Israel_at_the_World_Championships_in_Athletics
Israel at the World Athletics Championships
Israel's competition at the World Championships of Athletics
This is a record of Israel at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. Israel has won three medals at the World Championships of Athletics.
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]
On 18 July 2022, Kenyan-born Israeli runner Lonah Chemtai Salpeter won the bronze medal in the women's marathon to give Israel its fourth medal.[6][7]