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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

213 medals

63 gold 72 silver 78 bronze

Relays count once.

On the podium

28 of 32 editions since 1959 · every one since 1983

First medal

1959 Turin · Noriaki Yasuda, pole vault gold

First gold

1959 Turin · Noriaki Yasuda, pole vault

Best edition

Naples 2019 19 medals, 8 of them gold

All-time table

6th of 101 nations, ranked by golds

Every edition, 1959–2027

Bars grow with the medals won · empty column = no medal · click a year
  1. 1959
  2. 1961
  3. 1963
  4. 1965
  5. 1967
  6. 1970
  7. 1973
  8. 1975
  9. 1977
  10. 1979
  11. 1981
  12. 1983
  13. 1985
  14. 1987
  15. 1989
  16. 1991
  17. 1993
  18. 1995
  19. 1997
  20. 1999
  21. 2001
  22. 2003
  23. 2005
  24. 2007
  25. 2009
  26. 2011
  27. 2013
  28. 2015
  29. 2017
  30. 2019
  31. 2023
  32. 2025
  33. 2027

Edition by edition

YearEditionMedalsGSBTotalMedallists
2025Bochum 32nd edition53311
2023Chengdu 31st edition24511
2019Naples 30th edition86519
2017Taipei 29th edition72716
2015Gwangju 28th edition43512
2013Kazan 27th edition35513
2011Shenzhen 26th edition3339
2009Belgrade 25th edition36312
2007Bangkok 24th edition0336
2005Izmir 23rd edition26210
2003Daegu 22nd edition2013
2001Beijing 21st edition22610
1999Palma de Mallorca 20th edition1427
1997Sicily 19th edition1023
1995Fukuoka 18th edition5139
1993Buffalo 17th edition1427
1991Sheffield 16th edition1405
1989Duisburg 15th edition0202
1987Zagreb 14th edition1247
1985Kobe 13th edition1012
1983Edmonton 12th edition1023
1981Bucharest 11th editionNo medal––––
1979Mexico City ↗ 10th edition0101
1977Sofia 9th editionNo medal––––
1975Rome 8th editionNo medal––––
1973Moscow 7th editionNo medal––––
1970Turin 6th edition0022
1967Tokyo 5th edition56617
1965Budapest 4th edition2013
1963Porto Alegre 3rd edition2114
1961Sofia 2nd edition0213
1959Turin 1st edition1236
Total28 of 32 editions on the podium637278213
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