| Alpine skiing | Men's downhill | Bill Johnson United States | Peter Müller Switzerland | Anton Steiner Austria |
| Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom | Max Julen Switzerland | Jure Franko Yugoslavia | Andreas Wenzel Liechtenstein |
| Alpine skiing | Men's slalom | Phil Mahre United States | Steve Mahre United States | Didier Bouvet France |
| Alpine skiing | Women's downhill | Michela Figini Switzerland | Maria Walliser Switzerland | Olga Charvátová Czechoslovakia |
| Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom | Debbie Armstrong United States | Christin Cooper United States | Perrine Pelen France |
| Alpine skiing | Women's slalom | Paoletta Magoni Italy | Perrine Pelen France | Ursula Konzett Liechtenstein |
| Biathlon | Men's 10 km | Eirik Kvalfoss Norway | Peter Angerer West Germany | Matthias Jacob East Germany |
| Biathlon | Men's 20 km | Peter Angerer West Germany | Frank-Peter Roetsch East Germany | Eirik Kvalfoss Norway |
| Biathlon | Men's 4 × 7.5 km | Dmitry Vasilyev, Juri Kashkarov, Algimantas Šalna, Sergei Bulygin Soviet Union | Odd Lirhus, Eirik Kvalfoss, Rolf Storsveen, Kjell Søbak Norway | Ernst Reiter, Walter Pichler, Peter Angerer, Fritz Fischer West Germany |
| Bobsleigh | Men’s Four-man | Wolfgang Hoppe, Roland Wetzig, Dietmar Schauerhammer, Andreas Kirchner East Germany | Bernhard Lehmann, Bogdan Musioł, Ingo Voge, Eberhard Weise East Germany | Silvio Giobellina, Heinz Stettler, Urs Salzmann, Rico Freiermuth Switzerland |
| Bobsleigh | Men’s Two-man | Wolfgang Hoppe, Dietmar Schauerhammer East Germany | Bernhard Lehmann, Bogdan Musioł East Germany | Zintis Ekmanis, Vladimir Aleksandrov Soviet Union |
| Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 km | Gunde Svan Sweden | Aki Karvonen Finland | Harri Kirvesniemi Finland |
| Cross-country skiing | Men's 30 km | Nikolay Zimyatov Soviet Union | Alexander Zavyalov Soviet Union | Gunde Svan Sweden |
| Cross-country skiing | Men's 4 × 10 km | Thomas Wassberg, Benny Kohlberg, Jan Ottosson, Gunde Svan Sweden | Alexander Batyuk, Alexander Zavyalov, Vladimir Nikitin, Nikolay Zimyatov Soviet Union | Kari Ristanen, Juha Mieto, Harri Kirvesniemi, Aki Karvonen Finland |
| Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km | Thomas Wassberg Sweden | Gunde Svan Sweden | Aki Karvonen Finland |
| Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km | Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen Finland | Raisa Smetanina Soviet Union | Britt Pettersen Norway |
| Cross-country skiing | Women's 20 km | Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen Finland | Raisa Smetanina Soviet Union | Anne Jahren Norway |
| Cross-country skiing | Women's 4 × 5 km | Inger Helene Nybråten, Anne Jahren, Britt Pettersen, Berit Aunli Norway | Dagmar Švubová, Blanka Paulů, Gabriela Svobodová, Květa Jeriová Czechoslovakia | Pirkko Määttä, Eija Hyytiäinen, Marjo Matikainen, Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen Finland |
| Cross-country skiing | Women's 5 km | Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen Finland | Berit Aunli Norway | Květa Jeriová Czechoslovakia |
| Figure skating | Men’s Ice dancing | Jayne Torvill, Christopher Dean Great Britain | Natalia Bestemianova, Andrei Bukin Soviet Union | Marina Klimova, Sergei Ponomarenko Soviet Union |
| Figure skating | Men | Scott Hamilton United States | Brian Orser Canada | Jozef Sabovčík Czechoslovakia |
| Figure skating | Mixed Pairs | Elena Valova, Oleg Vasiliev Soviet Union | Kitty Carruthers, Peter Carruthers United States | Larisa Selezneva, Oleg Vitalyevich Makarov Soviet Union |
| Figure skating | Women’s Ladies | Katarina Witt East Germany | Rosalynn Sumners United States | Kira Ivanova Soviet Union |
| Ice hockey | Men's tournament | Vladislav Tretiak, Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, Sergei Shepelev, Nikolai Drozdetsky, Viacheslav Fetisov, Aleksandr Geramisov, Alexei Kasatonov, Andrei Khomutov, Vladimir Kovin, Aleksandr Kozhevnikov, Vladimir Krutov, Igor Larionov, Sergei Makarov, Vladimir Myshkin, Vasili Pervukhin, Aleksandr Skvortsov, Sergei Starikov, Igor Stelnov, Viktor Tyumenev, Mikhail Vasiliev Soviet Union | Milan Chalupa, Jaroslav Benák, Vladimír Caldr, František Černík, Miloslav Hořava, Jiří Hrdina, Arnold Kadlec, Jaroslav Korbela, Jiří Králík, Vladimír Kýhos, Jiří Lála, Igor Liba, Vincent Lukáč, Dušan Pašek, Pavel Richter, Dárius Rusnák, Vladimír Růžička, Jaromír Šindel, Radoslav Svoboda, Eduard Uvíra Czechoslovakia | Thomas Åhlén, Per-Eric Eklund, Thom Eklund, Bo Ericsson, Håkan Eriksson, Peter Gradin, Mats Hessel, Michael Hjälm, Göran Lindblom, Tommy Mörth, Håkan Nordin, Rolf Ridderwall, Jens Öhling, Thomas Rundqvist, Tomas Sandström, Håkan Södergren, Mats Thelin, Michael Thelvén, Mats Waltin, Göte Wälitalo Sweden |
| Luge | Men's singles | Paul Hildgartner Italy | Sergey Danilin Soviet Union | Valery Dudin Soviet Union |
| Luge | Open Doubles | Hans Stangassinger, Franz Wembacher West Germany | Yevgeny Belousov, Aleksandr Belyakov Soviet Union | Jörg Hoffmann, Jochen Pietzsch East Germany |
| Luge | Women's singles | Steffi Martin East Germany | Bettina Schmidt East Germany | Ute Weiss East Germany |
| Nordic combined | Men's individual | Tom Sandberg Norway | Jouko Karjalainen Finland | Jukka Ylipulli Finland |
| Ski jumping | Men's large hill | Matti Nykänen Finland | Jens Weißflog East Germany | Pavel Ploc Czechoslovakia |
| Ski jumping | Men's normal hill | Jens Weißflog East Germany | Matti Nykänen Finland | Jari Puikkonen Finland |
| Speed skating | Men's 1,000 metres | Gaétan Boucher Canada | Sergey Khlebnikov Soviet Union | Kai Arne Engelstad Norway |
| Speed skating | Men's 1,500 metres | Gaétan Boucher Canada | Sergey Khlebnikov Soviet Union | Oleg Bozhev Soviet Union |
| Speed skating | Men's 10,000 metres | Igor Malkov Soviet Union | Tomas Gustafson Sweden | René Schöfisch East Germany |
| Speed skating | Men's 5,000 metres | Tomas Gustafson Sweden | Igor Malkov Soviet Union | René Schöfisch East Germany |
| Speed skating | Men's 500 metres | Sergey Fokichev Soviet Union | Yoshihiro Kitazawa Japan | Gaétan Boucher Canada |
| Speed skating | Women's 1,000 metres | Karin Kania East Germany | Andrea Ehrig East Germany | Natalya Petrusyova Soviet Union |
| Speed skating | Women's 1,500 metres | Karin Kania East Germany | Andrea Ehrig East Germany | Natalya Petrusyova Soviet Union |
| Speed skating | Women's 3,000 metres | Andrea Ehrig East Germany | Karin Kania East Germany | Gabi Zange East Germany |
| Speed skating | Women's 500 metres | Christa Luding-Rothenburger East Germany | Karin Kania East Germany | Natalya Glebova Soviet Union |