2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw

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 (FIN)
Silver Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR)
Bronze Breaux Greer (USA)

Schedule

Qualification Round
Group A Group B
31.08.2007 – 09:30h 31.08.2007 – 11:30h
Final Round
02.09.2007 – 19:15h

Abbreviations

Qautomatic qualification
qqualification by rank
DNSdid not start
NMno mark
WRworld record
ARarea record
NRnational record
PBpersonal best
SBseason best

Records

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

Qualification

Group A

PlaceAthlete123MarkNotes
1 Breaux Greer (USA)64.4979.6786.7886.78Q
2 Tero Järvenpää (FIN)84.3584.35Q SB
3 Magnus Arvidsson (SWE)84.1784.17Q
4 Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR)X82.3382.33Q
5 Teemu Wirkkala (FIN)75.52X79.8279.82q
6 Ēriks Rags (LAT)XX79.7979.79q
7 Gerhardus Pienaar (RSA)76.0979.3078.0579.30 
8 Igor Sukhomlinov (RUS)79.0574.83X79.05 
9 Joshua Robinson (AUS)75.1176.9378.4878.48 
10 Sergey Makarov (RUS)78.2277.7174.4278.22 
11 Stuart Farquhar (NZL)71.8978.0873.3478.08SB
12 Pablo Pietrobelli (ARG)72.3674.8174.6074.81 
13 Stephan Steding (GER)67.32X74.6174.61 
14 Miroslav Guzdek (CZE)74.1372.4169.4374.13 
15 Stefan Müller (SUI)X71.48X71.48 
16 Marko Jänes (EST)X68.6469.6569.65 
17 Csongor Olteán (HUN)X64.44X64.44 

Group B

PlaceAthlete123MarkNotes
1 Vadims Vasilevskis (LAT)X72.8087.3787.37Q
2 Guillermo Martínez (CUB)82.9982.99Q
3 Aleksandr Ivanov (RUS)X79.6682.4282.42Q
4 John Robert Oosthuizen (RSA)X82.0682.06Q
5 Igor Janik (POL)80.8377.61-80.83q
6 Tero Pitkämäki (FIN)80.6278.54X80.62q
7 Peter Esenwein (GER)73.7470.8979.6279.62 
8 Ainārs Kovals (LAT)X77.1879.4279.42 
9 Qin Qiang (CHN)77.7174.9674.9577.71 
10 Yukifumi Murakami (JPN)70.2377.6375.7377.63SB
11 Jarrod Bannister (AUS)77.57X77.4477.57 
12 Scott Russell (CAN)73.6775.3577.5477.54 
13 Andrus Värnik (EST)X75.96X75.96SB
14 Alexon Maximiano (BRA)68.8970.5775.1575.15 
15 Víctor Fatecha (PAR)71.5973.5570.0173.55 
16 Eric Brown (USA)70.38X73.0773.07 
17 Felix Loretz (SUI)71.2770.5767.7971.27 
18 Gabriel Wallin (SWE)XX70.6170.61 

Final

Rank Athlete Attempts Distance Note
1 2 3 4 5 6
 Tero Pitkämäki (FIN)81.6289.1683.6487.72X90.3390.33 m
 Andreas Thorkildsen (NOR)82.7888.61X82.80X87.3388.61 m
 Breaux Greer (USA)X80.6784.31X86.2183.8186.21 m
4 Vadims Vasilevskis (LAT)X85.19X77.42XX85.19 m
5 Aleksandr Ivanov (RUS)85.1884.7181.4284.9181.55X85.18 m
6 John Robert Oosthuizen (RSA)84.5279.77X79.18XX84.52 m PB
7 Igor Janik (POL)79.82X83.38XX83.38 m PB
8 Tero Järvenpää (FIN)80.3079.4082.10X77.3075.4082.10 m
9 Guillermo Martínez (CUB)82.0381.19X82.03 m
10 Magnus Arvidsson (SWE)79.80X81.9881.98 m
11 Ēriks Rags (LAT)X77.2280.0180.01 m
12 Teemu Wirkkala (FIN)78.01X76.4878.01 m

References

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