# Russia at the World Athletics Championships

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.
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. 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. 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 | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | Total |
| Championships | 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

| 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 ||||||

## Doping

| Athlete | Sex | Event | Year(s) | Result | Notes |
| 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 | 20092011 | (2009) (2011) | Disqualified at two editions |
| Sergey Kirdyapkin | Men | 50 kilometres walk | 20092011 | (2009)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 | 20092011 | 10th (h)14th | |
| Olga Kaniskina | Women | 20 kilometres walk | 20092011 | (2009) (2011) | Disqualified at two editions |
| Anastasiya Kapachinskaya | Women | 400 m4 × 400 m relay | 20092011 | 7th (2009) (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 m4 × 400 m relay | 20092011 | 6th (semis)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 | 20112013 | 5th | Disqualified at two editions |
| Yekaterina Sharmina | Women | 1500 m | 20112013 | 9th (semis)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 | 20112013 | | 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 m4 × 400 m relay | 2013 | | Gold medal-winning Russian relay team disqualified |