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

Schedule

• All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

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

Abbreviations

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

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

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	QSB
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

Group B

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

Final

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

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Attempts						Distance	Note
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	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

References

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