2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw - Wiki slovník

The Men's Javelin Throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 31, 2007 (qualification round) and 2 September 2007 (final round) at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan. There were a total number of 36 competing athletes from 22 countries.

Medalists

Gold	Tero Pitkämäki Finland (FIN)
Silver	Andreas Thorkildsen Norway (NOR)
Bronze	Breaux Greer United States (USA)

Standing records prior to the 2007 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Jan Železný (CZE)	98.48 m	May 25, 1996	Jena, Germany
Event Record	Jan Železný (CZE)	92.80 m	August 12, 2001	Edmonton, Canada
Season Best	Breaux Greer (USA)	91.29 m	June 21, 2007	Indianapolis, United States

Place	Athlete	Nation	1	2	3	Mark	Notes
1	Breaux Greer	United States (USA)	64.49	79.67	86.78	86.78	Q
2	Tero Järvenpää	Finland (FIN)	84.35			84.35	Q SB
3	Magnus Arvidsson	Sweden (SWE)	84.17			84.17	Q
4	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway (NOR)	X	82.33		82.33	Q
5	Teemu Wirkkala	Finland (FIN)	75.52	X	79.82	79.82	q
6	Ēriks Rags	Latvia (LAT)	X	X	79.79	79.79	q
7	Gerhardus Pienaar	South Africa (RSA)	76.09	79.30	78.05	79.30
8	Igor Sukhomlinov	Russia (RUS)	79.05	74.83	X	79.05
9	Joshua Robinson	Australia (AUS)	75.11	76.93	78.48	78.48
10	Sergey Makarov	Russia (RUS)	78.22	77.71	74.42	78.22
11	Stuart Farquhar	New Zealand (NZL)	71.89	78.08	73.34	78.08	SB
12	Pablo Pietrobelli	Argentina (ARG)	72.36	74.81	74.60	74.81
13	Stephan Steding	Germany (GER)	67.32	X	74.61	74.61
14	Miroslav Guzdek	Czech Republic (CZE)	74.13	72.41	69.43	74.13
15	Stefan Müller	Switzerland (SUI)	X	71.48	X	71.48
16	Marko Jänes	Estonia (EST)	X	68.64	69.65	69.65
17	Csongor Olteán	Hungary (HUN)	X	64.44	X	64.44

Place	Athlete	Nation	1	2	3	Mark	Notes
1	Vadims Vasilevskis	Latvia (LAT)	X	72.80	87.37	87.37	Q
2	Guillermo Martínez	Cuba (CUB)	82.99			82.99	Q
3	Aleksandr Ivanov	Russia (RUS)	X	79.66	82.42	82.42	Q
4	John Robert Oosthuizen	South Africa (RSA)	X	82.06		82.06	Q
5	Igor Janik	Poland (POL)	80.83	77.61	-	80.83	q
6	Tero Pitkämäki	Finland (FIN)	80.62	78.54	X	80.62	q
7	Peter Esenwein	Germany (GER)	73.74	70.89	79.62	79.62
8	Ainārs Kovals	Latvia (LAT)	X	77.18	79.42	79.42
9	Qin Qiang	China (CHN)	77.71	74.96	74.95	77.71
10	Yukifumi Murakami	Japan (JPN)	70.23	77.63	75.73	77.63	SB
11	Jarrod Bannister	Australia (AUS)	77.57	X	77.44	77.57
12	Scott Russell	Canada (CAN)	73.67	75.35	77.54	77.54
13	Andrus Värnik	Estonia (EST)	X	75.96	X	75.96	SB
14	Alexon Maximiano	Brazil (BRA)	68.89	70.57	75.15	75.15
15	Víctor Fatecha	Paraguay (PAR)	71.59	73.55	70.01	73.55
16	Eric Brown	United States (USA)	70.38	X	73.07	73.07
17	Felix Loretz	Switzerland (SUI)	71.27	70.57	67.79	71.27
18	Gabriel Wallin	Sweden (SWE)	X	X	70.61	70.61

Field reduced to top eight are three throws, with top eight entitled to a further three attempts.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Attempts						Distance	Note
Rank	Athlete	Nation	1	2	3	4	5	6	Distance	Note
	Tero Pitkämäki	Finland (FIN)	81.62	89.16	83.64	87.72	X	90.33	90.33 m
	Andreas Thorkildsen	Norway (NOR)	82.78	88.61	X	82.80	X	87.33	88.61 m
	Breaux Greer	United States (USA)	X	80.67	84.31	X	86.21	83.81	86.21 m
4	Vadims Vasilevskis	Latvia (LAT)	X	85.19	X	77.42	X	X	85.19 m
5	Aleksandr Ivanov	Russia (RUS)	85.18	84.71	81.42	84.91	81.55	X	85.18 m
6	John Robert Oosthuizen	South Africa (RSA)	84.52	79.77	X	79.18	X	X	84.52 m	PB
7	Igor Janik	Poland (POL)	79.82	X	83.38	X	—	X	83.38 m	PB
8	Tero Järvenpää	Finland (FIN)	80.30	79.40	82.10	X	77.30	75.40	82.10 m

9	Guillermo Martínez	Cuba (CUB)	82.03	81.19	X				82.03 m
10	Magnus Arvidsson	Sweden (SWE)	79.80	X	81.98				81.98 m
11	Ēriks Rags	Latvia (LAT)	X	77.22	80.01				80.01 m
12	Teemu Wirkkala	Finland (FIN)	78.01	X	76.48				78.01 m

Events at the 2007 World Championships

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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