Tools

Ask the archive

395,941 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.

Count

Russia ’s medals at every Spartakiad USSR

Also try

Turkey · Balkan Athletics Championships

Cuba · Pan American Games

Kenya · Olympic Games

Jamaica · World Championships

All-time haul

629 medals

218 gold 205 silver 206 bronze

Relays count once.

On the podium

10 of 10 editions since 1956 · every one

First medal

1956 Moscow · Boris Tokarev, 100m gold

First gold

1956 Moscow · Boris Tokarev, 100m

Best edition

Moscow 1959 75 medals, 27 of them gold

All-time table

1st of 28 nations, ranked by golds

Every edition, 1956–1991

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

1956
1959
1963
1967
1971
1975
1979
1983
1986
1991

Edition by edition

Year	Edition	G	S	B	Total
1991	Kiev 10th edition	23	20	17	60
1986	Tashkent 9th edition	15	19	22	56
1983	Moscow 8th edition	21	20	19	60
1979	Moscow 7th edition	17	17	24	58
1975	Moscow 6th edition	19	23	19	61
1971	Moscow 5th edition	19	17	16	52
1967	Moscow 4th edition	23	24	21	68
1963	Moscow 3rd edition	26	23	22	71
1959	Moscow 2nd edition	27	20	28	75
1956	Moscow 1st edition	28	22	18	68
Total	10 of 10 editions on the podium	218	205	206	629