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395,983 medals, every one searchable. Filter by nation, championship, event and year, count a country’s haul edition by edition, or set two championships side by side.

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All-time haul

1,011 medals

351 gold 391 silver 269 bronze

Relays count once.

On the podium

19 of 19 editions since 1958 · every one

First medal

1958 Moscow · Yelizaveta Yermolayeva, 800m gold

First gold

1958 Moscow · Yelizaveta Yermolayeva, 800m

Best edition

Kiev 1975 61 medals, 25 of them gold

All-time table

1st of 2 nations, ranked by golds

Every edition, 1958–1985

Bars grow with the medals won · empty column = no medal · click a year

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Edition by edition

Year	Edition	G	S	B	Total
1985	Tokyo 19th edition	24	27	9	60
1982	Indianapolis 18th edition	20	24	14	58
1981	Leningrad 17th edition	21	20	15	56
1978	Berkeley 16th edition	15	19	17	51
1977	Sochi 15th edition	22	18	17	57
1976	College Park 14th edition	22	26	8	56
1975	Kiev 13th edition	25	25	11	61
1974	Durham 12th edition	18	19	19	56
1973	Minsk 11th edition	22	25	11	58
1971	Berkeley 10th edition	17	20	13	50
1970	Leningrad 9th edition	19	21	17	57
1969	Los Angeles 8th edition	14	17	21	52
1965	Kiev 7th edition	18	18	13	49
1964	Los Angeles 6th edition	12	15	17	44
1963	Moscow 5th edition	20	19	10	49
1962	Stanford 4th edition	15	19	14	48
1961	Moscow 3rd edition	17	22	12	51
1959	Philadelphia 2nd edition	16	16	18	50
1958	Moscow 1st edition	14	21	13	48
Total	19 of 19 editions on the podium	351	391	269	1011