2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on 1 September 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan.

Medallists

Gold	Nathan Deakes   Australia  (AUS)
Silver	Yohan Diniz   France  (FRA)
Bronze	Alex Schwazer   Italy  (ITA)

Abbreviations

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
WL	world leading
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

World record	3:35:47	Nathan Deakes	Australia	Geelong, Australia	2 December 2006
Championship record	3:36:03	Robert Korzeniowski	Poland	Paris, France	2003

Final ranking

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Note
	Nathan Deakes	Australia  (AUS)	3:43:53	SB
	Yohann Diniz	France  (FRA)	3:44:22	SB
	Alex Schwazer	Italy  (ITA)	3:44:38
4	Denis Nizhegorodov	Russia  (RUS)	3:46:57
5	Erik Tysse	Norway  (NOR)	3:51:52	PB
6	Mikel Odriozola	Spain  (ESP)	3:55:19	SB
7	Sun Chao	China  (CHN)	3:55:43
8	Trond Nymark	Norway  (NOR)	3:57:22
9	Horacio Nava	Mexico  (MEX)	3:58:17
10	Jarkko Kinnunen	Finland  (FIN)	3:58:22	SB
11	Antti Kempas	Finland  (FIN)	3:59:34
12	Donatas Škarnulis	Lithuania  (LTU)	3:59:48
13	Eddy Riva	France  (FRA)	4:00:44
14	David Boulanger	France  (FRA)	4:01:30
15	António Pereira	Portugal  (POR)	4:02:09
16	Ken Akashi	Japan  (JPN)	4:02:31
17	Yusuke Yachi	Japan  (JPN)	4:05:21
18	Diego Cafagna	Italy  (ITA)	4:06:03
19	Tim Berrett	Canada  (CAN)	4:06:47
20	Jesús Sánchez	Mexico  (MEX)	4:07:14
21	Grzegorz Sudoł	Poland  (POL)	4:07:48	SB
22	Miloš Bátovský	Slovakia  (SVK)	4:08:22
23	Nenad Filipović	Serbia  (SRB)	4:12:11
24	Chris Erickson	Australia  (AUS)	4:13:00
25	Konstadinos Stefanopoulos	Greece  (GRE)	4:14:22
26	Augusto Cardoso	Portugal  (POR)	4:14:38
27	Jorge Costa	Portugal  (POR)	4:16:05
28	Igors Kazakēvičs	Latvia  (LAT)	4:19:43
29	Andrei Stepanchuk	Belarus  (BLR)	4:23:30
30	Rafał Fedaczyński	Poland  (POL)	4:24:51
31	Kevin Eastler	United States  (USA)	4:31:52
DISQUALIFIED (DQ)
—	Colin Griffin	Ireland  (IRL)	DQ
—	Andreas Gustafsson	Sweden  (SWE)	DQ
—	Fredrik Svensson	Sweden  (SWE)	DQ
—	Omar Zepeda	Mexico  (MEX)	DQ
—	Zoltán Czukor	Hungary  (HUN)	DQ
—	Jesús Angel García	Spain  (ESP)	DQ
—	Duane Cousins	Australia  (AUS)	DQ
—	Yu Chaohong	China  (CHN)	DQ
—	Zhao Chengliang	China  (CHN)	DQ
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
—	Ingus Janevics	Latvia  (LAT)	DNF
—	Vitaliy Talankou	Belarus  (BLR)	DNF
—	Anton Kucmin	Slovakia  (SVK)	DNF
—	Fredy Hernández	Colombia  (COL)	DNF
—	Santiago Pérez	Spain  (ESP)	DNF
—	Aleksey Voyevodin	Russia  (RUS)	DNF
—	Peter Korčok	Slovakia  (SVK)	DNF
—	Yuki Yamazaki	Japan  (JPN)	DNF
—	Kamil Kalka	Poland  (POL)	DNF
—	Marco De Luca	Italy  (ITA)	DNF
—	Vladimir Kanaykin	Russia  (RUS)	DNF
—	Sergey Kirdyapkin	Russia  (RUS)	DNF
—	Tony Sargisson	New Zealand  (NZL)	DNF
—	Jamie Costin	Ireland  (IRL)	DNF

See also

• Athletics at the 2007 Pan American Games - Men's 50 kilometres walk

References

• Full results – IAAF.org
• Event report – IAAF.org