Israel at the World Athletics Championships

This is a record of Israel at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. Israel has won three medals at the World Championships of Athletics.

Israel at the World Championships in Athletics
IOC code	ISR
Website	www.iaa.co.il
Medals Ranked 71st	Gold 0 Silver 2 Bronze 1 Total 3
World Championships in Athletics appearances (overview)
1976 1980 1983 1987 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019

Israeli Aleksandr Averbukh, won the bronze in 1999,[1][2] and the silver in 2001.[3][4]

Their third medal came in 2015. Former Ukrainian Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko made a big improvement to her own National Record of her new country Israel with a 14.78. Her lead lasted through two jumpers before Ibargüen took the lead with her second round 14.80. Knyazyeva-Minenko's medal was the first World Championship medal for an Israeli woman.[5]

Medal tables

Medals by year

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1999	0	0	1	1
2001	0	1	0	1
2015	0	1	0	1
Totals (3 games)	0	2	1	3

Medals by sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Pole vault	0	1	1	2
Triple jump	0	1	0	1
Totals (2 sports)	0	2	1	3

List of medalists

Medal	Name	Games	Event
Bronze	Aleksandr Averbukh	1999	Pole vault
Silver	Aleksandr Averbukh	2001	Pole vault
Silver	Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko	2015	Triple jump

References

1. 1999 Pole Vault
2. 1999 results Archived 2008-09-14 at the Wayback Machine
3. 2001 Men Pole Vault Archived 2012-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
4. 2001 results Archived 2010-04-03 at the Wayback Machine
5. "REPORT: WOMEN'S TRIPLE JUMP FINAL – IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, BEIJING 2015". iaaf.org. 24 August 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2015.