400 m freestyle | Aleksandr Samsonov|URS}} | 4:02.11 | Bengt Gingsjö|SWE}} | 4:03.79 | Andrey Krylov|URS}} | 4:04.32 |
1500 m freestyle | Frank Pfütze|GDR}} | 15:54.57 | James Carter|GBR}} | 15:54.78 | Igor Yevgrafov|URS}} | 16:04.42 |
100 m backstroke | Roland Matthes|GDR}} | 58.21 | Lutz Wanja|GDR}} | 58.66 | Zoltán Verrasztó|HUN|1957}} | 58.78 |
200 m backstroke | Roland Matthes|GDR}} | 2:04.64 | Zoltán Verrasztó|HUN|1957}} | 2:04.96 | Robert Rudolf|HUN|1957}} | 2:07.52 |
100 m breaststroke | Nikolay Pankin|URS}} | 1:05.63 | Walter Kusch|FRG}} | 1:06.04 | David Leigh|GBR}} | 1:06.17 |
200 m breaststroke | David Wilkie|GBR}} | 2:20.42 | Nikolay Pankin|URS}} | 2:22.84 | David Leigh|GBR}} | 2:23.79 |
100 m butterfly | Roger Pyttel|GDR}} | 55.90 | Roland Matthes|GDR}} | 56.68 | Folkert Meeuw|FRG}} | 57.60 |
200 m butterfly | András Hargitay|HUN|1957}} | 2:03.80 | Brian Brinkley|GBR}} | 2:04.13 | Hartmut Flöckner|GDR}} | 2:04.55 |
200 m individual medley | David Wilkie|GBR}} | 2:06.32 WR | Christian Lietzmann|GDR}} | 2:07.61 | András Hargitay|HUN|1957}} | 2:09.08 |
400 m individual medley | András Hargitay|HUN|1957}} | 4:28.89 WR | Christian Lietzmann|GDR}} | 4:30.32 | Andrey Smirnov|URS}} | 4:32.48 |
4×100 m freestyle relay | {{FRG}} Klaus Steinbach Gerhard Schiller Kersten Meier Peter Nocke | 3:30.61 | {{URS}} Vladimir Bure Aleksandr Samsonov Anatoliy Rybakov Georgiy Kulikov | 3:32.01 | {{GDR}} Roger Pyttel Roland Matthes Wilfried Hartung Lutz Wanja | 3:32.54 |
4×200 m freestyle relay | {{FRG}} Klaus Steinbach Werner Lampe Folkert Meeuw Peter Nocke | 7:39.70 | {{URS}} Aleksandr Samsonov Andrey Krylov Viktor Aboymov Georgiy Kulikov | 7:42.06 | {{SWE}} Bernt Zarnowiecki Anders Bellbring Peter Pettersson Bengt Gingsjö | 7:43.10 |
4×100 m medley relay | {{FRG}} Klaus Steinbach Walter Kusch Folkert Meeuw Peter Nocke | 3:51.57 | {{GBR2}} Colin Cunningham David Wilkie Stephen Nash Brian Brinkley | 3:54.13 | {{URS}} Igor Potyakin Nikolay Pankin Viktor Sharygin Vladimir Bure | 3:54.37 |
100 m freestyle | Kornelia Ender|GDR}} | 56.96 WR | Angela Franke|GDR}} | 57.82 | Enith Brigitha|NED}} | 58.10 |
200 m freestyle | Kornelia Ender|GDR}} | 2:03.22 WR | Enith Brigitha|NED}} | 2:03.73 | Andrea Eife|GDR}} | 2:05.04 |
400 m freestyle | Angela Franke|GDR}} | 4:17.83 | Cornelia Dörr|GDR}} | 4:19.72 | Novella Calligaris|ITA}} | 4:22.92 |
800 m freestyle | Cornelia Dörr|GDR}} | 8:52.45 | Novella Calligaris|ITA}} | 8:57.93 | Gudrun Wegner|GDR}} | 8:59.79 |
100 m backstroke | Ulrike Richter|GDR}} | 1:03.30 WR | Ulrike Tauber|GDR}} | 1:05.07 | Enith Brigitha|NED}} | 1:05.94 |
200 m backstroke | Ulrike Richter|GDR}} | 2:17.35 WR | Ulrike Tauber|GDR}} | 2:18.72 | Enith Brigitha|NED}} | 2:21.33 |
100 m breaststroke | Christel Justen|FRG}} | 1:12.55 WR | Renate Vogel|GDR}} | 1:13.69 | Ágnes Kaczander|HUN|1957}} | 1:14.95 |
200 m breaststroke | Karla Linke|GDR}} | 2:34.99 WR | Anne-Katrin Schott|GDR}} | 2:38.88 | Marina Yurchenya|URS}} | 2:42.04 |
100 m butterfly | Rosemarie Kother|GDR}} | 1:01.99 WR | Anne-Katrin Leucht|GDR}} | 1:03.63 | Gunilla Andersson|SWE}} | 1:04.67 |
200 m butterfly | Rosemarie Kother|GDR}} | 2:14.45 | Anne-Katrin Leucht|GDR}} | 2:18.45 | Barbara Schwarzfeldt|FRG}} | 2:19.71 |
200 m individual medley | Ulrike Tauber|GDR}} | 2:18.97 WR | Andrea Hübner|GDR}} | 2:23.97 | Irina Fetisova|URS}} | 2:25.40 |
400 m individual medley | Ulrike Tauber|GDR}} | 4:52.42 WR | Gudrun Wegner|GDR}} | 4:58.78 | Susan Richardson|GBR}} | 5:06.71 |
4×100 m freestyle relay | {{GDR}} Kornelia Ender Angela Franke Andrea Eife Andrea Hübner | 3:52.48 | {{NED}} Anke Rijnders Ada Pors Veronica Stel Enith Brigitha | 3:57.08 | {{FRA}} Claude Mandonnaud Sylvie Le Noach Chantal Schertz Guylaine Berger | 3:57.61 |
4×100 m medley relay | {{GDR}} Ulrike Richter Renate Vogel Rosemarie Kother Kornelia Ender | 4:13.78 WR | {{FRG}} Angelika Griesser Christel Justen Beate Jasch Jutta Weber | 4:23.50 | {{SWE}} Gunilla Lundberg Jeanette Pettersson Gunilla Andersson Diana Olsson | 4:23.90 |