2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw

The men's discus throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 26, 2007 (qualification) and August 28, 2007 (final) at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan.

Medallists

Gold	Gerd Kanter   Estonia  (EST)
Silver	Robert Harting   Germany  (GER)
Bronze	Rutger Smith   Netherlands  (NED)

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

World record	Jürgen Schult  (GDR)	74.08	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	6 June 1986
Championship record	Virgilijus Alekna  (LTU)	70.17	Helsinki, Finland	7 August 2005

Results

Qualification

Group A

Place	Athlete	Nation	1	2	3	Mark	Notes
1	Gerd Kanter	Estonia  (EST)	56.59	58.81	67.45	67.45	Q
2	Rutger Smith	Netherlands  (NED)	64.06	66.60		66.60	Q PB
3	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary  (HUN)	62.09	65.71		65.71	Q
4	Piotr Małachowski	Poland  (POL)	63.00	62.45	63.20	63.20	q
5	Mario Pestano	Spain  (ESP)	62.36	63.10	X	63.10	q
6	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari	Qatar  (QAT)	62.68	X	61.47	62.68	q
7	Ian Waltz	United States  (USA)	X	62.67	61.62	62.67
8	Sultan Mubarak Al-Dawoodi	Saudi Arabia  (KSA)	59.14	X	61.23	61.23
9	Vikas Gowda	India  (IND)	61.22	X	X	61.22
10	Bogdan Pishchalnikov	Russia  (RUS)	X	59.32	61.13	61.13
11	Frantz Kruger	Finland  (FIN)	X	X	60.72	60.72
12	Märt Israel	Estonia  (EST)	59.92	60.23	60.18	60.23
13	Sergiu Ursu	Romania  (ROM)	X	X	59.22	59.22
14	Shigeo Hatakeyama	Japan  (JPN)	52.51	55.71	54.23	55.71
15	Ercüment Olgundeniz	Turkey  (TUR)	X	54.89	54.62	54.89

Group B

Place	Athlete	Nation	1	2	3	Mark	Notes
1	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania  (LTU)	X	63.70	66.54	66.54	Q
2	Robert Harting	Germany  (GER)	66.26			66.26	Q
3	Gábor Máté	Hungary  (HUN)	65.13			65.13	Q
4	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia  (EST)	64.41	−	−	64.41	q SB
5	Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly	Egypt  (EGY)	X	63.56	X	63.56	q
6	Ehsan Haddadi	Iran  (IRI)	62.75	61.44	62.00	62.75	q
7	Mikko Kyyrö	Finland  (FIN)	62.11	61.75	X	62.11
8	Jarred Rome	United States  (USA)	X	X	61.87	61.87
9	Michael Robertson	United States  (USA)	60.15	X	60.39	60.39
10	Hannes Kirchler	Italy  (ITA)	57.09	60.28	60.34	60.34
11	Erik Cadee	Netherlands  (NED)	58.78	59.98	56.99	59.98
12	Stanislav Nesterovskyy	Ukraine  (UKR)	56.00	59.81	57.56	59.81
13	Niklas Arrhenius	Sweden  (SWE)	54.98	55.18	58.76	58.76
14	Jason Morgan	Jamaica  (JAM)	55.32	52.93	53.67	55.32

Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Notes
	Gerd Kanter	Estonia  (EST)	68.94
	Robert Harting	Germany  (GER)	66.68
	Rutger Smith	Netherlands  (NED)	66.42
4	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania  (LTU)	65.24
5	Gábor Máté	Hungary  (HUN)	64.71
6	Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly	Egypt  (EGY)	64.58
7	Ehsan Haddadi	Iran  (IRI)	64.53
8	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia  (EST)	64.33
9	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary  (HUN)	63.04
10	Mario Pestano	Spain  (ESP)	62.70
11	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari	Qatar  (QAT)	62.60
12	Piotr Małachowski	Poland  (POL)	60.77

References

• Official results, qualification - IAAF.org
• Official results, final - IAAF.org