Event> | |!align="center" bgcolor="gold" colspan="2"|Gold |!align="center" bgcolor="silver" colspan="2"|Silver |!align="center" bgcolor="#a67d3d" colspan="2"|Bronze | | 00 Yards | Women | Eileen Hiscock (ENG) | 11.3 | Hilda Strike (CAN) | 11.5 | Lillian Chalmers (ENG) | 11.6 |
| 20 Yards | Women | Eileen Hiscock (ENG) | 25 | Aileen Meagher (CAN) | 25.4 | Nellie Halstead (ENG) | 25.6 |
| 80 Yards | Women | Gladys Lunn (ENG) | 00:02:19 | Ida Jones (ENG) | 2:21.0 | Dorothy Butterfield (ENG) | 2:21.4 |
| 0 Metres Hurdles | Women | Marjorie Clark (SAF) | 11.8 | Betty Taylor (CAN) | 11.9 | Elsie Green (ENG) | 12.2 |
| igh Jump | Women | Marjorie Clark (SAF) | 1.6 | Eva Dawes (CAN) | 1.57 | Margaret Bell (CAN) | 1.52 |
| ong Jump | Women | Phyllis Bartholomew (ENG) | 5.47 | Evelyn Goshawk (CAN) | 5.41 | Violet Webb (ENG) | 5.23 |
| avelin | Women | Gladys Lunn (ENG) | 32.19 | Edith Halstead (ENG) | 30.94 | Margaret Cox (ENG) | 30.08 |
| 10 x 220 x 110 Yards Relay | Women | England (ENG) | 49.4 | Canada (CAN) | ||Southern Rhodesia (SRH)|| |
| 20 x 110 x 220 x 110 Yards Relay | Women | Canada (CAN) | 00:01:14 | England (ENG) | ||Scotland (SCO)|| |
| 00 Yards | Men | Arthur Sweeney (ENG) | 10 | Marthinus Theunissen (SAF) | 10.0e | Ian Young (SCO) | 10.1e |
| 20 Yards | Men | Arthur Sweeney (ENG) | 21.9 | Marthinus Theunissen (SAF) | 22.0e | Walter Rangeley (ENG) | 22.1e |
| 40 Yards | Men | Godfrey Rampling (ENG) | 48 | Bill Roberts (ENG) | 48.5e | Crew Stoneley (ENG) | 48.6e |
| 80 Yards | Men | Phil Edwards (BGU) | 00:01:54 | Willie Botha (SAF) | 1:55.5e | James "Hamish" Stothard (SCO) | 1:55.6e |
| Mile | Men | Jack Lovelock (NZL) | 00:04:13 | Sydney Wooderson (ENG) | 4:13.4e | Jerry Cornes (ENG) | 4:13.6e |
| Miles | Men | Wally Beavers (ENG) | 00:14:33 | Cyril Allen (ENG) | 00:14:38 | Alec Burns (ENG) | 00:14:45 |
| Miles | Men | Arthur Penny (ENG) | 00:31:01 | Bob Rankine (CAN) | 31:03e | Arthur Furze (ENG) | 31:04e |
| arathon | Men | Harold Webster (CAN) | 02:40:36 | Donald Robertson (CAN) | 02:45:08 | Dunky Wright (SCO) | 02:56:20 |
| 000 Metres Steeplechase | Men | Stanley Scarsbrook (ENG) | 00:10:23 | Tom Evenson (ENG) | 10:25.8e | George Bailey (ENG) | |
| 20 Yards Hurdles | Men | Don Finlay (ENG) | 15.2 | Jim Worrall (CAN) | 15.5e | Ashleigh Pilbrow (ENG) | 15.7e |
| 40 Yards Hurdles | Men | Alan Hunter (SCO) | 55.2 | Charles Reilly (AUS) | 55.8e | Ralph Brown (ENG) | 56.0e |
| igh Jump | Men | Edwin Thacker (SAF) | 1.9 | Joe Haley (CAN) | 1.9 | John Michie (SCO) | 1.9 |
| ole Vault | Men | Syl Apps (CAN) | 3.88 | Alf Gilbert (CAN) | 3.81 | Fred Woodhouse (AUS) | 3.66 |
| ong Jump | Men | Sam Richardson (CAN) | 7.17 | Johann Luckhoff (SAF) | 7.1 | Jack Metcalfe (AUS) | 6.93 |
| riple Jump | Men | Jack Metcalfe (AUS) | 15.63 | Sam Richardson (CAN) | 14.65 | Harold Brainsby (NZL) | 14.62 |
| hot | Men | Harry Hart (SAF) | 14.67 | Robert "Bonzo" Howland (ENG) | 13.53 | Kenneth Pridie (ENG) | 13.43 |
| iscus | Men | Harry Hart (SAF) | 41.53 | Douglas Bell (ENG) | 40.44 | Bernard Prendergast (JAM) | 40.23 |
| ammer | Men | Malcolm Nokes (ENG) | 48.25 | George Sutherland (CAN) | 46.24 | William Mackenzie (SCO) | 42.49 |
| avelin | Men | Bob Dixon (CAN) | 60.02 | Harry Hart (SAF) | 58.27 | Johann Luckhoff (SAF) | 56.49 |
| x 110 Yards Relay | Men | England (ENG) | 42.2 | Canada (CAN) | 42.5e | Scotland (SCO) | 43.0e |
| x 440 Yards Relay | Men | England (ENG) | 00:03:17 | Canada (CAN) | 3:17.4e | Scotland (SCO) |