Algeria has competed at the IAAF World Athletics Championships on eighteen occasions, sending a delegation to every event since the 1983 edition. Its competing country code is ALG. The country has won six gold medals, two silver medals and three bronze medals at the competition. All eleven of its medals come from six athletes in distance track events. Noureddine Morceli won the men's

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

titles in 1991, 1993 and 1995, while his female counterpart

Hassiba Boulmerka Hassiba Boulmerka ( ar, حسيبة بولمرقة, born 10 July 1968) is a former Algerian middle distance athlete. Career Born in Constantine, Boulmerka started running seriously at the age of ten, specializing in the 800 a ...

won two golds and one bronze.

Azzedine Brahmi Azzedine Brahmi ( ar, عزالدين ابراهيمي) (born September 13, 1966 in Sétif) is an Algerian long-distance runner who competed mostly over 3000 metres steeplechase. He won a bronze medal at the 1991 World Championships. His bes ...

won 1991 bronze in the men's

3000 metres steeplechase The 3000 metres steeplechase or 3000-meter steeplechase (usually abbreviated as ) is the most common distance for the steeplechase in track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, a ...

. Djabir Saïd-Guerni won the men's 800 metres bronze in 1999 before winning a gold medal in that event in 2003. In 2019, Taoufik Makhloufi won the silver in the men's 1500 metres, and in the subsequent edition, Djamel Sedjati won the silver in the men's 800 meters. The best rank in the medals table achieved by Algeria in the history of its participation is seventh, achieved in

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with two golds and a bronze.

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1983

Algeria competed at the

1983 World Championships in Athletics The 1st 1983 World Championships in Athletics were run under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations and were held at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland between 7 and 14 August 1983. Summary The overall med ...

in Helsinki, Finland, from August 7 to 14, 1983.

Men

;Track and road events ;Field events ;Combined events –

Decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in Athletics (sport), athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek language, Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ...

Women

;Combined events –

Heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...

1987

Algeria competed at the

1987 World Championships in Athletics The 2nd World Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations were held in the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy between August 28 and September 6, 1987. Men's results Track 1983 , 1987 ...

in Rome, Italy, from 28 August to 6 September 1987. Algeria participated with 4 athletes.

Men

;Track and road events ;Field events

1991

Algeria competed at the

1991 World Championships in Athletics The 3rd World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1. 1517 athletes from 167 countries participa ...

in Tokyo, Japan, from 23 August to 1 September 1991. Algeria participated with 11 athletes.

Medalists

Men

;Track and road events ;Field events

Women

;Track and road events ;Combined events –

1993

Algeria competed at the

1993 World Championships in Athletics The 4th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Neckarstadium, Stuttgart, Germany between 13 and 22 August with the participation of 187 nations. Having ori ...

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

, Germany, from 13 to 22 August 1993. Algeria participated with 17 athletes.

Medalists

Men

;Track and road events

1995

Algeria competed at the

1995 World Championships in Athletics The 5th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg, Sweden on 5–13 August 1995. This edition featured 1804 athletes from 191 nat ...

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

, Sweden, from 5 to 13 August 1995. Algeria participated with 8 athletes.

Medalists

1997

Algeria competed at the

1997 World Championships in Athletics The 6th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Amateur Athletic Federation, were held at the Olympic Stadium, Athens, Greece between August 1 and August 10, 1997. In this event participated 1882 athletes from 19 ...

in Athens, Greece, from 1 to 10 August 1997. Algeria participated with 14 athletes.

Men

Women

1999

Algeria competed at the

1999 World Championships in Athletics The 7th World Championships in Athletics, a World Athletic Championships event held under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Estadio Olímpico, Seville, Spain, between the August 20 and Augu ...

in Seville, Spain, from 20 to 29 August 1999. Algeria participated with 12 athletes.

Men

Women

Medalists

2001

Algeria competed at the

2001 World Championships in Athletics The 8th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between 3 August and 12 August and was the first time the event ...

in Edmonton, Canada, from 3 to 12 August 2001. Algeria participated with 12 athletes.

2003

Algeria competed at the

2003 World Championships in Athletics The 9th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held from 23 August to 31 August 2003 in the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. Men's results ...

in Saint-Denis, France, from 23 to 31 August 2003. Algeria participated with 9 athletes.

Medalists

2005

Algeria competed at the

2005 World Championships in Athletics The 10th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held in the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland (6 August 2005 – 14 August 2005), the site of the first IAAF ...

in Helsinki, Finland, from 6 to 14 August 2005. Algeria participated with 10 athletes.

2007

Algeria competed at the

2007 World Championships in Athletics The 11th World Championships in Athletics, () under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007. 200 of the IAAF's 212 member federat ...

in Osaka, Japan, from 24 August to 2 September 2007. Algeria participated with 11 athletes.

2009

Algeria fielded six competitors at the

2009 World Championships in Athletics The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () were held in Berlin, Germany from 15–23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in the Olympiastadion, while the marathon and racewalking events started and finished at the Brandenburg ...

in Berlin.

Men

2011

Algeria competed at the

2011 World Championships in Athletics The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics () was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011. The United States topped the medal standings in th ...

from August 27 to September 4 in

Daegu Daegu (, , literally 'large hill', 대구광역시), formerly spelled Taegu and officially known as the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; it is ...

, South Korea. The Fédération Algérienne d’Athlétisme announced a team of 10 athletes to represent the country in the event.

Men

Decathlon

Women

2013

Algeria competed at the

2013 World Championships in Athletics The 14th IAAF World Championships in Athletics (Moscow 2013) () was an international athletics competition held in Moscow, Russia, from 10–18 August 2013. Initially, Russia won the most gold medals to top the table for the first time since 200 ...

in Moscow, Russia, from 10–18 August 2013. A team of 11 athletes was announced to represent the country in the event. (q – qualified, NM – no mark, SB – season best)

Men

;Track and road events

Women

;Track and road events ;Field events ;Heptathlon

2015

Algeria competed at the

2015 World Championships in Athletics The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...

in Beijing,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, from 22 to 30 August 2015. (q – qualified, NM – no mark, SB – season best)

Men

;Track and road events ;Combined events –

Women

;Track and road events

2017

Algeria competed at the

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in London, United Kingdom, from 4–13 August 2017. (q – qualified, NM – no mark, SB – season best)

Men

;Track and road events ;Combined events –

Women

;Track and road events

2019

Algeria competed at the

2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held betw ...

in Doha, Qatar, from 27 September to 6 October 2019. Six athletes represented Algeria at the event.

Men

;Track and road events ;Field events

2022

Algeria competed at the

2022 World Athletics Championships The 2022 World Athletics Championships was the eighteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships. It was held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, United States, from July 15–24, 2022, with the country hosting that competition for the f ...

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, United States, from 15 to 24 July 2022. Algeria has entered 8 athletes (

Yasser Triki Yasser Mohamed Tahar Triki ( ar, ياسر تريكي; born 24 March 1997) is an Algerian athlete competing in the long jump and triple jump. He won the silver medal in the long jump at the 2017 Summer Universiade. He also won multiple medals at re ...

did not participate due to injury).Entry List
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Men

;Track and road events

References

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