Russia at the World Championships in Athletics

Russia at the World Championships in Athletics
IAAF code	RUS
National federation	All-Russia Athletic Federation
Website	eng.rusathletics.com
Medals Ranked 3rd	Gold Silver Bronze Total 47 54 52 153
World Championships in Athletics appearances (overview)
1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017

Russia has competed at every edition of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics since 1993, bar the 2017 World Championships, from which its athletes were banned. Prior to 1993, Russian athletes competed for the Soviet Union. Russia has the second highest medal total among nations at the competition (153), after the United States. At 47 gold medals, it holds the third highest total after the United States and Kenya. It has had most success in women's events and in field events. As a major nation in the sport of athletics, it typically sends large delegation, sometimes numbering over 100 athletes.

It topped the medal table at the 2001 tournament, following disqualifications of American medalists for doping. Russia also finished top of the medal table at the 2013 Moscow Championships, but lost this position due to doping disqualifications of its own athletes. Russia's performance at the competition has been strongly affected by doping. The country was banned from competing in 2017 due to systemic doping issues and Russians had to gain special dispensation to compete as Authorised Neutral Athletes. Various members of the Russian delegation have been banned for doping at every edition of the competition it has competed at, with the exceptions of 2003 and 2015 (though Russian medalists in both those years were subsequently banned).

Russia's most successful athlete at the competition is horizontal jumps specialist Tatyana Lebedeva, who between 2001 and 2009 won two triple jump gold medals, a long jump title, and two further silver medals. Women's pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva has also won three gold medals, in addition to a bronze. Yuliya Pechonkina, a 400 metres hurdles and relay athlete, has won the most medals for Russia, with her total of seven. The most successful Russian man at the World Championships is high jumper Yaroslav Rybakov, who won three high jump silvers before becoming champion in 2009.

Medal table

Championships	Men			Women			Total
	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank	Athletes
1993 Stuttgart	0	3	3	3	5	2	3	8	5	16	3
1995 Göteborg	0	1	0	1	3	7	1	4	7	12	11
1997 Athens	0	2	2	1	2	1	1	4	3	8	9
1999 Seville	3	1	0	2	3	3	5	4	3	12	2
2001 Edmonton	1	3	3	4	4	3	5	7	6	18	1
2003 Paris	1	2	1	6	5	4	7	7	5	19	2
2005 Helsinki	1	3	2	6	4	2	7	7	4	18	2
2007 Osaka	0	1	1	4	6	2	4	7	3	14	3
2009 Berlin	1	0	2	1	2	5	2	2	7	14	3	106
2011 Daegu	1	1	1	3	1	2	4	2	3	9	4	76
2013 Moscow	2	1	2	4	2	2	6	3	4	13	2	119
2015 Beijing	1	1	0	1	0	1	2	1	1	4	9	62
Total	11	19	17	36	37	34	47	56	51	154	3	—

Medalists

Athlete	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Years
Tatyana Lebedeva	3	2	0	5	2001–2009
Yelena Isinbayeva	3	0	1	4	2003–2013
Yuliya Pechonkina	2	3	2	7	2001–2007
Tatyana Lysenko	2	1	0	3	2005–2013
Olimpiada Ivanova	2	0	0	2	2001–2005
Tatyana Tomashova	2	0	0	2	2003–2005
Yaroslav Rybakov	1	3	0	4	2001–2009
Irina Privalova *	1	2	2	5	1993–1995
Anna Chicherova	1	2	2	5	2007–2015
Maksim Tarasov *	1	2	1	4	1993–1999
* Includes medals won competing for the Soviet Union

References

• IAAF Statistics Book – IAAF World Championships London 2017
• Kenya at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics