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The United States won 18 medals, six gold, six silver and six bronze, which was the highest tally. Host nation China, finished 11th on the medals table, while Russia finished ninth. 205 IAAF member countries and territories participated, two more than in 2013, with new IAAF member, Kosovo, making its debut.
The top three athletes in each event win gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. A one-off edition of the championships was held in 1976 for the men's 50 kilometres race walk only, as the International Olympic Committee excluded that event for the Olympic athletics programme that year.
Historically, the tournament has been dominated by Canada (20 gold medals) and the Soviet Union/CIS/Russia (13 gold medals). The USSR won the first four official tournaments, while the Canadians put together five straight championships between 1993 and 1997, and another five straight from 2005 to 2009.
The United States won both the gold and overall medal tallies. August 6–18: 2015 World Masters Athletics Championships in Lyon; August 22–30: 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing Kenya and Jamaica won 7 gold medals each. The United States won the overall medal tally. October 22–31: 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in ...
Here are listed most successful cross-country skiers in the history of each medal-winning national team – according to the gold-first ranking system and by total number of World Championships medals (one skier if he holds national records in both categories or few skiers if these national records belongs to different persons).
Separate World Championships are held by World Athletics for certain other outdoor events, including cross-country running and half-marathon, as well as indoor and age-group championship. The World Championships were started in 1976 in response to the International Olympic Committee dropping the men's 50 km walk from the Olympic programme for ...
Pages in category "Nations at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 203 total.
An automatic entry is also available to an Area Champion, [1] the IAAF definition of an Area essentially being the specified continental areas of the world. The United States is part of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association , which held its championship August 7–9, 2015 in San José, Costa Rica where 20 ...