Russia at the World Athletics Championships

Sporting event delegation

Russia at the
World Championships in Athletics

WA code| RUS
National federation| All-Russia Athletic Federation
Website| eng.rusathletics.com
Medals
Ranked 3rd|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total
153
World Championships in Athletics appearances (overview)

* 1993
* 1995
* 1997
* 1999
* 2001
* 2003
* 2005
* 2007
* 2009
* 2011
* 2013
* 2015
* 2017–2022
* 2023

Other related appearances
Authorised Neutral Athletes (2017–)

Russia competed at every edition of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics 1993 to the 2017 World Championships, from which its athletes have been banned from competing as Russian. In order for Russian nationals to compete at the World Athletics Championship (from 2017 on), they must be approved as authorised neutral athletes by the IAAF. 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 the most success in women's events and in field events. As a major nation in the sport of athletics, it typically sent a delegation numbering over 100 athletes.[citation needed]

It topped the medal table at the 2001 tournament, overtaking the United States following the redistribution of medals due to doping cases. Russia also initially finished top of the medal table at the 2013 Moscow Championships, but lost this position due to doping disqualifications of its athletes. Russia's performance at the competition has been strongly affected by doping. Furthermore, the country's doping problems are distinct because in Russia doping is supplied to the athletes by the government.[1] The country was banned from competing in 2017 due to the state-sponsored doping and Russians had to gain special dispensation to compete as Authorised Neutral Athletes.[2] 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).[3]

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.[citation needed]

## Medal table

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Championships  | Men  | Women  | Total

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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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 106
2011 Daegu | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 76
2013 Moscow | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 119
2015 Beijing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 62
Total | 10 | 18 | 16 | 33 | 34 | 32 | 43 | 52 | 48 | 143 | 3 | —

## Medalists

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Athlete  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Total  | Years

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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

## Doping

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Athlete  | Sex  | Event  | Year(s)  | Result  | Notes

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Liliya Nurutdinova | Women | 800 m | 1993 | 7th |
Olimpiada Ivanova | Women | 10,000 m walk | 1997 |  |
Lyubov Tsyoma | Women | 800 m | 1997 | DNF (semis) |
German Skurygin | Men | 50 kilometres walk | 1999 |  |
Svetlana Laukhova | Women | 100 m hurdles | 2001 | 5th (heats) |
Yekaterina Leshchova | Women | 200 m | 2001 | 6th (heats) |
Natalya Sadova | Women | Discus throw | 2001 |  |
Svetlana Krivelyova | Women | Shot put | 2005 | 4th |
Tatyana Kotova | Women | Long jump | 2005 |  |
Olga Kuzenkova | Women | Hammer throw | 2005 |  |
Svetlana Cherkasova | Women | 800 m | 2007 | 6th (h) |
Yuliya Fomenko | Women | 1500 m | 2007 | 7th |
Gulfiya Khanafeyeva | Women | Hammer throw | 2007 | 10th |
Darya Pishchalnikova | Women | Discus throw | 2007 |  |
Yelena Soboleva | Women | 1500 m | 2007 |  |
Valeriy Borchin | Men | 20 kilometres walk | 2009

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2011 |  (2009)

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(2011) | Disqualified at two editions
Sergey Kirdyapkin | Men | 50 kilometres walk | 2009

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2011 |  (2009)

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DNF (2011) | Disqualified at two editions
Mikhail Lemayev | Men | Marathon | 2009 | 45th |
Ildar Minshin | Men | 3000 m steeplechase | 2009 | 7th |
Anna Alminova | Women | 1500 m | 2009 | 10th (semis) |
Yuliya Chermoshanskaya | Women | 4 × 100 m relay | 2009 | 4th | Russian relay team disqualified
Yelizaveta Grechishnikova | Women | 5000 m | 2009

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2011 | 10th (h)

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14th |
Olga Kaniskina | Women | 20 kilometres walk | 2009

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2011 |  (2009)

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(2011) | Disqualified at two editions
Anastasiya Kapachinskaya | Women | 400 m

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4 × 400 m relay | 2009

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2011 | 7th (2009)

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(2011) | 2009 and 2011 bronze medal-winning Russian relay teams annulled. Disqualified at two editions
Svetlana Klyuka | Women | 800 m | 2009 | 5th (semis) |
Mariya Konovalova | Women | 10,000 m | 2009 | 11th |
Tatyana Petlyuk | Women | 800 m

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4 × 400 m relay | 2009

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2011 | 6th (semis)

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DNF (h) | 2009 Russian relay team disqualified
Nailya Yulamanova | Women | Marathon | 2009 | 8th | Bronze medal-winning Russian team for the 2009 World Marathon Cup annulled
Denis Alekseyev | Men | 4 × 400 m relay | 2011 | 4th | Russian relay team disqualified
Sergey Bakulin | Men | 50 kilometres walk | 2011 |  |
Vladimir Kanaykin | Men | 20 kilometres walk | 2011 |  |
Sergey Morozov | Men | 20 kilometres walk | 2011 | 12th |
Stanislav Yemelyanov | Men | 20 kilometres walk | 2011 | 5th |
Igor Yerokhin | Men | 50 kilometres walk | 2011 |  |
Yekaterina Kostetskaya | Women | 800 m | 2011 | 5th |
Olga Kucherenko | Women | Long jump | 2011

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2013 |

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5th | Disqualified at two editions
Yekaterina Sharmina | Women | 1500 m | 2011

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2013 | 9th (semis)

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6th | Disqualified at two editions
Tatyana Mineyeva | Women | 20 kilometres walk | 2011 | 17th |
Anna Omorova | Women | Shot put | 2011 | 10th |
Yuliya Stepanova | Women | 800 m | 2011 | 8th |
Mariya Savinova | Women | 800 m | 2011

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2013 |

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| Disqualified at two editions
Olesya Syreva | Women | 1500 m | 2011 | 9th (semis) |
Yuliya Zaripova | Women | 3000 m steeplechase | 2011 |  |
Soslan Tsirikhov | Men | Shot put | 2013 | 13th (q) |
Anna Bulgakova | Women | Hammer throw | 2013 | 5th |
Vera Ganeyeva | Women | Discus throw | 2013 | 7th (q) |
Yevgeniya Kolodko | Women | Shot put | 2013 | 5th |
Antonina Krivoshapka | Women | 400 m

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4 × 400 m relay | 2013 |  | Gold medal-winning Russian relay team disqualified

## References

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1. ^ Billy Perrigo (9 December 2019). "Russia Banned From Global Sports Competitions, Including Olympics, for 4 Years For State-Sponsored Doping". Time.
2. ^ IAAF approves the application of seven Russians to compete internationally as neutral athletes. IAAF (11 April 2017). Retrieved 2018-03-15.
3. ^ "Russia's supposedly stiff penalty for doping is a ban in name only | The Economist". The Economist. 9 December 2019.

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

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