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[1] [2] Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of which were awarded. Kenya topped the medal table for the first time, with 7 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze medals. 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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Jamaica competed at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, ... Medal Athlete Event Date Gold: Usain Bolt: Men's 100 metres: 23 August Gold:
Swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships was held between 2 and 9 August 2015 in Kazan, Russia. [1] The United States won the overall medal count, led by Katie Ledecky who claimed five gold medals.
Note * Indicates athletes who ran only in the preliminary round and also received medals. dq1 The United States team of Kelli White, Chryste Gaines, Inger Miller, and Marion Jones originally won the 2001 World Championship in a time of 41.71 seconds, but were disqualified after Jones and White were found to have used performance-enhancing drugs.
This is a record of Israel at the World Athletics Championships. Israel has won five medals at the World Athletics Championships. Israeli Aleksandr Averbukh, won the bronze in 1999, [1] [2] and the silver in 2001. [3] [4] Israel's third medal came in 2015 when former Ukrainian Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko improved on her national record with a 14.78 ...