Spain has participated in every World Athletics Championships since the beginning in 1983.
Marta DomÃÂnguez finished in first position in the 3000 metres steeplechase in 2009 World Athletics Championship held in Berlin ahead Yuliya Zarudneva from Russia and Milcah Chemos Cheywa of Kenya, but she was disqualified and stripped her gold medal in November 2015 .The Court of Arbitration for Sport found DomÃÂnguez guilty of an anti-doping rule violation and ordered that all competitive results obtained by DomÃÂnguez from 5 August 2009 be disqualified. .
Stripped medals
Jesús ÃÂngel GarcÃÂa Bragado finished in third position in the 50 km walk race in the 2009 World Athletics Championship held in Berlin behind Sergey Kirdyapkin of Russia and Trond Nymark of Norway. On January 15, 2015, Kirdyapkin was disqualified for a doping violation so Jesús ÃÂngel GarcÃÂa Bragado was awarded the silver medal.
Ruth Beitia finished in third position (shared with Anna Chicherova of Russia) in the high jump in the 2013 World Championships held in Moscow behind Svetlana Shkolina of Russia and Brigetta Barrett of the United States. Shkolina was disqualified for a doping violation and Ruth Beitia was awarded the silver medal.
Miguel ÃÂngel López finished in third position in the 20 km walk in the 2013 World Championships held in Moscow behind Aleksandr Ivanov of Russia and Chen Ding of the China. Ivanov was disqualified for a doping violation and Miguel ÃÂngel López was awarded the silver medal.