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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 ...

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, from 22–30 August 2015.

Medalists

Results

(q – qualified, NM – no mark, SB – season best)

Men

;Track and road events * The race walker Aleksandr Yargunkin never made it to Beijing. According to reports in the Russian press his travel to the Championships was terminated because he had tested positive for EPO.DOPING: Alexander Yargukin, the only Russian racewalker in Beijing, tested positive to EPO
trackarena.com, 29 August 2015 ;Field events ;Combined events –

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

Women

;Track and road events ;Field events ;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 ...

References

Russian team
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World Championships in Athletics

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