by T&FN World Rankings panelist Richard Hymans (switch to women’s picks)
(as of March 15, 2016)
| GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | |
| 60 | Trayvon Bromell (USA) | Asafa Powell (JAM) | Marvin Bracy (USA) |
| 400 | Bralon Taplin (GRN) | Lalonde Gordon (TTO) | Deon Lendore (TTO) |
| 800 | Boris Berian (USA) | Adulrahman Baala (QAT) | Mohammed Aman (ETH) |
| 1500 | Matt Centrowitz (USA) | Abdelaati Iguider (MAR) | Ayanleh Souleiman (DJI) |
| 3000 | Dejen Gebremeskel (ETH) | Ryan Hill (USA) | Yomif Kejelcha (ETH) |
| 60H | Dimitri Bascou (FRA) | Pascal Martinot Lagarde (FRA) | Omar McLeod (JAM) |
| 4 x 400 | USA | Bahamas | Belgium |
| HJ | Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) | Gianmarco Tamberi (ITA) | Andriy Protsenko (UKR) |
| PV | Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) | Shawn Barber (CAN) | Sam Kendricks (USA) |
| LJ | Marquis Dendy (USA) | Changzhou Huang (CHN) | Rushwal Samaai (RSA) |
| TJ | Bin Dong (CHN) | Omar Craddock (USA) | Chris Benard (USA) |
| SP | Michal Haratyk (POL) | Kurt Roberts (USA) | Tomás Stanek (CZE) |
| Hept | Ashton Eaton (USA) | Oleksiy Kasyanov (UKR) | Curtis Beach (USA) |