| Event: | Athletics |
| Games: | 1920 Summer |
| Dates: | 15-23 August |
| Num Events: | 29 |
| Nations: | 25 |
| Competitors: | 509 |
| Prev: | 1912 |
| Next: | 1924 |
At the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, 29 athletics events were contested, all for men only. The competitions were held from August 15, 1920, to August 23, 1920.
| 100 metres | 10.8 | 10.9 | 10.9 | ||||
| 200 metres | 22.0 | 22.0 | 22.2 | ||||
| 400 metres | 49.6 | 50.1 | 50.2 | ||||
| 800 metres | 1:53.4 | 1:53.6 | 1:53.6 | ||||
| 1500 metres | 4:01.8 | 4:02.4 | 4:04.3 | ||||
| 5000 metres | 14:55.6 | 15:00.0 | 15:13.0 | ||||
| 10,000 metres | 31:45.8 | 31:47.2 | 31:50.8 | ||||
| 110 metres hurdles | 14.8 | 15.1 | 15.1 | ||||
| 400 metres hurdles | 54.0 | 54.6 | 54.7 | ||||
| 3,000 metres steeplechase | 10:00.4 | 10:21.1 | 10:32.0 | ||||
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Charles Paddock Jackson Scholz Loren Murchison Morris Kirksey | 42.2 | René Lorain René Tirard René Mourlon Émile Ali-Khan | 42.5 | Agne Holmström William Petersson Sven Malm Nils Sandström | 42.8 | |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Cecil Griffiths Robert Lindsay John Ainsworth-Davis Guy Butler | 3:22.2 | Henry Dafel Clarence Oldfield Jack Oosterlaak Bevil Rudd | 3:23.0 | Géo André Gaston Féry Maurice Delvart André Devaux | 3:23.5 | |
| 3000 metres team race | Horace Brown Arlie Schardt Ivan Dresser | 10 pts | Joe Blewitt Albert Hill William Seagrove | 20 pts | Eric Backman Sven Lundgren Edvin Wide | 24 pts | |
| Marathon | 2:32:35.8 | 2:32:48.6 | 2:36:32.8 | ||||
| 3 kilometres walk | 13:14.2 | (13:19.6) | (13:22.2) | ||||
| 10 kilometres walk | 48:06.2 | (49:40.2) | (49:43.9) | ||||
| High jump | 1.936 m | 1.90 m | 1.90 m | ||||
| Pole vault | 4.09 m | 3.70 m | 3.60 m | ||||
| Long jump | 7.15 m | 7.095 m | 7.08 m | ||||
| Triple jump | 14.505 m | 14.48 m | 14.27 m | ||||
| Shot put | 14.81 m | 14.155 m | 14.15 m | ||||
| Discus throw | 44.685 m | 44.19 m | 42.13 m | ||||
| Hammer throw | 52.875 m | 48.43 m | 48.25 m | ||||
| Javelin throw | 65.78 m | 63.605 m | 63.095 m | ||||
| 56lb weight throw | 11.265 m | 10.965 m | 10.255 m | ||||
| Pentathlon | 14 pts | 24 pts | 26 pts | ||||
| Decathlon | 6803.355 pts | 6771.085 pts | 6580.030 pts | ||||
| Individual cross country | 27:15.0 | 27:17.6 | 27:37.0 | ||||
| Team cross country | Paavo Nurmi Heikki Liimatainen Teodor Koskenniemi | 10 pts | James Wilson Anton Hegarty Alfred Nichols | 21 pts | Eric Backman Gustaf Mattsson Hilding Ekman | 23 pts |
509 athletes from 25 nations competed. Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Estonia, Monaco, New Zealand, and Spain competed for the first time.
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